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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Ready to get your shit together? Got the intestinal fortitude? Yearning for a nirvana of peristalsis? Buy Breaking The Vicious Cycle! Written by Elaine Gottschall B.A., M.Sc., the book includes guidelines for dietary relief and sustainable remission of Crohns, Ulcerative Colitis, and other IBDs.

Feel free to contact me if you still have questions.

Laura and I love to take walks around our neighborhood after dinner. It is good for one's digestion and it is a pleasant time of day to be outside.

We always get to enjoy something wonderful, but this evening was extra special. First, the crescent moon was setting over the Tucson mountains. We watched it slip behind the clouds, only to reappear on the other side, a deeper shade of yellow. Then as we continued to walk, we saw the biggest, brightest object, flaming through the sky. It started out above us, to the northwest, a bright blue-green flame. It sped across the sky, lost some of its luminance, and then expired in an orange flash. Meteor? Shooting star? Space rubbish entering the atmosphere? Who knows.. perhaps we'll read about it tomorrow in the newspaper?

We kept walking, talking about what that shooting object might have been. The moon came into view again, a bright orange color (the Blogger orange, perhaps?). It was breathtaking. We watched it until it had almost disappeared. Finally, when we got home, there was a teeny tiny baby banded gecko running around in the area by the front door. Tucson is such a wonderful place to live!
mhs@20:31

Dinner: leftover grilled cornish hens, tossed salad, sliced organic avocados.
mhs@20:26

Quite a few additions to the Research, FAQ, and Testimonials sections.

Lunch: Pad Thai, from Trader Joe's (no, it wasn't very SCD-legal but I wanted to have it).
Breakfast: fruit.
mhs@15:42

I just added myself to bloghop.com.
mhs@08:58

More on what people spend on lunch (see yesterday's post @ 3:36 PM):
Juan (in Alicante; a non-SCD-er with no bowel problems) writes:

Sometimes I eat a sandwich at home and just keep working. Sometimes I spend $6 on a three course lunch at any of a zillion places around here serving "menus" (the Spanish working-class value meal that may cost up to $10 or more-- but consider how low the peseta is in comparison to the dollar) The menu usually consists of salad, paella, and desert, or soup, steak or fish and ice cream, etc.
mhs@08:37

Friday, September 29, 2000

Dinner: big-time SCD feast, with Sheila Shea. Spinach salad, grilled leeks and cornish hens Provence-style, and Sheila's red lentil hummus with basil (instead of cumin).

Dessert: walnut banana bread.
mhs@22:11

The Economist reports "The British working lunch has become more like America's. According to a Datamonitor report, the majority of Britons take just 25-30 minutes and often eat sandwiches at their desks. Germans, among Europe's richest folk, spend an average of just $2.69 a day on lunch. Spaniards on average spend $6.30 on lunch, take up to three hours to eat it and often need a sleep to recover."
I asked a fellow SCD-er (Mik, in Denmark) what he does for lunch. Here is his reply:

For years, since I started SCD, I have been having the same lunch every day - and STILL enjoy it: In the morning, I make a fruit salad of 1 apple, 1 orange, 1 ripe banana, almond flour, almond paste (from roasted almonds), dried fruits such as figs and dates, sometimes a mango, grapes, etc. I eat half right away, and the other half goes in a jar and is put in the bag - my lunch. :-)
Price: somewhere between 2-3 dollars, I'd think.
mhs@15:36

Lunch: leftover grilled trout, leftover chicken tandoori, and steamed squash.
mhs@15:30

Breakfast: an apple, a banana, some nut and raisin mix.
mhs@07:57

Thursday, September 28, 2000

Noticia: superchango ha vuelto!
mhs@20:22

Dinner: chicken tandoori, curried cauliflower with eggplant and raisins.
mhs@20:12

Lunch: tunafish salad, tossed salad.
mhs@13:31

Breakfast: fruit, cheese, nuts.
mhs@09:05

Wednesday, September 27, 2000

Dinner: grilled ruby trout, steamed artichokes, and sauteed carrots with butter.
Lunch: leftover turkey burgers, tossed salad.
Breakfast: fruit.

