Slim Fast 3-2-1 plan

Why not use MFP to track your calories and eat real food. I've tried slimfast and I was always hungry and grumpy.

I have done it. It worked well when I was recovering from a surgery and had zero appetite. I did it as a way to not gain weight while I had to lie around, and had no appetite anyway. I can't imagine how terrible it would be now, with my appetite all huge and all. I don't think it would work.

Do you plan on drinking the shakes for the rest of your life? If not, it's not a sustainable lifestyle change. Eating whole foods and a well-balanced diet of less calories than you burn is the best bet to guaranteed weight loss and overall health.

I lost the first 15 lbs of my 55 lb weight loss using Slim Fast. That was 2 years ago and I've kept it off. I'm one of those people that hates breakfast and am often too busy to eat much in the way of lunch, so I have HUGE dinners and late night snacks because I'd get so hungry. With Slim Fast, following it to the letter with the three snacks and a veggie-heavy dinner, I was never hungry. I find that the shakes help me meet my macros, too.

Granted, I like the way the shakes taste, at least the ones that come in the bottle when they're ice cold (I'm not a huge fan of the meal bars). Also the fact that you're allowed to have 3 snacks a day appeals to my tendency to graze and my desire to have a snack late at night. And they don't come from some overzealous obnoxious "coach" trying to shill them to you. lol.

I'm only 15 lbs away from my current goal weight, so I've restarted Slim Fast again this week and hopefully I'll be there in a couple of months. It's just easy and it works. If you Google for unbiased studies about Slim Fast, you'll see that it is a proven way to lose weight and has few to no downsides unless you're gluten-free or a sweetener-hater.

I don't think anyone plans to be on Slim Fast for the rest of their lives. As a middle-aged woman with injuries/health/thyroid issues that prevent the kind of strenuous strength-training that would speed up my slower-than-molasses-in-February metabolism, I have to eat 1300-1500 net calories a day to lose even a little weight, which isn't a lot of food to me. I find that Slim Fast is the easiest way to stick to that. And their recipe bank is pretty awesome. Once I reach my goal weight, I'll be able to eat at maintenance much more easily.

don't remember start/end weight because it was over 15 years ago but i did lose weight, i was hungry all the time, and as soon as i tried to satisfy the hunger i went all out binge crazy and gained all the weight back in half the time it took to lose it. slim fast is VERY sugary and if you have any insulin resistance it will wreak havoc on your blood sugar. if you must do a meal replacement do something like Isagenix or Shakeology - at least they have a respectable amount of protein and a lower glycemic index.

not trying to push either brand on you, mind you - eating real food is generally better than eating meal replacements. i have personal experience with isagenix if you'd like to discuss that privately (lots of people don't like isagenix, it's best not to discuss it publicly).

I haven't gained any of the weight I lost back and it's been two years. Because in the interim I've learned how to count calories and macros and stuff like that, but that takes time. It's just a convenient way to achieve a calorie deficit if you like the way they taste. If after you stop Slim Fast you go back to overeating, then, yes, of course you'll gain the weight back.