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Slim Fast Optima Diet

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Written by AstroNutrition 28 August 2007
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Eating Plan

The Slim-Fast Optima Plan focuses on replacing high-calorie meals and snacks with calorie controlled, nutritionally balanced Slim-Fast meal replacements and snacks so you can reduce your daily caloric intake and lose weight, as well as get the vitamins and minerals your body needs. It’s the delicious shakes that made the diet famous, but there’s much more to this healthy eating plan.

Slim-Fast is based on reducing your calorie intake. It helps you lose weight at a steady rate of about 1 to 2 pounds (0.45 to 0.9 kilograms) a week, an amount that&undefined;s healthy and doable for your body to keep up.
Slim-Fast promotes a three-part weight loss plan that is simple, sensible and satisfying at the same time.

1 – Enjoy a sensible meal
2 – Use Slim-Fast meal replacements
3 – Eat only healthy snacks throughout the day

By sticking to this plan, you will strike a happy balance between tasty foods and nutrition (based on a 300-1500 caloric plan). Slim-Fast recipe ideas and menu plans are designed to satisfy all your cravings and tastes.

The first step is calculating your Body Mass Index to tell you your weight loss needs. Once you’ve entered your height and weight to get a customized meal plan on-line, you can begin the weight management process.

The Meal Replacement options have been developed by trusted nutritionists to provide an easy, convenient, balanced meal of 230 to 260 calories, with 24 vitamins and minerals.

Slim-Fast Optima products are widely available in your local grocery, drug and discount department store.

Here’s a typical day on the Slim-Fast Eating Plan:

Breakfast SlimFast meal bar or shake
Snack Anything light and healthy like fruits, veggies, oatmeal, low-fat yogurt, low-fat soup, etc.
Lunch SlimFast meal bar or shake
Snack Anything light and healthy like fruits, veggies, oatmeal, low-fat yogurt, low-fat soup, etc.
Sensible Dinner protein, starch, veggies. Eat lean protein (such as chicken without the skin, turkey, fish or lean beef), and enjoy a salad on the side and fruit for dessert.
Snack Anything light and healthy like fruits, veggies, oatmeal, low-fat yogurt, low-fat soup, etc.

Choose nutrient-rich snacks high in fiber and water content, and lower in calories and fat, such as fruit, oatmeal or vegetables. Keep your snack bin well-stocked and your snacks handy so you don’t stray toward bad food options.

Your Comments

Greg Haraksin (not verified) 4 September 2010

Slim should be the ideal goal and not a zero size figure because starving for a zero size can pose serious health risks. There are varieties of foods so we have a lot of options to choose either healthy foods or the unhealthy ones. Fruits, vegetables and whole grains are perfect foods from which we can derive maximum health benefits and prevent diseases as well. I start my day with 2 large glasses of water its kind of a cleansing process, after half an hour I have juice for breakfast and some crackers, sounds weird but I find the combination energizing. Snacking is a good idea but it should be either fruits, vegetables or nuts like almonds and pistachios instead of raisins. Oatmeal and whole grains also makes us feel fuller. Eating can be more appealing and interesting if we use the right combinations. According to me as long as we watch the calorie intake and do the right exercises slimming should not be a problem and if you're one of those who worries even with the last ten pounds I'd suggest to go easy and make your slimming session interesting.