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: leftover spaghetti squash carbonara, sauteed mustard greens with curry.

Lunch: beet greens, turkey burgers.

Breakfast: an apple, SCD yogurt.
mhs@21:00

Monday, April 29, 2002

Dinner: grilled turkey burgers, sauteed beet greens.

Lunch: tossed salad, tuna. Snacks: honey and nut jumbles, bananas.
mhs@20:07

Breakfast: fruit, SCD yogurt, and some banana, raisin, and walnut Lois Lang bread.
mhs@05:49

Sunday, April 28, 2002

Snacking (all day): nut, sesame, sunflower, and coconut jumbles.
mhs@19:19

Dinner: Mangia tutta pasta! Yeah, whatever... I just enjoyed my first spaghetti carbonara in years! It was SCD legal and delicious! I based my recipe upon one I found on epicurious.com (substituting spaghetti squash for pasta and substituting half of the whipping cream called for with homemade yogurt). Also: some leftover grilled salmon with cilantro-walnut pesto.

Lunch: tossed salad, tuna.
mhs@19:17

Breakfast: an apple, some homemade yogurt, and some nut jumbles. Followed by a banana... I'll be grazing all day!
mhs@08:26

New York City's Metropolitan Transit Authority is celebrating 10 years of their Poetry In Motion campaign. The (excerpted) poem I enjoyed the most is by Edna St. Vincent Millay and is titled "Recuerdo":

...
We were very tired, we were very merry
We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry;
And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear,
From a dozen each, we had bought somewhere;
And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold,
And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold.
...
mhs@08:24

Saturday, April 27, 2002

Lunch: tossed salad, leftover salmon with walnut-cilantro pesto. Preceded by a morning jog, some weeding, and a nice nap.

Breakfast: a fruit and yogurt smoothie, a banana, some nuts.

Dinner, yesterday: grilled salmon with walnut-cilantro pesto, tossed salad, cauliflower "mashed potatoes" with garlic.

Lunch: tossed salad, tuna.
mhs@13:37

Friday, April 26, 2002

Breakfast: fruit, homemade yogurt.
mhs@06:12

Thursday, April 25, 2002

Dinner: leftover veggies of all kinds.

Lunch: cheeseburger and tossed salad.

Breakfast: fruit, homemade yogurt.
mhs@20:36

Wednesday, April 24, 2002

Breakfast: fruit, homemade yogurt.
mhs@04:59

Tuesday, April 23, 2002

Dinner: sauteed mustard greens, onion, and tomato; sauteed eggplant with garlic and zucchini; leftover sea bass.

Lunch: tossed salad.
mhs@19:43

Breakfast: homemade yogurt, an apple.
mhs@06:01

Monday, April 22, 2002

Dinner: leftover grilled sea bass, Lucy's red peppers and cabbage, tossed salad, curried lentils. Dessert: butternut squash and ginger puree.

Lunch: tossed salad, leftover Egyptian chicken. Snacks: bananas, nut and coconut jumbles.
mhs@20:19

Breakfast: a snuggly new batch of homemade SCD yogurt, a Braeburn apple, and some zucchini muffins from BTVC.
mhs@06:09

Sunday, April 21, 2002

Dinner: grilled Egyptian chicken, Lucy's red peppers and cabbage, grill-roasted asparagus. Dessert: puree of butternut squash with ginger.

Lunch: turkey burger, Lucy's red peppers and cabbage, curried lentils.

Breakfast: fruit, nuts, dried figs.
mhs@19:38

grep is a handy command-line tool for UNIX and Linux users, allowing one to search through directories of files for specific character strings of text or code and return the resulting filenames and instances of the specified charactrer string. I'm very excited to find a Windows version of the grep, called Windows Grep.
mhs@10:17

Saturday, April 20, 2002

Dinner: tossed salad, Lucy's red peppers and cabbage, curried lentils, and broiled sea bass with butter.

Snacks: nut, sunflower, coconut, and honey jumbles (my new recipe!).

Lunch: tossed salad, avocado, turkey burgers with mango chutney.
mhs@20:41

Breakfast: fruit, nuts, sunflower seeds.

Dinner, yesterday @ Feast: sauteed julienned vegetables in sesame oil, pan-roasted shrimp with eggplant, tomatoes, feta cheese and fresh oregano. I also enjoyed a bit of Laura's salad of smoked marinated mushrooms, artichoke hearts and roasted red peppers with herbs. Delicious!

Lunch: tossed salad.
mhs@07:20

Friday, April 19, 2002

Breakfast: fruit. I'm out of yogurt and need to make more this weekend.

