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: sauteed cauliflower with butter, green and wax beans almondine, grilled halibut with butter, pepper, and capers.
mhs@20:40

Lunch: curried turkey salad from Wild Oats, tossed salad.

Breakfast: SCD yogurt, an apple.
mhs@14:02

Thursday, August 30, 2001

Dinner: sauteed chicken with onion, carrot, celery and black bean sauce; sauteed Swiss chard with garlic.

Lunch: tossed salad with raisins, lettuce, spinach, pecans...

Breakfast: SCD yogurt, an apple, some pecan and raisin mix.
mhs@20:37

Wednesday, August 29, 2001

Dinner: tossed salad, leftover sausages, cheddar cheese, and some fruit.

After 4 days or so of 105+ degree temperatures and no clouds, we're down to 103 or so (thanks to a few clouds).
mhs@18:23

Lunch: tossed salad, leftover grilled tuna.
mhs@12:40

Breakfast: SCD yogurt, an apple.
mhs@06:09

Tuesday, August 28, 2001

Dinner: tossed salad, grilled zucchini, yellow squash, and tuna.

Lunch: leftover sausages, sauteed veggies.

We're about 4 days away from announcing the dates, times, and topics for the upcoming "SCD Intestinal Health Conference", to be held in Tucson in January of 2002! Stay tuned....
mhs@21:09

Breakfast: SCD yogurt, fruit, nuts, raisins.

Dinner, yesterday: sauteed bok choy with zucchini and ginger, leftover grilled sausages.
mhs@07:25

Monday, August 27, 2001

Breakfast: the last of Laura's SCD cheesecake, an apple.
mhs@06:31

Sunday, August 26, 2001

Dinner: tossed salad, green beans and wax beans with parmesan cheese and mint, grilled chicken & turkey sausages.
mhs@21:02

Breakfast: Laura's delicious SCD cheesecake, an apple.

Dinner, yesterday: while the Feast web site is still under construction, their delicious and very reasonably-priced food is 100% ready-for-enjoyment! I feasted upon their Vietnamese salad with steak and papaya with a glass of merlot.
mhs@07:44

Saturday, August 25, 2001

Lunch: TJ's chicken masala and green beans, with cantaloupe for dessert.
mhs@14:41

Breakfast: Laura has adapted her mother's famous cheesecake recipe to the SCD. Her first experiment with it came out wonderful; delicious, fairly firm, and with a nice crust. So I had a big slice for breakfast, along with an apple and some Havarti cheese.
mhs@09:34

I'm back from 3 days in DC (working with Doug and Patrick and their Advanced Strategy Lab, as well as Susan, Mick, and Tim). It was a very successful meeting, and many of the participants came up to us afterwards and thanked us for enabling them to accomplish so much more than they had ever imagined.
mhs@07:42

Monday, August 20, 2001

Dinner: tossed salad, leftover Thai chicken.

Lunch: Tortilla española, leftover Thai chicken.
mhs@19:56

Breakfast: SCD yogurt, fruit.

Dinner, yesterday: tossed salad; chicken thighs in a Thai lemongrass broth with pan-browned asparagus.
mhs@08:23

Sunday, August 19, 2001

Lunch: tossed salad, leftover chicken.

Breakfast: fruit, tortilla española.
mhs@12:59

Dinner, yesterday: delicious chilled gazpacho, grilled chicken, and steamed organic spinach with butter. Afterwards: Chocolat (an SCD legal movie about an SCD-illegal delicacy).

Lunch: tortilla española, Asturian-style.
mhs@08:13

Saturday, August 18, 2001

More breakfast: tortilla española, Asturian-style (with flaked tuna and tomato).
mhs@09:17

Breakfast: fruit, nuts, cheese.
mhs@08:23

We had a huge storm last night. It was great fun! Fifty, sixty mile per hour winds, torrential rains, several trees down in the neighborhood. It all started around 4:30PM, and ended around 8PM. However, we lost power at 5:20 and it didn't come back on until midnight. The batch of SCD yogurt I was making will need to be thrown out because it didn't stay at the right temperature for six hours or so.

One fun aspect of the storm was going outside to watch the tail end of the sunset during one of the breaks in the rains. Many neighbors were wandering around, meeting each other, talking. This certainly does not happen when televisions are on, VCRs are running, etc. It was great fun!

Dinner, yesterday: grilled salmon with walnut-cilantro pesto, tossed salad, avocado, gazpacho.
mhs@07:16

Friday, August 17, 2001

Breakfast: fruit, SCD yogurt.
mhs@08:34

Thursday, August 16, 2001

There's a huge bullfrog outside our front door. The reptile book says they are not native to this area, are wiping out local toads and frogs, and even eat other frogs. :-(
mhs@21:03

Dinner: curried chicken, tossed salad.

Lunch: spinach salad with gorgonzola and walnuts.

