Skim Milk or Whole Milk for weight loss?
TheBrock84
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Which milk is better for weight loss? Skim Milk or Whole Milk? Let me know.
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Whichever fits your calories and macros best....13
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A sustained calorie deficit is what creates weight loss. What you choose to eat/drink to hit an appropriate calorie deficit, is up to you.3
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Do you like whole milk, and can you fit it into your calorie goals? Drink whole. If you prefer skim, and it fits into your daily calories, drink that.
As far as weight loss goes, it doesn't matter what you eat or drink, so long as you burn more calories than you eat!4 -
Skim milk has fewer calories, so in that sense it's best for CICO. It is easier to fit into your daily calories and leaves you more cals for other food.3
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It's up to you. I like fat free FairLife milk. It is high in protein and low in sugar and calories so it fits well with my personal goals.5
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Whichever works best for you. Some people find whole milk makes them fuller so they eat less calories overall. Some people don't want to spend the calories so they drink skim. Rather than looking at individual foods you might want to look at your daily food consumption and see how what you're eating fits your goals.4
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Ready2Rock206 wrote: »Whichever works best for you. Some people find whole milk makes them fuller so they eat less calories overall. Some people don't want to spend the calories so they drink skim. Rather than looking at individual foods you might want to look at your daily food consumption and see how what you're eating fits your goals.
Exactly this. (And personally I don't care to drink calories when I can avoid it and don't really love milk, so I consume my dairy as yogurt, cottage cheese, or cheese, mostly. Oh, and ice cream.)0 -
I prefer skim, but don't use it in coffee or tea. Just for cereal or to drink a glass of it. I understand it sucks for coffee or tea though so when people are visiting, we buy something else.3
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Personally I prefer skim. Less calories.1
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Whichever one you like best and fits into your calorie goal. Weight loss is about overall calories, not specific types of foods.4
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Whichever fits in with your calorie allowance for the day. One thing to note though, generally whole has more calcium than skimmed so from that point of view whole is better. But if you're happy that you're getting enough calcium from other foods then cool, no worries
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I prefer everything to be whole fat and realize this means I must eat less of it for the same calories.
Keep your Halo Top "ice cream" - I'll stick to Ben & Jerry's and just have it less often, and in smaller amounts.4 -
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Whichever fits in with your calorie allowance for the day. One thing to note though, generally whole has more calcium than skimmed so from that point of view whole is better. But if you're happy that you're getting enough calcium from other foods then cool, no worries
USDA numbers don't seem to support that --
fat free has about 90 calories in a cup, 316 mg calcium, and whole has about 150 and 276 mg.
I thought that was kind of weird so checked a major brand (Horizon), and they list the milks as 90 calories for a cup for fat free, 135 calories for 2%, and 150 calories for whole, all with 30% daily requirement of calcium.
Main point, though, even if there's a small difference in favor of whole milk, if you control for calories you would seem to be able to get more calcium per calorie with the fat free.
There does seem to be an argument that calcium is like a fat soluable vitamin, but that would matter if you weren't otherwise getting in fat, and most will be, I'd expect.3 -
Skimmed milk has fewer calories, so if your aim is to have the least calories as possible, you should have skimmed milk. However, nutritionally, whole milk is better as it has more calcium than skimmed milk.1
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Whatever you like best. I've been drinking 2% milk my whole life, so that's what I stick with.3
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Neither. I use 2% Fairlife. More protein and calcium. Skim doesn't have the right mouthfeel, full fat has too many calories. 2% is "just right". It's like I'm Goldilocks when it comes to milk.4
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GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »Neither. I use 2% Fairlife. More protein and calcium. Skim doesn't have the right mouthfeel, full fat has too many calories. 2% is "just right". It's like I'm Goldilocks when it comes to milk.
You and my mom *points to post above*2 -
I use 2% Low Fat0
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I used 2% for months of this weight loss journey. When I started fermenting milk for kefir, I switched to using whole milk. Moreover, when I started making yogurt, I used Promised Land whole milk from Jersey cattle, which has a higher protein content than Holstein milk. Log your food accurately.0
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I find if I have a bowl of cereal with while milk, I'm less hungry later. If I have a bowl of cereal with skim milk, I always want another.2
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Don't you know that any milk makes your body retain fat because it sends a message to the brain telling it you are a cow?!4
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Skimmed milk has fewer calories, so if your aim is to have the least calories as possible, you should have skimmed milk. However, nutritionally, whole milk is better as it has more calcium than skimmed milk.
You said this literally right after a post explaining that that isn't true.
Skimmed milk has more calcium, not less. Presumably because the cream skimmed off is low in calcium, leaving behind the high calcium part.
I prefer whole milk, just because I like the taste, so I make space for it.3 -
trigden1991 wrote: »Don't you know that any milk makes your body retain fat because it sends a message to the brain telling it you are a cow?!
Moooo!3 -
GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »Neither. I use 2% Fairlife. More protein and calcium. Skim doesn't have the right mouthfeel, full fat has too many calories. 2% is "just right". It's like I'm Goldilocks when it comes to milk.
This for me too. Well, not Fairlife as it's not a thing here, 2% is what we in the UK call semi-skimmed or green top 1 -
trigden1991 wrote: »Don't you know that any milk makes your body retain fat because it sends a message to the brain telling it you are a cow?!
It's especially cool how even goat's milk does that.5 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »trigden1991 wrote: »Don't you know that any milk makes your body retain fat because it sends a message to the brain telling it you are a cow?!
It's especially cool how even goat's milk does that.
I want to make a goat noise but don't know how to type it
I love goats. 2 -
We buy cheese from this pygmy goat farm and went to a tour and farm dinner there. They are so adorable.0
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