Quote: (10-30-2013 12:53 PM)frenchie Wrote:
I cut out milk products in my life because I did not like the taste of milk. I ate cheese and that never gave me problems.
When I realized that I wasn't eating enough food for lifting, I started doing the GOMAD (gallon of milk a day) challenge. Realistically it was a gallon of whole milk every 3 days.
First things I noticed, was acne. Yeah I got a little bit of acne, but it cleared up pretty quickly. I got a lot of $hits and bloating, but I solved this by supplementing a probiotic into my diet ( yoghurt and OTA pills). Eventually, the bloating stopped and I started to feel more grounded. My lifts started getting better as well. Soon after I ran out of probiotic pills and just stuck with yoghurt. All of the initial problems I had went away.
I still drink whole milk on the reg and use it as the base for all of my protein shakes. Whole milk is a staple of my diet and is so high in calories that I can hit my marks with it daily.
That will catch up with you one day. I did the same thing in high school: I drank half a gallon of milk a day while lifting. In my 30's, I eventually became lactose intolerant because ingesting refined dairy products eventually depleted my body of the enzymes necessary to digest them.
Normally, I would say that everyone is different and that might not happen to you. But your temporary side-effects are classic symptoms of lactose intolerance, which I did not develop until many years later. You are obviously sensitive to dairy. If I were in your position, I would try to switch to another form of protein or eat only raw dairy products. Eating natural yogurt with live cultures is the minimum that you should do. Good luck.