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\"Fresh<\/a>When we first moved to Colorado we started using\u00a0milk in our coffee. \u00a0It was so easy and convenient because it was delivered right to our door each week. \u00a0The milk we got delivered wasn’t too bad, not fully pastured but I believed it to be pretty close and it was local. \u00a0I assumed this had to be better for us than the soy milk we were\u00a0previously using for coffee and cooking.<\/p>\n

As much as I enjoyed the milk, it didn’t love me apparently. \u00a0I started having digestive issues. \u00a0I didn’t equate it to the milk until two years later. \u00a0Yeah that’s a long time but I didn’t have any of the typical symptoms of someone who can’t tolerate milk.<\/p>\n

There was no\u00a0bloating (that I noticed at the time), no gas, stomach pains or cramps. \u00a0Nothing like that. \u00a0But it was clear that my digestion was way off and not where it should be.<\/p>\n

Then I started not being able to tolerate other foods that I loved, like seeds and nuts. \u00a0Anytime I had those, I was immediately running to the bathroom.<\/p>\n

That was my wake-up call. \u00a0Something isn’t right and I need to do something about it. \u00a0I decided to cut out milk as that made the most sense since that was the only big dietary change I’d made in the last two years.<\/p>\n

Scott and I used to drink milk all the time until we learned that conventional milk at the store is horrible, so we gave it up cold turkey and went straight to soy milk.<\/p>\n

Until this move, we hadn’t had milk consistently in coffee for over 10 years (only on the rare occasion when out for breakfast). \u00a0That’s a long time. \u00a0Not that we gave up dairy completely we just weren’t consuming straight up milk any longer. \u00a0Diving headfirst back in to milk consumption, I think it was too much of a shock to my system.<\/p>\n

I gave it up for a couple of weeks and then tried to reintroduce it back in. \u00a0That didn’t go over so well so I decided to cut it out completely.<\/p>\n

I have learned that I do not process large amounts of dairy very well. \u00a0I overlooked my symptoms because they weren’t the “standard issue” that you typically hear about with milk intolerance. These were the symptoms I suffered from:<\/p>\n