A Bug's Life

I lived on dairy! Pizza, korma, cottage cheese, yoghurt, Philadelphia cheese spread, cereal, Bailey's Irish Cream, - and chocolate! How could I forget Cadbury's Dairy milk? :-(

I noticed an improvement after a month clear of dairy - and more improvement a month after that, and it has continued. I keep thinking I've plateaued, but when I look back on my condition of a year ago I can still see improvements. I've been doing this since August 2000, and this is my first proper experiment into how much I can tolerate.

I could do without dairy a lot easier if it didn't inveigle its way into so many off-the-shelf foods. Checking labels is a bind, as is asking for sandwiches to be made without butter and vegetables to be served without butter and finding someone in a restaurant who knows what they're talking about when they tell you what's in something.