How SlimFast Became A Billion-Dollar Diet Craze Machine
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- Weird History is taking you on a SlimFast nostalgic diet. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, supermarket shelves around the US were suddenly overflowing with different types of dieting beverages and snacks, all promising effortless weight loss. SlimFast meal replacement shakes, which had been pulled from shelves in the 1970s, were re-released in 1984 to become a big part of this '80s diet beverage trend. SlimFast's history, however, goes much deeper than its celebrity endorsements and sudden rise to success.
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I remember my mom drinking these from around 1995 to the early 00s. She never kept the weight off with them and she was always hungry and miserable. I used to sneak them once in awhile but would always get in trouble since they were her expensive diet food. I also remember her having the fat free snack well cookies and the olestra chips in the house. Ah the 90s were a weird time
Wow. With your mom digesting all these items she had to be in the bathroom alot! That's what Slim Fast did for me and I was still overweight 😳
Your fat mom probably drank the shake and did no exercise. My step dad drank this as a drink WITH his dinner.
Same! I wasn't allowed to have the shakes because my mom said they would make me lose weight..LOL
Hehe. I bought the shakes out of curiosity and was delighted at how good they tasted, especially the vanilla. That flavor beat out Carnation Instant Breakfast by a long shot. But - I never followed the slimmest plan. Hey people, it's a shake, so I don't care what your commercials say, it's a cool summer beverage. With or without some food to go with.
I remember the chocolate one tasting like vitamin enriched chocolate milk, but more watery.
“are you unhappy with who you are?”
yes, deeply! thanks for asking!
Totally forgot there was a weight-loss supplement called AYDS in the 80s. Yikes.
70s. And AIDS disaster put them out of biz.
I used this to lose 30 lbs in high school for prom. I gained back like 15 a year later but it wasn’t sustainable. Nobody can live off just shakes.
Me too, but I lost 40 lbs for prom with SlimFast, starvation, & prescription diet pills. 🤦🏻♀️ No wonder I needed my gallbladder removed by 23.
@@kristyllockhart 😂 I guess Slim Fast ruined my gallbladder too because mine had to be removed a few years later.
Wow, maybe we should sue! Lol. 😂💀
@@kristyllockhart 😂 Class action lawsuit on the way
I have dysphagia so I wish I didn’t have to.
I tried it for a while at college, but found out the shakes did nothing to curb my hunger and only led to me eating more at dinner. They never actually made me feel full. I guess that was down to the lack of fibre and not having anything to chew. Anyway I gave up on them pretty quickly and just tried eating a bit less per meal and getting more exercise, which, surprise surprise, worked much better. 🙂
Topic suggestion: the "astronaut" food craze of the 60s. Spacefood Sticks, Carnation Instant Breakfast, Tang...
Great idea! I was always fascinated by those
It's more recent, I think, but I say throw in Astronaut Ice Cream and Astronaut Strawberries.
@@richardadams4928 Those are just freeze-dried versions of the real thing. (And you can find those "astronaut" foods quite a bit cheaper when just marketed as freeze-dried...)
Now, spacefood sticks were just a bizarre item. Maybe, could be compared to today's protein bars, but probably less nutritious, lol. I remember "space" gels, too, but those are actually making a comeback, mostly as energy supplements.
I lost 40 pounds on the Slimfast diet in the early 90s. I was a big baseball fan at the time so the Tommy Lasorda endorsement was a definite influence on me.
I have tried many other diets over the years but today I still loosely follow the 321 plan but without using any of the Slimfast products.
Better options with smoothies now to be honest. You can actually make something you'd enjoy drinking just as much if not more.
1c real fruit juice (worth it to own a juicer tbh), 1/2c kefir yogurt, 1c of your fave frozen fruit or fruit mixture, 1/2c of frozen chopped kale, ice cubes if you want it thicker (amount is really up to personal preference. I personally don't add ice.) and if you want to stay full longer add a tbsp of chia seed. You won't even taste the kale. The fruit and kefir completely mask the taste.
These are how I found out I'm lactose intolerant. I was constantly hungry, gassy and physically miserable. "No one is teaching people how to eat properly after losing weight" was the biggest problem- I just gained all of it back and round and round I went.
