Too tired, too foggy. Gotta fix.

RUN 7 miles in under 59 mins
COMMUTE 6.4 miles

For the pre-run, I ate a banana, egg white, and carrot puree. And I think a few strawberries. The goal was to 'carb up' and see how and if it improved anything. I had a good run, I was emotionally flat but awake and moving at a decent pace.

Then I get home. The weather is super cool, in the low 70's and wet so I got cold. I ate brekkie standing at the countertop (again!) and never felt satisfied with it. I drank more water and some warm tea to see if it helped. What didn't help is that I just wanted to nap somewhere, even though I was in bed for 8 hours last night!

So I ate some more, and got myself sick. Here I am hours after eating and still feeling sick. And still having a brain fog and low energy. Here's a report of the last 90 days. I removed the carb foods from the KM100 race day to adjust the graph. I don't know why I just mentioned that.

As can be seen, the carbs dropped after the race, marked by the last high-carb day in that graph. The red line is some 'daily goal' thing from the program, I don't use it, but it's set to 112 grams, and it provides a nice visual aid. 

Fat didn't change much, and protein went up. Not unexpected since the SCD diet pushes protein in place of carbs.  So there's your trouble. 

Now how to fix? For now I need to avoid starches and focus on monosaccharides. I'll get back to starches and complex carbs eventually, just not yet. I'm committed to at LEAST 30 days (today is day 24) and hopefully 60 days. Or by 60 days have more re-introduced. My plan isn't to remain SCD for long or for life, rather I wanted to see if I could improve on the FODMAP limits I had and see if the probable SIBO could be fixed. So the end goal is time to heal, then back to FODMAP with potatoes and maybe rice. Limited rice anyway, for training. I didn't feel mentally good eating it -- set up some weird cravings and fogginess. 

Honey provides the best mono and least sucrose. Bananas, raisins, and strawberries also good ratio of mono's to disaccharide. Oranges are higher in sucrose, so are pineapples. I've already re-introduced banana, raisins, and strawberries. But it's not enough?  

So what next? Well HONEY seems an obvious option! And I just googled a DIY way to make honey stix. Gonna use a FAT straw ;)

Try honey I guess. It's a high FODMAP issue maybe, but that's due to the fructose. I don't know if my problem is with fructose or not. But I've also read that the numbers for fructose are different because over time the honey 'digests' due to the enzymes it has? Look into it. And fat straws!