Discovered I'm now seriously lactose intollerant along with artificial sugar and sugar alcohol. My whole plan for weight loss is out the window. The final straw is my Dr said I should be losing more than one lb per week. Anyone have similar symptoms?

6 hours ago, jskelly said:

Discovered I'm now seriously lactose intollerant along with artificial sugar and sugar alcohol. My whole plan for weight loss is out the window. The final straw is my Dr said I should be losing more than one lb per week. Anyone have similar symptoms?

You can still get your protein in with shakes. Just make sure that the protein is listed as an "Isolate" and not a "concentrate". Isolates are milk based, but are highly filtered and have little to no lactose. Generally people with lactose issues have no problem with protein isolate. Concentrate is simply a milk concentrate so lactose is much higher that one would expect.

Good luck!

6 hours ago, jskelly said:

Discovered I'm now seriously lactose intollerant along with artificial sugar and sugar alcohol.

There are plenty of protein powders and "milks" out there that don't contain lactose. Also not all contain artificial sweeteners. If the sweet taste is important to you and you don't want to add calories: have you tried different artificial sweeteners?