The most recent batch of yogurt came out a bit runny, with a 2 mm. yellowish top on it. The "top" is due to my having used non-homogenized milk; the top is the 'cream' that rose to the top of the yogurt. The flavor is nice but the runniness disappoints me. What is the cause of the runniness? Perhaps it is the milk.. in that the milk was not homogenized, the fats and cream, etc. are not blasted or whirlled into billions of smaller particles, thereby separating out slightly during the fermentation process and disallowing a more consistent yogurt. Perhaps the temperature went too high during fermentation? Perhaps I needed to ferment it even longer? No matter...I'll make a new batch this coming weekend! :-)
mhs@05:57

Thursday, April 18, 2002

Dinner @ Sinbads: babbagannouj, salad, grilled chicken and lamb.

Lunch: leftover turkey burgers, tossed salad.
mhs@20:03

Tuesday, April 16, 2002

Left work at 4:15, made a few stops along the way home, snacked upon some of the attempted nut/sunflower/raisin bars (mustly just a jumble of delicious crunch right now), took a 20-minute nap, and then did 45 minutes of yoga.

Dinner: grilled salmon, sauteed radishes with scallions (you must try it to believe it!), and sauteed carrots, zucchini, and yellow squash.
mhs@20:35

Lunch: leftover spinach salad, fruit, nuts.
mhs@12:47

Monday, April 15, 2002

Dinner @ Blue Willow: herbal peppermint iced tea with honey, spinach salad with grilled chicken.

Lunch: leftover salmon, lentils, and Swiss chard.
mhs@20:22

Breakfast: fruit, homemade yogurt. I used organic non-homogenized milk from TJ's this time (I usually use the organic homogenized) and found the cream top on my yogurt to be a bit gross. After removing it, the yogurt beneath it is a bit more liquidy than usual. Perhaps it needed to cook longer, perhaps it got too warm in the cooker, perhaps the bacteria couldn't breathe properly with the cream top...perhaps the yogurt further down is more like I prefer. :-)

Dinner, yesterday: tossed salad, curried red lentils, sauteed Swiss chard with ginger, grilled salmon with butter and pepper.
mhs@06:06

Sunday, April 14, 2002

Everything is yellow.

The flowers on the palo verde and the agave; everything outside my windows is yellow. The animals are well aware that it is spring. The baby hummingbirds have flown their nest (it doesn't take long to 'grow' a hummingbird), and the lizards are going through their mating rituals. My garden, however, thinks it is summer; the plants are wilting in our 95-degree weather today.

Lunch: leftover halibut Veracruz, tossed salad.

Breakfast: fruit, dried figs, nuts. I tried to make some sunflower seed honeybars but they didn't work out correctly. I'll keep trying, or I'll have to keep buying them at honeybar.ca.
mhs@13:48

Laura pointed me to this interesting link on Weston A. Price's website about The Rise And Fall of Crisco.
mhs@11:30

Saturday, April 13, 2002

Celebrating 2 years of Flog / Nirvana Of Peristalsis this week!
mhs@20:39

Dinner: tossed salad, halibut with a Veracruz sauce.

Lunch: tossed salad, chicken and veggies in a Thai lemongrass sauce.
mhs@20:28

Breakfast: fruit, SCD yogurt.

Dinner, yesterday @ Keaton's Grill: orange roughy with Veracruz sauce, tossed salad, steamed veggies.

Lunch: leftover almond-encrusted sole, sauteed spinach with garlic. Snacks: bananas, pears, macaroons.
mhs@08:27

Friday, April 12, 2002

Breakfast: fruit, SCD yogurt, banana nutbread.

Dinner, yesterday: sauteed spinach with garlic, almond-encrusted sole with a citrus sauce (made from the pan's drippings).
mhs@06:16

Wednesday, April 10, 2002

Breakfast: fruit, SCD yogurt.

Dinner, yesterday @ Golden Corral: Wow, I hadn't been to one of these in a long time! I left work late and was in a hurry to get to a 6PM meeting..needed food..this place was next to the library where the meeting was to be held. I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to find foods that I could eat! Never mind the pizza, baked potatoes, and corn-starch-laden soups; they had a very nice salad bar, some delicious roasted chicken, and I had a small slice of baked ham.

The CCFA meeting was very interesting and informative! A panel of one pharmacist and three students described how the program of studies works and then described some research they had done for us regarding Crohn's and colitis. The panelists described symptoms, differences, and suspected contributing factors for both diseases. The attendees interjected additional information and asked questions about long-term effects of drugs, how particular drugs do their work, and more. I was very interested to learn that babies that are born naturally have a completely different intestinal flora than those that are delivered through C-section. On schedule for next month's meeting: relaxation and stress management for IBDers! :-)
mhs@06:00

Tuesday, April 09, 2002

Breakfast: fruit, SCD yogurt.

