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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Feel free to contact me if you still have questions.

Breakfast: fruit, dccc, nut mix, and some organic herbal peppermint tea.
mhs@08:02

Monday, October 30, 2000

Hey! Check out the USDA nutrient database!
mhs@20:10

Dinner: Laura roasted a delicious organic chicken with carrots, onion, and celery. I made a tossed salad with some ground flax seeds for extra fiber.
mhs@20:08

Lunch: leftover turkey burgers with punjab eggplant. A pear for dessert.
mhs@13:37

Breakfast: fruit, dry curd cottage cheese (dccc).

Check out this blog on irritable bowel syndrome!
mhs@09:21

Sunday, October 29, 2000

Dinner: grilled turkey burgers, tossed salad, and steamed artichokes with butter. Afterwards, a lovely walk around the neighborhood. We admired the beautiful Earth-lit dark side of the moon and Venus setting in the west.
mhs@20:04

Sorry, Flog Fans... I have been remiss in updating you on my regimen for remission. I have been very busy, and just now found a moment to update my Crohn's food log. So, here goes:
Lunch: leftover trout and leeks.
Breakfast: fruit, nuts, cheese.

Dinner, yesterday: grilled chicken sausages, oven roasted leeks, tossed salad.
Lunch: Thai tom yum soup, with leftover chicken.
Breakfast: fruit, nuts.
mhs@16:13

Saturday, October 28, 2000

It has been raining a lot lately. No, it is not monsoon here but it sure has the makings of an el niño winter! And all of this rain brought out those cute little Sonoran desert toads. Those little sapo sonorensis were hopping around the flagstone patio and chirping all night. I would not have thought those little guys could handle the cold weather we've had, but I guess they came out for one last fling before digging underground for the next 9 months.

And to top off the hopping-reptile evening, we watched Magnolia last night. Tom Cruise was awesome as a scary, sleazy "motivator"; William H. Macy was his usual shlumpy self; but the finale -- that was just wild!
mhs@08:51

Yesterday:
Dinner: grilled trout, punjab eggplant.
Lunch: steamed squash and leftover roasted chicken.
Breakfast... just guess!
mhs@08:48

Thursday, October 26, 2000

Dinner @ J Bar, at the Westin La Paloma Resort, with Marv and Betsy. Wonderful meal! I chowed down some delicious jerked pork with beans (with a glass of merlot).
mhs@21:16

Lunch: chicken taco.
Breakfast: fruit, nuts, scrambled eggs. (Why is it that eggs cause me so many problems??!!)
mhs@13:29

Wednesday, October 25, 2000

Dinner: tossed salad, leftover roasted chicken.
Lunch: tossed salad, grilled sausages.
mhs@20:50

Happy Halloween, from Laura and Mike!

mhs@07:33

Breakfast: fruit, nuts.
Dinner, yesterday: grilled chicken sausages, tossed salad, and steamed squash.
mhs@07:30

Tuesday, October 24, 2000

Lunch: roasted chicken, steamed spinach, and some nut mix for dessert.
mhs@12:51

The sun has finally returned to the desert! Everything is a lush, heavy green after a much-needed 4 days of rain.
mhs@08:20

Breakfast: an apple, a banana, some dried figs, and some Jarlsberg cheese.
Dinner, yesterday: chicken shawerma, at Sinbad's.

Afterwards, we got to see B.B. King live! He was great! The guy is almost 80 years old but one would never know it. No, Eric Clapton was not there, but they did play some tunes from Riding With The King.The opening band, Shemekia Copeland, was quite good, too. She's nineteen, they're all from NYC, and they are worth checking out!
mhs@08:17

Monday, October 23, 2000

Lunch: grilled chicken sausages, tossed salad.
Breakfast: fruit, nuts.

It rained all day here in the desert. It was so lovely! In celebration, I ignored my computer all day, including this Flog. Oh well.
mhs@12:32

Saturday, October 21, 2000

It's great to hear from all of the people that learn about the SCD! For example, this just came in from a German guy who inquired about a forthcoming translation of Breaking The Vicious Cycle in German:
"Dear Mike thanks a million,the ball is really moving. Elaine wrote to me giving me an address, and i have written to him, i shall have to wait and see what happens. Mike i cannot thank you enough, it`s good to know that there are people out there who are willing to help.God bless you.
best regards Terry"
No problem, Terry! The pleasure is mine.
mhs@16:36

Lunch: leftover trout, salad, and curried vegetables. Dessert: apple crisp and some cantaloupe.
mhs@15:12

While I don't waste much "electric ink" writing about drugs here on Flog, this article on infliximab does include some very interesting graphics describing how patients with IBD are diagnosed. Alas, look at the pretty pictures, but beware of the dark side! :-)
mhs@10:07

It is a very unusual kind of morning here in the Sonoran Desert. Actually, it reminds me of foggy, misty summers in the Basque country, where the mist rolls over the hills and mountains. In Euskadi, it's called a xiri miri, which is understood by the rest of Spain to be a non-stop, bleak, Basque mist. Anyway, that is what it's like here in Tucson.
Based upon the wonderful, weird weather lately, I am predicting a bit of an el niño winter here (if not everywhere else in North America). Stay tuned..!
mhs@09:58

Breakfast: fruit, nuts.
mhs@09:55

Friday, October 20, 2000

Dinner: appetizer of fresh, hand-made guacamole; first plate of steamed artichokes, entree of grilled trout and tossed salad, and Laura's delicious apple crisp for dessert!
mhs@21:38

Breakfast: fruit, nuts.
It has been raining here! We got two inches during the day yesterday and last night! The air smells wonderful today, the sky is blue, and the birds are chirping away. La vida es sueño.
mhs@10:28

Thursday, October 19, 2000

Dinner: grilled swordfish with broccoli and cauliflower with Punjab eggplant.
mhs@19:47

What a gorgeous, stormy, rainy day!!! (I feel like Gomez Addams saying that.) Tucson has been under a high pressure front that has swirled around above us for 24 hours. The news says it may last for 2 more days! In a place where the skies are always blue, it is so exciting when a storm comes through!