Yesterday was a big travel day--up at 5am, off to San Jose, and home at midnight. I did not eat well (not very SCD-legal), and ended up paying for it much of the night in trips to the bathroom. So, boys and girls... what did we learn here? Do as Elaine says, not as Mike does! :-)
mhs@20:02

Monday, September 25, 2000

Dinner: grilled salmon with butter and pepper, tossed salad, and baked acorn squash.
Lunch: leftover turkey burgers, tossed salad.
Breakfast: fruit, nuts, cheese, walnut-almond-cranberry muffins.
mhs@20:47

Sunday, September 24, 2000

Dinner: leftover grilled turkey burgers, steamed summer squash with butter and pepper.
mhs@21:00

Lunch: grilled turkey burgers with salsa and garam masala (don't knock it until you try it!), tossed salad.
Breakfast: fruit, nuts, leftover dinner from last night.
Dinner (yesterday): P. F. Chang's, a way over-rated Chinese mini-chain. Yes, it's nice but when you get down to it one can eat far better food elsewhere for the same price or less. And their service was horrible. I had eaten at this place in Denver and was not that impressed; they opened a place here in Tucson a few months ago, Laura wanted to see if it was really as I had described.
Yup, it was.
If they want to bring a mini-chain to Tucson, they should bring Il Fornaio, or however it is spelled.
mhs@14:28

I archived a bit of doodie humor on scdiet.org -- check it out!
mhs@08:48

Saturday, September 23, 2000

The summer heat has almost completely disappeared, and we can once again use our oven for cooking! What better way to welcome cooler weather than with Elaine's delicious recipe for walnut and almond with cranberry muffins?! This delicious recipe is found in Breaking The Vicious Cycle.
mhs@13:49

Lunch: leftover roasted chicken, tossed salad.
mhs@13:46

You must listen to this: Lucy Rosset on Dr. Ronald Hoffman's 'Healthtalk'. Those suffering from Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and IBS can learn how a change in diet can provide superior, long-term remission without surgery or those awful drugs.
mhs@09:24

Breakfast: fried eggs, an apple, and a banana.
mhs@09:23

Friday, September 22, 2000

Dinner: well, the Turkey Store brand's "Italian flavored" ground turkey made really awful burgers so we dined on the leftover roasted chicken. Laura made a delicious sauteed swiss chard, as well as baked acorn squash with honey and butter.
mhs@19:48

What is the CCFA's problem?!
The following is a response to a post on the SCD listserve about an upcoming CCFA sponsored march in Indianapolis. Apparently the CCFA is completely owned by the pharmaceutical companies. Patients that get well by changing their regimen or are "healed" through surgery are not desirable role models. What a shame!

Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000
From: "rachel"
To: SCD-list
A sweet young student at my college was once selected to be the local CCFA youth ambassador. She was devastated when they took away her title after she'd had her colon removed. As they explained to the 12 year old, they didn't want other children to become frightned into thinking that they might need surgery some day as well. Seems a colostomy doesn't project a proper image for this position. I'd love to tell the CCFA what they can do with their dubious honors, but of course they'd never elect me as spokes-person. Rachel
mhs@17:36

Lunch: roasted chicken, tossed salad.
Breakfast: fried eggs, an apple, and a banana.
mhs@14:33

Thursday, September 21, 2000

Dinner: leftover cornish hens, Thai vegetable stir-fry, and tossed salad.
mhs@19:58

Breakfast: fruit, some nuts, and dried figs.

Hey! Flog's regimen for remission is now listed on blogstart!
mhs@08:53

Wednesday, September 20, 2000

Dinner: grilled cornish hens, tossed salad.
mhs@19:25

I'm a purple yogi fan! :-) This is a new utility that runs in Windows (only), watches where your browser goes, and dynamically makes suggestions on related links and news articles. It's like a Copernic or Sherlock on amphetamines because it that learns what you like to see! Scary? Yes. Useful? I think so! Check it out @ purpleyogi.com
mhs@16:48

Lunch: chicken tandoori from Trader Joe's.
Dinner (yesterday): we dined out with Connie. A crabcake appetizer, roasted lamb shank with spaghetti squash entree. I had some evil chocolate-y dessert, but don't do as I did!
mhs@12:46

