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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Lunch: lentil soup, spinach salad, grilled shrimp @ Pipian's on 4th Avenue. Great soup!
mhs@13:50

Breakfast: fruit, nuts.
mhs@06:42

Thursday, January 25, 2001

Tough love for SCD newbies!
The following is a post from the SCD list, in response to a new gal whining about the SCD being "too hard". Gosh, I have wanted to write something like this sooooo many times. But someone else wrote this for me, which I will share here. For those of you wondering about the SCD, take a good, hard look at the following. (Names intentionally removed from original post.)

(name withheld),
Of course, I second everything that Katie, Josh, Michael and Seth have said. But at the risk of becoming the List's Unofficial Tough Love Guy, I just like to say...what the hell's the matter with you?

You had "mass amount of improvement" after just a couple of weeks on the diet? You've had five surgeries in two years and you "don't know what to do?" Really, what the hell is the matter with you?

You feel left out when your husband and son eat food you cannot, but you don't feel left out when you're staring at the parade of life passing by outside your hospital window?

The fact is that you do know what to do. Buck up, indeed! You can do whatever you want. The question is, do you want to do it? I'll never understand why people fail to realize just how much they are capable of. For crying out loud, (name withheld), you did the diet for two weeks. If you can do it for two weeks, you can do it for two weeks and one day. And if you can do it for two weeks and one day, you can do it for one day more than that. Remember, life isn't lived all at once. Life does not fold in on itself to produce one big omelet of time. Every moment is separate. And every second is an opportunity.

So your husband and son are sitting there chowing down a pizza. Time will erase the moment as it erases everything else. What human beings do wonderfully well is anticipate things which do not yet be. During the longing for a "normal meal" you can envision a day, not yet arrived, when you are free of surgery and you feel the full radiant power of a healed body, strong, and well.

For the love of God, quit whining about having more recipes and being scared. It's time to step up. And I know you can do it. Do the diet today. And then forget about today. When tomorrow is today, do the diet again...and then erase that day from your memory. Live in the moment. Don't add up the days or weeks or years. Just eat the right foods, for God's sake, and find the (name withheld) you never knew existed. She's in there.

I know you can find her.

with respect,
(name withheld)
mhs@20:56

Dinner: grilled cornish hens with garlic and rosemary, tossed salad, and sauteed kale with onions.

Oooooh, I am so excited. This "well seasoned" SCD veteran is making his first batch of SCD-legal yogurt. I'm using the Yogourmet Multi, from Lucy's Kitchen Shop, but you get get them at scdiet.com and intestinalhealth.com, too.

I boiled the milk. I cooled it down. I added the bacterial starter mix. I put it in the water bath/container, covered it, and plugged it in. Now I must wait 24 hours.

Can I wait? Can't I peek at it? What happens if I move the container? Oh, I'm a newbie again!! :-)
mhs@20:52

Geek Quotient: 42.5 (this puts me in the 28.43 percentile.) "Your GQ is far below average - you should be congratulated on your coolness!"
mhs@12:46

Lunch: leftover salmon with TJ's cilantro walnut pesto, tossed salad.
mhs@12:15

OK, so everyone is linking to this page, so why shouldn't I? So here goes: Keith Lynch's timeline of Internet-related terms, concepts, stories, and people!
mhs@08:16

Breakfast: fruit.
mhs@07:59

Wednesday, January 24, 2001

Dinner: grilled salmon with cilantro walnut pesto, steamed yellow squash, tossed salad, and a glass of merlot.
mhs@20:31

Lunch: curried turkey salad with raisins and apples; tossed salad.
mhs@14:24

Breakfast: fruit.

Dinner, yesterday: leftover stir-fried chicken.
Lunch: stir-fried chicken, roasted veggies, celery stalks with peanut butter.
mhs@06:36

Tuesday, January 23, 2001

Breakfast: fruit, dccc. Noticing a trend here? Well... if it works, why change it?

Dinner, yesterday: stir-fried chicken with peppers, onions, garlic, and some Thai red curry paste, broiled organic leeks.
mhs@06:58

Monday, January 22, 2001

Lunch: roasted chicken, roasted veggies, celery with peanut butter.
mhs@13:41

OK, so maybe I'm exaggerating, but there are a TON of wonderful testimonials on this new page, which I created based upon replies to a message I posted earlier this month. I lost count because my eyes teared up from reading all of the wonderful stories. Grab a cup of tea, a tissue, and click here:
Eight billion testimonials, more or less
mhs@11:34

Breakfast: fruit, dccc.
mhs@09:05

Sunday, January 21, 2001

Dinner: grilled salmon fillet with TJ's cilantro and walnut pesto, oven-roasted veggies. Delicious!!!!!
mhs@19:56

I spent nearly the entire weekend trying to get this section working, and at long last, the scdiet.org General Store is up and running! We have links to many online resources for Breaking The Vicious Cycle, Lucy's SCD Cookbook, and t-shirts! Stay tuned for more goodies: mousepads, mugs, and more.
mhs@19:54

Lunch: tossed salad, and some roasted chicken from Basha's. While Basha's has just started to carry some "healthy, natural" products, upon closer examination of the ingredients, most of the soups are not SCD-legal because they include rice flour, starch, and/or potato flakes. Too bad.. I almost got excited. Anyway, not only is their new stuff not what I was hoping for, but they are now serving Butterball roasted chickens. Awful little buggers! Ack! Gag! I'll stick with making my own or picking them up at Safeway.
mhs@16:06

Those who follow the SCD (and especially those that eat organic SCD-legal foods) are better off than those who eat genetically engineered foods.
mhs@10:36

Breakfast: dccc, an apple, some figs, some cheese.

Dinner, yesterday: grilled turkey sausages, tossed salad, and steamed artichokes.
Lunch: leftover rib eye steak, tossed salad.
Breakfast: dccc, fruit.
mhs@07:35

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