Almond Milk. Okay'den.

Really... nix the dairy, get some almond or coconut milk, and do your colon a favor.  M'kay?  Well, that's what I've done anyway.  I guess I just got tired of looking at the blender and bag of Shakeology and seeing the horrors to come if I drank any of it!  Thing is, it's NOT the Shakeology at all.  My problem, apparently, is dairy in some forms, so replacing the dairy with the almond milk was a smart choice on my part.  Yeah, I can boast about that just a little bit.  I mean, I made a smart step in the right direction.

I guess when determining how best to proceed in fighting off the effects of high-dose, long-term prednisone is to begin with baby steps.  I know some of you are the jump-right-in type, and I'm usually that way myself.  But when it comes to having something in your system that's going to ultimately wreak havoc on you if you make the wrong choice, you really have to make those choices carefully and with MUCH thought and research, and... planning.  You have to plan for the unexpected.  Seriously.

My taste buds are so whacked out nothing tastes right at the moment.  The cruelty factor here is that if something is SWEET.. I can taste it more than anything else.  My nemesis, sugar, is out to get me. Dammit!  And salt, is something that is BARELY detectable now.  Coffee doesn't even taste right... though I'm not about to say it tastes bad, because it doesn't.  So this altered sense of taste makes the dieting and eating right a lot more complicated than it would otherwise be under normal conditions.  What a freaking mess.

So back to that almond milk thing....

As it turns out, almond milk actually doesn't taste much different than dairy.  Even with an altered sense of taste I can see this.  I've had almond milk before, btw, and I know it doesn't really taste all that different.  At least not to me.  So if you're looking for a dairy alternative, try almond milk first.  I also love coconut milk.. yes, milk.  I also love the water, but that's not suitable for shakes.

I'll be perfectly honest here--all these choices, good and bad, aren't helping me lose weight because of the prednisone on board.  Doesn't mean YOUR experience won't prove vastly different.  I'm just saying that if you're having to take this stuff just be informed and prepared for your body to not respond the way it normally would.  If you go into dieting, eating better, etc. with that in mind.. then you won't likely be so disappointed in the scale numbers.  It's going to be okay.  Prednisone's side effects are temporary, and if you're taking prednisone you are most likely for a good reason... I hope.

So two thumbs up for almond milk, which is naturally not high in calories btw...

Here's to health, despite that damnable prednisone!