I read online today how the FDA has forced Hydroxycut to recall their products due to 23 cases where clients had liver failure or some kind of adverse effect to their liver due to using their products. If you go to hydroxycut.com it has the information on their website.

So in hindsight, I thought about slimfast
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not as a dessert.

All diets work by a combination of factors that lead to calorie restriction (whether directly or indirectly). You simply don't lose weight unless you run at a caloric deficit each day (should be between 400 and 500 calories).

Slimfast, I believe is a combination of soy whey protein , sugars, artificial flavors, and fats, mainly in the form of hydrogenated oils x 100.

What you're ingesting is not food if you're on a slimfast diet.
As much as it absolutely sux to contemplate for a few folks, limiting caloric intake and exercise vigorously each day is the only thing that's safe and works.

It's really a pain in the ass for me as I am shedding weight I put on in 2007, which I only slightly dropped in 2008, and regained again in the winter of 2008. It's coming off.... just at a pace that is annoyingly slow.

16 pounds

Imago said:

congrats to you and your 16 pounds!!! I was just curious, i wasn't thinking of trying slimfast but was just wondering if it was one of those weight loss things that really worked or not.

Slimfast works but you can do the same thing by figuring out how many calories you burn in a day/week and eating less (and you don't have to have the stupid shakes).

3500 calories equals a pound, so a 500 calorie deficit a day will have you losing a pound a week. I should also note, you should never have more than a 1000 calorie deficit per day and women should never go under 1200 calories a day (1500 for men) - you run into starvation and malnutrition under those levels.

This (free) website has a decent tool to figure out your metabolic rate and also has a database to find calorie counts on nearly everything:

http://caloriecount.about.com/

It works if you stick to it but it has WAY too much sugar in it. If you're looking for a good meal replacement with minimal calories I'd recommend Medifast.

Imago said:

That's it in a nutshell. Forget those diets and shit, you have to make a lifestyle change.

johnart said:

do you have those meal replacement cookies over there called Limits?
I've seen folks that think as long as they eat one AFTER their greasy pig out meal that they will lose weight

too much sugar in them for me..
especially the liquid drinks..

Imago said:

see this is why u just have a few cough drops and some fresh air.its like thanksgiving up in this bitch.
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Yep, my grandmother did it years ago, 3 months 70lbs. She worked as a private LVN in those days so she did a lot of moving around, calorie burning.

Eating less works...If Slimfast can help you do that, then it sounds like a good plan

I used to blend the powder up with soy milk and a frozen banana each morning, but that shake is just as good and filling without the powder, so now I skip it and save the money

you just get a tape worm!
http://www.tapewormdiet.net/index.html

or good old fashioned cigarettes and laxatives

ZombieKitten said:

I knew a cat with a tapeworm and it was skin and bones, but it ate like a horse

thekidsgirl said:

I read how you do it, you infect yourself with the worm cyst, then when it gets beyond 3 feet long you take a worming tablet and kill it

ZombieKitten said:

nothing says beach body like a 3 foot dead worm coming out of your body

thekidsgirl said:

YUK!!!!! Once when Wally was a baby, he ate a piece of dental floss the master must have dropped on the floor. I was changing his nappy and I really thought he had a 30cm long worm - I nearly fainted! It came out him, just like out of a dispenser!

ZombieKitten said:

ewww! I would have freaked out! Atleast it came out safely though
I would have thought it would have balled up and come out as one little lump

thekidsgirl said:

It could have got stuck and wrapped itself around his guts

ZombieKitten said:

let's focus on the fact that that didn't happen!!

thekidsgirl said:

Is it wrong that I think it's grosser that he ate used dental floss off the floor than the fact that Kitten found it in a turd?

I've tried it,and it worked,but after awhile of having to drink that stuff for 1 meal everyday gets old.

johnart said:

little babies that age don't have formed turds yet

and yes dental floss on the floor makes me angry