Monday, June 18, 2007

When did dairy become the enemy?

Isn't it funny how you fail to realize all the sweets and goodies around you until you decide to boycott them? I've taken on a little self maintenance and have willingly and easily given up sweets, amongst other things. I swear the minute I did this, we had a birthday cake or some desert every day at work. Ok, not everyday, but weekly and lots of them.

After nearly 2 months of this, and having passed on some chocolate creation from The Cheesecake Factory, I decided to treat myself with something cool-literally. I figured frozen yogurt wouldn't be too bad, they make sugar-free after all. Then I discovered the bastards at TCBY do not have any locations near work, so I was left with Dairy Queen or Brusters. After quickly ruling out DQ I did a little invesitgating on the website for Brusters. I was in luck! They have no sugar added ice-cream. I was set.

So, Sabrina and I go out during our lunch hour (which is 3pm...sounds odd, but we work 11-8. We hit the post office, then Brusters. The one we went to had all of 2 choices for 'no sugar-added' so I went with Caramel Squirl. One scoop, 220 calories...and it tasted decent. So I went on to enjoy my cool treat and then headed back into work.

Cut to 1 hour later.
So I'm sitting in my chair at work and my stomach starts gurgling...and contracting. :////
I'm like-what? I had a turkey sandwich for lunch, that can't have upset it. *THEN* it dawns on me...the ice-cream. Mind you, in the past two months, I've cut a lot of dairy out of my diet. I eat yogurt maybe twice a week, and a little bit of cheese occasionally...but that's it.
Needless to say, my bowels flushed that out all night and I wanted to die. I can't believe dairy turned on me so quickly. I mean, I ignore it for 2 months and now it wants to act like we never met! I've now become a part of what I used to ridicule and laugh at...the dreaded 'lactose intollerant' population.
Boo.