May 8, 20221 min read

CSID

At long last, I have a secondary diagnosis: #CSID. Otherwise known as #sucroseintolerance.

TLDR; my body no longer converts sucrose into glucose. This may well be why I haven‘t been able to run in a long time; I don’t yet know any runners with this condition. Frankly, I’d never heard of it before my GI doctor handed me a test. (She seemed to do so as a last resort; I went home and cried, thinking I was about to be passed off yet again.). Her office hasn’t seen this in an adult yet so we are learning together.

I will write a longer post later, I’m still wrapping my head around ALL the food restrictions I’ll have to follow for the rest of my life.

For now, here is a fun picture of me, 2 weeks before going into labor with my second kid in 2013. A few short weeks after giving birth, I would look for a coach to get me ready to run the 2013 NYCM, and would instead end up becoming the coach I‘d wanted to hire. I’d had two babies 13.5 months apart and moved to Denver; I couldn’t climb stairs without huffing and puffing!!! I thought I was broken!!!

I wasn’t broken then, and I’m not now. Neither are you. I figured this out before, I will do it again, and I will do it with you whenever you need.

You are coached, you are loved, and if you have no idea how much starch was in your last meal- TRULY you are winning at life!!!!