Slim Fast has been around for a long time, and most of us are familiar with their products through their rather aggressive advertising campaigns.  You drink a shake for breakfast, another one for lunch, and have a healthful meal for dinner.  They have also branched into the meal replacement bar market, as an alternative to their shakes.

This “diet”, if you want to call it that, relies on severe calorie restriction.  If you eat nothing but two shakes the entire day, it will be exceedingly difficult to make sensible choices for your dinner, especially if you are cooking for a family as well as yourself.  You can, of course, add snacks, as they encourage you to do, in a healthful way.  A sample day on their website outlines a shake and a bit more, such as a small portion of fiber-filled cereal for breakfast, a bar or shake and some fruit for lunch, and a small dinner, with another bar as an evening snack. 

So let’s see….. where do we begin?

(1) Do you intend to eat this way forever?  If not, then you will not be able to stop any weight you lose from coming back. That’s just simple logic.

(2) Who can live this way? Shake here, bar there. Where’s the FOOD?!

(3) What is the point?  You are not adopting a new lifestyle, you are not making any real changes, you are doing nothing but tricking your body into losing some weight through a temporary radical change in the way you eat.  Since it’s clearly temporary, the results will also be clearly temporary.  The whole thing is a complete waste of time.

(4) And what about your health?  Do you suppose that nature intended for you to eat shakes and bars all day?  Is it possible that this is healthful?  We don’t think so.  It’s way too weird.  And obviously unnatural.

We really don’t think of this as a diet. It’s actually a last resort for the very desperate – you go to Slim Fast if you must, must lose a few pounds right NOW…. and you don’t care if it comes back right away.