Milk and fruit while trying to lose weigt

 I am 4 years post-op RNY and I want to lose some re-gain, my question is should I cut out milk and fruit while trying to lose?

You should still be able to use fat free milk, bu****ch the high sugar fruits.  Grapes, dehydrated fruits, pineapple, mangos, oranges, and other fruits are high in sugars--a natural sugar is still a sugar.  If you really like orange juice, have half an orange.  A glass of oj is several oranges, meaning you'll have the sugar content of several oranges. You'll feel fuller from eating the orange as opposed to drinking the juice. DAVE

I would cut them both out.  Even fat free milk has sugar.
As far as fruits go, I would go very minimal with those.  I stick to Diet Cranberry juices which have 1-2g of sugar and I use Trop 50 OJ....and I mix it with water to further reduce the sugar content!

Stick to high protein and you will do just fine :)

Good luck

Leslie

I'm in the same boat. Ever since I started regaining, I've been tracking everything I put in my mouth, and I've been working to cut back mostly on ccarb calories, but a little bit on fat and protein too

I don't drink milk, but it does have a lot of sugars in it. If I didn't develop lactose intolerance I'd be drinking only full-fat milk because anything non- or low-fat makes my reactive hypoglycemia go crazy.

Fruit, as already mentioned, is really a lot of sugar. It's yummy natural sugar, but it's still sugar and you absorb all of that sugar and if you get too many other calories, then it's "Lips to Hips" in zero-seconds-flat.

So for me it was: 

1. Track my calories
2. Examine any changes in both calories in (have I started eating more calories) and in calories out (have I started to do less moving of my body)
3. Examine any medical changes (they can affect your metabolism, your appetite, your ability to move and thus use calories)

In my case I did change my calories. I ate fewer overall calories, but I did trade for every ten g of carbs I tried to replace it with 4g of fat or less.
I also changed how and when I moved my butt and the rest of me (less energetic year of teaching)
I also had my tailbone removed and the 8 weeks of enforced inactivity really messed up my muscle mass

I'm now trying to track calories daily... examine my food choices and make better ones
I'm working on how I move my butt... I have goals I plan to meet for each day for "on my feet" and a few teeny tiny exercise steps I want to try out each day. I'm starting small so I can have some chance of meeting the goal, rather than starting big and failing and giving up.
I'm also weighing more often to keep tabs on what is going on with my body.

Oh, and once I've eaten the fruit I recently purchased, I'm going to give that up too, or save it to one fruit item once a week, a sort of reward for meeting my exercise goals. Fruit is really the only "frivolous" calories I've been eating. Mostly because it's soft and I've been on a soft diet pretty much all summer.

Protein over 100g, net carbs around 30.  See what that does for you.  It basically will greatly reduce the fruit and milk items but it works for me.

Yes, eliminating as much fruit as you can will defining help.  As far as milk, are you talking about just milk or ALL dairy?  I personally cannot get all my protein in without dairy for any length of time.  If you can meet your protein goals without the dairy, than, yes, eliminating the carbs from the dairy products will probably also help.  Keep in mind that your body needs some carbs to function properly, though, so you don't want to limit them too extremely. 

Lora