Is Skimmed milk healthy to drink often?

Charlie Haughy

Hey, in a bid to loose some more weight, ive completely cut out soft drinks from my diet. But I find water to be boring a lot of the time still :pac:

I dont drink tea/coffee but regularly drink skimmed milk during the day along with water. Is this healthy for a diet? Will it help me to loose weight? I can drink a litre of milk in 1 sitting at the end of the day, but try to hold back from doing so.

Pixie Girl

A litre of skimmed milk, Avonmore slimline milk for example, has 410 calories and 57g of sugar so no it wouldn't help you loose weight. A glass a day wouldn't be too bad but a litre is a bit excessive I think. Have you tried adding lemon/lime to water to make it a bit less boring?

seamus

A diet soft drink would be better from a weight loss point of view, than a glass of skimmed milk.

Nutritionally not so much, but if cutting calories is your agenda, then water is best, followed by diet soft drinks (7up or coke have practically no calories, orange or lemon have 60-ish per litre), closely followed by cordials.

Diet coke in particular also works as an appetite suppressant due to the caffeine, but this can cause other issues.

ApeXaviour

Even down to the nitty gritty, the new 1% milk >> skim milk.

42 kcal per 100ml in comparison to 41 kcal for skimmed, but skim has nearly a gram more sugar.

When trying to lose weight liquid food, and sugar, are best avoided. Neither satiate hunger and the latter is especially detrimental to fat reduction.

However if it's just 50ml you're adding to your tea twice a day I don't worry about it so much!

Charlie Haughy

Ah right, I think ill lay off the skimmed milk from now on, and will just have it with the weetabix in the morning :pac:

Ill try out the slice of lemon/lime in water thing tomorrow and see if it works, or get a bottle of diet 7up and see how that goes.

rubadub

Just to note there is no ADDED sugar to this milk, it is naturally occurring.

When you remove the fat from skim milk then all the other stuff is naturally more concentrated, so it ends up with higher sugar content than other milks even though neither has added sugar, it also will have higher protein. Also proteins are usually added so the skim milk does not taste too watery.

lmmoonbeam1976

rubadub wrote: »

Just to note there is no ADDED sugar to this milk, it is naturally occurring.

When you remove the fat from skim milk then all the other stuff is naturally more concentrated, so it ends up with higher sugar content than other milks even though neither has added sugar, it also will have higher protein. Also proteins are usually added so the skim milk does not taste too watery.

try herbal teas -- lipton do some nice ones -- i find water very boring so i change every so often to herbal teas

El_Dangeroso

Good rule of thumb when losing weight is to not drink any calories if you can, they contribute nothing to satiety.

ted1

A cordial with no added sugar does the job.

Dotcomdolly

ted1 wrote: »

A cordial with no added sugar does the job.

But they are artificially sweetened so not so good for you really.
Lemon & mint or mint & cucumber make great additions to water. Also the Lipton fruit or herbal teas are tasty.