Ice cream, pizza, grilled cheese. Just a sample of some of the delicious food you can't eat when you're lactose intolerant. Here are some of the biggest struggles of being lactose intolerant.
1. You love all things dairy, often more than people who are not lactose intolerant.
Whether it's mac and cheese, pizza, ice cream or grilled cheese, you love all the dairy.
2. Even though you've been lactose intolerant for most of your life, you still get sad when you can't order ice cream for dessert.
Even at 21 years old, I still get depressed when I can't eat swirled chocolate and vanilla ice cream after dinner.3. You carry Lactaid pills with you everywhere you go.
And when you forget your Lactaid pills, all hell breaks loose.
4. You pop your Lactaid pills like mints.
"Do you want one?"
5. "Can I have a cheeseburger with no cheese, please?"
Servers hate you because you constantly make changes to the items on a restaurant's menu. It's not your fault everything has dairy.
6. You buy dairy-free food at the grocery store, but your heart just can't commit.
It's a rocky relationship.
7. You weigh the pros and cons of eating dairy every time you eat.
Should I eat this delicious pizza and just deal with the consequences?
8. You know when your stomach starts making weird noises, it's time to find a bathroom.
If there's no bathroom around, you're SOL.9. You plan when you eat dairy so that you'll be near a bathroom after you eat it.
I just ate three bowls of Easy Mac, so if you need me, I'll be in the bathroom for the next three hours.
10. You claim how lactose-free food tastes exactly like non-lactose-free food.
"Lactose-free ice cream is so good," said no one ever.
11. You bond with other people who are lactose intolerant.
Diarrhea stories make you BFFs.
12. You panic when your new significant other asks you to get ice cream.
It's so embarrassing to pull out Lactaid pills. Take it from me.
13. People constantly ask whether you're actually lactose intolerant or whether you just get a few stomach aches sometimes.
Want me to demonstrate how lactose intolerant I am? Most likely not.14. You have learned to drink your coffee black.
Because coffee already makes you poop enough.
15. You admire all people who can eat dairy without getting sick.
Seriously, I'm so jealous.
16. You are more excited about Ben & Jerry's making dairy-free ice cream than about the 2016 presidential election.
Dairy-free ice cream is way more important than Trump.
17. You will forever eat dairy because it's totally worth the pain.
It's a love-hate relationship.
