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.

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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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Dinner: Laura made a huge pot of free-range chicken soup with organic carrots, celery, and onion earlier today. I picked up some salmon for the grill. Who knows what'll end up on the table?! Tune in later to find out...

Lunch: tossed salad, leftover tuna with garlic and olives, puree of butternut squash with ginger.
mhs@17:54

Book review: “Relax For The Fun Of It: A Cartoon And Audio Guide To Releasing Stress”, by Allan Hirsh, M.A. 2001, Caramal Publishing, Inc., Vancouver, B.C.

I recently received this enjoyable and helpful book and audio guide from a fellow IBD friend. Following a busy, eventful workweek I read the book and listened to the audio, and the combination worked wonderfully. It works -- I fell asleep for a few moments the first time I listened to Hirsh’s relaxation guide!

Hirsh is a psychotherapist, trainer, and able cartoonist; his gentle humor and comfortable style make stress management easy and fun. The book’s text provides short, insightful tips and suggestions for managing stress, learning how to relax, increasing creativity, and more. The cartoons poke fun at our everyday selves and serve to reinforce the text. Hirsh’s soothing voice on the audio guide (CD) calmly takes the listener through a series of easy exercises to release stress and relax. One requires less than 20 minutes listening for the CD to work its’ magic. This first-time listener finished feeling calm and refreshed; repeat listeners are assured ever-greater rewards!

Hirsh’s work is geared toward the public at large. Having experienced excellent body workers, yoga instructors, and massage workers in the past, I think it would be interesting to see (and hear) how the book and audio guide would be customized for people with health problems, such as IBD or IBS. For example, it would be interesting to hear some visualization techniques (tips on how to clear the mind, suggested colors, digestive parts to visualize healing, more focus on diaphragmatic breathing).

This book and CD are wonderful for anyone wanting a gentle ‘push’ to relax while traveling on a commuter train, plane, or at home at the end of a busy day.
mhs@17:24

Breakfast: banana-walnut muffin, SCD yogurt, an apple.
mhs@07:01

Friday, November 02, 2001

Dinner: tossed salad, puree of butternut squash with ginger, leftover grilled chicken sausage.

Lunch: tossed salad, leftover grilled chicken, banana-walnut muffins.
mhs@20:39

Breakfast: an apple, SCD yogurt, and a banana-walnut muffin.
mhs@05:47

Thursday, November 01, 2001

Dinner: grilled chicken breast, a bit of chicken and basil sausages; roasted yellow beets with sauteed beet tops; steamed spinach. Those beets caused everything to run right through me...or was it that this meal simply pushed a quickly-ingested lunch through in very short order? Anyway, not a problem!
mhs@21:00

Lunch: garden salad with prosciuto. Dessert: apple crisp.
mhs@12:53

Breakfast: fruit (yogurt is in the cooker).

Dinner, yesterday: sauteed ahi tuna with garlic and Kalamata olives; cauliflower "mashed potatoes".
mhs@06:18

Wednesday, October 31, 2001

Lunch: chicken soup, tossed salad with a mustard vinaigrette. Snacks: pecan and organic raisin mix, bananas.
mhs@13:25

Breakfast: an apple, some SCD yogurt. I'm very tired because after yoga class I came back home and stayed up late to watch the Diamondbacks game. I ate a pile of food while I watched the game and had a tough time sleeping. Also, a neighbor somewhere was making a bunch of noise at 2AM, woke me up, I went into another room to sleep. And I'm excited about changes at work. I'm looking forward to relaxing this weekend!!

Dinner, yesterday: a bit of black bean soup and cheese before yoga. Afterwards, the last of the curried chicken and vegetables, spinach, celery and peanut butter, a glass of sherry.
mhs@05:42

Tuesday, October 30, 2001

Halloween is upon us. Most of us are surrounded by chocolates, candies, and other non-SCD temptations at work, at home, and at school. Do you cave in and eat that candy? Do you hold strong and avoid it like the plague? Do you bring your own SCD goodies and enjoy them yourself? How do holiday temptations affect you?
mhs@16:21

Monday, October 29, 2001

Dinner: black bean and vegetable soup, salmon, tossed salad.

Lunch: tossed salad, chicken soup, a banana.
mhs@21:00

Breakfast: fruit, SCD yogurt.

Dinner, yesterday @ Westward Look Resort: a lovely dinner on the Gold Room's deck, watching the sunset with my wife and my parents. I had a salad of baby spinach with goat cheese and sun-dried tomatoes, and a medley of grilled seafood with organic baby vegetables.
mhs@05:57

Sunday, October 28, 2001

Breakfast: fruit, SCD yogurt.

Dinner, yesterday, with my old friend Mark (visiting from Atlanta): grilled salmon, tossed salad, steamed broccoli, and a glass of merlot. Dessert: Laura's apple crisp.
mhs@07:08

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