The Slim Fast diet plan

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The Slim Fast diet has been around for many years and a lot of people have used this in order to lose weight. The plan is formulated around substituting either a Slim Fast Shake or Meal Bar for two meals per day and then eating a sensible meal and two snacks per day. Slim Fast has many products that can be purchased at most supermarkets or chain stores. They have their traditional shakes and fruit drinks. They also offer meal or snack bars and pasta dishes for the dieter’s convenience. This type of diet is designed to help a person lose on average two pounds per week.

Originally most people found Slim Fast to be a hard diet to follow as they originally had only the shakes for dieters. Many people found the shakes hard to drink on a consistent basis and also found that they experienced at times they would be getting hungry between meals as well. Now Slim Fast offers more products to give their customers more variety and offer even more incentives to help people to be able to attain their weight loss goals.

Slim Fast offers dieters a great program which can be accessed online. You can register with the site and fill in your personal information as well as your weight loss goals. Your information is then compiled and a personalized program is put together for you, giving you instructions on what to eat per day and what exercise is needed as well in order to help you stay on target with your diet.

Recipes, meal plans and instructions are offered through this program. There is even an area for you to choose your own substitutes giving you more control over what you want to eat that is allowable on the diet. A typical days menu includes the following:

Breakfast
Slim Fast Low Carb Shake with Instant Oatmeal and Walnuts 340 calories

Morning Snack
1 sliced tomato 30 calories

Lunch 350 Calories
Slim Fast Low Carb Shake and Tuna Salad
(tuna, light mayonnaise, lettuce, cherry tomatoes, onions)

Afternoon Snack 60 Calories
Vegetable Juice (low sodium) 6 ounces

Dinner 430 Calories
Creamy Chicken Dijon
Roasted Asparagus
Mixed Greens Salad

Evening Snack 70 Calories
Raisins

They do recommend with the above diet plan to include up to 30 minutes per day of some type of cardiac based exercise like walking. The great thing about this plan is you are allowed to tailor the diet to the foods that you enjoy eating. You can plan for up to a week in advance, which allows you to go to the market and purchase the foods and Slim Fast products that you need. This keeps down temptation if you do not have foods that you should not be eating in the house.

As stated above, this is not a fad diet. It is designed to allow gradual weight loss while eating a nutritional diet which gives the body all the vitamins and minerals needed, but not partaking of high fat foods.

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