[Eggers]

I was wondering if using Slim-Fast is actually ok. I heard that it works, but I don't want to have to drink it for the rest of my life to keep weight off.

And I really don't want to drink 2 a day (the site recommended that amount), I was just thinking about having one for lunch once in a while. By me doing that, am I renduring it completly useless?

[ambabs]

Ok well here's my thoughts.

I remember a year ago when I was trying to lose weight I was drinking them faithfully 2 times a day and I didn't last very long at all. I was always hungry. When I decided that I was seriously going to do this this time my first thought went to slimfast so that I didn't have to worry about counting calories and things like that. Well low in behold today I only had one slimfast shake. But you know what? I wasn't hungry all day because instead of wasting calories on that extra shake I used it for healthy alternatives. So ok long story short yes I think you can only drink one occasionally and still lose weight.

As far as maintaining your weight if your only drinking one a day as it is then I don't see that it would be that difficult to maintain the weightloss without the shakes. You just need to remember to chose carefully what you eat.

[kaliannah]

I've been using it for the past four days as a breakfast replacement and usually eat a piece of fruit with it. It's probably too soon to tell if it's actually working for me, but the Optima shake is only a 3 on the WW point scale I also find that if I drink it around 9:00 a.m., I'm not hungry again until around 12:30, so I believe it's filling me up enough to not want to much in between breakfast and lunch. So, I think it's working to a certain extent for me. Have you checked out their site? They have a lot of tools, recipes and forms for tracking. Good luck to you!