Slimmer Faster! (SlimFast)

Member Name: Cowl01

Product:	SlimFast
Date:	13/05/02 (1159 review reads)
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Advantages: Effective, Convenient

Disadvantages: Cost!

I have always been fairly fit, size 10 - 12, 10.5 stones and 5ft 9inches. Some may say I was too thin, but I was very happy with the way I looked. I have always struggled with my weight, at one point having an eating disorder and using laxatives.

I put on 4 stone when pregnant, and despite expectations, when I gave birth to an 8lb baby, I was still 4 stone heavier!

Something had to give (so to speak). At 14.5 stone I was a wreck. My thighs rubbed together, I had boobs like barrage balloons and I felt appalling.

I started doing the Kellogs Diet (you know the one, Cereal for Brekkie and lunch, and a lowfat dinner) and it worked for a couple of weeks, but only losing 4lbs. I had no time to go to the gym, and felt to dispondent to go anywhere near fit people.

Anyway, my husband is a fitness instructer and he said we should eat more healthily... but when we opened the fridge everything was lowfat, healthy range already!

So I started on slimfast. It is ideal - I buy the ready made drinks which are 99p a can, available in coffee, vanilla, chocolate, strawberry and banana, and they can be a bit rich first thing in the morning! You can buy tins which make 12 portions and they are £5.99 from supermarkets.

Did it work?

Well, I am now 12.5 - having lost 2 stone in 5 months - I now need to loose the same again to be happy.

The only downside is that I didn't eat breakfast before and to start with didn't have a brekkie slimfast as I thought I would put on extra weight - but it doesn't work like that. Apparently, the first shake of the day sets off your metabolism and stops you starving to death by lunchtime.

I drink loads of water and eat a lot of fruit and find this gets me through the day - another tip is to have a good hearty lunch and a shake at dinner time.

(If you are eating normally it is breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper - so you
can work it out for yourself).

Wish me luck - I have a way to go and I will keep you informed, but the key thing is to exercise every other day - I go for a very slow jog for 25 minutes and this helps speed things up a bit.

I would recommend this as a dietery aid - but only with regular exercise - and don't mix slimfast and weight watchers - on WW I was allocated 19 points a day and a slimfast is 11 points a can!!!!

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