Breakfast: SCD yogurt (time to make more), an apple.

Dinner, yesterday: trout with basil, garlic, and lemongrass (wrapped in a banana leaf and cooked on the grill), tossed salad. In the mail: 5 pounds of super-fine almond flour from Lucy's Kitchen Shop!
mhs@21:01

Wednesday, August 15, 2001

Lunch: tossed salad, leftover grilled chicken sausages, cauliflower "mashed potatoes".
mhs@12:55

Breakfast: fruit, SCD yogurt.

Dinner, yesterday: a light snack before yoga (cauliflower "mashed potatoes", chicken sausage) and a fruit smoothie afterwards.

It rained for almost an hour yesterday. Baby toads are hopping everywhere! Hop hop hop. Hop hop. They are a delight to watch! Where are they going? They just seem to follow some invisible, unknown call to hop around the house, down the driveway, and into the street. Where do they go from there? Who knows?! They sure do make us laugh with joy over the beauty of nature!
mhs@06:52

Tuesday, August 14, 2001

If you haven't already done so, check out Brian's SCD Friends website. Click the "enter" button to see some of the faces behind the listserve!
mhs@13:38

Lunch: grilled chicken sausages, tossed salad.
mhs@13:25

Breakfast: SCD yogurt, an apple.

Dinner, yesterday: grilled chicken breasts stuffed with onion, garlic, and herbs; cauliflower "mashed potatoes", and the last of the leftover green beans.
mhs@06:28

Monday, August 13, 2001

Where do the baby toads go during the day? They must hide somewhere...because as soon as it rains, they come out and start hopping around! There are four little baby toads hopping around my patio as I write this.
mhs@15:54

I was reviewing the web site for Jini Patel Thompson's "Listen To Your Gut", and was pleased to find my review posted on the Reader Comments page!
mhs@13:49

Lunch: leftover chicken tandoori, tossed salad, steamed squash, and green beans. Some grapes for dessert.
mhs@12:31

Breakfast: SCD yogurt, fruit, nuts, cheese.
mhs@07:06

Sunday, August 12, 2001

Dinner: grilled chicken sausages with basil and sundried tomatoes, tossed salad, grilled zucchini. Afterwards: a gorgeous sunset for our walk around the neighborhood!
mhs@19:54

Lunch: leftover chicken tandoori, green beans with almonds, and grilled veggies. Dessert: honeydew melon.
mhs@13:34

The author of "Flog/Nirvana of Peristalsis" (this site) writes about the SCD, keeping Crohn's in remission, and more; the author of "How To Learn Swedish in 1000 Difficult Lessons" writes about the adventures of an American in Sweden, and introduces readers to a new Swedish word each day!
mhs@06:16

Dinner, yesterday: grilled salmon with garlic black bean sauce, tossed salad, steamed yellow squash.

Lunch: tossed salad.
mhs@06:12

Saturday, August 11, 2001

Breakfast: fruit, SCD yogurt, and then off to yoga class.
mhs@08:43

Friday, August 10, 2001

Dinner: green beans with almonds and lemon, grilled chicken tandoori.
mhs@20:08

Lunch: tossed salad, leftover grilled and veggies. Dessert: honeydew melon.
mhs@14:06

Breakfast: fruit, SCD yogurt.
According to C|Net, Netscape 6.1 is far better than 6.0, but still not worth switching from IE. In fact, "the only compelling reason to switch remains the same: Netscape isn't from Microsoft."
mhs@07:43

Dinner, yesterday: steamed organic artichokes, grilled organic carrots and zucchini, grilled trout with butter and pepper, tossed salad with a mustard vinaigrette. Afterwards, a nice walk around the neighborhood. The sun is setting a little earlier now, so it was actually dark when we ventured out. There were 4 baby toads searching for food at our front door! They are so cute...less than 1/2 inch (12 cm.?) long. Here's a picture I took of one hopping around our back patio yesterday afternoon (which is nearly twice its actual size):

mhs@06:18

Thursday, August 09, 2001

Lunch: tossed salad of red leaf lettuce, tomato, and onion; leftover grilled salmon. Dessert: honeydew melon.
mhs@12:58

It is a rainy, "Japanese mountains" kind of day here in Tucson.
mhs@09:43

Breakfast: fruit, nuts, cheese.
mhs@09:09

Wednesday, August 08, 2001

Dinner: grilled eggplant, grilled wild salmon with butter and ground pepper, and sauteed Swiss chard with garlic. Afterwards: a nice evening stroll around the neighborhood, and some planning for a possible SCD Conference here in Tucson in January of 2002. Use the Feedback form on SCDiet.org to volunteer or request info!
mhs@21:16

Lunch: mixed vegetable and lentil soup, fruit.
mhs@13:02

Design for Community comes out in one week!
mhs@08:44

Breakfast: fruit, nuts. Possible trip to Denmark in October??? A chance to meet Mik Aidt? Stay tuned; I might be doing some work with ConsensusOnline.

Dinner, yesterday: a light snack before yoga class; a fruit shake and some cheese afterwards.
mhs@08:42

Tuesday, August 07, 2001

Lunch: gazpacho, steamed squash, grilled chicken, and some of Laura's delicious Lemon Merengue pie!
mhs@12:17

Lunch, Monday @ a delicious Middle-Eastern place in Carroll Gardens: chicken swarma with lots of salad and baba gannoujh.

The photo above is of Mike Simons (in his SCD t-shirt) visiting Raman Prasad's SCD kitchen in Brooklyn, NY. Raman is holding a can of the recently reviewed IBD "liquid diet" product from a well-known multinational confectionery conglomerate. (See the complete picture; read the product review.) It was wonderful, at long last, to meet Raman (and his wife), share IBD histories, lessons learned, and more!

Dinner, Monday on the plane (first class): tossed salad with walnuts, grapes, and goat cheese; grilled shoulder steak.
mhs@10:49

NY:
Dinner, Friday with Geoff & Bunny @ Blue Ribbon (in Park Slope): Spanish red wine, a very nice salad of grilled endives, a delicious lobster.

Brunch, with Juan and Mavi on Saturday consisted of an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet in Battery Park City: grilled vegetables, salad, veal stew, chicken, fish, and more!

Afterwards, a nice walk around BPC (here's a picture of me in front of a humid, hazy New York Harbor).

After BPC we headed up to the New Museum, where we saw a very interesting exhibit of short animations by William Kentridge. The Kentridge exhibit was really great..go check it out! As we headed home I spotted a street vendor with a table-full of CD-ROMs in colored cases, and stopped by to check out the goods. The guy was selling every kind of software you could possibly imagine, for $30 per CD: Office 2002, Windows XP, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop...!

Yoga @ OMYoga on 14th Street. I must say, this was the most surprising thing about my trip. I had found out about this studio over the Internet and selected a particular class based upon the level and the style of the instructor. As it ended up, it was a very heavy workout, quite nice, but surprising in that the place had no running water, no working air conditioning, and a substitute teacher, too! It was 86 degrees outside, there were 20 or more of us in a small, south-facing studio…and it was humid! We were sweating so profusely I would have thought it was Bikram style! Not exactly what I had hoped for, but a worthwhile experience nonetheless.

Dinner, Sunday @ Pepe Giolo on 10th Ave and 25th Street with Jim, Ken, and Samara (and Lola!). Jeff, Nina, and Tommy stopped by, too. My SCD meal: tossed salad of mixed greens, apples, and goat cheese; chicken Milanese.
mhs@10:45

Sorry for the gap in Flog/Nirvana of Peristalsis updates! I was away on a really nice (but short) vacation, and didn't have access to a computer very often.

Two nights in PA with my parents, two nights in NYC with Juan and Mavi! I have a bunch of pictures, some of which I will share with you here. Snacks included the usual: nuts, raisins, dried figs, and bananas.

PA:
Apart from the already-mentioned meals, my parents and I made an SCD-legal gourmet feast on Friday evening! We had fun sharing in the cooking tasks, and then took a long walk around the block to ease digestion after the large meal: a fruit salad of grapes, citrus, apple, a little lettuce; grilled eggplant; sautéed broccoli rabe, spinach, and garlic; grilled filet mignon.

On Saturday Mom and I visited Swarthmore College, where she showed me “Abracadabra”, by Patrick Doherty. Abracadabra is a 40-foot sculpture made of saplings and twigs (harvested from a nearby water control and retention project), leaning up against a towering linden tree. The sculpture looks like a large beehive or a swirling tornado.
mhs@10:45

Breakfast: fruit, dried figs, and some of Laura's Lemon Merengue pie!!!!!
mhs@10:37

Thursday, August 02, 2001

Dinner @ Mom & Dad's! Grill stir-fried shrimp and veggies.
mhs@18:36

Wednesday, August 01, 2001

Dinner: a gorgeous sunset, grilled chicken marinated in an olive and garlic tapenade, steamed broccoli, avocado, and a tossed salad. We somehow forgot about the gazpacho! :-(
mhs@20:45

Veet reel kurry! Alas, I am a stinky-boy...3 days' worth of awesome curried meals and I am fit to be sent somewhere in Asia. It has been delicious, but there is no more...for now. Lunch: the last of the curried chicken, some non-SCD wild rice, delicious Swiss chard, and a little curried lentils. Up on queue for tonight: chicken marinating in a garlic and olive tapenade, gazpacho, and more.
mhs@13:01

Breakfast, after a morning jog: (you know the drill by now!)

Dinner, yesterday: grilled salmon, sauteed Swiss chard with garlic, steamed green beans with almonds and lemon juice.

Lunch: baked ham, veggies.
mhs@11:09

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