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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Pre-lunch snacking (post-gym revitalization): gazpacho, manchego cheese, pecans, an apple, dried apricots...
mhs@11:48

As a former fellow New Englander, I really admire Jeffords for sticking to his independent traditions and leaving the GOP. Now I'm in Arizona, and our McCain continues to frustrate the GOP leader. Is "Dubya" the reincarnation of Humpty Dumpty? Has Bush fallen from the wall and beyond repair? (Oh please, oh please...)
mhs@08:09

Breakfast: fruit, nuts, raisins.

I spotted two insect eggs on the parsley--perhaps I'll get more swallowtail caterpillars? I hope so!
mhs@07:56

Friday, June 01, 2001

Swallowtail caterpillar update: yes, that's a swallowtail caterpillar. According to Bruce Walsh at the University of Arizona's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, "It is indeed a swallowtail, being a lighter version of the standard larval form for the Black Swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes). Here's a URL for more information and a range map for the entire US". You will note that the caterpillar in my photo has small "knobs" or protuberances, which do not appear in the picture that is found in the link above. I wonder if these "knobs" are part of the unique Arizona sub-species mentioned on the NPSC page...
mhs@15:50

Lunch: all-you-can-eat Mongolian grille @ Rose Garden.
mhs@15:42

Breakfast: fruit, hard boiled egg, cheese.
mhs@06:56

Thursday, May 31, 2001

FYI: Yes, I am playing around with the layout of this page. Everything should be working, though.
mhs@20:54

Dinner: leftover curried lentil dal, tossed salad, and a turkey burger.
mhs@19:00

Lunch: leftover salmon, tossed salad, and grilled zucchini.

I found this guy on our going-to-seed parsley (some sort of swallowtail?) this morning. I hope the birds don't get him!

mhs@13:20

The first week of Flog: it all started here!
mhs@09:52

Breakfast: fruit, cheese. My SCD yogurt came out horrible so I have to try making it again. I think there are two possible causes: 1) our house stays between 74 and 85 degrees. If the cooker "adds" too much heat to the ambient temperature (because it is designed for a 68 degree ambient temperature) then the bacteria will not have the necessary conditions to make good yogurt. 2) I used store-bought yogurt as a starter. I am consistently disappointed when I use store-bought; I am going to buy more starter culture from Lucyskitchenshop!
mhs@09:47

Wednesday, May 30, 2001

Dinner: tossed salad, grilled zucchini, grilled salmon with walnut cilantro pesto.
mhs@18:51

Splitty rocks!
My Zip drive managed to munge my 18MB Sent mail file. I was unable to copy, paste, move, drag, drop, edit or view it. Fields suggested using Splitty... and it worked wonderfully. I only lost the last 3-4MB of sent mail, which I can almost live with (as if I had a choice?).
mhs@15:42

Lunch: lentil dal, leftover turkey burgers, tossed salad.
mhs@13:24

Something happened to blogger: a few entries are missing. :-(
mhs@13:18

Breakfast: fruit, dccc with honey, figs, cheese, a hard-boiled egg...

Dinner, yesterday: leftover chicken, stirfried chicken with a Penang curry sauce, gazpacho.
mhs@11:04

Tuesday, May 29, 2001

Breakfast: fruit, dccc, honey.
mhs@07:21

Monday, May 28, 2001

Dinner: gazpacho, Caesar salad, grilled turkey burgers.
mhs@20:20

At long last: another chapter in the Journals of Nature's Beauty: Lizard Pushups!
mhs@17:30

Lunch: leftover chicken stuffed with chevre and spinach, black bean soup with cheese, stir-fried veggies and chicken in a red curry Penang paste.

One Usenet reader's response to the Crohn's gene / chromosome 16 / Nod2 announcement last week:
"Interesting research, and no doubt promising for the future, but I don't see any practical result for us here-and-now IBDers.
We already know that, to avoid IBD, one should avoid being born with the "bad" genes, or, if you already have those genes, one should avoid ALL of the many triggers of the disease -- some known and some unknown -- for one's whole life.
It reminds me of Will Rogers' advice on the stock market: "Buy a stock and, when it goes up, sell it. If it doesn't go up, don't buy it."
mhs@13:59

As usual, a jog around the neighborhood, followed by breakfast: fruit, dccc with honey, nuts, cheese.

According to new research by two independant groups, "Crohn's disease appears to be caused by a mix of both inherited and environmental factors...". These findings concur with the research by Dr. S.V. Haas and Elaine Gottschall implicating microbial growth as a factor in causing Crohn's disease as well as their advocating the Specific Carbohydrate Diet in altering the microbial growth both qualitatively and quantitatively.
More >>
mhs@10:20

Sunday, May 27, 2001

Dinner: red lentil dal, chicken stir fry with red curry Penang paste, and wild rice.
Again, wild rice is not SCD-legal but I'm doing my own experimentation with it. Don't try this at home kids!
mhs@20:46

Lunch: roasted chicken, tossed salad, cheese.
mhs@14:11

Breakfast: Fruit, dccc, nuts.

Dinner, yesterday: @ Soleil, a very nice French restaraunt where Laura and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary. A gorgeous view of Tucson, delicious food...quite nice. While this "seasoned" SCD-er splurged a little and enjoyed a few illegals (with no reaction yet), the "legals" included: a glass of merlot, warm spinach salad with goat cheese and garlic, grilled salmon with a tomato olive coulis on a bed of whitebeans (probably not fully soaked), and a bit of my wife's roasted chicken stuffed with chevre and spinach. Wonderful!
mhs@08:32

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