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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Breakfast: SCD yogurt, an apple, and a gorgeous full moon.
mhs@06:01

Thursday, November 29, 2001

Check out Telezapper. It sounds interesting, but I have no idea if it actually works.
mhs@21:15

Dinner: pan-seared salmon with a home-made blackening covering of honey, cayenne, and chili pepper; sauteed cauliflower greens and garlic, leftover oven roasted beets.

Lunch: caesar salad with chicken.
mhs@21:15

Breakfast: SCD yogurt, an apple, a carrot-walnut muffin.
mhs@06:11

Wednesday, November 28, 2001

Dinner: steamed organic artichokes with butter, Laura's chicken soup.

Lunch: chicken soup and a pear. Snack: carrot-walnut muffins.
mhs@20:03

Breakfast: SCD yogurt, an apple. I got about 4 hours' sleep last night because I had too much on my mind. Don't you hate when that happens?! Anyway, I stared out the window and watched Orion move through the clear, cold (36 degrees) night sky. It was gorgeous.

Dinner, last night: you won't believe it, but I ate a quarter pounder with cheese, no onions, without the bun. And french fries. Don't do this unless you really feel invincible (or are really hungry and completely out of options). They *do* sell mini-salads in a cup at that not-to-be-mentioned fast food emporium, but I just wasn't interested in iceberg lettuce in a cup last night.
mhs@06:06

Tuesday, November 27, 2001

Lunch: tossed salad, chicken parmesan (chicken, cheese, and sauce).
mhs@12:34

Breakfast: SCD yogurt, an apple.
mhs@05:50

Sunday, November 25, 2001

Dinner: steamed artichokes, tossed salad, and chicken-turkey sausages from TJ's. Dessert: Laura's apple crisp.
mhs@20:29

Lunch: leftover roasted chicken, tossed salad, avocados. Dessert: a walnut-carrot muffin - fresh out of the muffin!
mhs@13:15

According to this morning's New York Times, "There was a sense of watching a skins-vs.-shirts basketball game as hundreds of Taliban soldiers streamed out of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan and surrendered to the Northern Alliance. It was as if all it took to join the other side was to remove one's jersey. Enemies a few hours earlier embraced as if they were old friends. In some instances, they were."

"That applied, however, only to Afghan Taliban troops, about 300 of whom left Kunduz according to a prepared script and handed themselves over to their countrymen on the city outskirts. "Yesterday, my enemy," one alliance general said with a shrug. "Today, my brother." The situation was not nearly so jolly, though, for 400 non-Afghans among the Taliban who gave themselves up in another area outside the city." Photo caption: A Taliban soldier from Kunduz is greeted by Northern Alliance troops after surrendering at Amirabad.

This holiday season I'm wishing for peace and harmony.
mhs@08:05

Dessert for breakfast: the beauty of Thanksgiving weekend is the freedom to eat pretty much any leftovers whenever one wants. As a case in point, I am enjoying Laura's apple crisp for breakfast. Not that it couldn't be categorized as a breakfast, but it was initially served as a dessert!
mhs@07:59

Saturday, November 24, 2001

Dinner: magdalena squash and apple soup, oven roasted beets with sauteed beet greens, curried eggplant, and leftover roasted chicken.
mhs@19:24

Snacking: Laura's apple crisp.
mhs@15:06

Lunch: roasted chicken, puree of heirloom Native American squash with ginger and orange, roasted garlic.

Breakfast: fruit, SCD yogurt, nuts.

Dinner, yesterday: roasted chicken, tossed salad, squash puree (above).

Lunch on the trail while hiking Honeybee Canyon in Oro Valley: nuts, cheese, celery.
mhs@12:12

Friday, November 23, 2001

Apples, SCD yogurt.
mhs@08:45

Breakfast: banana, figs, cheese...it is a wonderful day for a hike..Stay tuned.
mhs@08:24

Thursday, November 22, 2001

Thanksgiving dinner @ Ft. Lowell Park, with about 15 friends: roasted turkey, pureed butternut squash with ginger, sauteed kale with onions, beef bulgogi, and apple crisp. Afterwards, an hour's worth of kickball, followed by a beautiful Thanksgiving sunset.

mhs@19:59

Lunch: a big tossed salad with red leaf lettuce, red onion, tomato, a little bit of ground flax seeds, raisins, and chopped parsley.
mhs@13:38

Breakfast: fruit, SCD yogurt.

Dinner, yesterday: squash and apple soup, leftover salmon.

Lunch: caesar salad with grilled chicken and a completely illegal chocolate chip cookie (newbies: don't do this!).
mhs@08:38

We just got two more registrants for the Conference on Intestinal Health Through Diet! To be held here in sunny Tucson, Jan. 4-6, 2002, this event is open to all registrants who wish to learn, share, and grow. It is not an exclusive SCD event. :-) The conference will explore how dietary changes (of any kind) augment (and/or substitute for) traditional prescriptive medicine and surgical treatments. Have you registered yet?
mhs@08:33

Wednesday, November 21, 2001

Breakfast: fruit, SCD yogurt.
mhs@05:48

Tuesday, November 20, 2001

Dinner: leftover turkey burgers, grilled leeks, steamed yellow squash.

Lunch: tossed salad, turkey burger, Havarti cheese. Snacks: bananas, walnut-persimmon muffins.
mhs@21:15

Breakfast: fruit, SCD yogurt. It's a new batch of yogurt, quite tart this time.
mhs@05:45

Monday, November 19, 2001

Dinner: grilled curried turkey burgers, leftover stringbeans. Dessert: apple sauce.

