Celebrity Slim

BengaLover

Thought id start a thread here as the official CS forum is so useless.
Anyone else tried it? I did it for 4 months and lost 2.5 stone, but lapsed and went off it..
Starting back on it on Monday, have found its a great diet though and doesnt leave you starving hungry!

rene2211

I started doing the celebrity slim 3 weeks ago...
i love it the first few days were hard but it was
great i am down 10 Ibs now....
i know its christmas next week and i will be not as
strict but then it;s back on track for me...
its good i really reccommend it and good luck x

Blatter

To be honest with you, you're not going to get many people on here advocating this diet.

It's been proven time and time again that these ''diets'' don't work.
If you want to lose weight and keep it off you need to make some changes to you're lifestyle permanently, otherwise you will just keep falling of the ''diet'' wagon time and time again.

Let me tell you something else, those packaged snacks that CS sell and require you to eat, they are most certainly not healthy.

El_Dangeroso

Sounds like a great way to end up fatter than you started to be perfectly honest, and if you think I'm being harsh I am speaking from experience. Did slimfast and contemplated lipotrim for a while (I was just a smidge under the threshold BMI of 30). Dropped a stone on slimfast and then put on 2 stone when I came off it.

I know these things seem attractive as they take the pain out of choosing what to eat, which is hard to do when unhealthy food tempts you on every menu. It's like opting out of having to eat for a little while but you do have to learn eat in the real world at some point. It's slower loss but it's real FAT loss.

Losing weight is a doddle compared to keeping it off if you lose it in an unsustainable fashion. You have to learn to eat healthy at some point so why not just cut out the middle man? I guarantee you'll be lighter in a year's time if you eat fresh unprocessed food than if you resort to subsisting off frankly miserable tasting shakes. Sure it might be a loss of 1lb a week instead of 3, but 1lb a week is 52lb in a year! You'd want to have willpower of steel to stick at celebrity slim for more than 3 months.

Pretty much every long term success on this forum (and we've lost stones and stones between us) sticks to real food and stays away from crash diets. I for one don't think that's a coincidence at all.

Don't make the mistake I made by going on every sort of crash diet for 5 years of my late-teens and early 20's only to end up fatter and fatter. No diet at all is better than these types of shake plans IMO.

tiamaria1

I want to start this diet. Any advise? Please I need to loose 2 stone or maybe more would be nice

HardyEustace

BengaLover wrote: »

Thought id start a thread here as the official CS forum is so useless.
Anyone else tried it? I did it for 4 months and lost 2.5 stone, but lapsed and went off it..
Starting back on it on Monday, have found its a great diet though and doesnt leave you starving hungry!

The success of something can only be judged on it's end result. Based on your post, it's not a success.

Bottle_of_Smoke

From a quick read of their site it appears a tad better than typical meal replacment diets in that their meal replacements appear to be high protein. (Cannot get my head around Slimfast's main ingredient being sugar)

Still though, I'd advise against. Their stuff looks processed as hell, with a hint of low carb ideology.

How heavy/tall/age are you?

I just think low carb is the best way to go. It tastes good, you can fit in treats and its sustainable for life. You also get fast results.

driftykas

i did this diet last year after putting on a lot of weight during pregnancy, in total i lost 36lbs and ended up a little smaller than pre-pregnancy/normal weight for me. this was over 3 months so it wasn't too severe. if i wanted a day off it or a saturday night out i had it and it didn't derail me at all. all in all i found it quite easy to fit in to life without being starved all the time, and you don't have to eat their bars, your snacks can be what you want. anyway, it put me into good eating habits and i lost another 7lbs after coming off it and going back to work. it's a year later and i didn't gain any of the weight back so i say go for it!

gaeilgegrinds1

Is it expensive?

driftykas

not really, 32.99 a week in my local pharmacy, prices vary but not wildly.

Transform

A client of mine started walking every day for 30mins, dropped all the junk she was eating and started to eat good wholesome food, lots of good fats, protein and healthy carbs - never once felt like 'she' was on a 'diet' and lost 3stone in 6 months!!

Whhy the hell do people fall for this junk and instead put some rational thought behind their health and a fat loss approach?

Cant believe pharmacies sell this stuff also - i thought they were supposed to support health not help people mess their metabolism up!