Lunch: leftover tunafish salad, chicken in black bean and garlic sauce, and a tossed salad.
Breakfast: fruit, nuts.
mhs@15:08

Wednesday, October 18, 2000

Dinner: leftover rib-eye steak, leftover trout, and stir-fried veggies.
Lunch: leftover chicken in black bean and garlic sauce with Lucy's awesome almond and garlic rolls.
mhs@19:05

Breakfast: fruit, nuts.
mhs@07:37

Tuesday, October 17, 2000

Linksys Etherfast Cable/DSL Router
Tired of fighting over only one phone line to the Internet? Connect multiple computers to this baby and more than one can surf at the same time! Complete with firewall. We've got this one at home! We share our high speed Sprint Broadband bandwidth (microwave, not DSL or Cable) across a PC, a Mac G3, and a Linux workstation. No server required. This thing rocks!
mhs@16:16

I love my wife!!!! :-)
Laura made Lucy's Almond Garlic Bread rolls, and they are awesome. If you haven't seen Lucy's Cookbook, check it out!
mhs@13:18

Lunch: leftover rib-eye steak, tossed salad with flax seeds, and some tunafish salad.
mhs@13:09

Breakfast: fruit, nuts.
mhs@07:25

Monday, October 16, 2000

Dessert: a big cup of chamomille tea with honey.
While clover honey is the most common (at least here in the United States), we prefer mezquite honey from the southwest, which is available at all Trader Joe's. The mezquite honey has much more depth, more flavor. If I didn't have a TJ's nearby...I'd move!
mhs@19:45

Dinner: chicken with brocolli and onion in a black bean and garlic sauce.
mhs@19:36

A packrat or something got into my garden and it appears to have eaten all of the spinach and coriander seeds that we planted yesterday! Stop! Thief!
mhs@13:02

Lunch: grilled rib-eye, tossed salad. Admiring the perfect blue sky that will cover Arizona from now until March!
mhs@12:57

Breakfast: fruit, fried eggs.
mhs@07:48

Sunday, October 15, 2000

Dinner: better than most restaurants! Grilled trout with butter and pepper, grilled leeks, and pan-roasted baby beets with sauteed beet tops. A small glass of merlot and a lovely walk around the neighborhood topped off a truly awesome weekend!
mhs@20:40

Did you ever want to hear Elaine Gottschall, live? You have three chances in November! Check Elaine's calendar of public appearances, where she will discuss a regimen for remission for IBD, IBS, Celiac disease, and more!
mhs@08:56

Saturday, October 14, 2000

Dinner: grilled salmon, and a sautee of fresh organic veggies--brocolli, red pepper, kale, carrots, and garlic. Mmmmmm!
Lunch: Turkey "pastrami" from Trader Joe's, tossed salad.
mhs@19:40

Check out Microsoft's latest: a Linux distribution: MS-Linux. What a hoot! :-)
mhs@10:27

Breakfast: fruit, nuts & raisin mix.
Dinner (yesterday): airport food--tossed caesar salad to go.

After 10 days away on work, it sure is nice to be home again!!
mhs@09:06

Thursday, October 12, 2000

Lunch: grilled chicken ceasar salad.
Breakfast: fruit.
mhs@18:07

Wednesday, October 11, 2000

Lunch: spinach and mushroom quiche from Cafe Rosalena in San Jose, tossed salad with tunafish.
mhs@13:45

Sunday, October 08, 2000

Brunch @ a small but delicious Vietnamese soup place in San Jose.
mhs@12:59

Dinner, yesterday @ with Tristan, Pearl, and Portia. Best meal in a week!!!!! Grilled veggies, grilled chicken sausages, sliced tomatoes, and a tossed salad.
mhs@12:48

Upcoming public appearance by Elaine Gottschall!
The 4th Annual Health and Wellness Expo, Durham Region’s largest consumer health show. Elaine Gottschall, author of Breaking the Vicious Cycle, will lead a seminar on intestinal health though diet @ 3PM on Saturday, November 4th at The Civic Auditorium in Oshawa, Ontario (Canada) - Contact: Kerri Nowensky 905-404-2622
mhs@12:47

Friday, October 06, 2000

Lunch: tossed salad, spinach and mushroom quiche.
mhs@16:57

Quick bite: Animesh is back from Calcutta, and brought a box of the classic Indian dessert items: pedha, for all to sample. Delicious!!!! Absolutely non-SCD delicacies: milk, sugar, a dash of spice, and a pistachio. It reminded me of marzipan, actually. Anyway, I've been SCD-legal for the last few days (except for this Indian dessert). And in case you are wondering where I am, I'm at Gandiva!
mhs@09:16

Tuesday, October 03, 2000

Hey, I'm in San Jose! I'm not sure when I'll have time to update Flog, so feel free to read the archives (link at bottom of this page).
mhs@08:59

Sunday, October 01, 2000

Dinner: leftover chicken tandoori, the last of the grilled cornish hens, some curried cauliflower and eggplant, and steamed squash.
mhs@19:52

Lunch: tossed salad, sliced turkey "pastrami" from Trader Joe's.
More breakfast: two fried eggs. Man, why do eggs almost always bother me afterwards?! Someday I'll learn!
mhs@13:53

Breakfast: a banana, some nut mix.

We saw a family of Harris' hawks during our morning walk around the neighborhood, as well as a coyote, and a pair of desert hares (very long-eared, tall hares).
mhs@08:23

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