Tuesday, September 19, 2000

Breakfast: fruit, nuts, some quiche from Wild Oats.
mhs@08:25

Monday, September 18, 2000

Dinner: grilled swordfish with butter and pepper, and sauteed vegetables in a Thai red curry sauce.
mhs@20:24

From Business2.0, "Apple unquestionably wants to be as hip as the Linux community." Fine with me--Linux is way cool!
mhs@15:13

Lunch: leftover grilled chicken sausages and collard greens with garlic, tossed salad. A banana for dessert.
mhs@12:46

SCD question-of-the-day: "can I use a small amount of milk in a recipe?"
According to Elaine's book, no. Is there something you can substitute for milk that would be acceptable? Yoghurt, perhaps?
But if you want to try the milk, I'd say it depends. Here are a few questions to ask yourself:
How small is the proportion of the milk to the overall amount (weight) of ingredients?
How well have I been doing without the milk?
What other non-SCD foods will I be consuming along with the recipe containing milk?
What symptoms or other indications will I get if I add milk?
Is it worth it? (or to quote Clint Eastwood in "Dirty Harry", "Do I feel lucky..?")

If you've been on the SCD for enough time you will know which rules you can "bend", how often, and for what duration. If you are new to the SCD, just stick with it for a few more months before making modifications. It is worth it!
mhs@07:40

Breakfast: an apple, a banana, some cantaloupe, and some nuts.
mhs@07:31

SCDRecipe.com has a new "add a recipe" page. Feel free to contribute your own SCD recipes for remission of IBD and IBS!
mhs@07:30

Sunday, September 17, 2000

Dinner: totally awesome! Here goes: butterfly a cornish hen (slice it in half down the back), rub some olive oil, salt, and pepper on it, and grill it skin side down until the skin gets golden and crispy. Flip it, cook it another 8 minutes, and then flip it back one more time. Meanwhile, prepare some artichokes for grilling by taking off their tops and bottoms and cutting them in half lengthwise. Microwave (with a little water) for 10 minutes or so. Then put some olive oil or butter on the artichokes and grill them, cut side down, for 3-5 minutes. Serve all of this with a tossed salad, some melted butter for dipping, and a glass of merlot for yourself and your lovely assistant. Enjoy!
mhs@20:50

Lunch @ Flying V at the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort with Sanjay and Fred from from UPnAbove.com: turkey club with avocado and bacon, without the bread (pretend you're in Europe, use a knife and fork!!).
Breakfast: fruit, nuts.
Dinner, yesterday: grilled Alaskan salmon with butter, pepper, and rosemary, grilled eggplant, and beet and arugula salad in a vinaigrette sauce. Mmmmmm! We saw a coyote and some tiny, tiny toads (about 1/4 inch long!) during our after-dinner walk.
mhs@13:36

Saturday, September 16, 2000

(Ahem!) Someone on the SCD list asked if Pam cooking spray is allowed while on the diet. My response: Hmmm... as an environmentalist I must point out the evils to our atmosphere that are undoubtedly contained in the can of Pam. If it doesn't affect your guts it will definitely affect our atmosphere. Let's look at the WHOLE picture, folks :-) (no pun intended)
mhs@14:40

Lunch: grilled chicken sausages from Trader Joe's and a big, juicy tossed salad.
mhs@14:20

Breakfast: fruit and some nuts.
Lots of updates on scdiet.org today--check out our new links to IBD and IBS-realted sites in other languages!
mhs@10:02

Friday, September 15, 2000

Lunch: Trader Joe's chicken masala, tossed salad.
Breakfast: fruit, nuts, cheese, dried figs.
mhs@17:21

Thursday, September 14, 2000

Dinner: grilled salmon with an asian garlic and black bean sauce, sauteed collared greens, Brazilian-style, and grilled zucchini.
mhs@21:19

Sorry folks, I've been a bit busy with my new job @ Gandiva. No time to update Flog. Rest assured--I'm eating plenty of SCD foods and doing whatever I can to keep stress at bay. Stay tuned for a return to the regimen for remission later today!
mhs@10:51

Tuesday, September 12, 2000

Breakfast: fruit, dccc.