A massive thumbs down

psycho-hope

Transform wrote: »

A client of mine started walking every day for 30mins, dropped all the junk she was eating and started to eat good wholesome food, lots of good fats, protein and healthy carbs - never once felt like 'she' was on a 'diet' and lost 3stone in 6 months!!

Whhy the hell do people fall for this junk and instead put some rational thought behind their health and a fat loss approach?

Cant believe pharmacies sell this stuff also - i thought they were supposed to support health not help people mess their metabolism up!

A massive thumbs down

im guessing pharmacies sell it because theres one hell of a mark-up, my boss refuses to sell any of thoise meal replacement things


The bf's sister is on celebrity slim at the moment, she is losing weight but shes as miserable as hell and finding it very tough going. in the year ive been dating her brother shes gained and lost the guts of 3 stone on different meal replacement diets

Transform

psycho-hope wrote: »

im guessing pharmacies sell it because theres one hell of a mark-up, my boss refuses to sell any of thoise meal replacement things


The bf's sister is on celebrity slim at the moment, she is losing weight but shes as miserable as hell and finding it very tough going. in the year ive been dating her brother shes gained and lost the guts of 3 stone on different meal replacement diets

exactly my point - none of these approaches teaches the individual anything about a healthy approach to nutrition and just encourages a yo-yo effect.

There are farrr better and more sustainable approaches which are discussed here on this forum every day.

metamorphosis

A whey shake instead of the CS would be an even much better option - made with milk, maybe some fruit and handful oats blended together as a shake, add some PB or greek yogurt too even. You will be very full for hours with that.

32.99 a week for CS - i got 2.2kg of choc mint whey for a price similar - that's about 80 servings - over 2 months supply if having one a day.

Not only is CS not good for your health but you're been ripped right off.

Transform

metamorphosis wrote: »

A whey shake instead of the CS would be an even much better option - made with milk, maybe some fruit and handful oats blended together as a shake, add some PB or greek yogurt too even. You will be very full for hours with that.

32.99 a week for CS - i got 2.2kg of choc mint whey for a price similar - that's about 80 servings - over 2 months supply if having one a day.

Not only is CS not good for your health but you're been ripped right off.

here is celeb slims ingredients -

Ingredients:

Skim Milk Powder, Fructose, Calcium Caseinate, Whey Protein Concentrate, Vegetable Oil, Glucose Syrup Solids, Soy Protein Isolate, Maltodextrin, Flavours [Wheat Derived], Minerals (Dairy Calcium, Tricalcium Phosphate, Magnesium Oxide, Ferrous Sulphate, Zinc Sulphate, Manganese Sulphate, Copper Sulphate, Potassium Iodide Sodium Molybate, Chromium Chloride, Selenium Methionine), Fructooligosaccharide, Thickener (412), Emulsifiers (339,471, 47**, 450), Vitamins (A, B1, B2, B6, B12, C, D, E, K Folate, Niacin, Pantothenic Acid, Biotin), Green Tea Extract, Antioxidant (306) {Soy Derived}

What a joke and the balls to add in some tiny amout of green tea extract!!!!

The magnesium oxide is NOT usable magnesium and more of a laxative.

The ingredients in my daughters baby formula were wayyy better than this.

boogle

I'm very against these meal replacement diets too I'm afraid. My cousin did Lipotrim couple of years ago. She lost 3 and a half stone and was on top of the world. She had another two stone to lose but had to stop the diet as she physically couldn't swallow the shakes anymore without gagging.

Anyway, two years on and she has gained five stone. She's more miserable than ever. As soon as she stopped the diet, she went straight back to her bad eating habits. She hadn't learned anything about good nutrition.

Transform

Good nutrition is spoken about here daily and on some excellent blogs.


If people were to simply wise up and stop fooling themselves there would be a decrease in obesity rates NOT a rampant increase which is what we are seeing.

cailinrua2011

i am also considering going on these shakes. was gonna do the biggest loser ones which are now being sold in dunnes but they taste gross. can anybody tell me if the celebrity slim shakes taste anywhere near nice and if so which flavours are the best for both shakes and bars. has anyone tried it and found it worked for them also. also how fast do you lose 1 stone of weight.

ebixa82

All of these replacement weight loss schemes are a scam. Simple as that.

The only way to lose weight is diet and exercise.

