A Regimen for Remission
This log tracks my regimen of attitude, exercise, stress management, and SCD foods. Since I started this regimen in 1997, I've been able to keep my Crohn's in a drug-free remission.

Monkey-see,
monkey-don't
Even though I may have experimented beyond the SCD from time to time, one must remember that everyone is different. Follow the intro diet for 3-5 days, and stick with the SCD until you are completely symptom free for at least one year before experimenting.

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The linked timestamps are your permanent links to individual log entries.

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Feel free to contact me if you still have questions.

Just FTP'd four hours' worth of updates to the SCD web site. Check them out here.
mhs@12:16

Laura has been doing a lot of yoga, and she is getting great at some of the difficult poses. I, however, have not been doing as much yoga as I should.
mhs@11:27

Breakfast: fruit and nuts.

Yesterday:
Dinner: roasted chicken, steamed artichokes and butter, and a tossed salad.
Lunch: chicken burrito, sliced lenthwise and eaten "out of its wrapper".

mhs@07:55

Friday, July 28, 2000

SCD news: check out sex and the SCD!

Employment tip of the day.
mhs@06:31

Breakfast: fruit, nuts.
It's a cloudy morning here in Tucson. Oppressive humidity (44%), and 85 degrees before the sun even came up.
mhs@06:03

Wednesday, July 26, 2000

Dinner: in Houston @ Thai Cafe, on Westheimer. Awesome vegetables in a clay pot!

Lunch: @ El Charro in the Tucson Airport. Carne seca Caesar salad.
mhs@19:55

Breakfast: apples and cantaloupe.

Laura and I watched three hummingbirds battle it out for our feeder this morning. They are such wonderful birds to watch! Usually, one defends the feeder from all others; this time one bird remained perched immediately above the feeder while two others battled it out, and then enjoyed the feeder to itself. Amazing. Here are more annals of natural beauty.
mhs@06:47

Tuesday, July 25, 2000

Dinner: "wilted" (sauteed) spinach with raisins, garlic, and pine nuts, leftover turkey burgers (still awful-threw the rest away), and a delicious tossed salad with flax seed oil and organic unfiltered apple cider vinegar dressing.
mhs@21:00

Netscape is cramping my style!

Why can't it be as good as Microsoft's browser? And don't go telling me that IE is so good because it is tied to the operating system. As Mattl pointed out on Monday, "IE5.5/Mac is the most-compliant browser available, and you can be damn sure that it hasn't a single hook into the MacOS. Get real. While IE/Win has significant hooks into the OS, it by no means forces the user to browse, read email, or live by IE. In about 90 seconds I can open my Options dialog and be done with it. Who are you trying to kid?" Mozilla, where are you??!!
mhs@15:21

Lunch: leftover grilled sausages and oven-roasted beets, a delicious tossed salad.
mhs@12:22

Breakfast: fruit and dried figs.

Dinner (yesterday): Laura's awesome braised string beans and garlic, tossed salad, and some (pitiful) turkey burgers on the grill. The regular ground turkey was sold out, so I bought the extra lean stuff. Don't do it! It is awful! It is so dry and taste-less, even with all the spices and stuff I added! Ug! Ug! Ugggggg!!!!!
mhs@06:48

Monday, July 24, 2000

Lunch (hours ago): tossed salad with leftover grilled spicy turkey sausages.

Kewl, Mike has another screen snapshot here!
mhs@16:43

Breakfast: fresh fruit.
mhs@06:30

Sunday, July 23, 2000

Dinner: oven roasted beets, sauteed beet tops, grilled eggplant with garlic and olive oil, and grilled turkey sausages from Wild Oats, formerly Reay's.
mhs@19:47

Snack: a banana and some nut and raisin mix.
mhs@17:08

Lunch: tossed salad, TJ's veggie burgers.

It has been brought to my attention that some of the items you read here are not completely "scd-legal". That is true. If you are a "SCD newbie", then please follow the rules in Elaine Gottschall's book. Do as she says, not as I write! Don't be a "monkey-see-monkey-do" or you'll end up in deep doo-doo. Listen to your gut--if after awhile one finds that small modifications to the regimen do not affect one's remission, then you're one of the lucky ones. Like me, I guess! :-) Anyway, more on the topic of "bending (or breaking) the rules at a later date. And Cat, thanks for bringing this to my attention--I had no intent to lead newbies astray with my writing. :-)
mhs@14:39

Breakfast: an apple, a banana, some fried eggs.. manchego cheese.
Monsoon is back!! A storm rolled through Tucson last night at about 20 mph, with gusts up to 50 mph. One of our trees got blown sideways, so we'll have to fix that today. It was an awesome storm, with golf-ball sized hail on the east side of town. Monsoon 2000 was the earliest on record, but it calmed down quite early. Now July may be one of the dryest on record.. but there are still a few days to go!
mhs@08:08

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