Cut out the dairy?

[Natural Beauty]

well....if 8oz of plain no fun chocolate included 2% milk has 121 calories....and if i were to drink 29.75 of those that would be 1lb worth of calories.
So...allergens and steroids/hormones aside....I guess between a 20oz mocha, milk on my oatmeal and any cheese or other dairy.....I could kill a pound in 2 weeks??? sigh.
mocha vs. more pushups.

[kjay]

You might try low-fat chocolate soy milk, which is fabulous, in my opinion. I quit drinking cow's milk many years ago, but I have no clue what it does or does not do for weight loss. Chocolate milk (soy milk, in my case) is so darn refreshing.

Somewhere I read and found it interesting that we're the only species that drinks milk from another species. Cows drink cow's milk, goats drink goat milk, camels drink camel milk, and on and on. Not that this is of any significance, I just thought it interesting.

[alpinerabbit]

We are also the only species that has left natural selection behind. We are the only species that farms food. So you can't really compare us with other animals.

I still hold that while some individuals may get some benefit from not consuming dairy, some won't, and you can't blame dairy for everything. I have a suspicion that eliminating certain types of food has a beneficial effect because you start watching what you eat overall.

Weight gain, weight loss, for me it's junk in-junk out.

[TahoeDirtGirl]

I don't know where I got the idea from but about 2 years ago I stopped drinking 'regular' milk and started drinking hormone free milk as well as switched to eating little to no meat. I eat fish most of the time, or chicken that is as close to free range as I can get.

The reason I did was because I just noticed that I didn't feel right around my period, and somehow I made a connection with hormones in milk. I can't really remember the how and why.

I also started drinking soy milk more and noticed I feel better. I can't put my finger on it, but I just feel less agitated?

As for weight loss, everyone is different. I do find that if I drink more milk or I hit starbucks for a latte instead of making it myself, that I am more apt to either gain or not lose. I count calories like crazy so I think as far as going to starbucks or another coffee place, they might use more milk than what I am accounting for.