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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Breakfast: fruit, dccc with honey.
mhs@06:59

Monday, July 30, 2001

MIT is running some sort of computerized Blogger popularity contest. Do you think Flog stands a chance? Don't bet on it. :-)
mhs@17:43

Lunch: tossed salad, leftovers from last night. As promised, it was even better the next day!
mhs@13:28

Breakfast: dccc with honey, fruit.

Dinner, last night: what a delicious, aromatic feast! We were cooking for 2 hours (or so it seemed), while our first big storm of this year's monsoon crashed, boomed, and dumped rain all around us. I made murgh moelho, or tender curried chicken with onions and peppers. It was fairly mellow and is said to be twice as good the next day. I am really looking forward to lunch! I also made sookhi moong dal, or dry dal, which was a somewhat spicier. Laura made cauliflower with onion and tomato, which was delicious and quite spicy. We also had some (non-SCD) organic wild rice. What a feast!

Afterwards, we took a walk with our flashlight, searching for the source of the cacophonous croaking and quack-like sounds coming from the warm, damp night. The source: male spadefoot toads calling for a mate. We found little ones hopping around everywhere (1/4 inch to 1/2 inch long), more and more of them as we approached a low area where lots of storm water had collected (about 2 feet deep!). We directed our flashlight towards the murky water. The light was returned, reflected, by the pinkish eyes of toads paddling around the water. Five or six of them were visible to us, and they often stopped their croaking when the light was pointed directly at them. Nevertheless, one of them swam up to another, they disappeared under the water momentarily, and then parted ways. A short tryst? A little fight?
mhs@08:16

Sunday, July 29, 2001

Lunch: tossed salad, leftover veggies and salmon.
mhs@13:00

Breakfast: an apple, dccc with honey. More later.
mhs@06:59

After one hour of yoga (yesterday), dinner: grilled carrots, summer squash, and zucchini; grilled wild salmon, sauteed broccoli rabe and spinach. Dessert: Laura made a cherry crisp! It was delicious, albeit a bit soggy--we're still working on how to deal with all of the cherry juice that is created during the baking process.
mhs@06:42

Saturday, July 28, 2001

Lunch: some leftover chicken sausage, tossed salad with a mustard vinaigrette, sliced avocado.
mhs@14:05

A possible list of Top Trends for online communities.
mhs@08:48

Breakfast: fruit, nuts, cheese.

Dinner, yesterday: Buffalo-style chicken wings, Caesar salad, cheeseburger (without the bun).
Lunch, yesterday: another Tucson Link session. The topic of this one was e-Learning; the food was chicken tacos (I made mine with extra lettuce and without the shell).
mhs@08:07

Friday, July 27, 2001

Breakfast: fruit, SCD yogurt.

Dinner, yesterday: a lovely dinner with our neighbor Madeleine @ Cafe Terra Cotta! What a gorgeous place! The food is very good, but candidly, my wife and I are such good cooks (no humility there!) that often "innovative" and overly presentation-oriented foods just aren't as good as they might otherwise have expected. My meal was very good, but there were a surprising number of flaws in the collective meal, and that really surprised me. Nevertheless, for Tucson standards, this is a great place; perhaps the chef had an off night? Anyway, the decor is awesome, the views of Tucson, the sunset, and the Catalinas are awesome. "Sheila" (the foxy coyote with the feather boa) at the bar is just gorgeous!! My appetizer: Spinach Salad with Grilled Jicama, Roasted Red Bell Peppers, Cherry Tomatoes, Red Onions, Dried Apricots, Kalamata Olives, Honey Roasted Pecans, Anejo Cheese & Vinaigrette; my entree: Sunflower Seed Crusted Salmon on Masa Corncakes, Mole Aji Amarillo & Sunflower Sprouts; my almost completely SCD-illegal dessert: carmelized banana split with a brownie and coffee and vanilla icecream. What were the problems? None at all with the appetizer; the salad was awesome! The salmon was a bit overcooked, and I found it to be a little dry. The carmelized banana was delicious, but (fortunately?) the brownie was not remarkable, and neither was either of the two scoops of icecream, and I therefore ignored them. What else? Well, the prawns stuffed with goat cheese seemed to be jumbo shrimp with goat cheese on top; the chipotle tuna "special of the evening" was a bit too raw and certainly not remarkable. Lastly, Laura ordered a completely SCD-illegal strawberry shortcake which ended up being 2 or 3 chopped strawberries on a poundcake with (decidely delicious) whipped cream.
mhs@07:00

