Almond milk, Soy milk, Rice milk, cow milk?!

What kind of milk do you guys drink, and why?
I'm trying to figure out which is best for someone trying to losing weight. For the past year or so, I've drank almond milk, mainly because that's all my mom buys (she's vegan) and i don't have much of a preference. But i'm a little curious if i should have a preference for weight loss reasons. what do you think?!

Depends.

I like cow milk for the calcium and protein.

I like coconut milk for the medium chain fatty acids, which are good fats for exercise recovery.

Both find their way into my food, grin.

Real milk and cultured milk (kefir). Real milk has high quality protein, the others do not. I drink real milk because it is one of the most nutritional beverages available to mankind. I do non-fat because I get enough fat elsewhere.

I drink unsweetend almond milk and skim cow's milk because I like it.

I put almond with coconut milk in my smoothies. It tastes great especially if it is a smoothie with lots of pineapple in it. It kind of tastes like a non-alcoholic piña colada. Also, it has less calories and fat than regular milk. I use skim milk for coffee, cereal, or steel cut oats.

I make almond coconut milk and drink that in my coffee daily. I do try to limit my dairy intake, but when I do get dairy I tend to stick with greek yogurt or low fat cheese. I guess I don't drink much milk anymore.

I agree with other people though, I think it really depends on you and what your goals are. I like that even the coconut almond milk you purchase is lower in calories, but it is a little higher in fat (though it's that good healthy fat). Although if I ate more cereal, I would use cows milk because I don't care for the coconut almond milk in cereal.

I am having a shake for breakfast every morning, with milk, protein and fruit.
I used to use skim milk, but it has lots of sugar. Then someone told me to try almond milk, so I did, I wouldn't drink it plain, but in my shake it is good, very creamy. I started with regular, now I have unsweetened.
I might use skim milk again.
Never tried soy milk.

I drink fat free or 1% cow's milk usually only on the weekends to save calories during the week. Just my thing.
I really like Silk Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk… yummy, yummy on cereal or to mix protein shakes.
I've used rice milk in cooking, but didn't really care for it.
Have never tried coconut, but I'm not a big coconut fan.

My husband is lactose intolerant and drinks Silk Soy Light Vanilla. He prefers it over the almond milk, but will drink both.

Too bad you can't get small trial packages! (Or maybe you can in some places! I've seen shelf stable packs of 6, but never individually.)

Cow milk. 1% or skim. I have always liked the taste of it! Growing up, my mom brought whole milk and that disgusts me. I would drink skim at school.

I do like Almond milk, but I can't have it at home because my youngest is deathly allergic to nuts.

I cook with nonfat/skim milk and drink unsweetened almond milk.

I hate drinking calories though, so I'll only drink almond milk post-workout mixed with protein powder.

If I drink milk I drink it with lactaid as I am lactose intolerant. I give my kidsenriched Rice milk as they are actually allergic to dairy, soy, and tree nuts. Sometimes I will cook with coconut milk, but I have to be super careful where that and the rice milk comes from.

Soy milk 110%. I am mildly lactose intolerant, so the dairy I do eat its used for ice cream and yogurt in small portions because otherwise I will get sick. Soy milk has a longer "shelf life" for people like me who only consume in every few days with cereal.

Also the thought of "pure milk from a cow" creeps me out a little tbh. If I think about it too much when I am eating dairy I wont be able to finish :P

edit: Vanilla flavored because yum.

Mostly I drink 2% milk, I also drink almond milk if i need a few less calories, but I miss the protein thats in real milk.

Silk Original Soymilk Lite. It's the only kind I drink :happy:

Just discovered almond milk and I LOVE it. I drink Silk, Organic, Unsweetened, Vanilla Almond Milk. I specifically drink it for the calcium it provides me, and I drink it plain, or I add protein powder, etc... to it.

I'm going off dairy, I was allergic as a baby, then it was fine, and I think I'm finding that allergy again... is that possible? Anyways... Almond, it's awesome.

What kind of milk do you guys drink, and why?
I'm trying to figure out which is best for someone trying to losing weight. For the past year or so, I've drank almond milk, mainly because that's all my mom buys (she's vegan) and i don't have much of a preference. But i'm a little curious if i should have a preference for weight loss reasons. what do you think?!

If you are not allergic to any of them and any of them fit into your calorie deficit goals, then pick the one you like the best for weight loss.

People tend to choose other varieties of "milk" based on health reasons, but weight loss depends on a calorie deficit.

I prefer cow's milk because the other's listed tend to be void of protein...but you can lose weight drinking cow's, almond, soy, rice, coconut, or any other kind of milk as long as you don't have more than your calorie limit.