Do Formulas such as Slimfast and Slimquick as diet supplements work because of
By suspenseful
@suspenseful (40193)
Canada
May 12, 2008 8:28am CST
the ingredients or do they work because the person is already following a low calorie diet? I tried Slimfast and I lost an extra pound and now I am trying the Slimquick, but I notice that when reading the pamphlets inside of them, they already recommended a low calorie low fat diet. Of course some of the foods are foods that cost a bit more, and I do not know whether the ones we get here work. But I wonder if it is the diet that does the work, whether by reading the instructions, you do not eat in the evening, cut down on the bread etc. or whether if you followed the diet, your metabolism is so slow that you do need the Slimfast, Slimquick, or whatever, to make it work. So what is it?
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
13 May 08
doctors actually do not want you to use that stuff, it is no good and some people have had a bad reaction to to it is working is the low calorie diet that you are on.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
14 May 08
I can't tell you what to do but be careful, it has already passed on tv news, prolonged use of that stuff causes serious problems, liver and kidney disease skin problems etc.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
16 May 08
I only have 60 pills and I started on Sunday, so as soon as the bottle goes, I do not need it anymore. I am the type that needs the start and as soon as that happens then my body adjusts to my new weight level. That is what happened the last time. I gained weight after and then the weight went down to my new plateau. Besides I am doing more running and walking and not just walking fast, and I am eating more yogurt and more nuts. I have always eaten salads, so that should help.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
14 May 08
It is the energy I get from taking that Slimfast Hoodia and that does not contain the medicine that messes me up. I was on low cal as well as low carb and I got tired, so I felt that after lunch I had to have a nap and it was not just a half hour. I would wake up and go on the computer, clean the house, but I was still tired. Now all I need is a fifteen minute nap, and I do not have those hunger pangs in the evening that I used to and that made all the low cal the rest of the day ineffective. And it kills my appetite. It does take time to work though.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
15 Jul 08
I am more interested in a low carb version rather than a low cal because if I eat bread it does not decrease my appetite.
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
12 May 08
I heard you have to eat one regular meal along with it. I guess the only way to find out if you test people who were already on a low calorie diet in the first place.
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@golfproo (1839)
• Canada
30 Jun 08
Hi There,
I am not a big believer in any of these diet supplements. I did do slimfast for quite a while but it never really seemed to work for me. What has always worked best for me is to eat less and exercise more. I always get too hungry when I am using slimfast and then I do not tend to stay on it long and start cheating.
cheers,
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
30 Jun 08
The bars work for a little while. I do not mean that I gain the weight back, it is just that I stop losing. I did try some of those diet pills but there is an ingredient in them that I cannot tolerate. I found that if I had to use a pill it had to be the Slinquick Hoodia as it did not have the ingredients in it that made me extremely nervous and to drink green tea. This was in addition to watching what I ate. I am more into Low-carbs that Low-cal. With low=cal I get extremely hungry.
@elemental69 (1561)
• Ireland
13 May 08
I am on a Lipotrim diet at the moment. I dont know if you have heard of it or not. Its three shakes a day, plenty of water and strictly no food what-so-ev. I have lost 28 pounds on it already and have gone down 3 dress sizes. I feel great but I have to admit that I am missing my food.... I will be on it for another week, then I am going to change to the slimfast diet. That way I can gradually start to eat healthily again and still lose weight. :-) My bother was on a slimfast diet and he lost 20 pounds on it, so f he can do it with slimfast then so can I!!!
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
13 May 08
I have not heard about the Lipotrim diet. I got the Slimquick pills, and am using them in conjunction with a low-fat diet. I find that my problem is that in the evenings, I get very hungry so I am using just the Hoodia Appetite Supprescent pills. When I finish them, I am going to try the slimfast or equivalent diet where I have the bars or shakes for two meals, and the regular meal. I figure if I get my body used to a low weight level, then when I want to get down further, I will gt the Slimquick pills again or maybe the shakes.
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@elemental69 (1561)
• Ireland
13 May 08
That sounds like a good programme you have done for yourself ;-) It always seems to be a never ending battle...
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@chrislotz (8137)
• Canada
15 Jul 08
I have been on a Slimfast diet for the last three months plus, and I have lost 25 lbs. on it. I drink a shake in the morning for breakfast, have a piece of fruit for a id morning snack, a Slimfast bar for lunch and for supper I have a protien. meat. and vegetables and salad. In the evening I may have a piece of Weight Watchers cake or a piece of fruit or some plain microwave popcorn. Somedays for supper I may have a small baked potaote but I try to stay away from carbs as much as I can because they are straight sugar and don't burn off very quickly. I want to lose another 15 or 20 lbs. but those last few pounds don't want to leave me so I think I need to do something else like maybe more exercises. So yes, Slimfast does work, but not by itself, you need to cut your calorie intake as well.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
15 Jul 08
I cannot eat that much carbs. I will try the slimfast, I did try the nutrifast that was similar, and I need the protein rather than the carbs. I am not much into low cal but low carbs. I want something that keeps me from being hungry. And since I eat sweets when I am depressed I need something that keeps me from eating chocolates when I do get depressed. Warning labels do help.