Thursday, July 26, 2001

According to one author, a Linux desktop might be coming your way.
mhs@09:14

One hour of glorious yoga on an overcast, rainy morning, followed by some SCD yogurt and fruit.
mhs@08:38

Wednesday, July 25, 2001

Dinner: grilled chicken sausages, grilled eggplant, carrots.
mhs@18:25

Lunch: tossed salad, chutney chicken, a banana.
Breakfast: fruit, SCD yogurt.
mhs@13:42

Tuesday, July 24, 2001

Dinner (pre-yoga): grilled chutney chicken, sauteed broccoli. Post-yoga: a yogurt and fruit smoothie, pecans, cheese.
mhs@20:46

New bookmarks: Botspot.com - just about everything you ever wanted to know about bots; CleanAirGardening.com - equipment and supplies for environmentally-minded lawn owners.

Lunch: leftover chutney turkey burgers, tossed salad. Snacks: fruit, nuts, Havarti cheese.
Breakfast: SCD yogurt, an apple, a banana.
mhs@16:44

Monday, July 23, 2001

More on Design For Community.

Just what I want for Christmas: a Wacom writing tablet!
mhs@20:35

Dinner: chutney turkey burgers, sliced avocado, tossed salad.
mhs@20:19

New SCD goodies: spread the word, save the world!

Hey all! We've got new SCD "logowear", and some of it includes a $2 discount until August 1st, 2001!! The items promote SCD awareness through scdiet.org, healingcrow.com, scdiet.com, and scdrecipe.com.

New SCD items include: Reusable shopping bags/tote bags, baseball caps, small and large mugs, and tank-tops! Add these to our already exciting offering of t-shirts and sweatshirts and you've got the start of an SCD awareness campaign.

Click here for more information:
http://www.scdiet.org/store/

Most products will generate a small revenue (none is greater than $1.00 per item; most are 50 cents) for scdiet.org; this revenue is used to purchase new software, etc.

Looking forward to seeing you in your SCD logowear!
mhs@13:34

Breakfast: fruit, SCD yogurt.

Dinner and a movie (yesterday): grilled turkey burgers with curry and mango chutney, sauteed spinach and broccoli while watching Tampopo, a very funny Japanese movie about food and love. Other favorite movies about food-and-life: Babette's Feast and Eat-Drink-Man-Woman.
mhs@07:05

Sunday, July 22, 2001

Lunch: leftovers from last night's dinner, along with a leftover artichoke.
mhs@13:41

IBD news from last week: bowel disease twice as likely in left-handed people. Gee, this really makes me want to run a poll to check their data!
mhs@08:47

Breakfast: fruit, SCD yogurt...the usual.

Dinner, last night: What a feast! Gazpacho, grilled chicken, tandoori style, and some delicious green beans with almonds.
mhs@08:44

Saturday, July 21, 2001

I'm waiting for the newest book about online communities, Design for Community: The Art of Connecting Real People in Virtual Places. Written by Derek Powazek, this should be a nice addition to my collection of collaboration and online community books! (The cute cover is by Loobylu.)
mhs@11:08

Breakfast: SCD yogurt, fruit, nuts. I'm browsing...is it time to get a DVD player?
mhs@10:05

Last night we rented Unbreakable, and really enjoyed it! I really enjoyed Samuel L. Jackson (he is so enjoyable in this kind of part!), and Bruce Willis was pretty cool, too. The ending surprised me, left me hanging a little bit, but it was a great story in what appears to have been set up for a sequel or more. Something I found curious was the 3-5 minute promotion for the DVD version at the beginning of the VHS tape. I wonder, do they promote the VHS version at the beginning of the DVD? :-)

Dinner, yesterday: grilled salmon with a garlic and black bean sauce, steamed artichokes, tossed salad with mustard vinaigrette, and a glass of merlot (followed by another gorgeous Tucson sunset)!
mhs@08:07

Friday, July 20, 2001

A nice morning jog, followed by breakfast: SCD yogurt, apples, a banana, and some pecans.

