Updates? Did you try no-dairy at all, jyms?
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Updates? Did you try no-dairy at all, jyms?
Been doing my best to avoid it. No whey, no cheese, no chocolate never milk or cream but about once in week I fuck up with something without thinking like a packaged food or something that says "may contain". There hasn't been much change in the stuffiness or the breathing and sometimes it acts up even more, so not sure if that is a loosening of phlem or what. I'm gonna give it some more time and see. I haven't taken butter out yet but I don't use it much except for some cooking,
I eliminated it completely after learning about whey in this thread. I tried vegan protein, but it tasted really awful, so now I'm using egg protein. I'd rather have whey, but it's not so bad now that I'm used to it.
My skin was on the path to improvement being dairy free for 3 weeks, but then I all of a sudden had some inflammation on Tuesday or Wednesday. I thought about when I could have had dairy and thought back to a restaurant I went to on Sunday. I had forgotten to ask whether the food we ordered had dairy in it but figured it was fine because it probably didn't. Went online to see the ingredients and read that it's usually prepared with evaporated milk. FML, dairy is everywhere.
That sucks that you haven't seen any improvement. If your congestion problems are due to the milk proteins, butter might still be causing you problems (isn't butter mostly fat and protein?). Do you plan on trying to cut that out, to see if there is any improvement?Quote:
Originally Posted by jyms
If you're trying to 100% avoid dairy at restaurants, you should also ask if anything is cooked in butter (for example, side veggies). Most places will use olive oil or broth instead, if you ask.Quote:
Originally Posted by donkbee
Ya. I'm going to be even more fastidious this month and see how it goes.
yup, been doing that. which sucks cuz i love butter!Quote:
Originally Posted by NightGizmo
Do restaurants up your end of the world have gluten and dairy free options marked on the menu? I feel like it's standard back home (maybe I'm way off) but I hardly see it at all over here.
They don't have dairy-free marked where I live (Vancouver Canada). Would make it so much easier if they did. Today I went to a restaurant and tried to get a burger, but they (eventually) told me that their bread had dairy in it :S They offered to wrap my hamburger patty in lettuce, sigh. I couldn't eat like 90% of their menu if I wanted to be completely dairy free, it was so tilting.
Same with America -- it's rare to find a menu with dairy-free marked. I think the problem is that most menus here only have 1 or 2 items that are dairy-free by default (if you're lucky). Everything else has cheese or a cream-based sauce in the description.