does body by vi work?

Hi there, Im thinking of trying the body by Vi, i know alot of you are going to say that eating right and exercise will make me lose weight.... well that doesn't work for me, i am now on a 1200 calorie diet from a nutritionist that doesn't know what else to try for me. and even if i exercise i cant eat more then 1200 calories a day. Unfortunately that isnt working for me either. and yes i have had my thyroid checked. I am limited to the exercise i can do due to medical conditions but i NEED to lose weight because of my medical conditions.
So with Eating a 1200 calorie diet with fruit veggies and healthy food and with exercising do you think the body by vi would work for me? I want honest opinions here, I would be using it for breakfast and lunch with a healthy supper by the canada food guide. Please let me know what you think.

They probably won't in your case.

The inclusion of shakes to your diet will not, by itself, induce weight loss.

The way that meal replacement shakes work is as follows:

Replace real food with shakes. Calories in shakes are going to be less than the calories that you would have eaten in food. Result = you are eating less calories.

If you are already eating 1200 calories and you are not losing weight you have probably have one of two things going on:

1) You are counting calories incorrectly.
2) You have something medically wrong with you.

EDIT: I don't mean the above to be rude in any way, just trying to give you my opinion on this.

Its just calorie restriction, which is what youre already doing. I'd get checked up again if youre really not losing weight on 1200 a day. You could also make sure youre logging every little bite - you never know, you might be eating close to maintenance and not even know it.

Have you tried eating more? Maybe 1200 calories isn't enough food.

Plus, this should be a lifestyle change. Are you going to want to drink shakes for the rest of your life?

Are you weighing and measuring out your food?

Honestly I think you need to try eating more. Change your settings on here to 1lb loss a week, try that for 2 months, and see if you start losing weight again.

I have a friend that sells body by vi and I hear the sales pitch a lot. They have less than 100 calories per shake. If you replace 2 meals with them that means you have 1000 calories left for snacks and your 3rd meal. When you buy a bag of mix you are just getting the base flavor, but the nice thing about BBV is that you can add in flavor packs to change it up so you don't get bored. You can also buy their 90 day challenge, that comes with a bunch of other stuff other than just the shake mix.

Personally when it comes to meal replacement shakes I prefer IdealShape, it gets better reviews when compared to JUST the meal replacement shake (not all the add ins you can buy). It's cheaper and doesn't come with high pressured sales.

If you do want to stick to 1200 cals a day and you are having trouble with that a meal replacement shake can be a great tool.

http://www.mealreplacementshakereviews.com/category/product-reviews/

Hi there, Im thinking of trying the body by Vi, i know alot of you are going to say that eating right and exercise will make me lose weight.... well that doesn't work for me, i am now on a 1200 calorie diet from a nutritionist that doesn't know what else to try for me. and even if i exercise i cant eat more then 1200 calories a day. Unfortunately that isnt working for me either. and yes i have had my thyroid checked. I am limited to the exercise i can do due to medical conditions but i NEED to lose weight because of my medical conditions.
So with Eating a 1200 calorie diet with fruit veggies and healthy food and with exercising do you think the body by vi would work for me? I want honest opinions here, I would be using it for breakfast and lunch with a healthy supper by the canada food guide. Please let me know what you think.

They probably won't in your case.

The inclusion of shakes to your diet will not, by itself, induce weight loss.

The way that meal replacement shakes work is as follows:

Replace real food with shakes. Calories in shakes are going to be less than the calories that you would have eaten in food. Result = you are eating less calories.

If you are already eating 1200 calories and you are not losing weight you have probably have one of two things going on:

1) You are counting calories incorrectly.
2) You have something medically wrong with you.

EDIT: I don't mean the above to be rude in any way, just trying to give you my opinion on this.

This is the first time I have seen the first reply in a body by vi post use logic. You so get a flashy gold star.

In other news if you are not losing on such little food it is likely caused by the fact you are eating to little, you have a thyroid problem, you have some other sort of disease or all of the above.

You should absolutely avoid these shakes at all cost especially if you have a thyroid problem,, or other metabolic disease.

