Anyway, back to my bright idea. I've had issues for about the last six months or so with severe teenage acne. I've googled until my eyes were blurry, like any good child of the internet, and devotedly tested each idea that I thought sounded plausible. I've spent too much money on washes, astringents, creams, and zappers. I've disinfected objects that come into frequent contact with my pores, including my phones, my towels, and my children. To no avail. I continue with large painful sores on my face.
I used to roll my eyes at the poor people on the Proactiv commercials who's acne was the worse thing that ever happened to them. Now I'm the self conscious one who is getting carded because I look like I'm struggling through a horrible puberty. I forgot how conspicuous you feel when your face is exploding.
So as I was running down Santa Fe, I faintly remembered a girl at work telling me how giving up dairy cleared her adult acne up. Hmmm, was this something I could do? I had given up meat for a couple of years, I gave up carbs for almost nine months, could I refuse cheese for the sake of my vanity? The idea behind this (yes, I googled it) is the extra hormones in milk add to the hormone levels in your body and in turn make hormonal acne worse. Even "hormone-free" or organic milk has intrinsic levels of hormones in it, because milk comes from lactating cows, and you have to have higher levels of certain hormones to lactate! It makes so much sense. You can't have real dairy and have it be truly hormone free.
I'm not really a milk drinker, and I don't even have cereal for breakfast. There are a few things that will be hard for me to give up. Number one: string cheese. This is a go to snack for me, probably at least twice a day. I'm pretty sure they make fake string cheese, but I'm wary of the texture. Number two: cheesy Italian food. Lasagna, pizza, pasta with mozzarella, etc. Especially pizza. Dang I love pizza. Number three: McDonald's snack size Rolo candy soft serve ice cream thingy. I am not typically an ice cream eater, it tends to hurt my teeth, but mixing delicious caramel and chocolate in the ice cream? Freaking amazing. I have a sneaking suspicion that this is the root of my face explosions, too. I can vaguely connect the nights where Patrick has brought home a delicious Rolo treat for me and the following days where I have super serious break-outs.
So, maybe it's premature, but I went the whole day yesterday without dairy, and my zits are all in healing stages for the first time in months. I have no new breakouts at this point in time. I'm going to give it a month and see what happens.
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