Skim Milk or Whole Milk for weight loss?
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whichever you prefer, I go with the in between choice and use semi skimmed....0
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Skim is actually pretty good in coffee if you use enough and microwave it in your mug until it's steamy. Pour your hot coffee over it.0
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VintageFeline wrote: »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.
Meh-eh-eh-eh-eh6 -
I personally like vanilla almond milk. Less calories.0
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There are some disadvantages to skim milk. For example, whole milk (or non-fat-free-half-and-half) help prevents coffee stains of teeth, while I understand skim milk does not (I heard that on "The Doctors" TV show a year or so ago). Also, from memory i've heard of studies saying people drinking whole milk with full fat rather than skim milk which uses a ton of sugar instead, lose more weight drinking whole milk. Maybe it's an if it fits your macros thing, meaning not simply CICO but does it fit your % carbs, %fat, etc. based on how you set that up. I've heard that fat doesn't make you fat, but i do not know. For reference, i drink whole milk or full fat half and half, and so far have lost 45lbs (not saying it's directly related). The reality is mostly i drink water, to be honest, which is the best (and tasties and most refreshing) option - i've even gotten to the point where i dip my oreo thins in water rather than milk!
Okay, begin arguing, i probably will try to ignore it. I fully expect ot be called a bunch of names.0 -
RobertWilkens wrote: »There are some disadvantages to skim milk. For example, whole milk (or non-fat-free-half-and-half) help prevents coffee stains of teeth, while I understand skim milk does not (I heard that on "The Doctors" TV show a year or so ago). Also, from memory i've heard of studies saying people drinking whole milk with full fat rather than skim milk which uses a ton of sugar instead, lose more weight drinking whole milk. Maybe it's an if it fits your macros thing, meaning not simply CICO but does it fit your % carbs, %fat, etc. based on how you set that up. I've heard that fat doesn't make you fat, but i do not know. For reference, i drink whole milk or full fat half and half, and so far have lost 45lbs (not saying it's directly related). The reality is mostly i drink water, to be honest, which is the best (and tasties and most refreshing) option - i've even gotten to the point where i dip my oreo thins in water rather than milk!
Okay, begin arguing, i probably will try to ignore it. I fully expect ot be called a bunch of names.
No name calling, but it's simply untrue that skim milk "uses a ton of sugar instead." Skim milk is just whole milk with the fat skimmed off (well, I believe they may use a centrifuge process these days, but the result is the same). They don't add sugar.6 -
lynn_glenmont wrote: »No name calling, but it's simply untrue that skim milk "uses a ton of sugar instead." Skim milk is just whole milk with the fat skimmed off (well, I believe they may use a centrifuge process these days, but the result is the same). They don't add sugar.
Skim has (slightly) more sugar (from a quick google), i guess i was lied to by a family member and just believed it. It was a concern to me because i am near prediabetic range on glucose tests for last few years or more.
I am a fan of full fat, though. The brain is made up of 60% fat i believe (a google "confirms"), so given that i have brain health issues i favor fatty foods. If i can eat them/drink them and lose weight when i stay in calories, why argue?
-Rob0 -
RobertWilkens wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »No name calling, but it's simply untrue that skim milk "uses a ton of sugar instead." Skim milk is just whole milk with the fat skimmed off (well, I believe they may use a centrifuge process these days, but the result is the same). They don't add sugar.
Skim has (slightly) more sugar (from a quick google), i guess i was lied to by a family member and just believed it. It was a concern to me because i am near prediabetic range on glucose tests for last few years or more.
It's a really bizarre thing that a lot of people say or believe. I have never been able to figure out why, as you can just read a label and see it's false.
Comparing the Horizon milk I mentioned above, a cup of skim has 90 calories and 12 g of sugar, whereas the full fat has 150 calories and 11 g of sugar. That's not because sugar is added, but you remove the fat, so probably get a bit more of the other stuff in the cup. (I've seen slight differences between brands, some seem to have more sugar and protein in skim, some don't, some have more of one and not of the other, which I think all just comes down to rounding, none of it is significant.)I am a fan of full fat, though. The brain is made up of 60% fat i believe (a google "confirms"), so given that i have brain health issues i favor fatty foods. If i can eat them/drink them and lose weight when i stay in calories, why argue?
I think that if you like full fat better or find it more filling, those are good reasons to consume it. Similarly, if you don't like it better or find it less filling (for the same calories) (which is me) those are good reasons to consume lower fat. I'm not anti fat at all but think there are better sources of fat than dairy (well, I definitely save room for real cheese, which I find a good way to use the calories saved from low fat/skim greek yogurt or cottage cheese, which I happen to prefer to full fat usually).
I don't drink milk anyway, though,2 -
i prefer full fat milk BUT I use semi skimmed because it means I can have my milk but for few less calories.
full skimmed milk is like water though lol0 -
RobertWilkens wrote: »lynn_glenmont wrote: »No name calling, but it's simply untrue that skim milk "uses a ton of sugar instead." Skim milk is just whole milk with the fat skimmed off (well, I believe they may use a centrifuge process these days, but the result is the same). They don't add sugar.
