Drinking your meals?

Is there a reason you want to drink your meals instead of actually eating them?

I like Carnation Instant Breakfast, the chocolate flavor, but I have to actually eat something with it or else I don't feel full.

I understand the desire for drinking instead of eating meals sometimes, but not always. I don't always feel like eating but still need energy, so drinking a shake is easier for those times. There are loads of meal replacement shakes you can buy online or at most grocery stores. I personally think Myoplex makes a decent chocolate shake.

However, if you don't want a pre-made shake, try mixing up some Greek yogurt, spinach, frozen fruit of your choice (I like freezing peeled bananas), a spoon of peanut butter, unsweetened cocoa powder, and some milk (skim, almond, 2%, whole, whatever you drink) in the blender or food processor. Makes a great nutritious shake for any meal and is easily altered to your own needs.

As my diary shows .. I have no problem drinking meals ..

But seriously .. The occasional slim fast or carnation or whatever shake is an easy meal replacement and better than doing nothing or making a choice that you're unhappy with .. but .. my experience is; success is more sustainable if you do some prepwork and put in the effort to eat "real food" .. I shop sunday mornings, and prep cook on sunday afternoons. I'll portion items out for the week so it's a no-brainer to walk out the door with a "good day's food" ...

Just my $0.02

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I'm also curious as to why - Convenience? Medical reasons? Something else? I was on a liquid diet for a long time for medical reasons and I hated it. There are plenty of liquid options, it just really depends on your purpose for doing it.

I like "drinking" my breakfast in smoothie form as I make a green vegetable smoothie for breakfast.

Why? I would never ever EAT 400g of spinach a day, leave alone kale!

By making a breakfast smoothie, I do not need to eat breakfast, but I have a smoothie that lasts all day(about 1l of smoothie) and I can make sure I have my 3-5 servings of veggies a day.

Pure convenience, yummie,healthy and easy on the digestive system.

Stef.

Meal replacement diets usually fail when the dieter starts eating solid food again, so unless you plan to do this forever, it would be better to eat food.


However, If it's just for convenience once in a while then a protein smoothie can be an easy breakfast.

I had a really nasty jaw infection from an impacted wisdom tooth and couldn't chew anything. I ate soup and protein powder smoothies made in a blender with protein powder, laban (arabic dairy product) and fruit. I also worried the whole time about getting enough food so I didn't lose lean mass. I was so glad when I could eat solid food again!!

Unless you're doing the liquid food thing for medical reasons, I really wouldn't recommend it, because it's dull and unsustainable. Think of dieting as a long term thing, something you stick to forever. If you do something drastic for short term losses then revert back to your previous way of eating, you'll just gain the weight back again. Make long term maintenance - i.e. staying at your goal weight for life - you goal, and make small and sustainable changes that you can stick to for life, such as smaller portion sizes, eating a balanced diet, getting into the habit of logging your food so you know when you've eaten enough for the day, and do some kind of exercise you enjoy and can stick to in the long term. That way the weight comes off slowly, and you enjoy the process and you find it easy to stay at your goal weight for life because you didn't torture yourself to get there and there's no need to torture yourself to stay there either.

Breakfast - Beer
Lunch - Vodka
Dinner - Tequila

I was hoping someone would go this direction with it...but I would substitute wine for the beer and rum for the vodka. :drinker: