500 days on the SCD! It's been a SUCCESS!

BIKE COMMUTE 9.5 miles

No Thursday run today, but I did join the group for the dog walk, the social, and because LC was bringing birthday treats for me! I can't express how much that means to me :) Bacon, banana, and Nutella is YUMMY!

Long walks, easy ride, that's it. Rest, rest, rest. But I'm anxious, amp'd, thinking in a tumbling sort of way. Pre race planning, wrapping up the Farmdale 80 race report!, changing my nutrition last minute (of course), and thinking more and more. There's a lot to put together for this!

Since I have not much to say about training and prep, I'll focus instead on reaching the 500 days on the SCD!! WOW! I'll start by saying it's been the best decision I've made for myself, and in the end it was not that hard to do. It's so worth it to be symptom-free like I am.

What I've been able to eat over time: potatoes and rice, simple sugars and candies made with simple sugars, a little bit of raw veg

What I'm still not able to eat: corn, oats, starches used in processed foods, too much green beans, nuts and nut butters. Eating too much food at once, being snacky all day, eating too fast.

What I miss: ....this is a hard one, because I equate missing these foods with having symptoms -- apples, oats, little things like hummus (BE brought garlic-free hummus to the run today, with celery), nut butters, ... really it would just be nice to have a bowl of oatmeal or corn chips without the lower gut pain and ache I get a few hours later. I can do small amounts, I just need to learn to enjoy that.

Two issues I do have -- one is that I tend to eat the same foods week after week: carrots, radishes, zucchini, beans, frozen spinach, oranges, banana, blueberries, fermented dairy, chicken, eggs, ... every week I buy those foods. Every week. A second issue is that I tend to over indulge one foods that were denied or need to be limited. Like my mind just tips a balance and says either 'WTH I don't care' or 'Ooh we haven't had this before it's new'. Recent examples include rice cakes (need to be limited or ...), marshmallow creme and Nutella that I tested for race nutrition sources, beans and spinach puree (too much again...), egg white whips.  Not sure how to deal with this. I let myself enjoy the foods, but there's still a mental problem of where my brain acts like it's a limited resource so must eat MORE NOW.

Other than that, to have normal morning BMs and about 85-90% days free of pain, burping, cramps, and more....WORTH IT!

I should set some goals for the next couple 100 days, but with R2T in 1.5 days I'll think on it later.