Oh dear...that's...not good man.
I don't like intolerance
I was fat in junior high. My mom packed me a slim fast for lunch. And I got called slim slow all year. Thanks mom
This made me laugh harder than it should have
That makes me sad. I'm sorry that happened to you. My parents divorced when I was in the eighth grade and my mother stopped buying groceries. Whenever I was invited over to a friend's house I ate more than the biggest adult at the table, and I was less than 100 pounds.
@@HistoricHeroine that's way more sad than mine. I'm sorry that happened to you.
🤗..THE GOOD OLD DAYS
I believe that your classmates watched "The Nutty Professor". That's where I remember the words "slim slow" from.
That being said, sorry you were treated badly.
Ohhh yes, I tried Slim Fast and thought it was kind of pointless. Walking and eating fewer calories was what got my baby fat off.
That’s the problem, most people aren’t willing to exercise so products like this will always give them the illusion that they are making progress.
I would love to hear about Dexatrim that had some type of super bad stuff in it.
People popped those and acted like crack heads! 😂
Ephedrine diet pills (totally legal and over the counter til like the 80s i think) are essentially the pill form of dexatrim. Theres a reason dexatrim isnt available and you cant buy more than one box of anything containing ephedra at a time now...
Oh I remember seeing those ads.
They were just trying to rat poison the fat off of people, that's all. 🤣🤣🤣
I remember slim slow one of my teachers would have one of these for lunch followed by a box twinkies and wondered why he wasn't losing weight.
Slim slow 😂😂
@@kyliCatherine1 Slime slop!
He didn’t teach you how to spell either.
Lose*
@@The_Architekt oops my mistske
Losing#
that the word you seek it seems
My grandmother would let me drink her chocolate slimfast as a kid. It was damn good.
No it was not. It tasted like chalk. Quick was better. And healthier.
@@garcemac chalk would probably have tasted better and be healthier 😏
Oh, wasn't it though? :) I find the fudge one too strong of chocolate, and that's saying something. Their vanilla tastes like the richest not too sweet white chocolate you could have.
@@thispeace1281 Yep, surprisingly good.
Lots of vitamins too lol
these and sonic shakes were my only food when I was in my first trimester with my middle child. I had an aversion to eating and lost 10 lbs. doctors weren't concerned because I was overweight, but I had to get some calories and nutrition and slim fast was relatively cheap and easily accessible at gas stations
My mom bought Slim Fast in the early 2000s when she was trying to lose weight and I of course thought they tasted good so I’d help myself. Once I opened a can and took a big swig and some sort of horrible gelatinous blob came out and I never again drank a Slim Fast. 😖
My Mom went on and off slimfast and various other crash diets right up until diabetes caught up with her.
I never understood this. My mom had this when I was growing up, and since it was the closest thing to a milkshake I could have, I would sneak them. But a desserty, sugary thing as a meal replacement? I never, ever understood this....
A majority of meal replacement shakes and bars are extremely sweet, whether they're actually loaded with sugar or not. I wonder if it's because sweetness is the best way to mask the taste of everything else they put in there?
@@slitheen3 Hmmmm... And, eeeeehhhhh🥴😖
Yep, no gross artificial sweeteners in it. Good stuff for an occasional treat.
@@jackb1969 So the plan says, but it is flawed.
@@jackb1969 I wasn't the one eating this. Except sneaking as a snack (as a kid). And as such, I didn't really get why it was a meal; it was dessert to me!
Suggestion: Celebrity endorsed kids' cereals,
such as Mr. T's and Urkel-O's.
"Low Fat" versions of a product typically have higher sugar and or salt content than their original counterparts.
The "low fat" craze is actually responsible for the obesity epidemic in America.
Because fats usually helped with flavor, and without fat, people compromised with sugar.
Actually fat, trashy conservatives are responsible for their own obesity.
I always tell my friends this and they dont believe me. just get the real thing, but in moderation.
@@mikeoxlong4556
Exactly.
Same here.
