Easy question about slim fast.?
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Well, its generally not a good idea to drink things that are expiried.  HOWEVER, let me tell you why supplement shakes are technically OK to drink.  It has to do with food labeling laws.\n\nAll vitamins/minerals in food supplements (and drinks) decay at a certain rate.  (This is the halflife, etc...).  Some vitaminswill degrade quicker than others.\n\nACCORDING TO THE LAW, at the expiration date, the amount of vitamins/minerals in the shake has to be at that amount or HIGHER.  So, when things are well before their expiration date, they actually more MORE than the amount of vitamins/minerals than what is stated on the package.\n\nSo, if something is past the expiration date, then the vitamin/mineral/etc content will be BELOW the numbers listed in the "nutritent information" section.\n\nHowever, slim fast may be using milk or something else in it.  Generally, in the hospital setting, if tube feedings or supplement shakes are expired, we throw it out.\n\nYou probably should not eat it - but I just wanted to give you some of the law background on supplements.\n\nRegards,\nRyan
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Atkins or other low-carb plan.\n\nMaybe not the fastest, but for me it's the easiest and I don't have to go hungry.
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I wish I could help, but I don't think there is a real quick fix.... I know that's not helpful. but if there was a qucik fix like that then nobody would be overweight! Good luck though, and have fun at your concert!
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Diet pills are not the answer.  Typically they have caffeine, in one form of its metabolites or another, to make you feel full.  While you make think this is a miracle, it deprives your body of water, thus making it retain water, and because most people mistake thirst for hunger, they end up eating more.  The other person who answered this question mentioned slim-fast shakes for breakfast and lunch and a small dinner with no snacks.  I agree that meal replacement shakes are excellent, your body needs more than that to keep itself running properly.  So my recommendations follow.\n\n1.  10lbs is 4wks is the absolute maximum you should consider losing over such a short period of time.  If you lose more weight, you are probably 'crashing' your system (i.e. you are not getting nearly enough calories and are losing weight because your body is eating itself).\n\n2.  I agree with the meal replacement shakes, but you need to eat more than 3 meals per day if you are looking to lose weight, but keep a firm, tone look when you are done.  You should eat every three hours that you are awake.  The reason for this is if you eat only 3 meals/day, you are putting your body through mini-starvation periods (ex. noon-6:30pm).  This makes your body store fat more readily, to prepare for the next starvation.  By eating every three hours you typically a)eat less, and b)safely lose weight.  So long as you don't make every time you eat a meal, you'll do fine.\n\n3.  Exercise.  This is crucial.  To lose weight, you ought to do intense interval training.  Longer aerobic workouts burn calories, but only for the time you are exercising.  Interval workouts burn calories even after you are finished, but I won't lie, they are difficult.  I recommend a combination of springs/jumps/lunges/pushups/situps.  Do one of those for 20-30s, then jog for 90s and repeat.  Do four sets of four different exercises I've listed above, do them 3 days a week.  If you combine them with some basic weight training, you will see results in 4wks.\n\n4.  Read.  Read.  Read.  Get your hands on some literature that will advise you on the healthiest foods to eat (I am a devout follower of The Abs Diet).  Also read anything written by Alwyn Cosgrove and Mark Versteegen, these two guys know how to make people look better.\n\n5.  My list of sources has some great tricks and tips to getting and staying fit.  The gist of the abs diet can be obtained from men's health.\n\nFinally, good luck in your weight-loss pursuits!\n\nP.S.  Letting a friend know of your goal will really keep you motivated to hitting that goal, so get the word out!
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There is no "fast" way that is healthy and nothing worthwhile is ever easy.  You must consume less calories than what you use in a day and you have to incorportate exercise.\n\nThat being said, if you are interested, contact me with your email address (diet is too many "characters" to fit in the Yahoo Answers mail system), I will gladly give you a diet based on Jenny Craig and Nutrisystem. You can do it yourself at home. You won't need to measure anything or count calories. It is all already proportioned. It involves all food groups and is based on 1250 calories. Very healthy.  I have shared it with many askers on yahoo answers.