Lunch: tossed salad, leftover salmon, and squash and apple soup. Snacks: walnut and persimmon muffins.
mhs@20:00

Breakfast: fruit, SCD yogurt.
mhs@06:00

Sunday, November 18, 2001

Dinner: what an awesome feast!!!! Roasted garlic; silky squash & apple soup (from the November issue of Yoga Journal), sauteed string beans with garlic, and grilled fillet of salmon. Laura made applesauce for dessert, but I am too full for that right now!
mhs@19:43

November is here, and the hummingbirds are at it again!
mhs@10:04

Found: software to convert U.S. and metric weights, volumes, and more! I've added it to the SCDiet.org FAQ section's measurements page.

Photos from Elaine's NYC trip on uclbs.org.
mhs@08:54

Breakfast: fruit, nuts, cheese.
mhs@08:18

Saturday, November 17, 2001

Dinner: chicken, carrots, and onion in a black bean sauce; tossed salad.
mhs@22:00

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mhs@18:53

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mhs@15:11

Lunch: leftover caesar and calamari salad; chicken and Swiss chard.
mhs@15:07

Breakfast: nuts, SCD yogurt, fruit, cheese. Then we're off to yoga class.

Dinner, yesterday @ Ovens: roasted poblano chile stuffed with mushroom and cheese; Caesar salad with calamari, a glass of dry pinot noir. It was a wonderful meal to celebrate a very hard week at work and a very successful sales day at work!
mhs@09:05

Thursday, November 15, 2001

Dinner: leftover curried turkey and Swiss chard, tossed salad.

Lunch: leftover curried turkey, steamed green beans.
mhs@20:24

Breakfast: SCD yogurt, an apple.

Awareness, willingness, and effort are three key components to achieving and maintaining intestinal health. First, one needs to be aware of what to look for in the way of contributing factors (stress, anxiety, trigger foods, etc.) and how small changes in one's health may indicate a necessary change. Second, one has to be willing to make the necessary changes and allow them to happen. Simply swallowing a bunch of pills or cutting out problem foods will not entirely solve the problem..one has to be willing to allow these cures to do their work. Finally, effort will be required in continually monitoring the way one is reacting to the contributing factors, how one makes changes to minimize their impact, and sticking to whatever necessary changes one embarks upon. It ain't easy, but the payoff is huge!
mhs@06:15

Wednesday, November 14, 2001

Dinner: roasted chicken, tossed salad.
mhs@20:36

Tuesday, November 13, 2001

Breakfast: SCD yogurt, an apple.
mhs@06:03

Monday, November 12, 2001

Dinner: curried turkey with onions, garlic, and raisins; sauteed Swiss chard and bok choy.

Lunch: chicken soup, Havarti cheese.
mhs@21:06

Breakfast: fruit, nuts, SCD yogurt. It sure is good to be back home with my own foods!

Yesterday's somewhat disappointing meals included a chicken caesar salad at a Subway, and a tunafish salad at the airport.
mhs@06:00

Saturday, November 10, 2001

Breakfast in Colorado Springs: ham, cheese and mushroom omelette, peppermint tea with honey, bacon, and some fruit. A lovely table overlooking the snow-capped, red mountains, watching gliders getting towed before they are released into the cool, blue sky. Enjoyable reading about alpaca breeding as a hobby (and more!) in these gorgeous surroundings.

Dinner, yesterday: chicken burrito in the Phoenix airport.

Lunch: leftovers from P.F. Chang's.
mhs@11:25

Friday, November 09, 2001

Breakfast: SCD yogurt, fruit, nuts.
mhs@05:32

Thursday, November 08, 2001

Dinner @ P.F. Chang's: Far better than our first time there, we enjoyed a Malaysian dish of chicken, coconut, and curry, as well as a dish of ground chicken with grilled Japanese eggplant, and sauteed spinach with garlic.
mhs@21:31

Breakfast: fruit, nuts, SCD yogurt.
mhs@05:38

Wednesday, November 07, 2001

Dinner: grilled swordfish, tossed salad, and steamed artichokes with butter.

Lunch: chicken soup, banana-walnut muffins.
mhs@20:58

Breakfast: SCD yogurt, banana-walnut muffin, an apple.

Dinner, yesterday: chicken parmesan, tossed salad from the Italian place across the street from work (late night at work).
mhs@05:49

Tuesday, November 06, 2001

Lunch: chicken soup, banana-walnut muffins.

Breakfast: SCD yogurt, an apple.
mhs@12:52

Monday, November 05, 2001

Dinner: a warm bowl of chicken soup on a relaxing, rainy Tucson evening.
mhs@19:48

Lunch: tossed salad, leftover grilled salmon.
mhs@12:38

Breakfast: fruit, muffins, SCD yogurt.

The Arizona Diamondbacks beat the New York Yankees in the World Series!!!
mhs@05:46

Sunday, November 04, 2001

Dinner: fried green tomatoes, sauteed spinach and garlic, grilled salmon, and butternut squash with ginger.

mhs@20:15

Lunch: tossed salad with some ground flax seeds, leftover cauliflower "mashed potatoes", leftover grilled chicken.
mhs@13:48

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Breakfast: SCD yogurt, banana-walnut muffin, an apple.

Dinner, yesterday: delicious chicken soup, eggplant and tomatoes in a curry sauce, grilled mushrooms, steamed artichokes. What a feast!
mhs@08:07

Saturday, November 03, 2001

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

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