Dinner (yesterday): leftover grilled chicken, tossed salad, cauliflower mashed potatoes.
mhs@07:02

Monday, September 11, 2000

Breakfast: fruit, nuts, and dccc.

Yesterday:
Dinner: grilled chicken with garlic, spices, and olive oil; tossed salad, and baked acorn squash.
Lunch: turkey sausages from Wild Oats, salad.
Breakfast: fruit, three fried eggs.
mhs@08:11

Saturday, September 09, 2000

Dinner: wonderful grilled Alaskan salmon in a cilantro-walnut pesto, tossed salad, and steamed summer squash with butter and pepper. After dinner reading: finished Desert Solitaire, by Edward Abbey. Abbey has a wonderful writing style, and the land which he describes is like no other (humans have made too many changes to it). As a ranger in Arches National Monument, he enjoyed solitide, beauty, and nature. Abbey had wonderful retorts to the darnedest questions asked by tourists, like:
"Say, ranger, when the hell are they going to pave that road?", to which he would reply, "The day before I leave";
"How do we get out?"
"Same way you came in. It's a dead-end road"
"So we see the same scenery twice?"
"It looks better going out."
mhs@20:00

Lunch: tossed salad, leftover turkey burgers, and some cheese. Dessert: dried figs.
mhs@12:47

Breakfast: fruit, nuts.

Three hours of updates to scdiet.org this morning. All of the SCD Recipe pages were updated and some Community pages, too. Check it out!
mhs@10:09

Friday, September 08, 2000

Dinner, oh glorious dinner! Dining on the SCD can be so delicious, and fun, too! Tonight's feast started with a first plate of sauteed beet greens (the tops). The main course was pan roasted beets, Laura's "wrinkled beans" (slow cooked green beans and garlic, almost caramelized), and grilled Pacific swordfish steak. For dessert: a nice walk around the neighborhood. Wine: a dry merlot.
mhs@20:58

Lunch: curried chicken masala from Trader Joe's, and a tossed salad.
mhs@13:08

As usual, yours truly is on the fringe. While I use IE at work and find that it loads pages faster than Netscape, for personal use I am bound to Netscape. In fact, I am quite fond of the beta versions of Netscape 6.0. Why? The main reason is IE doesn't run on a Unix operating system (and I run a Linux workstation at home). Why Linux? It's just pain faster, more stable, and way more fun than Windoze. See for yourself!

Nevertheless, I'm still in the fringe. Maybe even bleeding edge! Or so say these recent stats:
Microsoft has continued to strengthen its grasp on the global browser market, according to new statistics from WebSideStory's Statmarket.
A staggering 86.08 percent of Internet users worldwide use Internet Explorer, up from 64.06 percent in February 1999. Netscape's share of the market has plummeted from 33.43 percent in February 1999 to 13.90 percent in June 2000. Only 0.02 percent of users use another browser.
The operating system market (OS) is also dominated by the behemoth of Microsoft, with 93.63 percent of Internet users worldwide now using a Windows OS product. Only 2.53 percent of users use Macintosh products while 0.36 percent use a Unix OS. About 3.5 percent use another OS.

Yes, I have a love-hate relationship with IE. It's a darn fine browser. But it only works on Microsoft's OS.
mhs@09:34

Breakfast: an apple, dccc, and a banana. Nuts. Jalapeņo jack cheese.
mhs@09:25

Thursday, September 07, 2000

Snacking: a banana and some chilled pecans.
mhs@10:08

Breakfast: fruit, dccc.
mhs@06:55

Wednesday, September 06, 2000

Dinner: turkey burgers with garlic, cayenne, chili, marinated roasted red peppers, and raisins; tossed salad.
mhs@20:09

Lunch: leftover grilled salmon, tossed salad, sliced carrots, and some low-sodium sliced ham.
mhs@13:24

Breakfast: fruit, dried figs, and some nut mix.
mhs@08:35

Tuesday, September 05, 2000

And this was in my email this evening:

Thanks Elaine for your words of encouragement! I'll will check in next week with a report! Oh yes....I also wanted to thank Mike of GlassBird.com for opening my eyes up to this diet - once I saw his food log - the whole process became a little more obtainable. Adrienne

You are quite welcome Adrienne! :-)
mhs@20:06

Dinner: leftover grilled steak, caramelized onions and peppers, and a tossed salad.
mhs@20:03

Snacking: manchego cheese (goat cheese from Spain), a banana, and some chilled pecans (they're crunchy that way!)
mhs@16:14

Lunch: leftover Thai chicken, steak, and tossed salad.
mhs@14:21

Blogger news: there's an IBS blog that just started. Check it out at ibslog!
mhs@08:18

Breakfast: fruit and nuts.
mhs@08:17

Monday, September 04, 2000

Dinner: two delicious ruby red trout, grilled; one prepared with butter and pepper, the other prepared with a bit of soy and some chopped ginger, tossed salad, and steamed artichokes. For dessert, Laura's Awesome Apple Crisp.
mhs@21:16

No, this has nothing to do with IBD, Tucson, or much of anything else except that if you or someone you know needs a name and trademark for their new company, then you'll want to point them here.
mhs@13:52

Lunch: tossed salad, Jamaican jerk chicken on the grill. Spicy, spicy!
mhs@13:42

Snacking: unsulphured, unsweetened dried pineapple rings from Trader Joe's; they're sweet, they're tart, they're chewy, and they've got vitamin C, Calcium, and Iron! If you don't have a Trader Joe's near you, befriend with someone who does!
mhs@11:28

I have 3 computers, nearly a dozen email addresses, multiple electronic addressbooks... how long will it be before I end up with the Palm m100 Handheld?
mhs@08:49

I'm having way too much fun using my new highspeed Internet connection on my day off! Here's a new book that I want: Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1865-1869 , by Stephen Ambrose.
mhs@08:46

If you haven't found scdrecipe.com yet, you must check it out! They have compiled a wonderful set of recipes for remission of Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, and IBS! They also have a wonderful introduction to listserves as well as instructions on how to join the SCD listserve.
mhs@08:33

Check out this article about web hosting off the grid!
mhs@08:26

Breakfast: fruit, some leftover spinach and feta quiche from Wild Oats.
mhs@08:20

Dinner (yesterday): It was a two-hour mangia-fest! We had some friends over, and ate veggies with guacamole, drank wine, grilled up three huge steaks, grilled half a wild Pacific salmon (with cilantro & walnut pesto), grilled zucchini, and eggplant. For dessert, we feasted upon Laura's Awesome Apple Crisp!!
mhs@08:19

Sunday, September 03, 2000

Lunch: leftover salad, thai chicken and stir fried veggies.
mhs@12:50

It is evident that the seasons have changed again in Tucson! First, 40,000+ students are back for a new semester at the University of Arizona. Second, the retired folks that winter here ("snowbirds") are starting to return from their northern summer rest stops. Traffic on the roads is horrible (but not as bad as January).

Most importantly, the humidity and rain of monsoon is gone. This is evident in the color of the sky--solid blue, not a cloud to be seen all day) and the dryness in the air. It hasn't been this dry since mid-June. Our noses had become used to the increased humidity of monsoon, and now they must re-acclimate to the dry air. Until our noses re-adjust, we'll have to get used to difficulty breathing through them in the mornings. One wonders: How does the change in humidity affect IBD?
mhs@07:37

Breakfast: fruit, nuts, two fried eggs, and off to the gym.

Dinner (yesterday): stir-fried brocolli and carrots in a thai green curry sauce, sliced chicken in a thai masaman curry sauce, and cauliflower mashed potatoes.
mhs@07:30

Saturday, September 02, 2000

Breakfast: fruit, nuts, and some leftover salad.

Dinner (yesterday): grilled salmon with Trader Joe's Cilantro-Walnut pesto, sauteed carrots, and cauliflower mashed potatoes. And a glass of merlot.
mhs@08:51

Friday, September 01, 2000

Lunch: tuna salad, tossed salad with beets and artichoke hearts, and some spinach and feta cheese quiche.
mhs@14:35

Breakfast: fruit, nuts.
mhs@07:15

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