Slim-Fast sells diet products and offers a diet program with instructions and tracking tools on its website. The Slim-Fast diet program uses bars and shakes along with a daily meal to achieve weight loss. It sells meal and snack bars in flavors such as mocha, chocolate and oatmeal raisin and the shakes come in mocha, chocolate and vanilla. Slim-Fast also has chocolate and vanilla meal replacement shakes.
Low Carbohydrate Diets
According to MayoClinic.com, most people get the majority of their fuel from carbohydrates, which are naturally in grains like bread, cereal and pasta, fruits and vegetables, dairy products and legumes like beans and lentils. They are also in sweets. Low carbohydrate diets limit the number of carbohydrates that you eat and the specific diet you are following determines the amount of carbohydrates you can have. You may be able to fit lower carb Slim-Fast shakes into your low carb diet plan.
Slim-Fast plan
You can use low-carb Slim-Fast shakes in your own diet plan or you can use them as part of the Slim-Fast "three two one diet." With this program, you have one 500 calorie meal per day. Instead of two other meals, you have two Slim-Fast meal replacement products such as low-carb shakes. You also have three 100 calorie snacks throughout the day, which can be Slim-Fast snack bars or foods such as fruit, vegetables or nuts.
Benefits
Slim-Fast low-carb shakes are ready-to-drink and they may help you stick to your low carbohydrate diet because they are easy to use. According to MayoClinic.com, a low carbohydrate diet can help you lose weight by reducing your calorie intake, and if you use a 200 calorie Slim-Fast low-carb shake instead of a full meal, you will likely be saving calories. Another reason why you might eat less on a low carbohydrate diet is because you have fewer food choices and less temptation to overeat. Slim-Fast shakes come in only two flavors and this might help you limit your intake.
Calories and Carbohydrates
Each 12 oz. serving of Slim-Fast lower carb shakes has 190 calories and 16 percent of the daily value for dietary fiber. The can has 6g carbohydrates and 1g sugar, which is less than regular Slim-Fast shakes, which have 25g total carbohydrates and 18g sugar per 12 oz can. Instead of sugar, the lower carb chocolate and vanilla shakes have sucralose, an artificial sweetener that does not provide calories or carbohydrates.
Other Information
A serving of lower carb Slim-Fast shakes has 20g protein, 9g fat and 8 percent of the daily value for saturated fat. It contains at least 30 percent of the daily value for most vitamins and minerals and 15 percent of the daily value for iron and zinc. If you drink two of these shakes per day for meal replacements as part of the "three two one plan," you will be close to achieving your recommended daily value for many essential nutrients. However, the Dietary Guidelines recommend getting nutrients from a balanced diet.
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