This morning's Bizarro:

mhs@07:53

Thursday, July 19, 2001

Dinner: grilled chicken sausages, chilled beet and citrus salad, tossed salad with vinaigrette dressing (and another gorgeous sunset during our after dinner walk!).
mhs@20:14

First: happy birthday to my brother Scott!

Lunch: a buffet of leftovers: Carcassian chicken, beet salad with walnuts and citrus, sauteed spinach in garlic, and lentil salad.

We watched the sun set last evening while we cooked, ate, and long after we finished our after-dinner walk--we love these 90+ minute sunsets! Dinner consisted of: tossed salad of green leaf lettuce with a delicious mustard vinaigrette, grilled yogurt-and-spice marinated chicken, and sauteed spinach with garlic. During our after-dinner walk we were delighted by the tiny toads that come out at this time of year. Less than a half-inch long, they hop along at sundown; one hopped onto Laura's foot as we passed by!
mhs@13:00

Wednesday, July 18, 2001

Breakfast: fruit, cheese, nuts.

Following our yoga class with Lucy (our new instructor): fruit & SCD yogurt "smoothie", nuts, cheese. Beforehand: chicken and veggies.
mhs@06:46

Tuesday, July 17, 2001

Experimentation in the SCD Labs: making something akin to 'bagel chips' with lentils. So far I've been successful in making a delicious garlicy-oniony-cheddar-lentil 'round'. They are quite tasty, but unless I add some egg they seem to fall apart quite easily. The search for a unifying, stabilizing ingredient continues. Stay tuned.
mhs@16:01

Lunch: leftover Carcassian chicken, tossed salad, and a banana.
mhs@12:14

Breakfast: fruit, SCD yogurt, pecans.

We have been enjoying dinner on our back patio. Usually it is too hot during the summer, but the afternoons cool off during monsoon, and yesterday was no exception. It is wonderful to eat outdoors where there are few buzzing insects and watch the rainbows, sunsets, and colorful cloud formations above.

Coincidentally, we had a Turkish meal before watching the 1964 theif classic, Topkapi. Laura made a delicious cold salad of steamed beets, beet tops, citrus, and capers; I made Carcassian chicken (chicken in a sauce of onion and finely ground almonds and walnuts). Delicious!

mhs@08:30

Monday, July 16, 2001

Undue punishment for already painful colons:
I recently learned that Nestle has come up with a product for IBD-ers. Unfortunately, it does not appear to be any more than a copy of the already-existing 'liquid nutrition drinks' on the market, and is complely full of sugars which will aggravate the heck out of one's colon. Read on >>
mhs@07:52

Friday, July 13, 2001

An hour and a half of yoga, followed by dinner: tossed salad, grilled salmon with black bean and garlic sauce.

Lunch @ Pipian's: spinach salad with goat cheese, and a substantially non-scd appetizer.
mhs@21:13

Breakfast: fruit. Yup, the night-blooming cactus their thing last night. One of them has short little dark-grey fuzz or hair on it this morning, on the inside of the outermost petals. Bat fur! :-)
mhs@06:35

Thursday, July 12, 2001

Dinner: cauliflower "mashed potatoes", steamed artichokes, and two grilled trout, Lebanese style. The marinade: freshly ground toasted whole cumin seeds, garlic, paprika, black pepper, lemon, salt, and cilantro.

Three night-blooming heliocereus have opened up already this evening; perhaps I'll post new photos in the morning (otherwise, do a Text Search on heliocereus to see past photos).
mhs@20:19

Lunch: tossed salad, turkey burgers, grilled eggplant, and curried lentils.

