Slim fast

a friend of mine lost a significant amount of weight using slimfast (for her son's wedding) but because she wasn't vigilant in continuing her diet, she regained the weight very quickly and is now even more overweight.. don't think it will say off..

I hope it works!

I have always understood cottage cheese to be low in calories. Would it be feasible to say have just this for one or two days a week in a sandwich or on its own and lose weight?

Shinamae

Well this might be a bit extreme, but on 3 work days. I have decided to have three slim fast shakes plus my 2 Actimel shots in the morning and water as well,those calories will be 764 and that will just be for three days otherwise I will be eating normally.. and they won’t be consecutive days.

Also, when I reach my goal weight I will do the slim fast one day a week…. To me, this is quite achievable….

I've had a revelation today with Slimfast. I've discovered that by adding a spoonful of coffee powder to the chocolate flavour you get the most delicious mocha drink ! I started last weekend and have so far lost six pounds. Yes, a lot is fluid but the feel good factor from the kick start is enough now to get me going properly. Keep on everyone who's trying

Ps. I haven't starved myself either

I think the point is that as a short term tactic to lose weight relatively quickly for a specific event it may work. If you want to keep the weight off, unless you plane to use Slimfast forever, the weight will probably return unless you permanently change your diet.

Hithere

Slimfast are drinks that work as meal replacements, that's the danger.

I really don’t understand What do you mean?
I KNOW it’s meal replacement I don’t know what your point is 🤷‍♀️

Slimfast are drinks that work as meal replacements, that's the danger.

Hithere

Starving yourself doesn't work and it is not healthy

You stop, add food items to routine diet and the weight comes back

Explain how I am actually starving myself please?

Hithere

Starving yourself doesn't work and it is not healthy

You stop, add food items to routine diet and the weight comes back

We’ll see 🤓

Starving yourself doesn't work and it is not healthy

You stop, add food items to routine diet and the weight comes back

Mollygo I know what you mean. Two weeks was quite enough. The egg sandwich I had whilst recovering after the procedure was delicious!
I seem to remember that drinking only milk 🥛 was another option too?

It works in that you are taking in fewer calories so you will lose weight, however, it does not retrain your eating habits so when you stop using it and go back to your usual eating pattern the weight will go back on.

NotAGran55 The hospital suggested weight watchers or low calorie soup and plant based yoghurt for two weeks before the gall bladder op. If I never see another Alpro yoghurt again, I’ll be happy.

Visgir1

My chum a Hospital Dietician always said.. "Any Diet works, you just have to stick to it".

And this pattern of eating will be achievable for me…🤓

My chum a Hospital Dietician always said.. "Any Diet works, you just have to stick to it".

Normal eating today, Sunday, Tuesday and Friday, Slim fast days…🤓

I did for a while - I'm always halfway on and halfway off a weightloss Grand Plan - and it really helped.
The only thing was all the milk in the powder, and drunk with the powder gave me something of a mild lactose intolerance, which persists on and off.

*Mild lactose intolerance =ed sudden, frantic dashes to the loo.

NotAGran55

Ahead of my gall bladder removal I had to live on this for 2 weeks in order to reduce the size of the liver to make it easier for the keyhole surgery. I lost a fair bit of ‘weight’ but suspect the first few lbs were water due to the low carbs.

I used the vanilla powder mixed with instant coffee to make coffee shakes which was fine. I didn’t like the bottled drinks though.

I tried it a few years ago and didn’t like the powder. I do like the drinks but they are very expensive but if they do the trick will be worth it….😁

I used slim fast biscuits for a while, when I was working and probably 25+ years ago. They served their purpose, I liked them, they stopped me feeling hungry and weight did come off so yes a useful aid as long as you can maintain the loss

Good luck with it Shina. I really need to shed a few (ha!) pounds, but still debating over which diet to try. Last week, I made an effort - no wine, no biscuits. Weetabix for breakfast, sandwich for lunch, fish and veg for dinner - gained a kilo!! Oh, and I had little dog here and walked miles!
Back to the drawing board.

Ahead of my gall bladder removal I had to live on this for 2 weeks in order to reduce the size of the liver to make it easier for the keyhole surgery. I lost a fair bit of ‘weight’ but suspect the first few lbs were water due to the low carbs.

I used the vanilla powder mixed with instant coffee to make coffee shakes which was fine. I didn’t like the bottled drinks though.

A friend lost 3 stone using the Slimfast plan. She’s maintaining it by having one shake a day as a meal replacement, eating normally if thoughtfully the rest of the time. It’s working for her. Definitely can’t tempt her to cake or biscuits.

If it works and I lose the stone then I shall probably do this pattern one day a week…

Yes, I used to do, fasting i used to do the 16/8 but it’s awkward now because I work 2 pm till 8 pm. I don’t eat in the morning anyway so I thought I’d give this a go I need to lose about a stone..