Slim Fast - yes or no?
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NO! I've heard so many bad things about it! Especially that it contains metals and other crap! Don't put that stuff into your system. Eating CLEAN and working out is the best way to go! Watch your diet in general! Remember, it's not JUST about the calories, it's the KIND of food you are putting into your body!0
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NO! I've heard so many bad things about it! Especially that it contains metals and other crap! Don't put that stuff into your system. Eating CLEAN and working out is the best way to go! Watch your diet in general! Remember, it's not JUST about the calories, it's the KIND of food you are putting into your body!
... metals like... iron? Yeah - steer clear of it. Anemia is the new black.0 -
Rather than chemicals, why not create your own smoothies, where you can control the sugar involved. A banana, skimmed milk and a handful of strawberries/raspeberries/peaches are all you need. If you also want to think about meal replacement with good healthy meals, I recommend looking at these web sites for recipes for smoothies and juices. Lots of people having real success, although I can't commit to it 24/7, I have fruit/vegetable juice for breakfast and lunch and it works well.
http://www.rebootwithjoe.com/
http://www.juicemaster.com/
Water is a chemical, and that juicing nonsense makes no more sense than slimfast.
I'm disappointed to discover we are from the same country, I expect more, from the whole of the UK.
Ok, you are entitled to your opinion. Watch this and explain the flaw to me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuJrfYG7oh8
If you think this regime is akin to slimfast - with its preservatives etc - then I will be very surprised. Am I officially the only disappointing person in the UK?0 -
Rather than chemicals, why not create your own smoothies, where you can control the sugar involved. A banana, skimmed milk and a handful of strawberries/raspeberries/peaches are all you need. If you also want to think about meal replacement with good healthy meals, I recommend looking at these web sites for recipes for smoothies and juices. Lots of people having real success, although I can't commit to it 24/7, I have fruit/vegetable juice for breakfast and lunch and it works well.
http://www.rebootwithjoe.com/
http://www.juicemaster.com/
Water is a chemical, and that juicing nonsense makes no more sense than slimfast.
I'm disappointed to discover we are from the same country, I expect more, from the whole of the UK.
Ok, you are entitled to your opinion. Watch this and explain the flaw to mehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuJrfYG7oh8
If you think this regime is akin to slimfast - with its preservatives etc - then I will be very surprised. Am I officially the only disappointing person in the UK?
In summary, the guy is a complete fruit cake.
Please, if you or anyone you know has anything wrong with them, go and see a fully qualified NHS doctor that you and I have already paid for.0 -
Was hoping for a more detailed reason why it doesn't work, but being a fruitcake will have to do.0
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Was hoping for a more detailed reason why it doesn't work, but being a fruitcake will have to do.
Both the guy in your video http://www.jaykordich.com/warranty/ and Joe the Juicer are juicer salesmen, no more, no less. The feature length advert where Joe travels the country selling juicers and giving out samples is nothing more than an advert.
It's all just completely fabricated nonsense in order to convince people that they need a juicer, when the fibre they got from eating the complete food items would to them far more benefit.
All of the extra vitamins you get in your body through juicing is just making your pee more nutritious.
I'm still waiting for an update from the British Dietetic Association to address the new fad being caused by Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead reaching channel 5. They seem to be taking forever.0 -
Here's something from a dietetic intern on Joe
http://marcird.com/_blog/blog/post/Fat,_Sick,_And_Nearly_Dead_A_Guest_Post_Review/0 -
Here's the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics on your fruit cake
http://www.eatright.org/Media/content.aspx?id=10484#.UhOU-5IsmSo0 -
I tried them. They didn't really work for me. What worked is watching what I eat and going to the gym and tracking with MFP. It takes a couple weeks to get into a solid routine.0
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I use slim fast and so far I've lost 15 pounds in 3 weeks.
It's the same as anything else you have to use it right. I buy the cans of mix and I mix it in with Skim milk in shaker bottles. I usually have 4 to 5 a day and then if I need more calories I eat something like a can of chunky beef soup.
I'm not sure why there are so many slim fast haters out there. The shakes taste good, the way I make them, and they keep me full for 2-3 hours. In 1 cup of skim milk with 1 scoop of shake mix there is about 200 calories. so 5 is around 1000 calories and then a can of soup is about 250ish calories so it keeps me around 1250 to 1300 calories (some times I use 1 1/2 cups of skim milk). It keeps my body out of starvation mode, because I eat so often it keeps my metabolism going, and I run for exercise (I've run 4 5k's in 3 weeks and I've only been running 3 weeks.). I've gone from 241 to 225.
So for those people who are saying "No" or "Slim fast is crap". They don't know what their talking about or doing. Feel free to msg me on here and we can talk about it. I think it's a great product but you can't use just any way.0 -
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NNNNNNOOOOOOOO to slim fast, please.
Ingredients:
FAT FREE MILK, WATER, SUGAR, COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), CANOLA OIL, MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, FRUCTOSE, GUM ARABIC, CELLULOSE GEL, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, POTASSIUM PHOSPHATE, MALTODEXTRIN, SOY LECITHIN, CELLULOSE GUM, CARRAGEENAN, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SODIUM BICARBONATE, SUCRALOSE AND ACESULFAME POTASSIUM (NONNUTRITIVE SWEETENERS), SODIUM CITRATE, CITRIC ACID,MAGNESIUM PHOSPHATE, CALCIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM ASCORBATE, VITAMIN E ACETATE, ZINC GLUCONATE, FERRIC ORTHOPHOSPHATE, NIACINAMIDE, CALCIUM PANTOTHENATE, MANGANESE SULFATE, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE, RIBOFLAVIN, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, FOLIC ACID, CHROMIUM CHLORIDE, BIOTIN, SODIUM MOLYBDATE, POTASSIUM IODIDE, PHYLLOQUINONE (VITAMIN K1), SODIUM SELENITE, CYANOCOBALAMIN (VITAMIN B12), CHOLECALCIFEROL (VITAMIN D3). SWEETENED WITH NUTRITIVE SWEETENERS AND NONNUTRITIVE SWEETENERS. CONTAINS MILK AND SOY.
SUGAR!!!! really this is food??!!
EAT REAL FOOD, you can do it.0 -
Get past the words, if your not a nut, and look at the numbers that make a difference calories, fat, protein, and carbs. That's what we are tracking on here to keep yourself from overeating.
The shakes do a great job of keeping you full and not having a ton of calories. I highly suggest you get the powder can and skim milk and at least try it out (I am not a sales man I work in food safety and quality for a yogurt plant actually). Make shakes of 1 to 1 1/2 cups of skim with one scoop full and try them out for a week and see how you like it. If you don't that's cool I love chocolate royale.
Typically I end up with around 1200 to 1300 calories, the carbs the site tells me to have, double he protein, and half the fat.
I forgot to say that I also have a recovery shake for after running so I don't have a buildup of lactic acid in my muscles and that's what has made it so I could keep running every day. Before without it I wouldn't ever want to keep running because of the muscle pain from the previous run. Now I run 5k's... it's a no brainer.0 -
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There no real fibre in this product. You want to keep your engine running and the flow going then you need healthy foods not a supplement that reads like baby formula.
There are 40 ingredients in it , the first is sugar!!! Slimfast is featured in the BBC doc below. The founder blames the person not product for its failure to work!!!!
the men who made us think episode 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiXicpOJRYY 0 -
If you are trying to replace a meal i would consider a Protein shake instead of slim fast. It helped me lose my first 8 lbs.0
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Was hoping for a more detailed reason why it doesn't work, but being a fruitcake will have to do.
Both the guy in your video http://www.jaykordich.com/warranty/ and Joe the Juicer are juicer salesmen, no more, no less. The feature length advert where Joe travels the country selling juicers and giving out samples is nothing more than an advert.
It's all just completely fabricated nonsense in order to convince people that they need a juicer, when the fibre they got from eating the complete food items would to them far more benefit.
