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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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

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