@@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819
Yep.👍
I honestly really like Slim-Fast and similar meal replacement drinks. I work outdoors and can't always stop to eat lunch or breakfast. I also live in Florida, and some days are just too hot and humid to be lugging around a full belly while working.
I understand enjoying liquid foods like smoothies and protein shakes, but slim fast is not real food. Try protein shakes
@@kurlykaitlyn I drink those too. Just depends on my mood at the time. I'm fortunate enough to have the same metabolism at 40 that I did at 20. I'm one of those freaks that can eat like a trash compactor, and not gain an ounce.
@@SkunkApe407 niceeee!! I’m that way a bit too but I drink a ton of water. Water helps keep things going
@@SkunkApe407 Lol, I have the same metabolism I had at 20 too. None🤣 I have always had to do ridiculous amounts of exercise to maintain , let alone to try to lose weight. Wish I could have a little of your metabolism....
@@gohawks3571 if I could tap and bottle the stuff, I'd freely share.
I tried it when I was 20. I was starving all the time and I had like zero energy. I kept it up on bough for about a month. Lost about 15 lbs. gained it all back in like 2 months.
I can't see how drinking 2 cold drinks can make you feel satiated until dinner. Sounds miserable. I have lost 30lbs by counting calories last year! Nice cause I can eat breakfast, lunch, dinner, and have snacks and a small dessert and still lose weight! Fad diets aren't going to help you learn how to eat less & make healthy choices in the long run. They promote a starve/binge mentality that isn't healthy.
I guess it depends on the person.
I do the slim fast shakes. For me they work. My problem is sticking to it... when I'm on them though they do control hunger and I don't graze.
Tastes like a milkshake but full of protein & vitamins, if having one between meals prevents snacking/helps you maintain portion control on your main meals it just makes sense to drink it. Same as having a protein shake after a workout instead of a bag of chips, or any other nutritional supplement drink.
I can’t speak for dieters cause I’ve never been one, but I have dysphagia and am drinking protein shakes to keep weight on. Sometimes I can’t finish them cause I get so full. 🤷🏻♀️ I don’t get why anyone would willingly do it though, I wish I could eat normally.
Since you showed an ad of it, PLEASE do an Episode on AYDS. The name, the weird ingredients, where did it go?
You ignored the original meal-replacement craze in the 1960's....begun when Mead Johnson introduced Metrecal. Other brands followed, including Carnation's Slender, and PET Foods bringing out Sego at that time (a commercial for which is where Alfred Hitchcock discovered Tippi Hedrin, which led to Melanie Griffith)
Not to mention one of the great ironies being that at the same time Unilever acquired Slim-Fast...the also bought Ben & Jerry's ice cream enterprise.
LOL, like a doctor that owns s cemetary.
My mom went on a doctor directed liquid diet in the 80's. She got sick as shit and ended up hospitalized. She ended up suing the doc.
Geez, should have at least threatened a similar thing. I tried to have a dr test me for having ADD, and he put me on a "diet" instead. Of stripping me of all food & eating one food the first day, and if I didn't have any allergic reaction to it, add a second food the next day, and so on, adding one food a day. He didn't direct me on the best way to do it, so I did the best I could. I was young & it was one of my first times setting up my own dr's appt. I thought it sounded weird, but I thought I should do it first before I complained. I lasted 3 days. I ended up getting immensely sick, and lost my period for 9 months (wasn't having sex at the time, so definitely not pregnancy related). It took 3 days to really, really mess me up☹️☹️☹️ Btw, in my attempt to make things balanced, I did protien, starch, and veg. So day 1 was tuna, 2 rice, 3 okra. And got so very sick🙄
@@gohawks3571 yuck
Love that her first reaction is to sue... So American. Put down the food fatty! Problem solved.
@@gohawks3571 ok
A Y D S
Now with even more benzocaine!
*Rich Evans intensifies*
Didn't know it was around that long. I brought one for lunch every day in junior high and was soooo depressed not losing weight. If I (and my mom that bought it) knew then what I know now....
Damn...
Ayo hold up. Just started the video and was that product called AYDS???