Breakfast: nuts, fruit, SCD yogurt.
mhs@12:15

Wednesday, July 11, 2001

Dinner: grilled eggplant, turkey burgers, and carrots.
mhs@20:15

Lunch: tossed salad, curried chicken masala.
mhs@13:03

IBD and IBS news: following a "let's mask the symptoms so the patient will feel better" mindset, the effects on pain receptors by chili peppers is under investigation in the UK and in Canada. The goal: a drug to block the pain stimuli. Cheaper solution: if it hurts, don't eat it!
mhs@09:13

Breakfast: fruit, SCD yogurt.

Wouldn't it be great if all our leaders were like Linus Torvalds (Just for Fun: The Story Of An Accidental Revolutionary), i.e, with a sense of humor about others and themselves, passionate about their vision but detached enough to let it grow?
mhs@07:37

Tuesday, July 10, 2001

Lunch: lentils, stir-fried chicken, steamed brocolli and spinach.

Breakfast: fruit, SCD yogurt, dried figs, pecans, raisins.
mhs@12:52

Monday, July 09, 2001

Dinner: tossed salad, grilled chicken sausages, avocado, grilled zucchini.
mhs@20:18

Lunch: leftover curried lentils, chicken stir-fry in a Penang chile sauce, gazpacho, and the last of the carrot-walnut muffins.
mhs@13:46

Yes, I'm in the job market, and I could be yours for the right opportunity! My expertise is in the team leadership and facilitation of both traditional meetings, high-performance electronic meetings, and development of online communities. I typically work with organizations in the areas of:

• Strategic and action planning sessions;
• Post-project appraisals/after-action reviews;
• Collaborative problem-solving and business process improvement;
• Brainstorming, idea exploration, and consensus-building;
• Distributed/virtual team leadership and knowledge management.

Contact me if you need a training / facilitation / consulting / project management type person on a full-time or consulting/contract basis!
mhs@11:15

Sunday, July 08, 2001

Lunch: leftover grilled chicken, gazpacho, curried lentils, and some wild rice (which is not for SCD newbies!).
mhs@14:16

It's a dark, grey morning here in Tucson...lovely! Breakfast: SCD yogurt, fruit.
mhs@08:01

Saturday, July 07, 2001

What a wonderful day! Laura had a spontaneous idea to drive up to Mt. Lemmon this morning. So we packed up some snacks and our cameras and drove 53 miles from our house, through 3 or 4 ecozones, into the mountains. From 2,800 feet to 9,100 feet; from 90-something degrees to the low 60's! It was great. Lunch: roasted chicken, tossed salad....

We caught the end of the ladybug mating season--but there were still millions of them all over the top of the mountain! Truly a sight to behold (see link below)! Also, I got a nice photo, suitable for desktop wallpaper, of a Painted Lady. I'm still a bit uncertain as to which one it is...American Painted Lady --- Vanessa virginensis / Painted Lady --- Vanessa cardui / or West Coast Lady --- Vanessa annabella. Mine seems to have more irridescent blue than the photos I have found for these three. Contact me if you can clarify this issue. :-)
See the Mt. Lemmon digipix >

Dinner: grilled chicken, cauliflower "mashed potatoes", and some punjab eggplant.
mhs@20:19

An apple, a carrot-walnut muffin.

Laura posted her photo for the babe blog, too!
mhs@08:20

Weekends are particularly great for grazing. Breakfast, round one: a banana. Happy San Fermin!
mhs@07:20

Friday, July 06, 2001

Dinner: grilled sausages, cauliflower "mashed potatoes", steamed artichokes, and a glass of merlot on our patio. Dessert: walnut-carrot muffins.
mhs@21:12

I couldn't resist.. I just had to submit this photo to the babes blog! I'm as smiley and bald now as I was back then! :-)

mhs@18:50

Breakfast: an apple, some orange mousse.

Dinner, yesterday: curried gang penang (chicken in a Penang sauce) at Karuna's. Afterwards, we saw "Bride of the Wind"--great movie!
mhs@08:05

Thursday, July 05, 2001

It is a grey, cloudy, windy afternoon. The humidity is pretty high, and there is an occasional drizzle. Just the kind of day I remember from vacations in Vermont in August..only there, these days would last for an entire week (versus a few hours here in Tucson).