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Read their plan.  I believe it's 2-3 Slim Fast shakes as meal replacements plus 1 food meal that you pick yourself.\n\nFor best results pick grilled or broiled protein and veggies (not potato or corn).  Drink water & diet soda, no calorie drinks or milk.
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cut out all drinks but water, to reduce calorie intake and the pudginess you get from carbonation.  drink water first thing in the morning and right before bed.  cut out all salt possible, which makes you bloated.  eat all the fiber you can, to get your metabolism going faster.  (apples are an excellent source of fiber.  eat as many as you can stand.)  \n\nmy brother lost five pounds in one week, just by switching from soda to water.  the apple trick will make you slim down fast-personal experience.
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To have a "naturally slim" body shape, do what's natural for human bodies!\n\n1) Eat only when you're hungry, and stop when you're full. For example, have only one helping instead of two.\n\n2) Eat lots of veggies and fewer processed foods. Make a homemade snack for yourself and your friends instead of running to the gas station for cola and candy. You'll save money, too!\n\n3) Our bodies are designed to move. Walk whenever you can. Ride your bike!
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First, for all of the "quick and easy" weight loss diet pill suggestions, remember, if something sounds too good to be true... it probably is, particularly if you have to pay for it.\n\n\nOn Yahoo!Answers I find certain questions being asked repeatedly which is simply a reflection of new people participating. A couple of common questions amount to "How do I lose weight," or more specifically, "How do I lose abdominal fat?" I have gotten very positive responses from my answers when I paused to reply (and now beginning to get "It works!" emails that are very gratifying. I like helping people)... so have recently decided to put a good solid answer on my Yahoo!360 Blog (September 10) that I can point people to. These are my thoughts as a physician and athlete.\n\nDon't target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful. \n\nThere is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below. \n\nThe most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode. \n\nAnother overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.\n\nTo lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.\n\nFor diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet. \n\nFat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.\n\nThere is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you work them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs
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Slim fast helps you lose weight, by the simple fact that you're not eating as much. If you're able to eat just the two shakes for breakfast and lunch, rather than complete meals it should work for you.\n\nMake sure to also exercise regularly to get full benefits. You can read more about the meal plan on the box or at SlimFast.com.
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Yeah the fastest and easiest and funniest is swimming... I know I know... maybe you don't have the money to do it... But if you live where a YMCA is you can go there anc get finacing I only had to pay 20 dollars a month for myself and my three other family members a month not bad and I lost the weight and it wasn't really work as I love to swim... another way is to walk in your free time... every other half hour or hour.. for 30 mins walk anywhere hills flat land what ever just do it.. sometimes your worse problems will be solved through walking plenty of timet o think.. and the wieght comes off. Drink 8 glass of water each day and then on top of that drink a glass and a half at least before every meal.. it fills you up faster... make your meal portions no bigger then your fist as your stomache is only supose to be as big as your fist.... so limit your protion sizes.. DOn't eat out to much once a week is fine to treat yourself stay away from the chocolate once a week is fine give yourself a treat for your work.. Don't deprive yourself when your hungry find a heathly snack canned fruit is good.. if you want to lose the weight fast and keep it off then do as I say and you will lose.. I weighed 199 lbs at 14 years old I lost 100 lbs in two months walking every other half hour drinking plenty of water before and after meals and 8 glass of water a day beyond that... I looked felt and sounded great. good luck to you .. I am now also on this diet trick again myself.. and fighting to lose my baby fat from my two girls I had I am 31 now.. and at 138 lbs... I have never gotten back up to the 199 lbs and don't plan to either but I would defently like to lose 30 lbs.... to get to my actual love weight lol. 110 is my goal.. wish you lived near by I would walk with you and we could keep each other company and going .. I ll pray for you and I hope you do the same for me.