Skim has (slightly) more sugar (from a quick google), i guess i was lied to by a family member and just believed it. It was a concern to me because i am near prediabetic range on glucose tests for last few years or more.
I am a fan of full fat, though. The brain is made up of 60% fat i believe (a google "confirms"), so given that i have brain health issues i favor fatty foods. If i can eat them/drink them and lose weight when i stay in calories, why argue?
-Rob
According to the USDA (rather than random google search), there is .02 gram -- that's two hundredths of a gram, or 2 centigrams -- more sugar in 100 grams of nonfat milk than in 100 grams whole milk, or .15 grams more in a cup of skim milk than in a cup of whole milk. So if you drink seven cups a day, you'd get an extra gram of sugar. Doesn't seem like enough of a difference to weigh into your decision about which to drink, even if you were diabetic, much less "near prediabetic."2 -
Sadly, no milk is best, until you get to goal weight0
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johnnylakis wrote: »Sadly, no milk is best, until you get to goal weight
What? Why?4 -
johnnylakis wrote: »Sadly, no milk is best, until you get to goal weight
I have a 1% milk latte everyday and I've lost 88 lbs3 -
With the amount of milk I drink, if I drank whole milk I'd weigh 400 pounds lol
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johnnylakis wrote: »Sadly, no milk is best, until you get to goal weight
That is sad. Good thing it isn't true.6 -
johnnylakis wrote: »Sadly, no milk is best, until you get to goal weight
I don't understand this.3 -
johnnylakis wrote: »Sadly, no milk is best, until you get to goal weight
I don't understand this.
Me neither. I drink full cream milk everyday, 350-500ml, and have done since i was a kid. I drank more when i was at my thinnest than i do now.
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Skim milk is essentially milk soda. Full fat milk from the cows teat is preferable.0
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gemdiver00 wrote: »Skim milk is essentially milk soda. Full fat milk from the cows teat is preferable.
I need brain bleach for the visual I just got.5 -
gemdiver00 wrote: »Skim milk is essentially milk soda. Full fat milk from the cows teat is preferable.
Preferable for what specific reasons?
Or do you just mean preferable to you?3 -
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Skim milk is just milk-flavored water. It's a sad beverage for sad people.1
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GottaBurnEmAll wrote: »gemdiver00 wrote: »Skim milk is essentially milk soda. Full fat milk from the cows teat is preferable.
I need brain bleach for the visual I just got.
Heh.1 -
gemdiver00 wrote: »Skim milk is essentially milk soda. Full fat milk from the cows teat is preferable.
How is it milk soda? It's milk with more (essentially all) of the fat skimmed away. Like it or not, I don't care (I don't care about milk, period, so don't get finding whole meaningfully more delicious than skim -- my current jam is homemade cashew milk if I want a creamy beverage with some calories), but not sure how it's like soda. You mean because it has -- gasp! -- lactose? So does whole, in basically the same amount. Because it has protein? Oh, right, soda doesn't. I guess soda and skim milk both have no fat, so that must make them exactly alike. Hmm.
I'm now going to go back to drinking my black coffee, which, as a fat-free beverage, is exactly like soda and skim milk.5 -
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gemdiver00 wrote: »Skim milk is essentially milk soda. Full fat milk from the cows teat is preferable.johnnylakis wrote: »Sadly, no milk is best, until you get to goal weight
I'm still waking up and I don't know what the f I just read. Help!
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I have half and half (light cream) with my coffee and soy milk (Silk light vanilla) on my cereal. If I have cow's milk, the lowest butterfat I'll go is 2%. If I have ice cream, I want full butterfat ice cream and I'll just eat less of it than I used to.
If you like skim milk in your coffee or tea, fine, but for those like me who can't stand it -- don't punish yourself by eating crap you don't like because that's not a lifestyle you're going to want to sustain for the rest of your life. If I'm not going to enjoy something, I'm not going to eat it. Period.
And sadly, I've done this through 72 pounds of weight loss -- so the statement that you can't have milk until you're at goal weight is just B.S.3 -
@Bwrock84 are you still here? Has reading all of these replies made your decision any easier?
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I've discovered, to my utter surprise, that just referring to the milk in my coffee, I consume fewer calories if I use the whole milk that we have in the fridge for the kids.
I usually use semi-skimmed or, preferably, soya wholebean, but we had run out of both. I am such a dreadful house keeper. So, forced to steal the kids' I realised I only needed about half the milk to get my preferred "whiteness". Intrigued I did a little experiment and it was confirmed. I used about half the volume, and that had fewer calories than the volume of semi-skimmed I would usually add.
Now, of course there are other considerations, like protein and ethics that I also care about, so back to the soya, but I shan't feel as worried about the odd whole milk coffee scenario from now on.1 -
I have lost 35 pounds while drinking whole milk almost daily.1
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