Milk
I've been drinking unpasteurized milk since I was a toddler. Every summer for 3-4 months while staying at my grandfather's countryside home. The milk was truly beautiful, creamy and warm. And the rest of the day we just kept the bottles in a bucket filled with cold water from the well.
The rest of the year because I lived in a city, I drank pasteurized stuff. As I grew older and didn't go to the countryside as often as I used to, I completely switched to 'shop milk'.
When I started with PD, the fond memories of my childhood returned and I guzzled down alot of the real stuff. But of course it wasn't as real as it used to be. The only reliable source that delivered the unheated milk to my door, chilled the milk down to 4-5C and the cows very 'occasionally' given antibiotics and other medicals to keep the cows 'healthy'.
The first months on PD I basically just slept. 12-14 hours a day. I can't tell if the milk was the only reason, because I also ate pasteurized butter then and the meat was lean steak from supermarkets. I also gained quite a bit of weight, in January 2005, I weighted 94 kg (more than ever before).
In September 2005 I moved to south of France and found a farmer who sold me warm milk, but the cows were given antibiotics and other dodgy pills and because of the warm weather there was much less grass for the cows to eat. This stuff didn't make me too sleepy anymore, but by then I stopped eating butter.
June '06 till Aug '06 I didn't drink any milk at all. And I found a health food store in Antibes that sold unpasteurized butter, so I ate 200gr of that stuff instead. I slept 6 hours most of the summer and wasn't very tired, but I lost weight, in Sept '06 I weighted 78kg.
Dec '06 I moved to London and started to buy milk from Olive Farm that attends the weekly Farmers' Market. Usually I drank 2 pints per day. And I ate some of their cream as well. Last week I started to cut down my milk consumption, just to see how it changes my overall state.
My goal is to cut down first of all to 1 pint per day. Tomorrow I go to Farmers' Market again and buy 12 pints instead of my usual 16.
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31/March '07
Well, it was Farmers' Market today... and I didn't buy a single pint of milk nor cream :-p I though cutting down one pint a week or so was too slow... I want to see results faster!
In the morning I ate about 3 tablespoons of marrow and an avocado and one banana. And I drank some Evian water, 75ml I guess. For tea I'm gonna have a 1 and half beef kidney.
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7/April '07
Last night around midnight I suddenly needed to run to the toilet. And I had burning fever all night long. I slept (kind of) till 9am and then tried to get myself sorted, but I felt like throwing up or passing stool all the time. But nothing came out. Because I don't have my milk any more, I sipped water regularly, cause my mouth was drying every 5 seconds. I would have loved to eat some eggs but I didn't have any.
Around midday my fever was pretty much gone, I ate a banana and an avocado and had a slow walk through Hyde Park that lifted my spirits a bit. But the feeling of diarrhea has gone nowhere. I probably have drank about litre of water by now, I don't really fancy anything to eat tonight. Perhaps a bit of suet. I ate a whole ox tongue last night as well. I feel bloody weak. My heart feels weak as well. I'm gonna be fine...
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9/April '07
I ate some ox tongue/ox heart mix (about 200gr) + tiny bit of bone marrow. I feel much better now. Although I still bit week. I passed stool many times over couple days and seems like lost 5kg of body weight or so.
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17/April '07
All well again for a week now. Yesterday even went to gym after a while. I've got used to drinking water now. Min 7.8 pH. And I'm not sure if it's a delusion, but it seems my eyesight has improved a bit indeed. Yippee!