These schemes are just fad diets for people too lazy to put in the effort. Lazy people will never lose weight in the long turn. Yes they might feel good drinking a shake instead of a meal and losing a stone pretty quickly, but feel a whole lot worse when they revert to eating like a normal human should and pile the weight on. For any girl who has lost weight on it recently, wait a couple of months after she finishes the diet and see what she weighs!

I'm a pharmacist and we have CS in the pharmacy I work in. I personally have never and will never recommend it. I would never lower myself to do so and could never look a girl in the eye and recommend anything like CS.
However, it's a product with a good mark up that sells and so I will get one of the girls to sell it. (I'm an employee, not an owner).

It's wrong for so many reasons. As a previous poster showed the ingrdients are crap. The worst part are the chocolate bars. How can anyone who is serious about their health and weight consider replacing a healthy meal with a chocolate bar that costs 2.99?

Weekly supply is 32.99 excluding what you spend on meals you prepare in the evening. For that money you could buy an endless amount of fruit, muesli, porridge etc for breakfast as well as an endless amount of ingredients for salads and other healthy options for lunch.

Trust me, these things are a scam. The weather is great out today. If you wanna lose weight have a nice big salad for lunch and go for a walk in the evening. If you smoke cut it out, if you drink avoid alcopops and pints. Discipline is very important. But if you stick to a healthy regime and fitness plan not only will you lose weight and feel better, more importantly you'll keep it off!



Just my 2c.

Jayrocco

There is a fantastic diet called herbalife. I tried it before it's a shake in morn mixed into smoothies which I made myself with juice n loads fresh fruit thus keep u going til lunch time r even longer it's great and before each meal have a multivitamin, fibre and some other supplement. Can have any lunch and dinner u want. It makes u stop snacking completely. Also there a tea it's gorgeous like lemon in hot water and that helps break down fatty substances in blood therefore u can absorb more water. I did this diet for about 6 months. I lost between 2-5 pounds a week without much exercise and I lost loads of inches it's brilliant and get to eat proper lunch and dinner. It's not advertised but I can find out where all the suppliers are and give u anymore to check it out it's fantastic

Transform

Jayrocco wrote: »

There is a fantastic diet called herbalife. I tried it before it's a shake in morn mixed into smoothies which I made myself with juice n loads fresh fruit thus keep u going til lunch time r even longer it's great and before each meal have a multivitamin, fibre and some other supplement. Can have any lunch and dinner u want. It makes u stop snacking completely. Also there a tea it's gorgeous like lemon in hot water and that helps break down fatty substances in blood therefore u can absorb more water. I did this diet for about 6 months. I lost between 2-5 pounds a week without much exercise and I lost loads of inches it's brilliant and get to eat proper lunch and dinner. It's not advertised but I can find out where all the suppliers are and give u anymore to check it out it's fantastic

there are so many things wrong with this post I will leave it to someone else and give you a cat pic as you do not understand why and how fat loss really happened - have a wild guess. It was not the herbal life product and could have been achieved in any number of ways



Trying to be lighthearted here as many people completely overthink this whole area of fat loss

intouch44

Jayrocco wrote: »

There is a fantastic diet called herbalife. I tried it before it's a shake in morn mixed into smoothies which I made myself with juice n loads fresh fruit thus keep u going til lunch time r even longer it's great and before each meal have a multivitamin, fibre and some other supplement. Can have any lunch and dinner u want. It makes u stop snacking completely. Also there a tea it's gorgeous like lemon in hot water and that helps break down fatty substances in blood therefore u can absorb more water. I did this diet for about 6 months. I lost between 2-5 pounds a week without much exercise and I lost loads of inches it's brilliant and get to eat proper lunch and dinner. It's not advertised but I can find out where all the suppliers are and give u anymore to check it out it's fantastic

I used this a couple of years ago and it worked for me, is it possible to buy online do you know??

Frogdog

Why are people not listening to the sensible advice given on this thread?

MEAL REPLACEMENT SHAKES/FAD DIETS DO NOT WORK.

floggg

I love these threads. Well intentioned but uninformed OP starts thread, ten well intentioned and well informed people tell them how bad/unhealthy/unsustainable itbis and why, and then somebody new will come along without reading anything that came before and start asking the OP where to buy!

People, if fat loss is as easy as this people like to make you believe, why are there still fat people in the world? When they found the cure to smallpox, it didn't take long for it to catch on. Why would the cure to fat loss be much different?