I would like to hear about the crazy 3-day diet with the saltines, hot dogs, tuna, melon, and vanilla ice cream that people believed would make them lose ten lbs in 3 days. Lol. My parents did that one over and over in the 80s/90s too. No weight loss, unsurprisingly....who would think processed foods and ice cream would contribute to weight loss? Those are counter productive to any health benefits. The tuna and melon were/are fine though. Tuna has Omega-3 fatty acids and musk melon (American cantaloupe) is basically water with some flavor and texture.
Carageenan, betamethulcellulose, etc, etc, Filler that passes through your body undigested. There were also capsules you could take - can't remember the name - that had a powder in them that absorbed water and swelled up to fill your stomach, but it was basically an indigestible block of "something" - cellulose, I think, which can only be digested by cows. Must have caused a lot of constipation.
@@ferociousgumby still have those type of things today. alot of processed foods labled high fiber have cellulose as the fiber. there's a diet pill called pletny, a fiber that expands in your stomach.
That stuff is nasty! I tried it once when I was kid because one of my cousins drank it. Ugh I’ll never forget the taste. Like watery metallic sour chocolate 🫣
Watery metallic chocolate describes the chocolate one perfectly.
The Juice was sooo much better.
@@champslim what?’ They had a juice?!! 🤪
@@kurlykaitlyn Yes!! The pineapple juice was sooo good. The discounted it and I was heartbroken. My mom really didn't do the shakes but the juice and meal bars was always in the house.
My dad called it Slime Feast....😂
Slimfast's new marketing strategy should've focused on Reddit neckbeards like Soylent did.
I thought Slim Fast tasted really good but as a weight management tool it was unhealthy and impossible to maintain
Brings back memories. I remember as an 80s kid, my mom drinking this along with going with her to Jazzercise. Though only to be put into a windowless room so we wouldn't laugh and mimic their workout.
I remember tasting some leftover in the blender and it tasted chocky. Years later as an adult, i tried it myself and it still was chocky tasting. Plus it devastated my stomach due to being lactose.
Chalky? It does have a powder like taste. It was ok if mixed well.
Mom packed a Slim Fast shake in my lunchbox every day for camp as a pre-teen to help supplement all the calories I burned. Plus, I really liked the chocolate one & I wasn't allowed desserts/sweets except on holidays & special occasions.
i tried slimfast before for a week and lost 10lbs, then i switched to Apple Cider Vinegar and black coffee W/lemon juice+2 meals a day and 2 10 minute workouts with push-ups, sit-ups+lunges+squats+lots and lots of walking and over the course of the pandemic i lost 120 pounds and went from 300+lbs to the 180lbs i weigh in today
Niiice! I lost 30lbs doing basically the same except biking tons and of course the apple cider vinegar
CONGRATS!!!! 💖💖💖
Congratulations! Not trying to be insensitive, but did you have a bunch of loose skin afterwards? If so, how did you manage it? My wife’s friend lost over 200+ lbs and had to have surgery to remove all of her loose skin.
@@notsaranohuh thnx
@@CrazyMagyar just a little loose skin, i'm gonna tone most of it away
Lol was going to comment about how my mom used to drink them, but looking at the comment section, it seems everyone’s mom did
I can’t believe that those shakes and supplements are still being sold and in pharmacies, of all places 🤦🏻♀️😣
Oh, they're not bad as an occasional beverage. And they sell them at the grocery stores here. I can leave every other flavor (not that they taste bad) but the vanilla is delicious.
Ain't a pharmacy the best place? Very sick, surgery patients or elderly that cannot eat enough protein or calories to sustain good life from regular food alone can have a relief by drinking those type of shakes additionally. I agree selling them as weightloss drinks in pharmacy is a bit gimmicky but they can have their purpose, it just depends on formula and usage
@@Bloodygat there are many other and specifically made for those patients like Sustagen so your argument is not really good.
I’m not a fan of pharmacies selling snake oils, sorry.
@@oceanelf2512 for an occasional beverage I’d rather have a liquid breakfast like “Up and Go”
If it doesn't have any of that artificial sweetener crud, I'd give that a go.
