The Great Dairy Debate

Milk. It does a body a good. Doesn’t it?

For the past 6 months, I’ve been dairy free – for the most part. Sometimes it sneaks its way in unbeknownst to me. As diligent as I am about reading food labels, there are occasions when I miss an ingredient and before I know it, I’m eating it again.

Is my unconscious desire driving my blunders? Maybe. Our minds can be so incredibly self-sabotaging it’s unreal. Until I worked with my own coaches and saw firsthand how my behavior was triggered whenever I tried to make massive change in my life, I was too blind to the fact that I was my own worst enemy. But now I get it so why does it still happen?

The single most liberating work I’ve ever done for myself has been overcoming my own obstacles and releasing my dependence on negative thought processes and behaviors that kept me stuck and prevented me from moving forward in life. When I had the realization that I was the problem – not anyone or anything else – I quickly and effortlessly shifted.

The same holds true for my diet. Throughout my training as a natural health practitioner, I’ve learned an extraordinary amount of information that applies to my clients as well as myself. Working through each body system to correct my own imbalances and reverse conditions that have plagued me for years has been the most fascinating, eye-opening, and self-empowering discovery of my life.

In that process though, I inevitably learned about the dangers of consuming a poor quality diet. And just like anyone else faced with relinquishing a cherished novelty, I kicked and screamed when the subject turned to dairy.

“It’s loaded with calcium!” I whined. “Even cheese?” I queried. “A little won’t hurt anybody,” I rationalized. Wrong. A little is the same as a lot, there’s more calcium in dark leafy greens than dairy, and cheese is no exemption. Man, what a blow.

So why did I almost order cheese and sour cream on my naked burrito just last week when I was at Chipotle? Out of nowhere the impulse came to me, as if a gremlin stuck in the wee crevices of my mind somehow missed the memo that we’d extricated dairy long ago and decided to pounce while I stood vulnerable hovering over my topping choices.

I almost gave in, but then something stopped me.

My mind was flooded with the very reasons why I gave it up to begin with. It’s highly inflammatory, it creates a lot of mucous, and it makes me fat, not to mention that consuming it in mass quantities only benefits the billion dollar dairy industry and not me.

So, I’m happy to stick with Daiya Cheese and Almond Milk, choices that satisfy me just as well. In my quest to truly restore complete function to my body, I’m willing to do whatever it takes which means continuing to forgo the very toxic substances that got me here in the first place. I just gotta make sure those pesky gremlins keep quiet.

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