Milk?

[belugalad]

I used to drink quite a lot of milk sometimes a few pints a day,for the last couple of weeks I have only been drinking water and I no longer have cereal for breakfast so no milk there,I'm on a low carb diet at the moment and exercising to lose weight.
Is there any milk that I can drink,and would it be a good idea to have some in my diet?

 

[Ljc]

I still have some milk in my diet but only in coffee or once in a blue moon when I have porridge

Their is around 11 g of carbs for 244 g of full fat milk.

Their are milk substitutes that you may like , personally I don’t like them.

 

[HOBIE]

When I was a kid it was 6pints a day for me to go to school. I HATED food & had to have 50g of carbs every meal 4 times a day. I absolutely hated food when I was young !

 

[belugalad]

When I was a kid it was 6pints a day for me to go to school. I HATED food & had to have 50g of carbs every meal 4 times a day. I absolutely hated food when I was young !

I was a baked bean addict when I was young and often would have 3 tins a day,I would cycle home to have them at lunchtime too,sadly that lover affair came to an end abruptly a couple of weeks ago,I didn't want to let the beans down like that so get pleasure feeding them to my mum,I put the warm spoon to my mouth to check that they weren't too hot,and noticed that they now taste very sweet since I have gone low carb and knocked them on the head😉

 

[belugalad]

I still have some milk in my diet but only in coffee or once in a blue moon when I have porridge

Their is around 11 g of carbs for 244 g of full fat milk.

Their are milk substitutes that you may like , personally I don’t like them.

I might just have a small glass as a quick fix,so do you just have porridge now and again due to the carbs?

 

[KARNAK]

Don`t do milk, porridge or any cereal, Alpro almond milk in tea.

 

[Ljc]

so do you just have porridge now and again due to the carbs?

Not really, I much prefer wholemeal toast or bread and peanut butter for brekkie.

When you say.

I might just have a small glass as a quick fix

What do you mean by quick fix

 

[Northerner]

It's different for people on insulin as you can take extra insulin to 'cover' the extra carbs. In the months leading up to my diagnosis I was drinking 40 pints of milk a week 😱 It didn't really seem odd at the time, but with hindsight I now know that my body was craving milk for a couple of reasons - it was cool and thirst-quenching, and it contained sugar (lactose) which my brain thought I was lacking. Ultimately though, it helped with neither, as it was the onset of diabetes that was causing the thirst and I was unable to utilise the sugar properly due to lac of insulin.

Since diagnosis I don't drink milk on its own, but do get through about a pint a day in tea and coffee. Note that full fat milk is lower in carbs than skimmed as a proportion of it is fat - the fat also slows the speed at which the lactose will hit your blood sugar levels.

 

[Eddy Edson]

I've turned into an anti-satfat nazi in my quest to get LDL cholesterol as low as possible, so I've replaced cow-milk with Bonsoy milk - a kind of soy milk which actually tastes better than real milk, IMO. It's designed to taste as much like cow milk as possible, I think, and for that it has some tapioca syrup added to replace the lactose. 11g carbs for 200ml, so approx the same as real milk on that score, but it also has about 2.8g of fibre, so much better than real milk on that one. Minimal satfats, lots of high-quality protein.

 

[belugalad]

It's different for people on insulin as you can take extra insulin to 'cover' the extra carbs. In the months leading up to my diagnosis I was drinking 40 pints of milk a week 😱 It didn't really seem odd at the time, but with hindsight I now know that my body was craving milk for a couple of reasons - it was cool and thirst-quenching, and it contained sugar (lactose) which my brain thought I was lacking. Ultimately though, it helped with neither, as it was the onset of diabetes that was causing the thirst and I was unable to utilise the sugar properly due to lac of insulin.

Since diagnosis I don't drink milk on its own, but do get through about a pint a day in tea and coffee. Note that full fat milk is lower in carbs than skimmed as a proportion of it is fat - the fat also slows the speed at which the lactose will hit your blood sugar levels.

wow @Eddy Edson you've saved yourself a few bob there me too,price per bottle doesn't seem too much,until you add up your monthly spend on it

 

[belugalad]

I've turned into an anti-satfat nazi in my quest to get LDL cholesterol as low as possible, so I've replaced cow-milk with Bonsoy milk - a kind of soy milk which actually tastes better than real milk, IMO. It's designed to taste as much like cow milk as possible, I think, and for that it has some tapioca syrup added to replace the lactose. 11g carbs for 200ml, so approx the same as real milk on that score, but it also has about 2.8g of fibre, so much better than real milk on that one. Minimal satfats, lots of high-quality protein.

I will have to try that,I had a nice cycle ride to the shop last night at 9.30pm,it was nice and quiet and I had more time to have a good look at their products,i got almond milk as it was on promotion at £1,it's nice to try something new

 

[HOBIE]

Some of the different types of milk are good 😉