Meal replacement shakes
Cocktails and meal replacement shakes
Meal replacement method consists of the fact that one or two meals you replace by nutritious cocktail that typically based on milk or juice and contain few calories and all the necessary body nutrients. The remaining one or two times you eat normally and your weight is declining. Since meal replacement shakes system does not require much effort, people prefer it and successfully lose weight. The best-known brand of meal replacement shakes is «Slim Fast», but there are other brands that are including the Cambridge diet. On the sale are also available meal replacement soups, bars, etc.
Diet with meal replacement shakes
Most dieters are beginning to replace two meals on meal replacement shakes and have one normal meal a day. Substitute food typically contains 200-250 calories and normal food about 600 calories. In between you can also afford fruit or skim milk.
The approximate number of calories per day: 1200.
Expected weight loss: Not specified.
Estimated daily menu:
Breakfast: The replacement shake.
In the meantime: Apple.
Lunch: Alternative cocktail.
Dinner: Chicken, grilled, baked potatoes, two servings of vegetables, sauce and banana.
Drinking 6-8 glasses of water or beverages that do not contain calories.
Short-term effectiveness: If we remain two meals in a day by meal replacement shakes weight loss will be fast enough. Reduced fat, muscle mass and fluid content will be the same as in normal-calorie diet.
Long-term effectiveness: Studies have shown that method with meal replacement shakes of weight loss is quite effective. At the European Congress on Obesity in 2001 was made a report about results of the experiment. This experiment was supported by the «Slim Fast», it showed that patients, who used meal replacements shakes for weight loss, lose weight far greater than those in the control group. Another experiment, whose results were published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, showed that most patients could not only lose weight but also keep the weight in four years. However, such studies were few. Most diets using meal replacements suggest that reaching your goal, you will return to normal diet, and for many a return to «normal eating» can mean a return to the previous weight, so as not developed new eating habits.




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