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.

Be sure to read:
Intro to Flog
Read Me
Archives
Laura's IBS log
SCD Web Library

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The linked timestamps are your permanent links to individual log entries.

Get the book:
Ready to get your shit together? Got the intestinal fortitude? Yearning for a nirvana of peristalsis? Buy Breaking The Vicious Cycle! Written by Elaine Gottschall B.A., M.Sc., the book includes guidelines for dietary relief and sustainable remission of Crohns, Ulcerative Colitis, and other IBDs.

Feel free to contact me if you still have questions.

How often during our lifetime does some beloved product cease to exist? As our needs and preferences evolve, often enough. Such is the case with the extinction of Kodak Kodachrome. If I have one regret, it is that I didn't shoot more of that wonderful film!

mhs@06:20

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Here's a quick update on "Flog": If you haven't already read the Read Me, please check it out. I have been fortunate that, combined with other critical success factors, the SCD plays a key role in my healing and ongoing quality of life. After 7+ years on the SCD and with no remaining symptoms, I started to experiment 'outside the box'. I don't encourage this for newbies or people who have any lingering symptoms. In my case, I am now able to eat the following on a typical workday:

Breakfast: fuji apple, a banana, SCD yogurt, toast of rye bread (last item is not SCD legal).

Lunch: "safeway primo taglio" ham and muenster on rye with tomato and lettuce (this bread is not SCD).

Dinner: something grilled, some cooked vegetable, some fresh vegetable. Completely SCD-legal.

At some point my Flog "archive" tool broke and I haven't been able to fix it. The Flog archives should go from 2000 - 2009. My entries were at just about every meal initially, then daily summary posts. Things got a bit repetitive and since 2006 or so I have posted less frequently.

To those of you about to embark on the SCD, I wish you the greatest success and encourage you to join one of the many email and online support groups that have formed in recent years. You can find an updated list in the Community section of www.scdiet.org

On a personal note, I am deep in research on my family free. I'm very interested in communicating with anyone with ancestors with or connecting to Simon surname originating from the Gensingen and Bingen area of Germany (intersection of Rhine and Nahe rivers, Gensingen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany).
mhs@06:22

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Be sure to check out the Institute For The Future's "The Future of Health and Wellness in Food Retailing". The report's main focus in on big players in the food industry, but provides foresight that indicates as we move forward in time, people will have more and more information about the foods we eat and the implications these foods will have on our health.
mhs@06:22

Thursday, February 28, 2008

The New York Times and Associated Press reported on February 25th that "Men as well as women need bone tests". For those who have been diagnosed with osteopenia, we've been told to increase load-bearing exercise and calcium intake. Some are even told to take Fosamax or other products to try to stem the loss of bone density. For those with IBD, this is typically due to having taken Prednisone, but in my case also because my body is skinnier than the "standard" for Americans of my age and height.

As part of their research The World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Metabolic Bone Diseases at the University of Sheffield (United Kingdom) has created an online "FRAX" tool that you can use to see what risk(s) you face in ten years.
mhs@09:39

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Happy Valentine's Day!
It's a cloudy, windy day here in sunny Tucson, just right for some comfort food. I decided to make an oven-fried chicken for my first time. I modified the recipe from The Joy of Cooking, using all SCD-yogurt and no sour cream. I managed to lose hold of the SCD yogurt container and it fell on the floor but luckily only a little was lost!

Otherwise, the recipe is pretty much straight from the book. Delicious! Served with sauteed collard greens and steamed yellow squash, and a a nice glass of 2004 Mad Dogs & Englishmen (a dry red wine from the hot, parched region of Jumilla in the south of Spain).
mhs@19:55

Raman Prasad is at it again with another wonderful SCD book: Recipes for the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. Here's my short review:

"People following a restrictive diet often lament the loss of foods and flavors they love. Raman Prasad's subtle modifications of delicious recipes from around the globe bring international flavor and zest to your home's SCD kitchen. There is no passport required for this delicious quest for a healthy gut!"
--Mike Simons, Co-webmaster, www.scdiet.org
mhs@19:51

Sunday, January 06, 2008

Happy 2008 everyone! It’s a new year, and time to seize the opportunity to make necessary positive changes in one’s life. It has been over 11 years since I started the SCD on 1/1/1997. I’ve done so well that in 2007 I started to add previously disallowed foods—carefully. I have had no issues and am glad to report I gained some weight (in conjunction with going to the gym).

My two changes for 2008 are as follows. First, my tonsils started really bothering me over the past summer. Two rounds of antibiotics did not resolve the issue, so I had them removed on 12/31/07. No singing on New Year’s this year. The recovery was just as painful as promised (not fun for anyone over the age of 14) but I’m mostly better now and will be fine in another week.

The second change for 2008 is an exciting career change: I have joined the team at Scottsdale's Advanced Strategy Center as Project Director for Tucson and Southern Arizona. We use advanced tools and techniques to enable organizational change, primarily through facilitated electronic brainstorming, strategic planning, and other types of group intelligence and innovation sessions.
mhs@09:17

Monday, September 10, 2007

Check out "The Dietary Adventures of Jilluck", an SCD food log with recipes and more.
mhs@06:46

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