Is dairy fattening?

[Anonymous]

I've already lost a lot of weight. Currently I'm trying to maintain my weight and build muscle at the same time.

Obviously, I'm getting loaded up on protein (about 120g a day). Unfortunately, I'm not getting much calcium because I'm pretty much eating meat exclusively.

I stopped drinking milk because I heard it was fattening. Is this true? I want to start drinking milk again, but if it's as fattening as people say it is, I won't.

Yes

No

[Eridan]

I stopped drinking milk and eating all dairy in early July (not to lose fat, but to eliminate every possible source of my persistent acne).
Over the summer, I lost about 4 - 5 kg without doing any other changes to my diet. I don't think that dairy as a whole has any major impact on weight loss. By eliminating dairy, I incidentally eliminated a lot of sugar from my diet in the form of chocolate, biscuits, ice cream, sweetened youghurts etc.

[TripleAce]

Yea it's ok to drink milk. Chocolate milk after your workout (weight lifting) is amazing. Has a good balance of complex carbs, casein protein and fast digesting protein

[Asker]

Why chocolate? Isn't that just adding sugar and cals?

[TripleAce]

You want a simple carb post workout with your protein shake. It's the only time you should set aside some calories for it.

It gives you a insulin spike which then puts you in a anabolic state and takes in your protein more efficiently

[TripleAce]

You can have fruit. Some have a can of coke with their steak and potatoes. Anything sweet. Candy even

[Asker]

I don't use protein shakes. I get all of my protein from meat and peanuts.

I usually eat eggs and/or breakfast sausage after my daily workout. So if I were to drink chocolate milk too like you suggested, would it have the same effect?

[TripleAce]

Yea for sure but in that case just have what you normally have but once a day your after work out meal have something with sugar, fructose. A fruit is good

And if you don't want sugar. It's not that important to do

[Asker]

Ok cool. thanks for the advice. I would've never known

[SnowHearth]

Do you consume a lot of carbohydrates?
Don't consume many carbohydrates unless you're going to do exercise.
They are a fast way to get energy, but that energy needs to be burn almost instantly. If you don't burn it, it becomes fat.

[Asker]

Practically zero carbohydrates.

[SnowHearth]

1% of your diet should be carbohydrates, no less no more.

[Kiwedin]

It's baby calf growth fluid, it is fattening. Just use a milk alternative, there are so many to choose from. Soy milk, almond milk, cashew milk, hemp milk, rice milk, oat milk, hazelnut milk, etc.

[nog6422]

No. Milk contains fat. Fat isn't what makes you fat though. It's not like your body just takes the fat from your food and stores it in your body. Your body metablizes everything (including fat) and if you don't use the energy then it gets stored as fat. So fat doesn't make you fat, calories do. Milk is much less calorie-dense than meat, so it's not fattening.

[blutwolfe]

the fat in milk is good as it regulates your hormones, if you avoid fats your body will stop producing hormones, and this is bad as you won't be able to build muscle as efficiently, fats are important

[maiez]

You can get skim milk or low fat % milk. Milk is great for building muscle. Casein protein does wonders for the body

[Asker]

Really! I didn't know that... interesting

[rsstanford]

Re not only fattening out consuming pus is very bad for you.

[rsstanford]

Sorry not out. *but it's bad for you. We are not designed to consume cow's pus

[BigJake]

No, but it is inflammatory. I couldn't get lean until I cut dairy out of my diet totally. I love the stuff, but it will make you retain water and lengthen recovery times.

[Puppylove94]

Dairy isn't essential for an adult so yeah it's unnecessary calories most of the time. I drink almond milk.

[Anonymous]

One glass of milk a day won't really make much of a difference as long as everything else stays in order.

[Opinion Owner]

Oh, and it's also necessary to get sunlight cause vitamin D activates calcium.

[babeeeone]

It is fattening but there are more options out there. Drink almond milk.

[Afrochick]

YUUUUUUUP

[Hammerofthor]

It bloats you.