Weight: I'm still hovering around at 141 and I don't think I will really budge from that for a long time, especially with all the long distance running I'm doing. I'll post my weight every 10 days.
Medication: 15MG Prednisone (Get to lower the dose 10MG tomorrow!) 40MG Lialda, SCD Probiotic, started ProZymes Digestive Enzymes.
Passings: 1
9:10AM This passing got a bit worse than the previous couple of days. It became more of a Bristol 5 on the stool chart. After doing some research on "Fatty Stools" and making comparisons, I have decided that it is most likely too much undigested fat going through my body. That makes me happy, because it means I don't have to cut out eggs or lower my fruit/honey intake. I just need to keep taking 2 pills per meal of Digestive Enzymes which have finally arrived today and was first taken at dinner time. I expect my next passings to not be perfect Bristol 4's for the next day or so, but I'm fine with that. I'm counting on those digestive enzymes. I feel like I COULD use the bathroom right now at nighttime, but I think I can hold out until the morning, so 1 passing for the day it is then, and that's a fantastic thing to say.
How I Feel: Very good. It's nice to be able to sleep on my stomach. I couldn't do that at all for the past 6-8 months so easily, or not even at all, and that got pretty depressing. I think everyday that my gut heals, it'll continue to get easier to sleep on my stomach. I'm happy because the ProZyme Digestive Enzymes we've ordered have come in the mail today. 2 per meal must be taken. That should fix my fatty stools and the pills also claim to help the healing process of the digestive organs. Tomorrow I get to take 5MG less of my prednisone, which is the good news. I suppose the bad news is that the digestive enzymes have to stick around for awhile. Recommended for 90 days with those, but I don't mind too much. Could even need to go for 6 months before tapering off, but that is also ok. Whatever works works. Can't wait to be completely off of Prednisone in 2 weeks. After I finish college in May, I will find myself a Gastrointestinal doctor in my new home area and figure out how to get completely off of medication. My goal for getting off of all meds is within 6 months of starting this diet. I think that will be plenty of time to heal, and that's such an amazing goal to think about and reach for. The diet is still working, and the only thing I'm tweaking right now is taking the digestive enzymes, which I have a VERY good feeling will help after all of the research I have done.
Food: Breakfast was scrambled eggs with some meat patties, jello, and pear sauce which I think my body is reacting just fine too. I haven't felt any churning. And by the way, WELCOME TO PHASE 1 OF THE DIET, AND BYE BYE TO THE INTRO DIET. I was getting pretty tired of the intro soup. We bought some more Salmon and had that for lunch, which was way better than our first batch, and for dinner tonight, we purchased enough Pork Chop Tenderloins to last through lunch tomorrow, which is what the SCD Lifestyle book recommends. Cook in bulk at dinner so you can eat the same thing for lunch the next day by simply microwaving the leftovers. The meal came out SO GOOD! It tasted great in the pear sauce too. We actually added a bit of honey and cinnamon to the pear sauce, and things seem to be going fine still, so we're happy that adding cinnamon into the diet so early hasn't caused any problems. The next food we will try to introduce in the next 4 days will be Homemade Almond Milk, which I would LOVE to have. Water is getting boring, and it'd be nice to have something other than diluted Welches Grape Juice to drink.
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