Relapse day 2

BIKE COMMUTE 6.4 miles

Another not-good morning. And since it's an "off" day training, my nutrition is all I've to talk about today.

Woke up to another rushed T5-6, and after the dog walk had another T6. Ugh.

I've outlined some reset goals
1. Revert to Intro until 2x T4 days.
2. Limit fruit to only 2x daily
3. No food tests until #1 reached
4. Next run, test only a potato
   4a. Test potato night before
   4b. Test potato morning of run
5. No more layering (as in, potato + gel + chestnut all in one day)
6. Slow down when eating
7. No dairy until #1 reached.

I've learned a few things from this relapse at least, but it also has me confused.

1. It wasn't coffee or veggie salads or too much raw veggie
2. I was stressed, but can't definitively blame stress.
3. After last Saturday's post 13 miler T7, it might be tempting to blame running. But I was having this problem in both on and off seasons. So I don't think so.
4. This problem isn't limited to summertime, so I can't blame the heat.
5. I ate gels and potatoes a lot prior, can't pinpoint those.
6. One thing that hasn't changed yet, and something that even TV pointed out on the Saturday drive home, is that I tend to eat a lot of one food at a time. I do that! I'm still afraid of food and when I find something safe I stick to it.
7. Another thing that also really needs to change is HOW I eat, because that's also a factor. On busy or stressed days I tend to eat in a conveyor-belt style at random. It's not a meal, it's a little of this and a little of that repeated for the day. I eat good foods but I couldn't possibly say how much or that I chewed it or that I enjoyed it! I just pop n chop my way through cooking. I stopped doing it when I started the SCD but have relapsed on that too. But I've been doing that a lot more lately, not just this weekend.
8. Too much fruit! I am eating a lot more fruit these past few days and that's a likely blame. Most anyone can eat too much fruit and have problems.
9. The new yogurt and dry curd cottage cheese I was making, new probiotics and dairy at the same time?
10. Overall, I layered way too many variables onto a key weekend and blew up my own experiment. I know better! But I felt confident. Now not so much. I need to be more careful of overdoing a lot of things -- too much of one thing, too many new things, and not eating in a relaxed, mindful way. Those are all factors in this equation.

I'm not discouraged, I did learn a few things.

And as I'm typing this, my stomach burbled...