Meal Replacement shakes????

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Afternoon Pistonheaders

I am mid way through a post-uni diet, I am eating healthily, walking and cycling and I have lost a small
amount of the flab. I was satisfied with this as I was losing a bit of weight every week, however I have just been presented with the opportunity to get into my dream career and I need to shed a substantial amount of weight in double quick-time (2-3 months). I have stopped walking + cycling and started running, I was considering replacing breakfast and lunch with a slimfast meal replacement shake or similar whilst eating a healthy meal for tea.

I ideally need to drop 2 stone in 2-3 months, is this do able?

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I currently weight 14.5 stone and I am 5 foot 9 tall.

I appreciate that diet and exercise are the only things that are going to help shed the pounds but with the deadline I would like that extra help which is why I was looking at the meal replacement shakes.


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SirSamuelBuca said:

dont take slim fast st.

worst thing you can do it drink your calories.

To lose weight eat low carb high protein (though this is not the best way but quickest)

So Brekkie try

porridge with water (not milk) and a protein shake like optimum nutrion whey or gaspari myofusion (these 2 are about the best imo)

banana + shake for snack

complex carb lunch such as sweet potato cottage cheese and tuna

afternoon snack apple/almonds and protein shake

low carb dinner with high protein so chicken stir fry with plenty of veg like broccoli.

then cottage cheese or 0% fat total yoghurt before bed.

Foods to avoid =

Bread all types or bread avoid avoid avoid.
Peanut butters yummy and has protein but fatty and full of sugar
rice (brown is good in the afternoon but avoid white)
whole/semi skimmed milk. Skimmed is ok in small amounts and soya milk is ok if you fancy something sweet.

Good foods

Quinoa - can eat with anything salads, instead of rice etc.
wholemeal pasta/brown rice (avoid at night)
fruit such as bananas (only eat banana on empty stomach though not after a meal but before).
nuts and things with omega 3 so flax seeds, almonds

Good snacks
Raisins and almonds<<<<
protein shake and banana
mixed seeds and prunes/dates
low fat yoghurts with blueberries and a sprinkle of protein powder
Oat cakes are great pre workout with cottage cheese.

This seems extreme but you will lose plenty of weight. even just changing out a few things to the above will help.

Also add resistance training in with some high intensity interval training.

I.E do 20mins of 2 min circuits such as jumping squats, ladder running thing (on floor like press up and run), star jumps and running on the spot.

Then weight training 3 times a week.

You burn more calories over time doing interval training combined with weights than just running.

You only burn what you burn while doing a run.

Weight and interval training makes your body burn calories for up to 24+hours after your training due to repairs muscles.

Cheers for that i will try and follow that and see how I do. When I played football we used to run around the pitch, sprinting down the sides and jogging along the ends, Would this constitute interval training?

cheers