So it’s a hot SoCal summer, and being a SoCal gal, I can’t eat ice cream in good conscience. Therefore–frozen yogurt it is! Hubby gets the 2500 calorie fudge/peanut butter/etc. ice cream, I get sweet cream yogurt with strawberries. An hour later, I feel like I’m going to barf. Two hours later, I still do.
Thinking it’s just a passing thing, I get frozen yogurt again a few weeks later–repeat. Went to a different place today, had a different flavor/brand name, and nearly four hours later I’m still feeling verrrrrrry barfy.
I’m not lactose intolerant; I drink large glasses of milk without consequence, as well as enjoy a good “regular” yogurt with my lunch often enough. Yesterday I had some yummy vanilla with strawberries–no barfy.
I’m seriously feeling like I’m gonna hurl. (Nothing out the other end, in case you’re wondering. Or in case you’re not. No gas to speak of.)
What is IN this stuff that my tummy so objects to??
I’m not a medic, but looking at this site, I’d say there could be a possibility of some lactose intolerance, even though you have no problems drinking milk.
Thanks for the quote, IceWolf. I’m still skeptical, though, because I don’t “have to eat them carefully” when it comes to other lactose-containing foods. I drink much more than two cups of milk, can chow down on cheese, and so on–nothing else in the dairy family has had this effect on me.
It lasted pretty much the rest of the evening, too. Yogurt at 3pm, queasy until 9pm. It faded enough to allow for some dinner around 8pm–then after eating, queasy again. Boooooooo!
I’m curious if anyone else has this reaction to the lowfat sweet stuff…
Could you be pregnant??? My mom said the way she knows she’s pregnant is that she has no interest in wine anymore. Normally she drinks about a glass a day, but when she just doens’t want anything to do with it, she knows it’s time to go and see a doctor. Could that have anything to do with it???
Could you be pregnant??? My mom said the way she knows she’s pregnant is that she has no interest in wine anymore. Normally she drinks about a glass a day, but when she just doens’t want anything to do with it, she knows it’s time to go and see a doctor. Could that have anything to do with it???
While that quote on lactose intolerance is accurate, what it doesn’t say is that vomiting is not noted as an adult symptom of LI in any medical text I know, and the total lack of gas and the ability to drink large glasses of milk rule it out almost completely.
BTW, you’re just fooling yourself if you think that commercial frozen yogurt has any fewer calories or is any healthier than the equivalent fat ice cream.
Actually, Exapno, I researched calorie content and nutritional information on the sweet cream yogurt vs. sweet cream ice cream of Cold Stone Creamery so that I could have an informed indulgence and prevent the suggested “fooling” of myself. While yogurt is by no means a low calorie food, what I get at Cold Stone is typically 1/4 the calories of what hypermetabolism hubby gets. (I also have fresh strawberries as a mix in, as opposed to all that yummy fatty stuff.)
Not surprisingly, such information is nowhere to be found at Cold Stone’s official site.
Ugh…I was going to link the research I found that evidences this, but Google isn’t cooperating. If I re-find those sites, I’ll link them.
Well, I did say equivalent fat. High fat gourmet ice cream will of course have more calories than low fat ice creams, and that’s probably what hubby is getting.
It could be the general cleanliness, or lack thereof, of the machines dispensing the stuff.
State laws vary as to how often the machines need to be cleaned. When I worked as a kid we cleaned ours out every night. I mean dissassembling and washing, not just running soapy water through the unit.
If the places are not keeping up on their equipment, you could experience symptoms like you are describing.
JXJohns, the yogurt from Cold Stone comes in those huge 20-gallon drum thingys. Plus it seems unlikely that yogurt containers from two different companies and locations would be the culprit.
Perhaps it’s just one of those weird body chemistry things.
Oh, and BTW, I’m pretty darn sure I’m not pregnant!