The truth is, I was very cut while still chugging yogurt and milk with my meat. Dairy mostly works, at least for me, if you're very active. As in full-body lifting every other day and, like I used to do, getting some legwork in by volunteering at a dog shelter every weekend and walking several dogs across the desert. Though I mostly credit the lifting. But I did notice that for 2 years when I stopped exercising altogether and was sedentary that conspicuous milk, yogurt, kefir, laban and perhaps even cheese consumption in the case of some cheeses resulted in some minor fat gain. It never ever made me obese or even overweight in the least but it was basically the difference between being effortlessly 10-13% body fat and being 13-16%.
Dairy, due to the small amount of carbs in it, will indeed, in my humble opinion, lightly trigger the
randle cycle and make you gain some minor weight but its natural capacity for triggering your satiety hormones via the fat and protein basically prevents you from ever overeating it enough to gain weight into infinity. What I suspect anyway. I was fine even after consuming 1KG of Yogurt and 1 liter of milk daily. Again, the difference between 10-13 and 13-16 but still a healthy weight, a healthy heart rate, a healthy BP and a healthy hip to waist ratio. But if you really care about aesthetics I would cut down on the carbier dairy products if you really wanna lean down and see them veins bulging and abs showing cos chances are you won't get to that look without being very active and athletic if you're chugging caano iyo yogurt.