Totally remember my mom buying these all throughout the mid 90s to early 2000s. I remember drinking them every now and then, but as a kid/teenager, they acted more as a snack than any sort of meal replacement. Also, my mom never lost weight because of the slim fast, it was the whole eating better and exercising thing that seemed to help best. Go figure.
My mom just drank disgusting “Tab” soda… don’t know how she got it down…
A video on the history of salad dressings or chef boyardee would be cool.
I love all your videos!!!
They already did one on Hector Buoardi.
I remember AYDS! Everyone’s mother was on them and they were pure amphetamine!
Atkins, South Beach, Keto, Pritikin, Eat Right 4 Your Type, Phen-Fen, Juice Fasting, Trim Spa…..
I am eating my birthday cake while watching this video....
Happy birthday
It used to be called Metrecal. Same principle, really - replace 2 meals out of 3 with a Metrecal "shake" (horrible stuff!).
watching this as i ate my Atkins Bar. lol
I remember years ago buying their bbq chips... mostly cause I liked the odd taste of them lol
1) I didn't know I needed a SlimFast documentary 2) I didn't know a SlimFast documentary could be so droll! I'll have to check out some of your other work!
There’s that diet where you can eat anything you want, as long as you’re naked in front of a mirror.
I threw out all the mirrors.
SlimFast DOES work, it just makes you shit liquid 4x a day lmao
Well yeah. There's only 3 ways a weight loss aid is physically capable of working. Either they increase calories burned (extremely dangerous because that energy has to go somewhere, usually in the form of raising the heart rate to potentially life-threatening levels, so most things that work this way are illegal now), decrease calories absorbed (read: you shit everything out before you can absorb many calories from it), or suppress your appetite so you eat less and risk malnutrition if you're not very careful. If anything claims to work without any of those drawbacks, they're lying.
IBS can do the same. Just need stress and a bit of peppers and onions. The stomach cramps kill the appetite too.😆😖😭
The problems? The shakes were expensive and they weren't filling enough to actually BE a meal replacement.
Also, I'm shocked this video leaves out the Jenny Craig videos. They were a staple in diet advertising around the same time Slimfast was blowing up. I think they were more meal plans, but still, an indirect competitor with a large footprint.
I think meal replacement shakes have their place, but not as a weight loss product, rather as a somewhat sane option when you're too tired/busy/lazy for anything other than something quick and easy. Is it better to cook something? Absolubtely. But a meal replacenent shake is still the lesser of 2 evils if it's either that or something like a bag of chips or fast food or not eating at all. I would buy sometjing higher quality than slimfast though. The only way to lose weight and keep it off is eating properly and getting enough excercise. Anything else is just marketing.
What's Mel Torme up to? He's been six feet under for almost 25 years.
Tommy Lasorda!!!
I've been on a kind of liquid diet for years.
Much to my liver's chagrin.
Yeah, my liver be screaming STOP!!!!! But i unfortunately don’t speak liver so i have no idea what he is saying.
I used these as an edition to my breakfast in early teens to keep weight on, turns out my then type of ADD medication used for an ADD form of Asperger's was the key problem I had with the weight and once I stopped it for a safer drug, I moved upin size and weight not much due to genetics, but I was bigger.
similar here
@@PPP-h4g Yeah that drug was Conserta, then had Strattera before I stopped that at age 21. Then at about age 27--28 I found I was an ADD form of Asperger's.
Dude, fuck that combo.
@@caseysmith544 Then when you're 50 they are gonna say it was something different
@@mikec5400 Because the company making Concerta that made the worst ADHD/ADD drug for those under 30 can Get away with paying off those in government to get rid of and burn the results of the drug so that the suicide and the rest of the bunch of problems were never there and say those people never took the drug as most are dead by 50 due to the drug.
I used to drink it in the 90s, and it tasted good, so a few months ago I decided to buy the little bottles of it, boy was that a big mistake! That stuff tastes horrible, back in the 90s it wasn't completely sugar free, and the shakes were thicker too!
I admit I hare diet foods, like soda, can't stand any artificial sweetener, they all taste like your eating or drinking something with chemicals in it!
