10/29 and 10/30

Today's Plan: run
My runs for the last two days have been hard. Each step was so difficult, and the breath just wouldn't come. Good thing I am stubborn.  If I know I can do it, I won't give up. So I finished my runs. I just didn't enjoy them.
It took me a bit to figure it out, but I finally realized that I did it to myself (geez, I hate that). As I have been researching running and all it entails, I read an article about runners needing more protein than people who don't run.
I don't eat a lot of meat. I am not vegetarian, I just don't tend to eat  much. I eat salad for dinner most nights, and if my husband grills steak then I put some on my salad. Or I get chicken sausage and heat that up and throw it on the salad.  Breakfast is usually grain based, and lunch is a version of crackers, cheese and apple. Throw in a bunch of trail mix (at least that has soybeans and nuts for protein). The rest of my diet is, well, certainly not protein based. At least, I don't think Twizzlers have protein.
I decided that perhaps I should add some protein and therefore ordered myself some whey powder after doing some searching for the best options. I got flavorless. I think flavors in powders are never as tasty as they promise. Plus, I didn't want extra chemicals in there.
Monday morning I prepared lunch, putting the recommended amount of  powder in Greek yogurt.  It tasted fine, just made the yogurt a bit thicker. Monday was my day off, so I didn't really feel any different. Tuesday I went for just a quick run based on the sunset, and it was a little difficult. I just figured it was because I was pushing my pace to cover as much ground as possible before I couldn't see the ground. But my longer runs this week showed me that something was definitely wrong. It was as bad as running (close your ears gentlemen) during the week of my period. And every night my lower belly was definitely not happy.
Basically, while milk products don't usually effect me, adding milk based whey to yogurt was very disruptive to my digestive system. I was lucky I could still button my pants, as the bloat swelled. I am backing off  and will be adding it back in slowly. It will be just the yogurt for lunch the rest of the week and next Monday I will start by adding a little whey and work it up to the recommended amount. Probably should have done that at first, but who knew? I do like to just dive in.