My Quest to be Dairy Free

[ram1025]

Hi Everyone - I was wondering if anyone else is "dairy free" or at least limiting dairy. My youngest daughter is 13 months old and just diagnosed with being allergic to milk. So.... She is dairy free and I have joined her. I hear that limiting or cutting dairy (as long as you get the nutrients you need) can really help. Also, I'm a little person and just had heart surgery and I need to watch my cholesterol so this may help in many ways. at 5 foot 3, I'm now 124 pounds thanks to p90x and my cholesterol is over 300.

Anyone have experience with being dairy free? so far I've switched to soy milk and almond milk. Tofutti cream cheese (which isn't that bad) and not eating anything that had milk protein in it. Unfortunately, the only thing i realized i HAVE been eating that I''m sure has milk in it is my protein powder. I guess I could try soy.

Ps. I feel great with no dairy. I am a CHEESE MONSTER so this is going to be hard but i'm going to do it. i think i can, i think i can, i think i can. I KNOW I CAN.

rebecca

[FitRunner]

My mother is lactose intolerant, so while I don't actively limit dairy, I've seen some solutions to that first-hand. Other than switching to soy and almond milk for the few things she isn't willing to give up that require a "milk", like oatmeal, she's just dropped most dishes with dairy in favor of things that didn't need it in the first place. I think it became easier. Not that we ever ate a lot of cheese, though, so for the most part getting rid of the dairy only required doing things like covering oven dishes more carefully in the absence of cheese to protect from burning. She wasn't happy about giving up kefir for breakfast but oatmeal with almond milk was still available :) She does simply pass on anything with sauce Bechamel in it, though, which my father and I refuse to give up since it's so hard to replace taste and texture-wise in dishes it's in. (There's a Christmas dish we have that requires it. She just sucks it up and eats the fish without the sauce.)

She has said that not eating dairy things she liked, like ice cream, became easier with time. Good luck!

Teresa