Slim Fast

I'd rather eat real food. I dont see any advantages to relying on a processed overly sweet sludge.

Marketing ploy! It is a great name and a good way for a company to get your money.

The Company is selling an idea and an emotion not results.

I agree with others here. I prefer real food.

I'd rather eat real food. I dont see any advantages to relying on a processed overly sweet sludge.

Truth

yup.

"but it's so easy and fast!"

I see that often as a comeback. If people don't think enough of themselves to take the 2 minutes to put milk+protein powder into a blender bottle, then that's on them.

Just have real food. Less of it, but real food.

Tried it once on a fad diet, before my wedding, lost the weight- gained it straight back! Also I felt bloated, vile and hungry.
I still have some powder left, but now, the only thing I use it for us is to add a small bit to protein shakes as it makes it creamy without adding milk. x

Just drink chocolate milk. It tastes better and it's more fun. Probably about the same calories and nutritional value.

All you are doing is restricting calories. Why do you need a silly over-priced can of chemicals to do that? Just eat less food.

This.

All Slimfast is a can of flavored milk with vitamins added to it (for your "nutrition"). You'd be cheaper off getting chocolate milk and taking a multi-vitamin. Or better off, eat a bowl of (good) cereal with milk for the same amount of calories and nutrition.

I've tried SlimFast before and ended up nothing but hungry. And irritable because I wasn't allowed to have real food. And always disappointed because it tasted like the can it was in.

u will just starve yourself !!
no gain only pain

If you are looking for a meal supplement, try whey protein. Walmart sells a big container for $15, I needed a kick start when I decided to loose some weight, so I started with a protein shake for breakfast, a small snack, fruit, veggies, salad for lunch and then a small portion of dinner with lots of veggies. It worked for me. My hubby did the same except he ate his meal at lunch and had a shake for breakfast and dinner. I have dropped 2 sizes and he has dropped 3 sizes since July. The weight has come off slow and steady just like I want it to. There are days I don't do the shakes, but this week I gained .4 of a lb so so I decided to go back to the shake for breakfast. I have a NutriBullet and put the mix in with water and ice and it taste close to a chocolate shake, but really fights off the hunger. Good Luck!

I watched an excellent documentary about diets such as Slim-Fast, the conclusion they came to is that they very very rarely succeed in the long-term because they are a gimmick that does not change your attitude towards food. BUT the genius part is this: when it doesn't work, and you put the weight (and often more) back on, the company (Slim Fast or whoever) can blame the consumer for 'not doing the diet properly.' Often the consumer will also blame themselves and try again, putting more money in the companies pocket and starting an endless cycle of diet-gain-shame-diet-gain-shame-diet.

I will occasionally grab one of the pre-made drinks if I am out and about, need calories and don't have time or space to eat (although I would rather have a sandwich!) but it is not a long-term lifestyle IMHO.

I didn't try the "Slim Fast Diet," but I have tried the snack bars and the shakes intermittently in conjunction with the diet I was already trying to improve. I don't think it did any particular damage, but I don't really think it helped much, either. I did drop a few pounds (probably from the other changes to my diet), but eventually I swapped out the shakes for a real whey protein fix, and I think I made more progress that way.