Jib
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I'm not new here. But I have newly introduced milk to my diet after something like a 12 year hiatus.
It's been a few weeks, and I feel like I'm in a chrysalis or something undergoing a transformation. For the very first time in recent memory, I'm able to have stable energy throughout the day by keeping up with a steady supply of milk. No particular schedule at all. Just going by desire.
I've mostly been using store bought pasteurized/homogenized whole milk. Was doing fine with that. Recently I picked up some raw Jersey milk from a local farmer, and pasteurized it at home after the first pint of raw milk had my feet glued to my Nature's Platform all morning.
It's been great. Went through nearly an entire gallon today with absolutely zero gas or bloating or GI distress at all. Just smooth, stable, warm energy all day. All I've had aside from the milk today is a little dark chocolate, a few eggs fried in coconut oil with some cheese, a couple bananas, and a good amount of fresh mandarin oranges.
Anyway. I'm absolutely blown away. I feel like this could really be the beginning of metabolic recovery for me. It was a slow start, and the gas and bloating has gone down significantly after a couple weeks of having a lot of milk, so hopefully my digestive system has gotten the message and ramped up its enzyme production as a result.
My life may not be very exciting, because this is just about the best thing that's happened to me this year. For some reason, I was 100% convinced I could not drink milk, because it would immediately give me diarrhea and sinus issues. At this point, I don't even remember when that happened, and what made me think that I had a dairy allergy or intolerance of some kind. The very first time a few weeks ago I warmed some skim milk and fearfully drank a cup, I had no issues at all except a tolerable amount of gas and bloating some time later.
And now that doesn't really seem to be an issue at all. Very happy about this.
It's also basically eliminated my desire for fruit juice, and encouraged me naturally to eat only whole fruit.
Milk, as a primary beverage, possibly due to the high protein/fat/mineral content, seems much more hydrating than juice, and does not even remotely cause energy crashing like juice did for me. It could be poor metabolic health causing crashing from fruit juice, and I'm not opposed to it at all, but for the time being, this milk and whole fruit thing is making me feel like I'm in heaven.
My desire to eat meat has also almost completely vanished. I could easily eat an entire pound of grass fed beef in one sitting before. I recently made a meat loaf with mushroom gravy, using only 1 pound of grass fed beef, and it just lasted me 4 days.
As far as I can tell, milk has been the main missing key in my approach to a Peat style diet. As soon as I started drinking milk, I felt something click. And when I got more bold and started liberally consuming milk, all this other stuff started falling into place. And all of a sudden, after many years of reading Peat's work, it's like, "Oooooohhhhhhhhh. Oh. So that's what he was talking about. I think I get it."
Theoretically understanding stable, smooth energy on a biological level is one thing. Actually feeling it is another. And milk, at least for me, seems to be the golden ticket here.
So just here to celebrate the awesomeness of milk. Even the lowly grocery store pasteurized/homogenized stuff. Liberal milk drinking has just made the rest of my diet make sense: small amounts of meat and seafood, moderate to significant amounts of fresh, whole fruit, and a very small amount of starch here and there as tolerated/desired, or many days, no starch at all.
This is all based purely on desire and convenience, not even thinking of a "Peat-inspired diet." I buy fresh fruit and milk and since they're like nature's fast food, I just go at them as desired without even thinking. And finally I don't have to worry about going through meat so often and spending so much on it, because my desire for it has diminished to almost nothing. Little treats like dark chocolate here and there have truly become little treats; instead of binging on them, I'll just have a square or two here and there, and I'm good.
So I'm stoked. Drinking milk again after avoiding it for 12+ years. For whatever reason got it in my head that I could never drink it again for the rest of my life. Replace "magnets" with "milk" and this is how I'm feeling right now:
It's been a few weeks, and I feel like I'm in a chrysalis or something undergoing a transformation. For the very first time in recent memory, I'm able to have stable energy throughout the day by keeping up with a steady supply of milk. No particular schedule at all. Just going by desire.
I've mostly been using store bought pasteurized/homogenized whole milk. Was doing fine with that. Recently I picked up some raw Jersey milk from a local farmer, and pasteurized it at home after the first pint of raw milk had my feet glued to my Nature's Platform all morning.
It's been great. Went through nearly an entire gallon today with absolutely zero gas or bloating or GI distress at all. Just smooth, stable, warm energy all day. All I've had aside from the milk today is a little dark chocolate, a few eggs fried in coconut oil with some cheese, a couple bananas, and a good amount of fresh mandarin oranges.
Anyway. I'm absolutely blown away. I feel like this could really be the beginning of metabolic recovery for me. It was a slow start, and the gas and bloating has gone down significantly after a couple weeks of having a lot of milk, so hopefully my digestive system has gotten the message and ramped up its enzyme production as a result.
My life may not be very exciting, because this is just about the best thing that's happened to me this year. For some reason, I was 100% convinced I could not drink milk, because it would immediately give me diarrhea and sinus issues. At this point, I don't even remember when that happened, and what made me think that I had a dairy allergy or intolerance of some kind. The very first time a few weeks ago I warmed some skim milk and fearfully drank a cup, I had no issues at all except a tolerable amount of gas and bloating some time later.
And now that doesn't really seem to be an issue at all. Very happy about this.
It's also basically eliminated my desire for fruit juice, and encouraged me naturally to eat only whole fruit.
Milk, as a primary beverage, possibly due to the high protein/fat/mineral content, seems much more hydrating than juice, and does not even remotely cause energy crashing like juice did for me. It could be poor metabolic health causing crashing from fruit juice, and I'm not opposed to it at all, but for the time being, this milk and whole fruit thing is making me feel like I'm in heaven.
My desire to eat meat has also almost completely vanished. I could easily eat an entire pound of grass fed beef in one sitting before. I recently made a meat loaf with mushroom gravy, using only 1 pound of grass fed beef, and it just lasted me 4 days.
As far as I can tell, milk has been the main missing key in my approach to a Peat style diet. As soon as I started drinking milk, I felt something click. And when I got more bold and started liberally consuming milk, all this other stuff started falling into place. And all of a sudden, after many years of reading Peat's work, it's like, "Oooooohhhhhhhhh. Oh. So that's what he was talking about. I think I get it."
Theoretically understanding stable, smooth energy on a biological level is one thing. Actually feeling it is another. And milk, at least for me, seems to be the golden ticket here.
So just here to celebrate the awesomeness of milk. Even the lowly grocery store pasteurized/homogenized stuff. Liberal milk drinking has just made the rest of my diet make sense: small amounts of meat and seafood, moderate to significant amounts of fresh, whole fruit, and a very small amount of starch here and there as tolerated/desired, or many days, no starch at all.
This is all based purely on desire and convenience, not even thinking of a "Peat-inspired diet." I buy fresh fruit and milk and since they're like nature's fast food, I just go at them as desired without even thinking. And finally I don't have to worry about going through meat so often and spending so much on it, because my desire for it has diminished to almost nothing. Little treats like dark chocolate here and there have truly become little treats; instead of binging on them, I'll just have a square or two here and there, and I'm good.
So I'm stoked. Drinking milk again after avoiding it for 12+ years. For whatever reason got it in my head that I could never drink it again for the rest of my life. Replace "magnets" with "milk" and this is how I'm feeling right now: