Slim Fast 3-2-1 plan.

I hate to be a downer but....no...just no. You want long term changes....eat REAL food.

I only do slim fast shakes when I am running out the door and have no time for actual food, it is not something that I should live on and so I do not make it my mainstay, but occasionally I do it so that I am not swinging into McDonalds or something when I just don't have the time to cook.

Yes and it didn't get me enough freedom. I sometimes still do maybe a meal/snack bars every now and gain or a shake but as a program I didn't like it.

You'll gain all the weight back.

Eat real food now.

WIth the Slimfast shakes and bars you're asking for failure. A typical meal replacement bar of 56 g contains--wait for it!--34 g of carbs, and 15 g of those are sugar. The shakes are even worse; a 2 scoop serving (that's roughly 60 g) contains 35 g of carbs, 24 g of which are sugar. Two words: Craving Central! :grumble:

Do yourself a favor, stay clear of the (expensive!!!) crap, and eat real food, as several people have already advised

Pretty much what everyone is saying. Only do what you are planning on doing for the long haul. I had success with Nutrisystem, but when I got off it, gained everything back because it didn't teach me how to eat when I no longer had their products available.

If you use the shakes for a while and then switch to a different reduced calorie diet, you will continue losing. SlimFast can work; the fat you lose on it is the same fat you would lose on anything else. The point of people warning about it is that it tends to make some people crave more food because of the sugars and then when it ends you might feel hungrier each day than you did before you started, so you might eat more each day than you did before using them. This all varies from one person to the next, but those things have happened to a lot of people. Anyway, you are making steps in the the right direction. People are just encouraging you to check out another path that fewer people stumble on.

I am doing the shakes.
Only for breakfast time.. as I am in too much of a hurry each morning to make breakfast.
I'm not completely cutting out all of my meals just breakfast.
And when I come of the shakes I may gain a few but I could easily think of a 200kcal breakfast?
= toast and butter
I'm just trying it , I'm nit going to go crazy with this :-). X

Oh, well then you aren't actually doing the slim fast 3-2-1 plan. So everyone can stop worrying about you then. The "plan" is an all day thing where you have THREE snacks of 100 cals each TWO shakes (BF & Lunch) and ONE 500 cal dinner. Hence the name 3-2-1. That's what I did, the whole plan. Because it was easy for me to have those meals and snacks and stay out and about in my unpredictable days. It also made it easy to eat dinner with the husband and especially meals out which he's into since most restaurants diet or lite menu's target around 500 cals. Then on day's I'd worked out I could either have bigger snacks, or just add those extra cals to dinner. So yeah, that's what I did. That's how I did it. And I'm not dead. Interestingly I have found it harder to reach my iron levels and vitamin c goals when I don't have them, now that I'm grounded from them, but I can just go get vitamins or iron pills. No biggie.

Oh and ETA: Yo-Yo-ing comes from suddenly increasing your cals back up significantly after eating at a really low deficit which is why people equate slim fast to yo-yo ing. If you did it right and just ate the plan for awhile and lost your weight then ate little by little back to normal which is likelier since it hurts and feels yukky to eat a whole lot all of a sudden then yeah that might happen. It would be even more likely to happen if your net cals were super low that whole time if you were in addition to doing the plan working out with significant cals burning. You could net some pretty low cals that way and be setting your body up to be a hungry sponge ready to soak up cals and fat the minute you went back to normal eating. Don't do that. Also this should go without saying...but just to be clear...don't do the stupid and I'm not sure why tempting move of thinking two slim fasts good, three slim fasts better! (to the exclusion of any real food) NO! Absofreakinglutely not! If you start thinking like that, quit the slim fast immediately. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Throw them immediately in the garbage and get back to the TDEE and Scooby numbers research.

I've done it. It worked fast for me, but you'll yo-yo back.

if it WORDKED, then you wouldn't gain it back.

by that definition, everything works.
i can
go sit in the desert for 40 days
or drink nothing but vodka
or eat nothing but lettuce......hey i'm losing weight. it must be working.

if it really works, it's easy for you to keep doing. and keep the weight off, or on, for the gainers out there.
it should be real food that you like to eat, but isn't too time consuming for you to prepare, and fits into your budget.

there should also be some kind of moving involved that you like to do.

underwater basket weaving
hoola hooping
learning to samba
olympic lifting

doesn't really matter what you enjoy doing, so long as you're getting enough cardiac and strength benefits from it.

QFT. When I say "it worked" for me. I mean what you mean. That I got the weight off and it stayed off when I resumed MY version of "normal" eating. Which is healthy to begin with. And I stayed thin for years and years. No yo-yo-ing. I can see, though that if you don't know how to eat right to begin with and your excess weight is due to not knowing how to eat right, this plan doesn't teach you anything. You'll need to learn that somewhere. You can't rely on this for teaching you maintenance.

Hi, I'm just coming up to the end of week 2. I'm finding it reasonably to stick to but having had a big weight loss or anything. I'm going to give it another couple of weeks and see how it goes