What do you think on Slim Fast?

I think I'm going to stick with the shakes rather than the meals and bars they set for you after reading for the comments. Lol calling me lazy - this is my 3rd post and I basically joined this week - what a welcoming totally what I expected on a "fitness" website.. thanks all.

No one is being mean, you asked about slim fast, and we are telling you of our experiences and opinions. And this is a fitness website, not a "fitness" website (nice quotations). We are concerned with overall health here, and slim fast isn't the best thing for that. You can choose to do whatever you would like.

You can lose weight with Slim Fast or any other diet plan. The problem is that as long as you're on that plan, you don't learn how to manage real world choices to transition from the plan, and people typically put on weight when they stop using the diet plan. For the long haul, it's much easier to maintain your goal weight if you establish new habits during the weight loss process that will help you maintain. By using a "diet" to lose the weight, you'll be starting fresh to develop another set of habits during maintenance because returning to "normal" after a "diet" leads to yo-yo-ing.

While I've had great short-term success on several diet plans, using the same principles learned during weight loss mode --creating a deficit by making choices on how to use my calorie budget has helped me maintain at less than my goal weight for about 14 months.

Use whatever works for you, but while it may be harder to lose the weight initially while making real world choices, but it will make maintaining your success much easiter.

they dont work and they taste like chalk.

In my opinion if someone uses slim fast or any other stuff to lose weight, they are not ready to lose weight. (well, I mean, to keep it off for life)
Real sustainable weight loss comes from eating healthy + exercise. Nothing more.

If a structered plan is what you looking for, you could make your own. I used to like the idea of doing something like slimfast just because it takes the guess work out.

Slimfast blech! I used to work in an office where a bunch of the women there used to drink the Slimfast meal replacement shakes. I swear that stuff must cause crotch rot because the bathroom always smelled SO nasty after those women used the toilet after lunch.

ewwww

Slim Fast made me hungrier the more I ate/drank it. I never felt the fullness SF advertized.

I drink one when I don't have time for real food. It tides me over for a couple hours, and keeps me from binging when I do have time to eat.

this is how i've used the shakes too ...BUT now i feel like a heel for that LOL ...i highly doubt that it could ever actually "replace" a meal for me , it just gets me to my next meal without going calorie crazy snacking

Hey!

I don't consider Slim Fast a diet fad or starving yourself or losing water weight for 4 months, etc. I started on the slim fast diet about 6 months ago. I have tried a lot of different things prior including "just eating right", taking raspberry ketones, and trying a few other supplements from GNC. Nothing worked for me, maybe because I was off on my calories, I'm really not too sure. But heres a run down of my typical day when I first started Slim fast: I wake up and have a shake, wait 2 hours and eat a 100 calorie snack or little over something like a cereal bar, fruit/veggies or oatmeal, boiled egg, whatever. Then 2 hours later I drink a shake for lunch, 2 hours later have another snack, then have my dinner something reasonable under 500 calories and then have a desert of some kind, popsicle or pudding. I also added Zumba in for 6 days a week for hour. I didn't start at an hour but worked my way up to that. I started dropping the pounds. I like this diet because it takes the guesswork out of it. I don't have to cook or plan my meals, I just grab and go. Through this diet I have learned to count calories. Now I replace a shake with a regular meal here and there. I could go completely off and replace the shakes with food but I prefer this method. I like the taste of them, its very affordable. I get the Walmart brand or the Kellogg's brand .As long as you learn to add plenty of raw fruit and veggies, drink water, and exercise there is nothing "lazy" or wrong about this diet. Yeah if you stop the shakes and start eating whatever without counting calories to maintain you.r weight or stop exercising of course you will gain your weight back. You can't blame that on the Slim fast. The first couple days I would get hungry, but soon as I would get hungry it would be time to eat. Or if it wasn't time to eat and I was really hungry, I eat, plain and simple. A little snack to hold me over. I feel like this can be a proven meal plan, if you go at it the correct way. You shouldn't have to come to Slim Fast website for support, there are plenty of people right here who can support you if you want to go that route. To each their own, but protein shakes can be effective. Like i said it was the only thing that worked for me. I'm sure alot of different things work and fail for each individual, but if you find something that works and its healthy, then go for it. And what keeps protein shakes healthy for me is drinking lots of water, eating plenty of raw vegetables and fruits with your meal plan, and not being too strict. The exercise leaves room to eat a little more than usual. I couldn't imagine not exercising and just drinking 2 shakes, a slim fast snack bar and a small dinner to keep calories down. I think thats what the slim fast website says to do. That would be setting yourself up for failure. I hope everyone finds a plan that works for them. We are all here for the same purpose, after all.