Slim Fast - yes or no?

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuJrfYG7oh8

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.

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

So 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!