Before I get too much into this, I will explain first that this was all inspired from a tweet I read, which is why this is a worthy topic for today.
Out of all the places I have lived, I have spent the most years in Wisconsin, and I must admit that I have a bit of the dairy state ingrained in me. I love my ice cream, cheese, etc. Growing up, our home went through milk rather quickly–we pretty much only drank milk and Kool-Aid. Now, when I met Lloyd, at the impressionable age of 17, he had many things which he felt very strongly about, and among these things was milk. Milk = evil. Of course, since I had no pleasant inclinations toward Lloyd at first, this only added to my dislike. How could my precious dairy be bad?!
Obviously, I got over my distaste for Lloyd, and I began listening to the things he had to say, and to look into them myself. Somewhere along the line I decided milk wasn’t as great as its advertising, but at the same time, I could not do away with it. I mostly stopped drinking milk, but nothingwas keeping me from my ice cream. After all, I hadn’t seen any adverse effects from consuming it thus far. So this stayed in the back of my mind.
Well, I get crazier (I think it runs in both sides of the family!). Someone tweeted an article from USA today that brought out all my old suspicions, and I began digging again. This particular article addressed the concept that it is not rather amazing that people should be lactose intolerant, but that they should be tolerant. The article is rather interesting, but I will not go into its summation. I will get to my point.
We’re cutting out dairy. Detoxing. We’ll see where this leads us. According to the proponents of the evils of milk, if we get rid of it, we should see better digestion, perhaps weight loss, clearer skin, more restful sleep, and in general just feel better. I’m not saying I’ve become completely crazy and I think everyone must stop digesting dairy, but I’d like to give it a try. Test it out.
I’m going to need to do a little more research, though. I’m slowly using up our dairy and substituting in other things, but I’m not so sure of the things I’m substituting. For instance, I chose soy milk because it contains a good amount of protein, but in reading more on it, I am afraid I may have exchanged one evil for another. Clearly, this will be quite an experiment, but I will continue to research and find better substitutes (or hope to cut some things out completely!). For now, I am aiming on cutting out dairy for 6 months, and then perhaps bringing it back in small amounts to see what it affects; however, I have recently read that it only takes 7 days to detox, so this will be a changeable process.
Of course, I will update with changes, outcomes, and probably some good recipes that I come across. And I’ll let you know how we’re all dealing with our lack of cheese and ice cream! (Already tried some tofutti ice cream sandwiches, which were surprisingly delicious! But then I read a couple comments on connecting tofu with infertility…yikes!)
P.S. Can we all pretend this was Tuesday’s post, not Wednesday’s? Just because it’s after midnight does not mean my day has ended!
P.P.S. Haha! I just discovered I can back-date the post, so now my previous comment makes no sense…but I feel bad deleting it, so that’s why I am adding an additional postscript. That’s all.
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