I kept telling Neko I needed some kinda metamucil stuff. And he was giving me the hairy eyeball about it, telling me, "Just eat more fiber". Finally I explained that Metamucil IS adding more fiber to your diet, that it's not a chemical laxative, it's just a powder made out of ground of pysillium husks. And he said, "Oh, they sell pysilium fiber at Trader Joe's" (FYI, Trader Joe's is a grocery store that stocks only its own products, so instead of Metamucial, it's Trader Joe's psyllium fiber". And I thought, okay, I'll try that.
But it wasn't ground up the way metamucil is. It was just the husks. And I mixed it up in a drink, and it was like drinking Cream of Grass Clippings. Not only that, psyllium fiber is a natural stabilizer/gelling agent, that when left to soak in water will turn into a stiff, gelantinous mass. Which is exactly what it did in the sink when I poured it out. GROSS.

So, is benefiber any better? Does it work? Oh, and the pysllium fiber did nothing. Honestly, having a bowl of ice cream was a better "getting er going-er".