I do Body by Vi. I've been on it for two weeks and lost 5lbs (I have little to loose) and have lost a lot of inches. I like it. I stay full and have energy. That is me though. A lot of people are against it...But 85% of those people haven't tried it either. And everyone says you deal with pushy sells people when you do it...I haven't dealt with any and wasn't pressured into buying it.

If you actually look at the ingredients that are in Body by Vi it's kind of scary. For instance one of the ingredients that scares me the most is MSG. Look it up!

I thought MSG was in the "should be avoided" category at worst.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/monosodium-glutamate/AN01251

i have tried all different calorie intakes, my dr said i may have a VERY small window that i need to stay in between to lose weight, currently the nutritionist said the 1200 calorie one. im finding that one hard to follow as my medications tend to make me hungry and the nutritionist said i cant eat more then 6 servings of veggies a day. i have also tried a diet done up by a personal trainer being high protein as i was seeing him 3 times a week doing cardio and weigh training and in 6 weeks still didn't lose a pound. im seeming to be a medical mystery here lol

Start logging everything. Do this for two weeks. No cheating, log everything. Come back to the discussion boards and ask for help again if nothing changes. A study was done on individuals who stated they ate 1200 calories yet couldn't lose weight. These people were contained and fed exactly 1200 calories and they lost weight. I can't find the study at the moment but I will be back.

i did a meal plan done by my personal trainer that consisted of 3 meals a day of boneless skinless chicken breast, lots of veggies, protein shakes flax seed fish oils and NO Fruit. It cost me over 100$ a week to buy this food and i did it for 6 weeks with NO results! i am NOT looking for a quick fix or i would accept my doctors offer on the free surgery to take the 100lbs of fat off! I don't want a quick fix i want to do it on my own But nothing so far has worked. Just looking for something i can do without surgery to lose the weight. I am 22 years old and im a single mother and i would like to stay alive to see my 2 year old grow up. I have COPD and have had half of my lung removed due to it collapsing and almost killing me, I also have alot of stress on my heart and at a high risk of heart attack due to a weak heart. So Please if you know something that will work let me know.

I wasn't trying to be mean, please don't take offense. I simply don't think that the shakes will be the magic thing to do it if you've followed other strict diets. I'm not an expert on losing weight or your medical conditions. My suggestion would be to get active. Start slowly and attempt to build on it.

Edit to add: I started out over two years ago at 217 pounds, unemployed single mom of a 1 year old and an infant. Broken pelvis, migraines, anxiety, depression. I wasn't in your shoes, but I was far from healthy.

Have you calculated your BMR to see what that is? I agree with all the posters who said to eat more.. I up'd my calories from 1200 to 1480, and finally am doing better.. And, the closer you get to goal, the harder it is to lose it

i dont expect it to be magic im just wondering if it works, if it does maybe it can boost my system onto the right track to lose, i play my wii fit dance games and i love to walk, im not aloud to bike run jog (tho i have started jogging 1 min walk to slow my heart rate a bit jog another min)

It just replaces calories, that's it. It's like having eggs instead of chicken. The reason it works for some people is because it is lower calories than what they would have eaten. Nothing special about it.

Cardio doesn't work for me. I tried walking, jogging, swimming, elliptical and none of it helped my weight loss. Lifting weights did but only when I learned proper form and starting lifting heavy.

i dont expect it to be magic im just wondering if it works, if it does maybe it can boost my system onto the right track to lose, i play my wii fit dance games and i love to walk, im not aloud to bike run jog (tho i have started jogging 1 min walk to slow my heart rate a bit jog another min)

Read the rest of the replies on this post and the links for the reasons why it is not the shake that makes you lose weight. In sumnary a small deficit makes you lose...a large one can do weird and unusual things and those shakes are the devil and not the kind of devil that has answers. Someone could just as easily say eat a chicken breast with some lettuce every meal 3 times a day...it would still work out to be dangerously low in cals for many people. Its not the shake, its the lack of cals. Its not the shake...its the lack of cals. Also not trying to be mean, just fed up that companies are feeding off peoples lack of knowledge and insecurities. Just found out that my sister is losing hair basically because she is doing herbal magic.

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/UponThisRock/view/starvation-mode-268728 (Worth reading ALL of it, not just skimming)