SCD Day 8

John:

Medication: 10MG Prednisone, 40MG Lialda, SCD Probiotic, ProZymes

Passings: 1
6:00PM A small passing, but basically a broken up Bristol 4. Not a 5. The SLIIIIIIIGHTEST amount of undigested fat on it that's barely worth mentioning. Good poop.

How I Feel: Felt productive today and researched all kinds of success stories and whatnot, whether they were written, but mostly youtube videos. First off, not a lot of people are trying the SCD diet. There aren't a lot of videos out there on it. Second, some of the video people end up quitting it for excuses that I personally didn't think were good enough, but maybe I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. Other people you can see that they do the diet all wrong and cheat all the time, or start out the diet incorrectly and are too impatient to add foods in one at a time. They dive straight for the cheese or almond bread or don't cook their fruits and vegetables. Not me. I'm going to be in this thing 100%. I get cravings, but I hate getting worse more than I want to eat a huge chocolate cake with a glass of whole milk. The apple sauce we made is sitting fine, and today we made a DELICIOUS batch of Homemade Almond Milk. I added in honey, vanilla extract, and cinnamon, which I seem to not be reacting to at all. I didn't hear my gut working hard to adjust to the Almond milk at any time. I might have had a little too much of it to start off with for the first day, so next time I introduce something, I gotta remember to take it a little easier. I had a whole cup, and then I froze another cup of it in the freezer and came back to it for dessert. It was already so sweet, and actually worked pretty great as an ice cream dessert! Going to keep that one in mind, but add more honey next time to treat it even more so like a dessert!

Food: Eggs and apple sauce for breakfast. Chicken and the rest of the apple sauce for lunch. We had a little snack in-between lunch and dinner of Cod, which is my least favorite fish. It's more chewy than tilapia and salmon. Made the Homemade Almond Milk and went to town on that. Dinner was a gift of a large Ribeye steak that was to die for! Holy cow! For dessert, we had frozen almond milk. So good!