No More Dairy

I have resolved to cut out all dairy from my diet. I recently purchased Skinny Bitch from Audible to listen to on my zune, and it really opened my eyes to a lot of things. There's a bunch of references to dairy, milk specifically. Obviously, cow milk's purpose is to fatten up baby cows. Why I never thought of this is beyond me. Since I started at Starbucks a few months ago, I've gained ten pounds, and at first I thought it was because of all the coffee, until i realized that nearly every drink contains milk. So I started in the middle of yesterday and switched to soy.

I've also tried to buy things organically. It's a little difficult with money and stuff, but I'm taking it a step at a time. Definitely give this book a read/listen. I loved it. It's pretty no-nonsense. Here's on of my favorite parts:

Aspartame (an ingredient commonly found in diet sodas and other sugar-free foods) has been blamed for a slew of scary maladies, like arthritis, birth defects, fibromyalgia, Alzheimer's, lupus, multiple sclerosis, and diabetes. When methyl alcohol, a component of aspartame, enters your body, it turns into formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is toxic and carcinogenic (cancer-causing). Laboratory scientists use formaldehyde as a disinfectant or preservative. They don't fucking drink it. Perhaps you have a lumpy ass because you are preserving your fat cells with diet soda.