'''How do you feel?''' is the daily entry the whole Low FODMAP protocol is measured by. Your baseline is built from it, the five-question score is compared against it, and a reintroduction challenge is read from it. It takes under a minute.
It is part of the Low FODMAP protocol, which is part of Loopa Premium.
== Opening it ==
- '''You''' → '''Your health''' → '''Low FODMAP''' → '''How do you feel?''' for an ordinary day.
- During a challenge, '''Log day N''' and '''Log the day after''' on the '''Reintroduction''' screen open the same sheet for that day of the test. See [[low-fodmap-running-a-challenge|Running a reintroduction challenge]].
== What it asks ==
'''How has today been?''' Four sliders, each from 0 to 10 in whole steps, starting at 0:
- '''Pain'''
- '''Bloating'''
- '''Wind'''
- '''Urgency'''
0 is an answer: it means none. Leave a slider at 0 only if that is true.
'''Overall''': choose '''None''', '''Mild''', '''Moderate''' or '''Severe'''. Nothing is picked to start, and '''Save''' stays greyed out until you choose one. A day you call moderate or severe, having been calm before, counts toward a challenge reaction.
'''Stool form''' (optional): '''Not recording''' is selected to start. The other choices are the Bristol Stool Form Scale:
- 1 · Separate hard lumps
- 2 · Lumpy and sausage-like
- 3 · Sausage-shaped with cracks
- 4 · Smooth and soft
- 5 · Soft blobs with clear edges
- 6 · Mushy with ragged edges
- 7 · Liquid, no solid pieces
"Stool form is one of the things the assessment compares against your baseline. Skipping it is fine."
'''Stress''' and '''Sleep quality''' (optional): eleven buttons from 0 to 10. Stress runs from 0 calm to 10 very stressed; sleep quality from 0 very poor to 10 very good. Tap a number to choose it, and tap it again or tap '''Clear''' to leave it blank, which shows as "Not answered". Blank is not the same as a zero. These two do not count toward your score; they are shown beside your patterns as context.
'''Anything else''': "A note, if you want one", in your own words.
Tap '''Save''' (it reads "Saving…" while it works) or '''Cancel'''.
== How the entries are used ==
- '''Baseline''' needs seven days with an entry before restriction can start. The protocol home counts them: "Log how you feel today. 3 of 7 days recorded so far."
- '''A challenge''' reads each test day against your own baseline. A quiet day is a result, so log it too.
- '''Your patterns''' places these entries beside the meals you checked. See [[low-fodmap-your-patterns|Your patterns and the clinician export]].
Everything is compared only with your own entries, never with anybody else's. If you share Low FODMAP with a Loopa coach, they never see these scores or anything about your stools. See [[what-your-coach-can-see|What your coach can see]].
See also: [[low-fodmap-the-three-phases|The three phases]] · [[low-fodmap-and-constipation|Low FODMAP and constipation]]
'''How do you feel?''' is the daily entry the whole Low FODMAP protocol is measured by. Your baseline is built from it, the five-question score is compared against it, and a reintroduction challenge is read from it. It takes under a minute. It is part of the Low FODMAP protocol, which is part of Loopa Premium. == Opening it == * '''You''' → '''Your health''' → '''Low FODMAP''' → '''How do you feel?''' for an ordinary day. * During a challenge, '''Log day N''' and '''Log the day after''' on the '''Reintroduction''' screen open the same sheet for that day of the test. See [[low-fodmap-running-a-challenge|Running a reintroduction challenge]]. == What it asks == '''How has today been?''' Four sliders, each from 0 to 10 in whole steps, starting at 0: * '''Pain''' * '''Bloating''' * '''Wind''' * '''Urgency''' 0 is an answer: it means none. Leave a slider at 0 only if that is true. '''Overall''': choose '''None''', '''Mild''', '''Moderate''' or '''Severe'''. Nothing is picked to start, and '''Save''' stays greyed out until you choose one. A day you call moderate or severe, having been calm before, counts toward a challenge reaction. '''Stool form''' (optional): '''Not recording''' is selected to start. The other choices are the Bristol Stool Form Scale: * 1 · Separate hard lumps * 2 · Lumpy and sausage-like * 3 · Sausage-shaped with cracks * 4 · Smooth and soft * 5 · Soft blobs with clear edges * 6 · Mushy with ragged edges * 7 · Liquid, no solid pieces "Stool form is one of the things the assessment compares against your baseline. Skipping it is fine." '''Stress''' and '''Sleep quality''' (optional): eleven buttons from 0 to 10. Stress runs from 0 calm to 10 very stressed; sleep quality from 0 very poor to 10 very good. Tap a number to choose it, and tap it again or tap '''Clear''' to leave it blank, which shows as "Not answered". Blank is not the same as a zero. These two do not count toward your score; they are shown beside your patterns as context. '''Anything else''': "A note, if you want one", in your own words. Tap '''Save''' (it reads "Saving…" while it works) or '''Cancel'''. == How the entries are used == * '''Baseline''' needs seven days with an entry before restriction can start. The protocol home counts them: "Log how you feel today. 3 of 7 days recorded so far." * '''A challenge''' reads each test day against your own baseline. A quiet day is a result, so log it too. * '''Your patterns''' places these entries beside the meals you checked. See [[low-fodmap-your-patterns|Your patterns and the clinician export]]. Everything is compared only with your own entries, never with anybody else's. If you share Low FODMAP with a Loopa coach, they never see these scores or anything about your stools. See [[what-your-coach-can-see|What your coach can see]]. See also: [[low-fodmap-the-three-phases|The three phases]] · [[low-fodmap-and-constipation|Low FODMAP and constipation]]