All of the extra vitamins you get in your body through juicing is just making your pee more nutritious.
I'm still waiting for an update from the British Dietetic Association to address the new fad being caused by Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead reaching channel 5. They seem to be taking forever.
Thanks for the reply, appreciated. I will look at your links.0 -
Ugh so much fail from so many people.
Meal replacement is a joke - eat real food because you aren't a child.
There is nothing in slim fast that is going to make you die or even make you sick. Just because something is processed doesn't make it bad.
OP - I advise against slimfast as a meal replacement. I also don't think its macros are great. If you want to keep some around for when you're on the go then go for it. It's better than nothing.
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YUCK!! I am on GNC Lean Shakes, they are delish!0
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hell not, its just sugar.
try a protein shake instead, grammes of carbs should be as low as you can find it compared to protein grammes, this changes depending on the maker. however you should get your food from real sources, shakes are only for when you're in a rush, or as a boost to what you're already eating or need to break the bad habits by drastic measures. they're not, imo, healthy long term as meal replacement.
however, if you need to do the shake thing - find a shake that uses stevia instead of normal sugar even better. sugar should be WAY down the list of ingredients too. The list of ingredients on most food is done by largest amount first, so if sugar is the first ingredient on anything you pick up.. put it straight back down! it should be near the end so if there are 10 ingredients it should be at 8 -10.
if something is 'no added sugar' it means that there are naturally occuring sugars in it (from say the fruit content - fructose) that is fine, it's when it's added later it's cane sugar or something just as horrid and fat inducing.
if you want to go down the shake route, make sure you up your veg intake (check out what ones have high carbs, tatties etc and find substitutes for them - cauliflower, courgettes or celeriac for instance). Your main meal should have proper food in it and should contain mostly protein and veg, with a teeny weeny amount of extra carbs in the shape of rice or tatties, or you can just leave them out altogether and get your carb fill from the veg you have.
Don't rely on the pre-prepared snacks that the diet people like slimfast have, you're much better off getting your fill from fruit and more veg, cheese or precooked flavoured meat (proper stuff that you did if you can or supermarket stuff that's made of proper meat not reconstituted rubbish). they're not as nutritionally dense as proper food, become a crutch and just stop you from getting your diet sorted, you being to rely on them like you do the junk food you might eat just now. when you come off your diet you'll go back to your old ways and baddaboom... same problem however long down the road. so snacks could be apple and pb, a nana, celery and carrot sticsk and pb or hummus or some sort of dip, any other fruit/veg you like enough to have as a snack.
see this 'diet' as a way to get your diet sorted for when you go back to eating like a normal person, change your attitude to food, not your food to your current attitude.
you also need to figure out if you're cutting carbs or fat, you can't cut both. I'd say try cutting carbs to begin with and see if that works, if it doesn't then swap. People react differently to each type of fuel source, i react badly to carbs, but have no problems gorging on fat. I fyou go the carb route then they should be sourced from carby veg, not lots of bread and pasta etc. they are nutrient deficient in comparison.
good luck
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hell not, its just sugar.
try a protein shake instead, grammes of carbs should be as low as you can find it compared to protein grammes, this changes depending on the maker. however you should get your food from real sources, shakes are only for when you're in a rush, or as a boost to what you're already eating or need to break the bad habits by drastic measures. they're not, imo, healthy long term as meal replacement.
however, if you need to do the shake thing - find a shake that uses stevia instead of normal sugar even better. sugar should be WAY down the list of ingredients too. The list of ingredients on most food is done by largest amount first, so if sugar is the first ingredient on anything you pick up.. put it straight back down! it should be near the end so if there are 10 ingredients it should be at 8 -10.
if something is 'no added sugar' it means that there are naturally occuring sugars in it (from say the fruit content - fructose) that is fine, it's when it's added later it's cane sugar or something just as horrid and fat inducing.
if you want to go down the shake route, make sure you up your veg intake (check out what ones have high carbs, tatties etc and find substitutes for them - cauliflower, courgettes or celeriac for instance). Your main meal should have proper food in it and should contain mostly protein and veg, with a teeny weeny amount of extra carbs in the shape of rice or tatties, or you can just leave them out altogether and get your carb fill from the veg you have.
