Slim Fast Program

I've tried it however I felt they didn't keep me full long. I swtiched to a protien shake and found that keeps me full longer and i've lost more weight. I used Herballife protien shake mix.

i love the slim fast peanut butter bars but the shakes YUCK i tried em can NOT drink em they tasted like liquid chalk to me but i have a friend who loves em but she hasnt lost any weight with em

I have on and off but i don't follow their plan...just as a meal replacement whenever i don't get a chance to have a proper meal..but I had 1 or 2 scoops of whey protein to keep me fuller longer otherwise i get hungry pretty quick..

I did Slimfast and like with a lot of people, the pounds come back. They're also very high in sugar so you need to be careful of those shakes. As a one meal replacement or a snack, they can be useful, but to replace more than that creates a problem. For snacks I buy things like pre-packaged almonds (100 cal packs) or a bar (high protein/high fiber will keep you fuller longer) so that those are easy snacks to grab. You can also use snack bags and pre-cut veggies, etc. to keep in there so you don't have to cut before every snack.

To stay on track for lunches, I eat Weight Watchers Smart Ones. They're good and filling and usually under 300 cals. That makes my lunch time much easier.

You don't need to be in the kitchen all day planning your meals. Things like - whole wheat bagel and low fat cream cheese for breakfast, yes it's carbs but it's going to help keep you going all day, and a piece of fruit... snack can be a granola bar or some almonds, again, the high protein/high fiber stuff will keep you fuller longer. Lunches can be something fast like those Smart Ones or even a sandwich (lean turkey, cheese, on whole wheat bread, I use double fiber whole wheat bread). A snack can be a yogurt. Dinners then are in our household the actual cooking times... we eat a lot of chicken breasts prepared different ways because it's low cal and chicken is pretty versatile. There are lots of great recipes on Hungry Girls website, or you can get a Weight Watchers cookbook, their recipes are all good that we've tried (we have 3 cookbooks so far). I also use the prepackaged salads with the dressing already in there, and eat half the bag for lunch (usually 2-3 servings in a bag) and half for dinner. Then the next day I can have a totally different kind of salad.

Even though I'm a stay at home mom and you think I'd have all the time in the world, I really don't take the time to work on my meals, which is why I do the Weight Watchers for lunch, and do my snacks in snack bags every few days so I don't have to cut up vegetables. I have 3 sons who are skinny (2 we just adopted from Africa and 1 has an eating disorder) so I cannot eat the same food as them, they need high carb/high fat...

If you can eat the same or similiar things every day, you can group things together in MFP as meals so it's less time to enter them after the first time. Like I make my sandwiches the same every time: 3 oz lean turkey, 1 slice cheese, double fiber whole wheat bread, 1 TB low fat mayo, some avocado, tomato and lettuce.... and I can have it remember that meal so I don't have to enter it all in each time.

You can also take time on the weekends to figure out what you're going to eat the entire week, so you don't have to enter or plan anything all week except to make minor changes. I have a friend on here who does this and she's been quite successful at doing it that way.

I do agree that using something simple like a shake or a prepackaged snack will help keep you on tradck when you're busy, and help you be successful, but i wouldn't replace more than 1 meal or snack with a shake because of the other effects those things have on your body... there are other ways to keep things simple and easy.

I've been doing a combination of the Slim-Fast program and a few other things (a shake is all that I can stomach in the morning) and have seen some success with it. Your body will go into a bit of shock when you start because you will be restricting your calories so severely compared to what you normally eat, but if you eat the snacks between meals, it helps with that a lot. With such restrictive calories, it's kind of hard to stay on the bandwagon, but yeah. Like anything, it takes dedication.