Slim Fast Shakes

Pros: works, easy on your body, simple to use
Cons: flavors can be terrible, meal bars are horrible

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Pros: Easy to drink as you're rushing out the door or pushed for time
Cons: You need a really good blender

Let's face it... most of us are too rushed to sit down and eat a well balanced meal three times a day. Because I just keep getting older (I'm in that "forty something" age range) and realize I need to take care of myself better, I knew it was time to try...

Pros: good chocolate flavor
Cons: sickeningly sweet, not healthful

Yes, if you are old enough, you will remember there was an old song by The Archies called "Sugar, Sugar." Now I loved the song... but what I don't like is being sold a can of "sugar, sugar" and being told it is a...

Pros: 24 vitamins and minerals.
Cons: Must be VERY cold to truly enjoy.

I am not on the "Slim Fast Diet", or any diet for that matter. I am a lazy riser in the morning and almost NEVER have time to sit down for a balanced breakfast. Who does?? In the past, I would skip breakfast and later find myself dragging around the...

Pros: they taste good
Cons: they made me gain weight

Maybe it is just me, but whenever I put myself on a diet I get the incredible urge to eat a whole chocolate cake. Something about the word diet just makes sweets so desirable.

I thought the slim fast plan might be something good for me....

Pros: some flavors are really tasty
Cons: gets monotonous

Yes, they're more expensive, but they are much better than the mix-it-yourself powders, for several reasons. First, they are so much more convenient.. you can just grab one and go, on your way to work in the morning. Second, they taste a WHOLE lot...

Pros: Better than it used to be, fast, decent supply of most vitamins/minerals
Cons: Not a long-term solution, still makes some people sick, fairly expensive

As a rubeunesqe (kinda cool word for FAT) chick, I am all too familiar with most "diet" plans. Little wonder that the SLIM FAST family of products failed to escape my notice years ago when it first came out.

What a miracle of...

Pros: Well, its got a few flavors
Cons: You'll never feel full

Slim Fast Nonsense

This product does one thing for me. It gets me angry. Slim Fast shakes are a blatant attempt to catch the eye of a sweet-toothed person on the go, but is only going to keep you feeling like you are missing out...

Pros: really easy, quick for people on the go
Cons: doesn't teach good eating habits

Okay, I need to lose weight -- I hear admitting it is the first step... I have 4 children and over the years I have added 1 pound here and another there (here being my hips and there being my stomach, arms, legs, double chins.... you get the ugly...

Pros: some are tasty, works if you work at it
Cons: kinda pricy, doesn't always satisfy my hunger

That was the sound of my stomach growling. Maybe two shakes at lunch is what I need.

I take slim-fast a few times a week more for a supplement to my poor eating habits and low vitamin intake than anything. It tastes decent in my opinion and...

Pros: low cost, basic and easy, nutritious
Cons: high in sugar, I got hungry & often

Let me say that most of the Slim-Fast products are tasty and have many positives going for them. However, the program did not work for me.

Having quit the Atkins Diet (I am not against it but it was time to switch gears) I was looking...

Pros: tastes good and prevents cravings
Cons: it's inconvenient to carry the cans around and keep them refrigerated until I'm ready to drink them

My weight situation: I am about twenty pounds heavier than I would like to be eight months after the birth of my third son. I'm finding at age 30, skipping a meal or two just doesn't do it anymore and I need to find a daily diet thing to help me lose...

Pros: It's faster now...
Cons: taste, still hungry, need to use it for life

You have seen the commercials. Some skinny woman tells you how wonderful it is to fit into her old clothes again. They show a picture of how she used to look, so you can compare it to her current svelt state. Then they tell you how you can get the...

Pros: Pleasant Tasting, Ease of Use
Cons: Gassy gassy gassy

Ahhh, Slim-Fast. The name alone conjures up images of my bikini-clad body carousing on a Caribbean beach, the surf splashing against my firm thighs, hunky lifeguard poised to catch me in his muscular arms should a wave knock my reed-thin body over...
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