So the new way they are doing their shakes are definitely not like it was at all, I had to force myself to drink two of them on two different days that is, because it was making me sick!
I remember when slimfast was an easy “yo mama” joke in the 90s/early 2000s for middle schoolers
I remember Tommy Lasorda also had a weight loss competition with one of our popular school teachers to benefit students in need.
I’m not loving the anti liberal slant of this channel. I first noticed it with a dig at San Francisco. Now Whoopi.
Lady’s love cool Tommy.
Now that’s a funny reference.
sure, i tried it. but how much weiht do you reall y need to loose when you already weigh in at 102 pds ???
Remember there was a guy in my middle school who drank slim fast with every lunch and breakfast and I remembered thinking. Wait isn’t it suppose to be a meal replacement?
I used them to help me gain weight for a time
@@NoNumbersAtTheEnding Products like Ensure are meant to help you stabilize or gain weight, taken as a supplement with meals.
It worked for me in the 90s. It served its purpose at the time. Before it, I was a fat kid
My 4th grade teacher Ms. Webster used to knock these back all day and talk to herself, she was single. That's all I remember from the 4th grade.
Oh SNAP, Mr. W. History got some ATTITUDE! @ 11:32 "Are you unhappy with who you are?" ... I'm still cracking a smile! :)
I'm sure I watched this video when it came out, but this is why i rewatch fave videos just like we used to rewatch old movies on cable or til the tape wore out.
S. Daniel Abraham is still alive at 99, so there must be something to it.
Its so nasty that just the smell of when i open a can of powder or shake makes me so nauseous
YOU SHOULD DO A SEGMENT ON THE MAC DONALD'S BEANI BABIES CRAZE ..MAC DONALDS WAS A MAD HOUSE . I was there and saw many fights over these worthless things , WE NEVER COLLECTED THEM . WE ONLY WENT TO SEE THE FIGHTS .
Not to mention the food they wasted . I ended up with 72 cheese bergers for free as the people only wanted the toy . I froze the bergers , untill i needed one or two lol .Did any one else live though this madness ? tell me .
When I was a kid I thought slimfast and slim Jim were from the same people so I saw slim jim as health meat
Or "diet meat" so to speak
My mom lived off of these
If you follow the instructions, the weight does come off as predicted. It's tastier if you use whole milk, and add the powder and three ice cubes into a blender and make what looks and tastes like a malt-shop shake!
For a much higher level of protein (the USRDA numbers are too low), go with Muscle Milk.
You nearly snapped my neck from the whiplash of, "did you ever try Slimfast? Are you unhappy with who you are?" Well since you asked... See, it all started when I was a kid and my mom made me wear a sailor outfit to school everyday. *prattles on about childhood traumas that inform my adulthood quirks*
bruh
I did the Slim Fast Diet. Didn't really help. As I have gotten older, I find I prefer vegan or vegetarian, but gods help me, I freaking love my bacon!🤣🐖🥓
Right bacon is good 😅
Gravity stills wins when aging.
This is nothing but a protein shake and it works (just like any other protein shake). Replace breakfast, lunch or dinner with the shake and you save 300-400 calories per day. Obviously, if you go back to 'normal', you might gain weight again. But most people with an office job don't need 3 meals a day though. We live in a day and age where overconsumption of calories is the normality.
Take it slow and steady. Don't change your habits and nutrition by 180 degrees from one day to another (unless you were eating complete garbage before). Do a small change - e.g. replace 1 meal with a shake - and see if you can keep it up for 1 month, 2 months, 3 months. Ideally, you can do it for the rest of your life. And after getting to your target weight, you can even enjoy the 2 other meals per day even more.
Goes in liquid comes out liquid
Just have one for breakfast, one for lunch and a reasonable dinner.
How dare you be sarcastic with The Velvet Fog....lol
The Velvet Frog you say?
@@ve2vfd actually I said the velvet fog. Jimmy say him perform. Jimmy thinks Mel Torme is the perfect spokesperson
@@Machtimus Night Court: Dan Fielding refers to Mel as the Velvet Frog.