Don't rely on the pre-prepared snacks that the diet people like slimfast have, you're much better off getting your fill from fruit and more veg, cheese or precooked flavoured meat (proper stuff that you did if you can or supermarket stuff that's made of proper meat not reconstituted rubbish). they're not as nutritionally dense as proper food, become a crutch and just stop you from getting your diet sorted, you being to rely on them like you do the junk food you might eat just now. when you come off your diet you'll go back to your old ways and baddaboom... same problem however long down the road. so snacks could be apple and pb, a nana, celery and carrot sticsk and pb or hummus or some sort of dip, any other fruit/veg you like enough to have as a snack.
see this 'diet' as a way to get your diet sorted for when you go back to eating like a normal person, change your attitude to food, not your food to your current attitude.
you also need to figure out if you're cutting carbs or fat, you can't cut both. I'd say try cutting carbs to begin with and see if that works, if it doesn't then swap. People react differently to each type of fuel source, i react badly to carbs, but have no problems gorging on fat. I fyou go the carb route then they should be sourced from carby veg, not lots of bread and pasta etc. they are nutrient deficient in comparison.
good luck
also tl;dr0 -
I do it about two times a month, for about three days in a row. I like it, and it always helps me loose about 1 to 1.5 pounds. But I couldn't do it all the time, I love real food...0
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Personally i'd say no.
i've known people that have used these and once they came off them they gradually regained a lot of the weight or more
Realistically a change in lifestyle is better, healthy food should be plentiful but you should also have your treats!0 -
I use slim fast and so far I've lost 15 pounds in 3 weeks.
It's the same as anything else you have to use it right. I buy the cans of mix and I mix it in with Skim milk in shaker bottles. I usually have 4 to 5 a day and then if I need more calories I eat something like a can of chunky beef soup.
I'm not sure why there are so many slim fast haters out there. The shakes taste good, the way I make them, and they keep me full for 2-3 hours. In 1 cup of skim milk with 1 scoop of shake mix there is about 200 calories. so 5 is around 1000 calories and then a can of soup is about 250ish calories so it keeps me around 1250 to 1300 calories (some times I use 1 1/2 cups of skim milk). It keeps my body out of starvation mode, because I eat so often it keeps my metabolism going, and I run for exercise (I've run 4 5k's in 3 weeks and I've only been running 3 weeks.). I've gone from 241 to 225.
So for those people who are saying "No" or "Slim fast is crap". They don't know what their talking about or doing. Feel free to msg me on here and we can talk about it. I think it's a great product but you can't use just any way.
So then when do you learn how to eat real food? Are you planning on a liquid diet for the rest of your life?
If not, then at some point you are going to have to learn how to eat healthfully. Why not start now?0 -
As others have said, I would not go with the whole " Slim Fast diet." I urge you to dedicate yourself to logging in everything you eat, and all of your exercise here on MFP. I have wanted to lose ten pounds for years, but I kept on gaining about a pound a year. By tracking EVERYTHING I eat, for the first time I have started to lose pounds in only a few weeks. Using the database and measuring what I actually ate versus what I thought I was eating showed that I was way underestimating my portion sizes.
Good luck!
3So ive been struggling recently wih sticking to a good eating routine and keep finding myself giving in to temptation. Therefor, even though im exercising alot, im not actually losing anything.
A friend suggested i try slim fast for a month as my kick start as if i see good results it might help motivate me to work harder.
Has anyone tried it? Have you had good or bad results from it?
Id love some honest answers. If its the worst idea please say! If you have any other suggestions on how to kick start things then please let me know. I feel like i have come to a standstill!0 -
I use slim fast and so far I've lost 15 pounds in 3 weeks.
It's the same as anything else you have to use it right. I buy the cans of mix and I mix it in with Skim milk in shaker bottles. I usually have 4 to 5 a day and then if I need more calories I eat something like a can of chunky beef soup.
