Fourteen years ago, at age 17, a gastroenterologist diagnosed Raman Prasad with ulcerative colitis. Over seven years his health steadily deteriorated resulting in hospital stays, a bloodied intestine, heavy steroids, poor spirits, and probable surgery. Fortunately, He came across Elaine Gottschall's book Breaking the Vicious Cycle which painstakingly describes a Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD), and the science behind it, for putting inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), celiac disease, and diverticulitis in remission. After a year of following the diet described in the book he was able to taper off of medications and found my strength returning. The SCD became habit and, although he still subscribed to an e-mail list for others using the diet, ulcerative colitis steadily fell from the forefront of my life. In the second year on the diet he went back to school at night, finished a graduate degree, and plunged forward. and didn't look back. Similar to many people who joined the e-mail list, his initial period of excitement, marked by e-mailing many questions and telling his doctor about the diet, was followed by simply living his life and occasionally reading the e-mail to answer questions asked by others. I wanted to forget most of his experiences during ages 17 through 24. Today, facing the options of forgetting or doing something positive, he started writing a two page narrative of his experience with ulcerative colitis. Those two pages turned into this book. Luckily, his recovery is not unique, it has been experienced by hundreds of others, of all ages and stages of IBD. However, the recovery should be shared with the hundreds of thousands whose lives continue to revolve around their personal struggles with IBD.