So milk doesn't, in fact, make you skinny. The "Got Milk?" people are pulling the "Milk your diet. Lose Weight!" ads after a bit of pressure from vegan groups, a petition from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, and the Federal Trade Commission. (see news story here: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=3162749) Don't those ads say something like "...with a sensible diet and regular exercise." Guess what? With a sensible diet and regular exercise, 1 oz. of chocolate every day will make you lose weight. Because the chocolate is like a placebo, as long as you believe it works, it works. But what really makes me mad, is that they had me choking milk down again thinking that it would help my weight loss regime.
I've hated milk for a long time. The first time I remember hating milk was in day care, when I was four. It was a rule that we had to drink a cup of milk with our lunch every day. I didn't like it, so my mom sent a cup of orange juice along one day, which I assumed could replace my milk at lunch. However, when lunch came, the "day care provider" said that I could only drink my juice after I drank my milk. So I gulped the milk really fast just to get rid of it. When she gave me the juice, I threw up.
Through all this time, I remember that it didn't occur to me that I didn't like milk. Afterall, everyone said, "Milk is good for you. It's healthy. Make sure you drink it." So, I guess even to myself, I was denying that it was even possible to dislike milk. I can handle chocolate milk, but I really prefer to stay away from it all together.
This brings me to the second time I remember not liking milk. My kindergarten teacher Mrs. B and I made a deal. You remember in school, or maybe you don't, that you had milk at lunch, and then one other time during the day in the afternoon. Before you could leave the lunch room, the monitor would pick up your milk carton to make sure it was empty. At our school we could have chocolate milk on Fridays, which was easier for me. I think I must've had some sort of break down (as much of a break down as a 5-yr-old can have) because I just remember crying and telling Mrs. B how much I hated milk, and I wished we didn't have to drink it all the time...or if we did have to drink it all the time then I wished we could have chocolate milk. Anyway, she said that as long as I could drink regular milk until Friday, then I could definitely have chocolate milk on Friday, every week. And that is kind of a reward for getting through the week with regular milk. I think this is reason for my diet strategy, which is "Friday is Free day," which means if you eat healthy all week, on Friday you can have something you are really craving, like an ice cream cone, or macaroni and cheese, etc.
I have determined that the issue I have with milk is mostly due to its strong yellow flavor. Yellow tastes or smells like something that came from a body: sweat, mucus, blood, snot, sometimes eggs. And, milk also comes from a body. There are also plant-based yellow flavor sources, the strongest of which are cilantro, dill, and ginkgo trees. However, yellow isn't always bad, it's just bad in milk and sickness, because I like cilantro. Bleach is also yellow.
I have identified my personal colors for occasionally unpleasant flavors and smells, and their corresponding, regular person examples. "Strong" means mostly unpleasant, (yellow is strong) and "mild" means mostly neutral:
brown (strong): mushrooms, wet dogs, leather, wood, new car smell, cigarette smoke, cooking beef, goat cheese
white (strong): chemicals, ammonia, illegal drugs
green (medium): grass, evergreen
blue (mild): rosemary, mint, basil, sage, fuzzy plants and peach skin
red/orange (strong): moulding produce, tomatoes, vomit, vinegar
-MsLin
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