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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Lunch: tossed salad, grilled turkey burgers, sliced organic avocado.
mhs@15:15

Way cool! Check out Ed from the Netherlands' intestinal health game!

Ed's idea made my brain spin, I thought of a board game (like Monopoly or Chutes And Ladders, for kids) where we go around and around, and get charged 'negative points' for eating the wrong things, internalizing too much stress, not getting exercise, etc. Finding a proper way to balance diet with drugs and other treatments will require a delicate balance (as many folks need to follow more than one therapy for awhile). The point is to eat the good things and avoid things that will cause long-term damage (bone loss, etc.). What could make the game truly unique would be that one could get extra points for helping the other players through the 'challenge points'. The personal goal would be health, with a overall team goal of getting a high 'team score'. It might even be interesting to have the players not know what disease they have for a few 'rounds', and include Crohn's, colitis, IBS, Celiac, as well as other things like excema, allergies, etc. as the 'diagnosis' they uncover and then get to deal with for the remainder of the game.
mhs@07:23

Friday, October 19, 2001

Dinner: salmon, broccoli, eggplant, and a glass of merlot.

Lunch: roasted chicken and vegetables, fruit.
mhs@19:12

I got an email from a person who thinks it will be too difficult to remove all milk products from her diet for a period and to keep a log of her symptoms (this person has been diagnosed with Crohn's). The SCD certainly seems impossible for this person.

Thinking back to the questions I was asked before I resolved to find ways to get my CD into remission, a few come to mind: Given what you've read and what you've been told, what will your life be like later? Will you undergo surgery? Will you wear a bag? Will you still need to go to the toilet 10+ times a day? Then the focus of the questioning changed.

What would life be like without Crohn's? What are you willing to try to achieve intestinal health?
mhs@06:09

Breakfast: as I write this I am enjoying SCD yogurt with my first Roma apple. Ever? I'm not sure, but I think so. I prefer Braeburn apples in the morning, but this Roma is pretty tasty, too! It is more tart than the Braeburn variety, which probably makes it good for baked apple recipes as well. It has a very colorful skin which actually soaks into the fruit of the apple and onto the plate when it is sliced. The Roma skin is a bit tougher than that of the Braeburn, and therefore almost definitely not for introductory-phase SCDers (unless it is baked, which might help break it down a bit).

Dinner, yesterday: grilled salmon, grilled eggplant.

Lunch: tossed greens and spinach salad with gorgonzola cheese.
mhs@05:43

Thursday, October 18, 2001

Breakfast: yogurt, fruit.
mhs@06:15

Wednesday, October 17, 2001

Dinner, after a bit of yoga: tossed salad, steamed broccoli, oven roasted chicken and vegetables.
mhs@20:38

Lunch: chicken chimichanga with salad from Tamalez (without the wrapper), fruit.
mhs@13:19

My very own copy of Relax For The Fun Of It is coming in the mail; in the interim, I'm relaxing my way to continued good health!
mhs@06:08

Breakfast: SCD yogurt, fruit.
mhs@06:05

Tuesday, October 16, 2001

Dinner: tossed salad, leftover turkey burgers, leftover chicken, leftover curried monkfish. Dessert: a Jennies Macaroon...a SCD-legal snack made of "unsweetened sulfite free coconut, honey, egg whites and rum flavoring" (hmmm, maybe that last ingredient is questionable). "No artificial flavor and no chemical preservatives. No salt added."
mhs@20:09

Breakfast: SCD yogurt, fruit.
mhs@06:04

Monday, October 15, 2001

Dinner: leftover monkfish in a curry simmer sauce, butternut squash puree, tossed salad.

The big toad that is usually found during our after-dinner walk was not there today; the dry air has probably driven it underground until the rains resume; we did, however, spot a small toad.
mhs@20:38

Lunch: leftover lamb shank and roasted leeks, tossed salad, and a banana.

Breakfast: SCD yogurt, an apple, dried figs.
mhs@13:45

Sunday, October 14, 2001

Dinner: grilled salmon (a fatty piece, from the Atlantic), baked acorn squash with honey, and roasted vegetables. I also grilled up some turkey sausages and a whole chicken; there will be lots of food to enjoy all week! :-)
mhs@19:37

Lunch: an awful salad from Souper Salad (we were out, we were hungry, there wasn't anything else in sight...)

More breakfast: scrambled eggs with onions and red peppers. Hey, and no reaction to the eggs! I think that eggs on an empty stomach are the problem.
mhs@18:06

Breakfast: a cup of warm herbal tea with honey, an apple, cheese, nuts...

Dinner, last night: tossed salad, butternut squash and ginger puree, monkfish in a curry simmer sauce.
mhs@07:47

Hmm...reblogger or blogback? Or bloggerbot? Still pondering...
mhs@07:44

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