Brekkie: more of the forking rice cereal with banana, sliced almonds, and almond milk. I had some peppermint tea. (Peppermint tea seems to be the only kind I “should” be drinking right now.)

Lunch #1: BIG bowl of soup I made yesterday. Mmm veggies.

Lunch #2: cucumbers and carrots raw (I know raw isn’t ideal–I had a lot of belly distention yesterday and I suspect the raw food. I am trying to have mostly cooked stuff but I’m still working on having enough variety sitting around), peanut butter on a gluten free English muffin, some diced up chicken, and another banana. (Bananas are starting to taste SO Sweet when normally I’m kind of meh on them.)

Snack: two gluten free waffles with a big handful of raspberries on top and some maple syrup. Mmmmmmm. Syrup. Maple is one of the few sweeteners I’m supposed to have, and I need to go easy on it.

Dinner: white rice and a huge vegetable stir fry. Cabbage, bok choy, carrots, green beans and broccoli with venison. (Less fatty meat than beef. Apparently fatty cuts of meat can irritate your intestine if you already have diarrhea problems.)

And now I get into the really important part: poop.

Yesterday I pooped at 4am, 6:30pm and 8pm. All three times it was very yellow and soft but working towards having form compared to my normal. Uhm, lots of it. Like whoa lots of it. Stupid vegetables.

One difference that I am noticing yesterday and today, normally I don’t have to “push” much. Normally I sit down and stop resisting and all of a sudden I’m pooping. Yesterday and today I had to think back to the child birth classes about “breathing it out”. It wasn’t hard poop and I didn’t have to strain to get it out, but I had to kind of think about it and relax which is a little different.

I’m going to jump out of order just because I’m kind of excited: my poop today is brown! That hardly ever happens! That’s the healthiest color of poop! This is progress.

Ok I’ll stop talking about my bowels now. 🙂