Made it through Day 1 of Dairy Free

(Ashley Haddock) #1

I decided to omit dairy :disappointed_relieved: for awhile to see if it would help with my 3 month (so far) plateau. I made it ok but I REALLY miss cheese and cream. :frowning: And I realized tonight I probably chose a really bad week to do this because of Motherā€™s Day weekend. We will be going out to eat both days, once will be at an Italian restaurant. Sigh.

#2

How long are you planning to go without dairy?

(Ashley Haddock) #3

Iā€™m not sure. Iā€™m playing it by ear. Having a stressful day today and really struggling. Itā€™s amazing how powerful food is. Cheese has always been my go-to so itā€™s hard fighting that. Feels similar to when I was breaking my carb and Coke addiction.

#4

Maybe having an end point goal would help? I dunno. Without an end point goal, no matter what day you break away from dairy-free will feel like a ā€œfailā€. With an end point goal, you reach it, and then not feel like a failure. At least, thatā€™s how my brain and psyche worksā€¦obviously, we arenā€™t all the same. I hope you find success either way :grinning:

(Ashley Haddock) #5

Thatā€™s a very good point. I hadnā€™t put an ā€œend dateā€ on it because I was waiting to see how my body reacts, but your reasoning makes sense.

I looked at the menu for the Italian restaurant we are going to on Sunday (where I used to get an amazing calzone or fettuccine) and they have a chicken dish that sounds really good and perfectly keto, but has cheese. I may allow myself that if I do well the rest of the week.

#6

That sounds like a fantastic plan. That way you reach goals, and you reward yourself for reaching them.

(Ashley Haddock) #7

Thank you! I appreciate the helpful feedback. :heart:

(Michelle) #8

Watching you closely!!! I love cheese. I do HWC in my coffee, but if you gave me a choice, I would happily omit the HWC to keep my cheese. :cheese: :rat:

(Ashley Haddock) #9

Going on day 3, doing ok so far! I found a great replacement for HWC in my afternoon fraps in coconut cream! So good! I still really miss cheese though. LOL

(Ashley Haddock) #10

I will add itā€™s a lot easier to hit my macros accurately and I am eating less overall. Iā€™m sure thatā€™s a good thing, but Iā€™m still also bummed. Hahaha

(jketoscribe) #11

I am trying to be 100% dairy free (mixed success).

I make my own coconut milk yogurt and just made my first batch of coconut cream cheese (turned out pretty good).

I also make some nut and vegetable based ā€œcheesesā€ which are pretty decent, and sometimes I just sprinkle some nutritional yeast to get that cheesey umami flavor.

(Ashley Haddock) #12

I havenā€™t really thought about cheese replacements. I might have to look up the coconut cream cheese! I saw other people using the nutritional yeast, but havenā€™t gotten any yet.

(jketoscribe) #13

It was easy to make coconut cream cheese. I just added probiotics (used my usual yogurt culture) and set it in a strainer for yogurt cheese, let it sit 48 hours to ferment. Easy peasy.

(Ashley Haddock) #14

A little update. I ended up breaking my plateau (after being up and down between 265-275 since the beginning of February I weighed in at 264.8 on Saturday). Then I let emotions and hormones get the better of me and had a carby meal on Saturday. I was pretty mad at myself but I hopped right back on the keto wagon. I did have a little cheese on my dinner last night, and a little on the leftovers I had for lunch today, but will continue dairy free for at least this week to see what kind of results I have. Itā€™s shark week so I wonā€™t be weighing until the weekend so hopefully I donā€™t see any adverse affects of the stupid carby meal on the scale.