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well, of course, everybody is going to tell you:\n\nCarefully watch the foods you eat over this period you want to get slim quick (of course you should watch what you eat anyways because if you try some crash diet thing or short term diet, you will gain it all back and MORE when you are done).  EAT SLOWLY.  You will eat less and be just as full.\nAlso, eat smaller meals throughout the day rather than one or two BIG meals.\n\nCalories burned has to be more than Calories taken in.\n\nWater, water, water.  Pound it.\n\nExercise.  Swimming is generally considered one of the best overall exercises you can do for your body.  NO impact, total body workout.  Upper body, lower body, and abs.  Also, if you are looking at certain body parts, work those more.  Pick up a few fitness magazines at the store.  They always have good ideas and workout plans.\n\nMake your entire day your workout.  When you're walking somewhere, walk briskly.\n\nAnd FORGET those get fit quick schemes.  That 24 hour hollywood diet (laxative), slimfast shakes, "eat this powerbar instead of a whole meal" plans.  All you'll end up doing is eating the shake or bar, still feel hungry, and eat anyways, making you GAIN weight.\n\nAnd unless you are morbidly obese, don't do that stupid no-carb thing.  Its retarded, people are idiots.  If you eat no carbs, that means less energy.  Eventually, your body will compensate by lowering your metabolism to burn less energy at any given time.  Then when you eventually get tired of that fad (which you would), you'll gain a TON of weight becuase your metabolism dropped so much.\n\nAlthough, it IS a good short term weight loss technique.  However, you are NOT supposed to stay on it for more than a week (two weeks TOP).  Anything after that and you are actually damaging your body.  Remember the guy who invented the Atkins diet.  Died of heart disease i think it was.
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Not sure if it works yet, but I am trying it. I started today. I bought a 14 day plan and menu on ebay for cheap. It looks fairly easy to stick to compared to other diets I've tried. send me an email\n\nchuckehall2000@yahoo.com
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if you dont exercise then you could only eat 800calories a day\n\nso exercise, and eat and burn off everythign you eat. and you will become slimmer in no time
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When my already crazy-skinny sister ran cross country and got even skinnier- we made her drink a big milkshake every night before bed.  That way her body could absorb at least some of the calories before she burned them all off.  If you exercise, always be sure to refuel with carbs and proteins within an hour.  Timing is critical!
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Everybody is trying new dieting programs to try and lose weight fast, but very few people are actually able to accomplish their weight loss goals -- since most dieters fail in reaching their weight loss goals.  \n\nIf you want to learn how to lose weight fast then you need to understand that only a proper dieting plan (such as the one mentioned below) can accomplish this task for you, because a good fat burning diet is the answer to fast weight loss .\n\nYou cannot lose fat fast using starvation dieting plans since those types of diets do not allow the body to lose fat , those types of diets only allow you to lose water weight and that's all.  If you want to burn real fat then starvation diets are definitely not the answer.  Instead of using starvation diets, you should follow the fat burning diet mentioned below since it will show you how to lose weigh fast while maintaining your good health at the same time.\n\nJust remember that everybody wants to lose fat fast and many diets promise "fast weight loss " but most of them fail to deliver on this promise so beware.   If you truly want to lose fat fast then only a good fat burning diet will work for you.
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Never skip breakfast. You just have fruit juice (freshly squeezed ! not in packets) and eat more organic food. You may excersize and burn off fats, but if you still eat junk food, then it eaquals to nothing. Eat more organic vegetables and try your best not to eat junk food, you can eat some but maybe just once a month. Put less oil in your food and try eating raw salad without the sauces. Control your diet and read up on health nutrients. Don't eat fruits or drink water straight after meals as it will make digestion uneasy. eat fruits maybe 1hrs after meal or eat it before your meal (but not straight before) . Snacks could be vegetables instead of chips. You can drink clear vegetable soup, don't drink fatty or cream soups that ofter. try to brew your own soup and not from cans. Look at every ingredients. it should not have vegetable shortening, this is bad. make sure what you eat is organic and natural, not full of chemicals and fats. Try not to drink low-fat milk as it is WORSE tahn natural ones, really. if you want a healthy and fit life, try not to eat all you want and drink all you want. Search for ForMor and check it out. the supplements there are really good especially the vitamin C. My mom tried it and now she lost about 5kg (not that she wanted to be thin, it comes naturally when you take care of your body). Think of being healthy instead of being slim. thinking of your health will automaticly make you slim !!