@above31rubies (1863)
• United States
13 May 08
It is my firm belief that it is all about diet- a healthy diet made up predominately (as in 80-90%) of plant foods and the pounds will go. And it is much healthier than filling up on the 'stuff' in those drinks. (fwiw, I recently lost 22 pounds...and it was by healthy diet alone).
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
15 Jul 08
I think they are designed for those who eat fruits and vegetables, or ate healthy and had so slow metabolisms that even that did not work. I would suppose an ordinary person who can eat healthy and lose does not need the Slimquick or others, but look at me. I have two disadvatages, I am short under five feet four, and if I eat hardly anything my metabolism will slow further to a halt. So I need something that will kill my appetite, plus lots of vitamins. I eat lots of salads, but sometimes in the winter it gets expensive.
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
13 May 08
For some of us, healthy diets do not work. I have a slow metabolism, I can do vigorous exercises but only for ten to sixty seconds at a time, not for twenty or thirty minutes as is recommended. Therefore I need something to speed up my metabolism for that short while. Besides if I eat less, my body goes into starvation mode. I do not use the drinks (another assumption, I mentioned programs like Slimfast and Slimquick. I did not mention that I took the drink. Slimfast comes in bars as well and Slimquick comes in pills you take before the lunch and supper meal and the results is you feel full on a low cal meal.) My goal is that I lose the urge to snack in the evening. Even if it may be a banana or an orange. it is still snacking. That way the inches will shrink.
@above31rubies (1863)
• United States
13 May 08
It is all still "stuff" in those products, sorry.
Fresh fruits and veggies will fill you up much more than any other type of food.
You may be interested in reading Eat to Live by Dr Joel Fuhrman... www.drfuhrman.com He addresses the "slow metabolism" issue in there as well. Good luck.
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@desertdarlene (8910)
• United States
12 May 08
I think you have it right when you said it's because you are following a low calorie diet. In fact, if you follow the diet strictly, the amount of calories that it instructs you to eat is way too low for an active person. But, you do get some nutrition in the drink, at least.
I have a problem with Slimfast because it gives me headaches. I don't know if it's because it has sodium or it's really glycemic. I haven't tried Slimquick.
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
12 May 08
I had not trouble with the Slimfast, but I was only on it for a starting period. I do know that there are a couple of products, Hydxycot and another kind that I am allergic to. I do not exactly follow a low calorie or low point diet. I did Weight Watchers for a while and I got very very hungry. I would have eaten anything. figure what I need is an appetite suppresent /
@luintaurien (972)
• United States
16 May 08
I think a lot of it is the low calorie diet. If you are eating right then you can consume more food without eating as many calories. They say this is mostly fruits and vegetables as well as whole grain breads and low fat milk. I think the main thing the slimfast does is add the psychological part to it. If you believe they are going to work they do. They do help with metabolism as well though.
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
17 May 08
The pills do contain concentrated green tea and since I drink green tea, and usually since I drink a cup of something at each morning, and two cups extra, and since I make two teapots a day, and the one in the later afternoon is the herb tea, that usually winds up with me having just two or three cups of green tea a day, not enough to get me to lose weight. The trouble is that I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba and most of the year we have to import our fruits and vegetables, so we are mostly eating grains, pastas, rice and meats and the fruits and vegetables are additions unless they are carrots and cabbages. So unless we grow them, we have to pay a bit for the fruit so except for the growing season it is mainly oranges and bananas.
So going on a diet, costs a bit more.
@Sillychick (3275)
• United States
12 May 08
They work by controlling your hunger with fewer calories. They will not work unless you have a low calorie diet and exercise regularly. They work by helping you feel fuller longer with just a 130 calorie drink rather than a high calorie meal.
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
12 May 08
That is nice to know. So what they do is to help people from eating too much in the evening, like I do. They feel full after supper or after lunch, so you will not go for that cake, those chips, or those cookies, and you will prefer some fruit instead. I thought that was the way they worked, because yesterday, I did not have that overwhelming urge to have a couple of pieces of toast in the evening that I usually do.
@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
12 May 08
As a veteran of many, many diets, I can tell you that those things work not only because they're low calorie but because you're changing the eating behavior that put the weight on in the first place.
You could lose weight and keep it off by changing your behaviors. Portion control is the answer. Along with calorie counting, it's the most effective way to lose weight and keep it off permanently because you're changing your approach and behavior when it comes to food.
I use a free online site called fitday dot com to keep track of my calories both ingested and spent, how many carbs I'm eating, how much protein I'm getting--it even tells you, from the foods you enter, what vitamins your diet is lacking and what percentage of vitamins you've gotten from your diet that day. It's the best dieting tool I've ever found!
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@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
12 May 08
I did try the diets, but they did not work. I think I have a very slow metabolism and I get very hungry. So I figured that what I needed was something that kept my appetite down especially in the evening. In the morning, I can see rolled oats and that will do it, in the afternoon, I am way too busy, but in the evening I get this desire to wolf down cookies and bread and even though it may be rolled oat cookies or the stuff is made of whole wheat, it is still bad. I think the reason people go on these is because the low calorie diet does not work. I am more a salad eater, but even that does not help.
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