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04-04-2002, 06:38 AM
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Slim Fast?
Hi!
Has anyone tried this? Its been around for years, so I wonder if it is any good.
The website's useful if nothing else:
www.slimfast.co.uk
Mel
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04-04-2002, 06:40 AM
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Only if you're desperate plus it looks really boring.
I'm not a fan of this kind of diet as you'll only put it back on when you start eating normally. Much better to eat a balanced diet and get a good amount of exercise which is at least 20 minutes 3 times a week or something.
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I hope that my child, looking back on today
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04-04-2002, 06:40 AM
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I've never fancoed it myself and to be honest i only know a few people that have tried it and it didn't realy work for them
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04-04-2002, 06:55 AM
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Me neither as i think that as soon as you stop taking it you just go back to eating normally and pile the weight back on!!
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04-04-2002, 07:07 AM
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I liked their ideas, but just not using their products if that makes sense.
Thanks for the info though..
Mel
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04-04-2002, 07:40 AM
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Smug Mrs Eastman! ;)
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I'm not really bothered about piling the weight back on! I just want to lose it for the wedding!!!! 
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04-04-2002, 08:53 AM
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That's not really healthy - losing weight for an event like that! It's meant to be a lifestyle change, not a diet anyway..
Oh, and I remember my dad telling me that he tried Slim Fast once YEARS ago (hopefully they've changed the formula!) - he made some up before he went to bed & put it in the fridge. Next morning when he woke up, it was CRAWLING....  |
04-04-2002, 09:03 AM
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Smug Mrs Eastman! ;)
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I know, I know, I know, and I accept that I need to change my lifestyle, but that's a long term goal, the short term goal is being able to wave at people at the wedding!!! 
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04-04-2002, 09:12 AM
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Hi
I'm with Roz and cariad on this one.
The main reason for me doing this is because, although i'm a size 10/12 normally, my clothes are getting tight. And this means my wedding dress will probably be tight too.
The second reason is because I know it can't be healthy for me to eat all those choc muffins etc without a thought for my body.
I think the Slimfast concept itself is good. But instead of eating slimfast products (in case they crawl etc) I'll eat fruit and salads and then a regular evening meal.
That can't be a bad approach to dieting/being healtier.
Mel
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04-04-2002, 09:23 AM
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Smug Mrs Eastman! ;)
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I think I need to cut out the cigarettes and 3 glasses of wine each evening too!!! 
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04-04-2002, 09:50 AM
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Freya's Mummy.
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i put on loads of weight when i quit smoking!!
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04-04-2002, 10:07 AM
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I want to cut out the cigarettes too don't think i could do both at the samr time though
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Smuggie since Oct 2002
After lots of help our little born on 28th Jan 2008
when I kiss you goodnight I will
hold you a little tighter, a little longer. It is then, that I will thank
God for you, and ask him for nothing,
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04-04-2002, 10:09 AM
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I actually find Slim Fast really useful there are a few reasons why
1. I can drink chocolate milkshake and it helps to satisfy my choccie cravings - I actually fancy savoury foods when I am on this diet - most unusual!!
2. After a week or so it really reduces your appetite - this is because it shrinks your stomach quickly and then after a couple of weeks you can change to low fat foods instead - I just find it gives my diets a real boost to start with.
3. As long as you drink a lot of fluid with the slim fast shakes, you should be able to stop yourself chewing on the sofa - the more you drink the more the fibre in the shakes expand in your stomach giving you that full feeling! Plus drinking extra fluid is good for you! especially me as I don't actually get thirsty and can forget to drink!
I used slim fast for 5 weeks last year and lost 28lbs - this was with low fat eating for 2 months after as well - but the first stone and a bit was all down to those shakes!
I started again on Slim Fast yesterday - just one a day and low fat everything else and I feel more energetic already - I only have 16lbs to lose this time - and I only gained weight because I met my H2B and wanted to feed him up! 
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04-04-2002, 10:12 AM
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ughh! just read about the crawling thing!!!!
Thats the fibre methinks! You should always drink Slim Fast asap after mixing as the fibre can have a life of its own!
God! I think thats put me of a bit!  |
04-04-2002, 10:14 AM
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I think slimfast would have to be a total no no.....unless you've got a sweet tooth......I don't like many sweet things....so I reckon that would be worse for me than the egg and grapefruit diet....which also is disgusting!!!
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04-04-2002, 10:16 AM
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Don't they do a soup now? Mind you, a lot of Heinz soups are under 100 cals.
If it crawls in the fridge after 1 night, what's it doing in your tummy? 
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I hope that my child, looking back on today
Will remember a mother who had time to play;
Because children grow up while you're not looking,
There are years ahead for cleaning and cooking.
So, quiet now cobwebs go to sleep.
I'm nursing my baby, and babies don't keep.
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04-04-2002, 10:48 AM
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eeeewwwww...
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04-04-2002, 01:08 PM
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Mella, just to say my'diet' consists of me eating a v small bowl of cereal and a lunch of fruit and snack a jacks or diet yoghurt and then I just eat whatever a normal dinner for me would be and I've lost nearly 1 and a half stone in 3 months. So I suppose it's a healthy slimfast. It's just after 6 now nd this is my worst time. My body want dinner but my H2B doesn't get back til after 7 so we don't eat until nearly 8! argh!
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05-04-2002, 06:01 AM
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Hi Eleanor,
That's just what I'm doing. I'm glad it works! It has to work! I eat so much junk in the day normally.. I've been good since tuesday so far! yay!!
Did you do any exercise with that?
I want to lose about 1 inch worth of weight. Don't know how much that is but that's my aim.
Maybe 0.5-1 stone. I have until May to do it though because my first dress fitting is then. Worst case scenario - I have until my last dress fitting!
Do you think its possible to do this in appx 6 weeks?
Mel
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05-04-2002, 06:09 AM
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Smug Mrs Eastman! ;)
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éálthy is 1lb/ week so you and I Mel have time to lose a stone before our wedding days, if we try!!
Agghhh
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05-04-2002, 07:39 AM
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The Cat's Mother
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Apart from the creepy crawlies, my argument against Slim Fast still remains - it's the same for the Cabbage soup diet, the atkins diet and all those kinds of Diets with a capital D. You can't possibly maintain it, and as soon as you go back to eating normally it's not even a case of just the weight going back on..I can't help but feel that it's dreadfully unheathy to confuse your body like that. God only knows the things that are going on inside our bodies that we don't know about. I'm not trying to scare anyone, and I'm no expert (size 16/18), but I think people have forgotten to listen to their bodies, because apparently loads of people mistake thirst for hunger and all that.
They just put so much crap into processed foods, that I think it's seriously screwing up our bodies no matter how hard we try to control our weight.
Yes I do watch the X-Files...do you think I'm too much of a conspiracy theorist?  |
05-04-2002, 07:43 AM
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i agree with Cariad these so called diets seem to be fine for short term loss but to maintain weight loss you are better with WW or slimming world where they teach you about healthy eating and balenced diets as well. The Atkiins diet is a life change i know people who have done realy well on it but as they say they now need to follow it for the rest of their lives if they want to maintai | |
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