@@ve2vfd yooooo...I totally forgot about that. Judge Stone was such a huge Mel Torme fan. And who could forget Yakov. Thanks for the correction
I always knew Tony Montane was snorting Slim fast…thank you for confirming 😂😂😂😂
How do we feel about huel or Soylent 🤔
I tried it in the early 2000's, I liked some of the flavours (chocolate, vanilla) but not enough of them to be able to stand 2 a day. When I was convinced by a friend to try weightwachers I was able to include the shakes once or twice a week as a treat and that was pretty successful. I was very overweight (nearly 300lbs) but over the course of a year lost 80lbs of that and weightwatchers (and presumably similar diet programs) do actually change your eating habits, so these days I don't actually follow the program but I maintain my weight through habit. I haven't had a slimfast in years, I guess I just got bored of them.
As a bit of hypocrisy, I remember my mother using SlimFast products when I was a kid (late 80s/early 90s) and thinking how absurd the idea is, this sweet, milky drink being a healthy way of losing weight, it didn't work for her and probably caused more weight gain when she came off it. Yet, as an overweight adult I actually fell into it myself, thinking it an easy way to buy myself slim. However, pretty much all SlimFast products would cause me to get really painful gas and generally feel crappy, I never lost any weight (probably because BMR was dropping whilst also still being prone to binging due to hunger). The original docs were right about it, it doesn't teach you good habits, so even if you do lose weight on it, you'll gain it right back and then some... seems part of the plan tbh.
Switched to OMAD fasting at the start of this month and not only have I lost 8kg in 3 weeks but it's something I can do pretty much indefinitely and, instead of costing extra per day, I save a ton of money not buying breakfast/lunch/snacks/cola etc.... highly recommend it. Not only am I losing weight fast and easily but I feel a ton better and get to eat a lot of really good food each night. I try to avoid sugar/processed carbs but that just means I get to eat more veggies, cheese, meat etc. Check out 'The Obesity Code' and 'The Complete Guide to Fasting' by Dr Fung :)
I spent years with genetic insulin resistance. While never really overweight, i was soft. I was skinny but developed a gut. My diet was a train wreck and I felt like garbage.
I ended up becoming a bodybuilder before it was a said and done, but even eating very "healthy," my blood sugar still went up and down. Eventually I scrapped most all carbs and got my life back.
Every major health marker improved, and I feel great. I've lived a super low carb life since 2015 and my bloodwork looks amazing, my athletic endurance is through the roof, I look and feel years younger and I'm never sick.
No Slim Fast for me.
Do dexatrim next!
benzocaine chewing gum for weight loss? that's hilarious. the only way that could work is that you'd feel super weird when trying to eat (or talk) because your mouth and perhaps your esophagus would be numb.
The problem with the old slim fast and other shakes was that they were too low in the correct proteins. Bodybuilders have known for DECADES that whey proteins (both isolate and concentrate) have the full spectrum of essential amino acids which are vital for the body. Nowadays we have many protein powders, including vegan/plant based and lactose-free, that are complete in those amino acids and are worlds apart from the old ones.
I'm unhappy with the way I am -- but I never tried SlimFast yet. I just did excercise and trial by error dieting
"But don't count the grandpappy...out so SlimFast..." (11:03-11:06)
[Simon Whistler rimshot goes here]
Like you mentioned in your video these diet shakes are great for losing weight, but the minute you stop drinking them you gain all the weight back. In 2020 I weighed 232 lbs and started drinking Atkins protein shakes. I lost 42 lbs in nine months… At first I felt great, but then I developed gastritis. I had to be put on all kinds of medications. Once I stopped drinking Atkins I quickly started gaining all the weight back. Here it is June 2022 and I’m at 220 lbs once again. I guess I should try losing weight the old fashion way like exercising and eating healthy…? Lol
From what I understand from college, it’s all about calories in and calories out. You can never outwork a bad eating regiment, nor can you go on if you’re experiencing a chronic or undiagnosed ailment.
The best way to start, if you’re not in the above is to start tracking what you eat and staying active whenever possible. Drink water, eat Whole Foods, and don’t give up.