Anyway, my love just made some carrot-walnut muffins. We have the windows open to let the breezes in, the whole yard smells wonderful.

These muffins are delicious! So, to quote Frank Zappa, "Some people like cupcakes exclusively, while I myself say there is naught nor ought there be nothing so exalted on the face of God's great Earth as that Prince Of Foods...the Muffin!"
mhs@15:46

Lunch: tossed salad, leftover sausages, greens, and punjab eggplant. Mid-morning snack: orange mousse (not as appealing now that it has completely congealed overnight).
mhs@13:15

I added a bunch more digipix of the clouds and sunsets over the last few days.
mhs@09:21

Breakfast: fruit.

Dinner, oh glorious dinner: lentil dal, the last of the Southern greens with some punjab eggplant (from TJ's; I have to learn how to make my own one of these days!), grilled salmon with walnut-cilantro pesto, wild rice (a grass, but still not "scd-legal", so don't try this at your house). Dessert: orange mousse! It was delicious! The recipe is on page 119 of BTVC; here's a photo of the cooking-in-progress:

Lunch: tossed salad, grilled Haan's chicken sausages.
mhs@07:23

Wednesday, July 04, 2001

Breakfast: fruit, SCD yogurt.
Happy Fourth of July!
mhs@08:04

Tuesday, July 03, 2001

Dinner: leftovers, glorious leftovers! Delicious grilled turkey burgers, stringbeans with garlic, Southern greens, and punjab eggplant.
mhs@20:42

Envy.. infatuation.. jealousy! I am blogging from the UofA bookstore via the new Apple iBook (white, oh-so white!). (Drool, drool...)

Lunch: so-so chicken caesar salad.
mhs@13:54

Breakfast: SCD yogurt, an apple, cheese, and a banana.
mhs@06:53

Monday, July 02, 2001

Dinner: tossed salad with toasted pecans, leftover cauliflower "mashed potatoes", stringbeans with garlic, and grilled turkey burgers.
mhs@20:56

I just walked out my back door onto the covered patio. The thermometer (which has been in the shade for the last 6 hours) reads 110 degrees F (something like 43 degrees C). Some lizards were hiding in the cool shade next to a potted plant, but sluggishly ran away as I approached. The humidity is at 12%. It is hot, it is dry, and it is wonderful!

Lunch: leftover grilled chicken kabobs, Southern greens with punjab eggplant, cauliflower "mashed potatoes".
mhs@13:41

Interesting blog of note: ibslog. Check out the long entry regarding responibility and attitude (July 2nd, 2001).
mhs@07:04

Breakfast: SCD yogurt, fruit. The weather service warns of 107 degrees (Fahrenheit) today! Stay tuned for a meltdown....
mhs@06:58

Sunday, July 01, 2001

Dinner: grilled turkey burgers, sauteed Southern greens with tomato sauce, stringbeans with garlic, and TJ's punjab eggplant.
mhs@19:16

Lunch: leftover grilled chicken, tossed salad with a lemon vinaigrette dressing, and a carrot-walnut muffin.
mhs@13:39

Breakfast: fruit, nuts, SCD yogurt. Interestingly, because we keep our house at 85 degress (Fahrenheit) during the summer (we open the windows at night and sometimes it cools to about 82 by morning), the yogurt "cooks" at a higher temperature. I must explore what effect this has on the yogurt. Some of my "summer" batches have come out with a thick smooth sour cream consistency, and a nice tart flavor; others have come out a bit curdled and not very tasty at all (promptly discarded). Just before I put the cooked yogurt into the refrigerator last night I inserted a thermometer into it, and found out that it was at 125 degrees. According to BTVC, this is too high. So...I wonder how "legal" this SCD yogurt batch really is? Is is possible that it cooks at the same temperature during the winter but I never knew it? Which bacteria are left, and what amount of lactose has been left? I have an interesting science experiement on my hands (and in my tummy)!
mhs@06:54

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