How to Lose Weight with a Meal Replacement

By Vito La Fata


If you are wanting to lose weight, you may be wondering about meal replacers and if they can help you. A meal replacer can be things like beverages, shelf stable products, frozen dinners, and even breakfast cereals. These products are things that contain a full array of nutrition and can be eaten as the only source of energy for an entire meal.

Some people wonder if they will be hungry while using a meal replacer. You may think that if you eat fewer calories during one meal (such as when you use a meal replacer), you will make up for the calorie reduction at a later meal, effectively canceling out your attempt at losing weight. Happily, however, this is generally not what happens. It may be because people tend to get used to having fewer calories at that particular meal and not end up replacing them.

Meal replacements can also help you lose weight by giving you a different mindset or mental image of your eating habits. Visualizing your meal replacement meal as a smaller meal can possibly have the effect of helping you to eat slower and be more cognizant of how full you are getting as you eat.

When choosing a good meal replacer, there are some things to keep in mind. First, where to buy them: generally, you will find these at the grocery store where you usually shop. Alternatively, you may be able to get them from your doctor or from a weight loss expert. Just be sure that your meal replacer has around two hundred to three hundred calories in it. Also, stay away from meal replacers that have a lot of sugar. Finally, make sure that they contain at least one third of the daily requirements of minerals and vitamins.

It is a good idea to talk with your doctor before attempting to lose weight by reducing your calories with a meal replacer. This is especially important to do if you already have some medical conditions that you are being treated for.

Finally, you are free to use a meal replacer for as long as you desire-as long as you are getting adequate nutrition and only using the replacer for one meal per day. If you would like to use a meal replacement for more than one meal per day, you will need to ask your doctor how long you should use it.




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