Dairy-Free, week 2

My pediatrician thinks that Lucy may have a milk "sensitivity." That's the more accurate way of saying allergy. No worries, she'll grow out of it, but in the meantime, guess who has to avoid all milk products?

Me.

Yes, the easy thing would be to put her on soy formula and get on with life, but I don't believe in easy, apparently. So I'm learning about dairy products, like milk, cheese, yogurt, pizza, bread, butter, ice cream, and chocolate. It's amazing how many things contain some form of milk protein! The doctor told me that I'd get real skinny real quick on this diet, and she wasn't kidding. (Why do I think that only a woman could have told me that? If my pediatrician was a man and he said I'd get skinny, I probably would have cried a little.)

Here are a few things I've learned:

I have learned that I don't much care for soy milk, even the chocolate kind.

Hershey's syrup doesn't contain milk, but it's hard to drink alone.

Soy ice cream is actually pretty good, as long as it has mix-ins.

My body needs milk fat. I am always hungry, even after I've just eaten.

I actually have pretty good willpower. I haven't cheated, not even once. I've wanted to, but I haven't.

We go to the doctor again in late April. That's when we'll evaluate the effectiveness of denying myself all the best foods in the world. I'm not bitter... just hungry.