Ramp it up baby, looking good!

RUN 10 miles in 1:34
BIKE COMMUTE 6.4 miles

Sugar is still sick, as I type this she's in surgery. Sounds awful, I'm holding it together with moments in which tears threaten. To my surprise, I slept OK last night. Woke up a lot, but fell asleep OK.

The run was great, a much needed release of stress and it got me out of the quiet and lonely house. Kept it easy pace, no up or down of energy, no mental staleness. I seemed to have turned a corner in energy? 37 days into SCD. Also didn't feel the need to fuel in-run. 90 mins isn't long, but over that I fuel. Wonder if I need to?

And speaking of that, normal this morning!! First normal BM since Saturday morning. If all goes well tomorrow morning, then I eat a small potato to see what happens Friday.

The popping left hip seems to have resolved. My legs are as swollen today. And my back is tired, but I keep slouching!

More on this SCD test since I need to keep distracted. Last few days I've been wondering if the starvation step worked or not. If the bacteria were starved off, then what caused the reaction? So maybe it's not SIBO? Or not just SIBO? What about fructose malabsorption? That gets back to FODMAPS, which I know already cause problems. In the past few days, especially over the weekend, I started eating a lot of fruit to fuel the runs. Even though fruit is not the best option for this! I munched (mindlessly!) strawberries, blueberries, bananas, and sipped OJ. On top of that I ate the potato, chestnuts, and gels. Bacteria feast!

Reading a few papers of FM. Turns out zucchini is higher in low DP FOS! And I ate a lot of that lately! I'll have a zucchini with a meal, but over the weekend I made a 1000g zuccy-gelatin and ate half one day, half the next. Is one with a meal OK?

I printed off my meal logs for the past week, wish I was more diligent with this, but it's a start. I color coded fruit, dairy, complex carbs, and unknowns like peanut butter and zucchini. Hard to find a solid pattern! But most likely I had a thresh hold effect? Some is OK, but too much is not?

Get more diligent with logging both times and amounts.

Sugar is out of surgery. Whew!