Slim Fast? Any success stories

You might want to find a slim fast board and join there. Not many MFP people believe in "diet shakes" of any branding. I personally do not as I find them unsatisfying and a waste of money. I'm not going to lecture you as if you are liking it and it is helping you reach your goals, that's great. Just remember it's not the shakes making you lose weight, eating less food than you burn is.

I'll echo what KateTii said ^^

If this is your chosen method and you are enjoying it - then well done! Having said that, regardless of how enjoyable you find the shakes, I fail to see how drinking liquids for meals is something you are going to be able to keep up For.The.Rest.Of.Your.Life. The majority of the people I know that have successfully lost weight with Slim Fast have almost always gained the weight back. Educating yourself about food and understanding the process about "Calories In, Calories out" is absolutely vital in maintaining weight loss, in my opinion. The Slim Fast shake plan simply offers you this: "Drink these instead of meals and you'll lose weight". Of course this is true - but you are learning absolutely nothing about the process, about WHY you are losing and what your body is doing.

Your body doesn't care if it is getting it's calories from shakes or solid food. A calorie is a calorie and if there is a deficit, you'll lose weight. But personally - (and I've tried shake diets) - I ONLY succeeded and maintained my losses when I knew exactly what I was doing, exactly how much my body required calorie-wise and exactly what science was involved. Slim Fast is very 'quick fixy' to me and weight loss is genuinely only successful in the long term when it is stuck to as a lifestyle.

If your life is so busy you have not budgeted time to actually consume life sustataing food then your issues are well beyond the scope of Internet forums. Just out of curiousity, do you set aside time to use a toilet or have you found a time saving method of dealing with that as well ?

I used them a few years ago for a few weeks. I lost weight and found their forum quite helpful too, might be worth checking them out via their website. I slowly swapped the shakes for meals and then lost motivation. Didn't regain it all suddenly either.

I have bought the shakes from the grocery store in the past and find them not very tasty but really overpriced for what they are. I haven't ever joined SF though.

I do protein shakes, but I buy my own protein and add my own stuff to make them filling and it's tastier and cheaper. I don't think I could exist on two small SF shakes during the day though. They're tiny! My shake I make is 32 oz and only about 300-ish calories and it lasts me all afternoon. (And by last, i mean, it keeps me satisfied and not hungry.)

I remember drinking the SF shakes for lunch and then being ravished within about an hour.

I'm an ex slim fast user yes i lost weight but gained it all back. It can help to make your appetite shrink but I found when I fully went back to food I was greedy gained so much weight. Whatever works for you id great but its not a long term solution.

I'm doing meal replacement shakes...2x daily, but I'm using Naturade Total Soy brand. They have less sugar 8g/serving, more protein 13g/serving, and only 130 calories (mixed with water). They also use Non-GMO soy and are much cheaper!!! Oh, and its lactose and gluten free, too! I got a big bag (47 servings) for only 19.97 each at Sam's club; one vanilla one chocolate. (I highly recommend vanilla over the chocolate.) Walmart also carries a smaller container (15 servings) for 9.97. I'm only on day 3 but I am loving it. I highly recommend vanilla over the chocolate. I like to mix mine in the am with 8 oz. brewed cold coffee and some ice. The second one I mix with 8 oz. unsweetened vanilla almond milk. I'm premenopausal so I'm hoping the soy will help with my hot flashes and sleep issues, too. I would not use it if they didn't use Non-GMO soy, though. I am only on day 3 but so far I haven't had any issues being overly hungry. Being a big-big girl that is saying a lot. I know I have already lost some weight, but I decided to only weigh in once a week so I don't get obsessed with the numbers. Weigh-in-Wednesdays! Yay! I don't plan to do this indefinitely, just until I can get closer to my goal. Then I will drop back to one shake a day and two real-meals a day, and become accustom to that and still see if I still stay on track, then switch to homemade smoothies or juicing for breakfast plus two real-meals. I think the big mistake is coming off of shakes and thinking you can go back to your old habits. It needs to be gradual, one or two changes at a time max, so you can see if the changes are good or bad. Anyway, This is all theory for me right now of course, but its what I have been researching and it's my plan. I hope this helps. --PS. I'm looking for some classy friends!

Sorry to say that this is not a success story...

I found that the Slim Fast shakes gave me embarrassing gastrointestinal distress, which far outweighed any benefit. I do much better eating 'real' food.

I've also tried using them back in the day but they didn't really do it for me. They didn't keep me full for longer or anything, and as a few others mentioned, the amount of sugar in them bothered me