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,
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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, 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

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