I'm not sure why there are so many slim fast haters out there. The shakes taste good, the way I make them, and they keep me full for 2-3 hours. In 1 cup of skim milk with 1 scoop of shake mix there is about 200 calories. so 5 is around 1000 calories and then a can of soup is about 250ish calories so it keeps me around 1250 to 1300 calories (some times I use 1 1/2 cups of skim milk). It keeps my body out of starvation mode, because I eat so often it keeps my metabolism going, and I run for exercise (I've run 4 5k's in 3 weeks and I've only been running 3 weeks.). I've gone from 241 to 225.
So for those people who are saying "No" or "Slim fast is crap". They don't know what their talking about or doing. Feel free to msg me on here and we can talk about it. I think it's a great product but you can't use just any way.
I agree. I've been on slim fast for 5 months. I've lost 36 pounds doing so. This was actually with taking a break in between these months and eating regular foods. When I stopped slim fast, I ate like a normal person, replaced the slim fast with something comparable and didn't gain a pound back. Once I started back I kept losing weight.
I eat lots of fruits and veggies, drink water, take a Alive vitamins(has a ton of whole fruits and vegetables in it) and work out daily. And most important, use the food diary. As long as you find a good balance of other foods, it works. I never knew so people thought slim fast was so bad until I joined here. But everyone is entitled to their opinion. But I think it has taught me how to pay attention to calories. I'm sure a lot of people think slim fast means starving but a lot of people don't need slim fast to eat wrong and starve themselves. Plus I eat every 2 hours, I don't have a chance to get hungry. And if I get hungry, I eat a little snack.
Also I checked my bottle and looked at the ingredients, I've read people say its full of things you can't pronounce and chemicals. I can actually read the entire thing and familiar with each ingredient. It's not an all natural shake by no means but it's not full of weird, hard to pronounce ingredients either.
I really have to get my opinion out here, only because I've read so many No comments about this and I just don't agree. But I respect your opinion and hopefully you can respect mine.0 -
FAT FREE MILK, WATER, SUGAR, COCOA (PROCESSED WITH ALKALI), CANOLA OIL, MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, FRUCTOSE, GUM ARABIC, CELLULOSE GEL, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, HYDROGENATED SOYBEAN OIL, HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP, POTASSIUM PHOSPHATE, MALTODEXTRIN, SOY LECITHIN, CELLULOSE GUM, CARRAGEENAN, NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, SODIUM BICARBONATE, SUCRALOSE AND ACESULFAME POTASSIUM (NONNUTRITIVE SWEETENERS), SODIUM CITRATE, CITRIC ACID,
MAGNESIUM PHOSPHATE, CALCIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM ASCORBATE, VITAMIN E ACETATE, ZINC GLUCONATE, FERRIC ORTHOPHOSPHATE, NIACINAMIDE, CALCIUM PANTOTHENATE, MANGANESE SULFATE, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE, RIBOFLAVIN, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, FOLIC ACID, CHROMIUM CHLORIDE, BIOTIN, SODIUM MOLYBDATE, POTASSIUM IODIDE, PHYLLOQUINONE (VITAMIN K1), SODIUM SELENITE, CYANOCOBALAMIN (VITAMIN B12), CHOLECALCIFEROL (VITAMIN D3). SWEETENED WITH NUTRITIVE SWEETENERS AND NONNUTRITIVE SWEETENERS. CONTAINS MILK AND SOY.
No thanks :laugh:0 -
There no real fibre in this product. You want to keep your engine running and the flow going then you need healthy foods not a supplement that reads like baby formula.
There are 40 ingredients in it , the first is sugar!!! Slimfast is featured in the BBC doc below. The founder blames the person not product for its failure to work!!!!
the men who made us think episode 1http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiXicpOJRYY
The first ingredient is fat free milk. And not 40 ingredients in it, I think more like 17. Each are ingredients I can read and pronounce. I agree that you do need a ton of other healthy foods will drinking slim fast. Just drinking the shakes won't cut it.0
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