The local chapter of the CCFA will be hosting a panel from the University of Arizona's School of Pharmacy this evening. I am hoping to attend. While the panel is expected to discuss drug therapy for Crohn's, colitis, etc., I am hoping to learn more about how particular drugs combat the same bacteria that the SCD addresses (a therapy of starving out problem bacteria and reducing colonic mucous through dietary changes).

What synergies exist between the two therapy styles? What are the side effects of the two therapy styles? Stay tuned! :-)
mhs@06:09

Monday, April 08, 2002

Dinner: tossed salad, leftover salmon, almond bread-and-tomato (almost a pa amb tomaquet!).
mhs@20:43

Lunch: leftover turkey burgers, leeks, and beets.
mhs@15:03

Breakfast: fruit, homemade yogurt.

Possible title for our book about intestinal health through diet? Aliens Stole My Colon: And How My HMO Paid For It!" Naaah, that would be more appropriate for those who've had surgery. What about How Aliens Stole My Colon and The Regimen I Used To Get It Back?

Dinner, yesterday: sauteed beet tops, roasted beets, grilled leeks with pepper and butter, and grilled turkey burgers with curry, onion, and ginger.
mhs@06:02

Saturday, April 06, 2002

Dinner: tossed salad, Swiss chard with ginger, sauteed ahi tuna with garlic and Kalamata olives. Dessert: canteloupe.

We hosted an enjoyable gathering of the Tucson intestinal health support group at our home this afternoon. For me, one of the highlights was reviewing a TGI Friday's "Take-Out" menu that Liz brought for the group. Together, we looked at the menu and discussed foods that appeared to be SCD legal. Liz then explained which ones met SCD criteria, and pointed out a few not-so-obvious dishes that could be prepared to be SCD legal by making a small request (based upon Liz's meeting with a restaurant manager).
mhs@20:04

Lunch: chicken soup, almond-herb bread.
mhs@12:51

It's spring, a time of change, growth... This article provides motivational concepts for relationships, one's health, and business.
mhs@10:13

It is a beautiful Saturday morning here in Tucson. We're on the edge of a storm system that has been blowing in from the South for 24 hours or so. It doesn't appear that we'll get any (much needed!) rain, but the smell of humidity is sweet in the air, further sweetened by all of the flowers that are blooming. The skies were a hot pink at sunrise, gray afterwards, and are now clearing for another sunny day!

Our yard is filled with signs of spring! We have families of quail that are constantly calling to each other, lots of little finches chattering away, a mother hummingbird and two babies (that have just flown their nest), lizards, and more. The cactus buds are forming and preparing to open, and they are forming many new petals and branches. All of this in one of the driest springtime's on record.

Breakfast: homemade SCD yogurt, an apple, some almonds, and an organic sunflower honey bar from honeybar.ca. Someday we'll figure out how to make our own seed, nut, and raisin bars that are as delicious as these!

Dinner, yesterday: tossed salad of mixed greens and vinaigrette, grilled salmon with a honey-cayenne glaze, slow-cooked asparagus.
mhs@09:05

Friday, April 05, 2002

Interesting CD/UC news:

• The local (Tucson and Phoenix) intestinal health support group will meet again this weekend on Saturday afternoon. Contact me for info.
• The University of Arizona School of Pharmacology will present a panel and discussion regarding "medications and challenges" to the Tucson CCFA chapter.
• Summer is here..time to buy a rheostat for my yogurt cooker.
• The CCFA-AZ Chapter has included "Breaking The Vicious Cycle" in their list of recommended reading! :-) They also have a list of recommended web sites. Don Wiss' sites are listed but not a single SCD site...yet.
  mhs@06:29

Breakfast: fruit, homemade yogurt.

Dinner, yesterday @ Sinbad's: a mix of spiced, grilled chicken, lamb and beef with babaganouj and a tossed salad.

Lunch: tossed salad with tuna.
mhs@06:05

Thursday, April 04, 2002

Breakfast: an apple, homemade yogurt.

Dinner, yesterday: grilled burger (beef) with Havarti cheese, tossed salad.
mhs@05:57

Wednesday, April 03, 2002

Lunch: tossed garden salad with prosciutto.
mhs@12:58

Breakfast: Lois Lang's luscious bread with Laura's bioflavinoid spread, homemade yogurt, and a Braeburn apple.

Dinner after yoga: a fruit and yogurt smoothie. Beforehand: leftover chicken, curried veggies.

Lunch: leftover salmon, curried veggies, parmesan spaghetti squash.
mhs@05:48

Tuesday, April 02, 2002

Breakfast: an apple, homemade yogurt.

Dinner, yesterday: chicken soup, almond-herb bread with sliced tomato, apple crisp for dessert.

Lunch: tossed salad with grilled chicken.
mhs@05:42

Monday, April 01, 2002

Breakfast: a delicious new batch of SCD yogurt and a Braeburn apple.
mhs@06:07

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