SLIMFAST
The SlimFast Plan is part of the original SlimFast Food Company, a stalwart in the diet and weight-management industry. SlimFast foods and meal replacement items are seen almost everywhere, with their motto “Replace, Combine, Dine, and Snack” to help dieters keep the plan in mind.
Foods Emphasized: Sensible meals, SlimFast products, and light snacks
Foods Restricted: High-fat, high-calorie and sugary junk foods
Premise and Guidelines: SlimFast has gained great popularity with their meal replacement weight loss plans. With the original product being a solitary diet shake, the company has expanded to produce an array of products, including a variety of shakes, powder mixes, meal and snack bars, microwavable soups, and pasta entrees. SlimFast emphasizes eating 6 small meals per day, which usually include some sort of SlimFast product. People are willing to try it because it’s flexible, easy-to-follow and they don’t have to count calories or portions. The average intake is 1200 calories per day, which makes this a calorie-restricted program.
Your plan can be altered to suit your individual needs, and to accommodate your progress or lifestyle changes. Although the calories are restricted and foods designated, dieters have the freedom to eat those choices when they would like. A large meal can be eaten at any time during the day, and snacking is permitted as the dieter sees fit. Some of the healthy snacks offered by SlimFast include their snack bars, fruits or vegetables, pretzels, fat-free yogurt, nuts or air-popped popcorn. Dinner should be a balanced, healthy meal. Daily exercise and drinking plenty of water each day are also added to the regimen.
SlimFast has apportioned their meals to make each equal one third of your daily nutritional needs. This ensures that you can get the calories and nutrients you need. Additionally, there are many snack choices to select, including the new "Optima" shakes that claim to control hunger for up to four hours! Some complaints about the diet have been that people don’t find the meal replacements or bars to be tasty and they get ‘sick’ of eating them constantly. It seems to be a matter of taste buds, because short-term; you could definitely lose weight on this diet.