Godspeed
You should talk to your doctor and see if you can get a referral for a nutritionist. The Adkins diet can really mess up your kidneys and your insulin production. If you get a nutritionist they can help you makes sure your getting enough of the right stuff without doing anymore damage to your body.
Good luck :)
@@halo2d this was almost 2 years ago… I’m no longer on the Atkins diet. I regularly see my general practitioner and my neurologist, both of whom do regular bloodwork to make sure everything‘s OK. Although I am overweight my kidneys are operating at 100% and my blood sugar levels are fine. My only issue now is high blood pressure and gastritis, which my doctor is working with me on. Thanks for the advice… Yeah I’ve heard some horror stories in the past about these diet drinks messing peoples insulin levels up.
I am a 30 year old woman with PCOS and I used the Herbalife diet shakes to drop 70 lbs over the course of 10 months a few years ago. Kept the weight off, too, and built muscle (my body fat percentage was 27-28% a year ago and now it’s at 26%, despite my putting on around 7-10 lbs over the past year). But I took advantage of the peace of mind the diet shakes offered to constantly research healthy nutrition, micro and macronutrients, the caloric profile of ingredients I was cooking with, so I ended up learning a LOT and I am now able to often eyeball the amounts I’m cooking with or eating, accurately. The one “proper” meal a day I was preparing for myself was always very healthy and nutritionally balanced, the entire 10 months or so. I trained three times a week at the gym and I started drinking 3-4 litres of water per day, which I still do. I use protein powder nowadays because I weight train three times a week and I need the help for muscle recovery. Probably wouldnt have been able to achieve this without those diet shakes. For someone like me who doesn’t lack discipline, but just grew up in a chaotic household with no specific rules about food or knowledge of calories, this was great.
2:10 Wow. Anyone know where I can get a bottle of "One Night" cough syrup? I'll bet between that and laudanum, you could cure all sorts of ills, lol...
I still do slim fast but I modify it a bit so I’m not so hungry. Like I’ll add an extra scoop to my almond milk in the morning to sustain me. And I’ll make sure my snacks throughout the day are at minimum 200 calories. I was able to lose 2 pounds in the first week. I was fine with that.
I drink a protein shake once a day with banana infused almond milk, i eat constantly, and ive lost 65lbs inthe last 4 months. Don't be jealous. I have stage 4 Pancreatic cancer. I also now have type 1 diabetes because of the cancer making my pancreas unable to produce insulin reliably. So hard to find food that won't spike my glucose, is eible, and helps me to maintain my weight. It's a nightmare. I'm holding at 230lbsish.
I'm 6'0" with a large frame(broad shoulders, barrel chest). I could lose another 30 and still be comfortable but I've lost so much muscle mass it's not funny. This is how the disease kills you, my uncle died from it 25 years ago. The end is not pretty. I've gone 6weeks holding between 230-235. I might see my next birthday. Protein shakes have a place in our world, but if you religh on it to curb your weight, do yourself a favor and get an excercise regimen.
Then we had Fiber Trim lol
There are also nutritionally-fortified drinks like Ensure which are actually meant to ADD calories to your diet if you are underweight, ill or have dental problems. I have no idea how they taste.
For the ones who reads this just know this is only the beginning keep pushing, grinding, and fighting. Whatever it is in life you want to do to go after it life is to short. Life is a marathon not a sprint so go out there and live it up I hope all is well and goes well for you peace and one love.
The “Atkins Craze” saved millions of lives and transformed just as many and continues to do so today. Without it we wouldn’t have the popular Keto or Paleo diets which are based on Science that the Atkins diet pioneered more than 40 years ago.
They were ok but lol I got constipated. Why is Whoopie Goldberg still working? Because she's a black Roseanne? If black Roseanne works, white Roseanne should too!
They’ll have to shorten it to SL, like Weight Watchers did with WW, because it’s sooo not your parents diet (eww) if you refer to it as 2 letters. Remember the golden rule of generation gap: Old = Creepy, Young = Stupid.
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While I don't recommend them. I did use these myself to help lose 30kg 8 years ago. It worked, but learning how to keep the weight off was a whole adventure afterwards. As I said, even though they did work, I don't recommend these