milk in cutting diet?

[circusgirl]

Newbie girl here..... I've started doing spatt's cutting diet. I subbed 1% fat milk for the tuna in some meals coz I can of tuna a day is all I can manage - but just read a thread which says milk has loads of simple carbs! This true? Should I eat something else instead? I'm not veggie but I find large slabs of meat hard to ingest on their own...
circusgirl

 

[spatts]

Milk can not come CLOSE to tuna. You'd be better off having real food of another protein kind or a whey shake. Milk has lactose...a simple carb. This is why most people avoid dairy when cutting (not including whey~a dairy product).

 

[CongoJoe]

this has been dicussed millions of times. if cutting for a show where bodyfat needs to be extremly low, milk is bad idea. BUT, if not getting ready for a show, and just trying to drop weight, milk is excellent. having some milk will definately not hurt your goals. people always say milk is bad for cutting but they need to be more specific on what kind of cutting diet your doing. i have skim milk all the time and it has never hurt any of my goals.

 

[spatts]

Perhaps I misread the initial post, but I don't remember this being a thread about whether or not milk was ok to drink when cutting/dieting.

She is attempting to use milk as a replacement for lean meat while losing fat, and it's just not a respectable comparison to tuna (or ANY lean meat) in terms of macro or micro nutrient ratios.

 

[rez]

put it this way a starbucks capacino has 11g carbs!!!!!! aaahh..never again

 

[circusgirl]

okie dokie.... I guess I'm just going to have to eat all that tuna and grin and bear it. Now, where did I put the low fat mayo and mustard sauce.....
thank you for your advice again folks.
circusgirl

 

[bridpop]

Theres nothing bad about milk in the nutritional sense of the word - so go ahead and use it.
However the down point about milk is the lactose, and the inevitable "bloat" that alot of people, myself including get from it for a day. Its usually gone when i wake up in the morning, but when i include alot of milk in any diet i do - i can feel and see the water retentive effect by mid day etc.

So be prepared to put up with a little bloat, but its not actual weight gain, nor is it hindering your other efforts - its just a side effect of the lactose in the milk.