Meal Replacement shakes????

[Cookievts]

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?

Cheers

Cookie

[Sirhc777]

Aren't those slim fast shakes loaded with sugar?

When I started boxing and needed to get to a competitive weight, I went for promax diet shakes for lunch and sometimes breakfast. I certainly lost weight.

[Roger645]

What do you weigh now and what should you weigh?

Rather than meal replacement I would use myfitnesspal and manage your food (calories).

[Cookievts]

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.


Cheers

Cookie

[SirSamuelBuca]

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.

[Cookievts]

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

[SirSamuelBuca]

Ye it would. A simple start is 30 seconds slow on the bike, then 1 min as fast as u can rinse and repeat for 10 mins

[didelydoo]

What's the problem with drinking calories, providing you're getting the right stuff? I've seen this in a few places, I'd presume the phrase assumes what you're drinking isn't any use?

Whey, milk, eggs and oats is as good as anything you have to chew.

[SirSamuelBuca]

Ye don't drink stuff of no use. I drink the above frequently

It's just avoiding juices and pop as well as beer :-)

[Flibble]

didelydoo said:

What's the problem with drinking calories, providing you're getting the right stuff? I've seen this in a few places, I'd presume the phrase assumes what you're drinking isn't any use?

Whey, milk, eggs and oats is as good as anything you have to chew.

Phrase normally means lay off the beer and soft drinks which are empty calories (being just sugar or alcohol).

Protein rich drinks are fine.

Not sure why the avoidance of milk in the big post above. Skimmed milk is pretty much just protein, lactose and water. It's a no worse than anything else on the list.

Also interval training and steady pace cardio both burn calories over the next day or so. Interval training burns a few more, but the amounts of calories burned is fairly small either way. You'll burn a lot more calories doing 45 mins of running than 20 mins of intervals - and 45 mins of running is easier to do.