BordersGirl
Feeling great in 2012!
So what made you choose Slim and Save?
For me I came across the diet by chance. A friend at work was starting Lighterlife and I didn't want to be sitting opposite the incredible shrinking woman so I decide to go back on a VLCD at the same time. I did Lipotrim 6 years before and lost 5 stone in 4 months with no breaks or cheats, plus another 2 stone on a low cal, low carb diet after that. Over the 6 years I had put all but a stone back on.
I knew I didn't want to do Lighterlife as I'm not really into group sessions, and anyway the nearest counsellor is a hours drive away. So I thought that I'd go back to Lipotrim and there was a chemist half an hour away which would still have been a bit of a pain. Also when I did Lipotrim before when I lived in a different area I got no support from the pharmacy whatsoever. It was a case of go in, get weighed and hand over the money. No one mentioned ketosis, how the diet worked, or anything, and I was left to find out information through surfing the net. Maybe it's better in other pharmacies and YMMV.
So whilst surfing the net I looked on Ebay and found Exante shakes being sold on there. I'd never heard of Exante so looked it up and thought that I'd give that a go instead as I could just order them over the net which would be a lot easier than having an hour round trip to the chemist to pick up LT. When I looked into it though you only got the packs at a reasonable cost if you bought a month's worth in the flavours that came in that pack. Buying individual flavours cost a lot more and you still couldn't buy a few packets, it had to be a whole week's worth (I think!).
So surfing round again I came across Slim and Save and liked the fact that I could buy a starter pack containing every flavour and type that they did, and then I could just order the ones that I liked after that in quantities that suited me. I looked at the nutritional information and decided to give it a try. If I didn't like it I was only committing myself to a week's worth. I did like it though! The shakes in the silver packets (apparently old stock, Target Slim shakes) are not nice but the new range (white packets) are nice. The bars are lovely and the spag bol is lush! I'm not a lover of the soups but as I'm on 3 per day I tend to have a shake, a bar and a meal so only have the soup instead of a bar about once or twice a week anyway.
The cost of this diet is relatively low too although that wasn't the overriding factor for me. It was being able to choose what I wanted, when I wanted it.
I kept some notes last time I did LT with my weight losses and other things that have been interesting to look back on now. I could only stomach the chocolate shakes so survived my 4 months just on those. I ended up giving up on LT before I hit my goal weight as I couldn't take the boredom of the diet and the pain of the constipation. I didn't realise that the diet would make me constipated from the start last time and was in a really bad way when I finally managed to go after more than a week. This time though I'm much better prepared and the variety of flavours in this diet is really helping me to keep on track and not get bored of the choices on offer.
For me I came across the diet by chance. A friend at work was starting Lighterlife and I didn't want to be sitting opposite the incredible shrinking woman so I decide to go back on a VLCD at the same time. I did Lipotrim 6 years before and lost 5 stone in 4 months with no breaks or cheats, plus another 2 stone on a low cal, low carb diet after that. Over the 6 years I had put all but a stone back on.
I knew I didn't want to do Lighterlife as I'm not really into group sessions, and anyway the nearest counsellor is a hours drive away. So I thought that I'd go back to Lipotrim and there was a chemist half an hour away which would still have been a bit of a pain. Also when I did Lipotrim before when I lived in a different area I got no support from the pharmacy whatsoever. It was a case of go in, get weighed and hand over the money. No one mentioned ketosis, how the diet worked, or anything, and I was left to find out information through surfing the net. Maybe it's better in other pharmacies and YMMV.
So whilst surfing the net I looked on Ebay and found Exante shakes being sold on there. I'd never heard of Exante so looked it up and thought that I'd give that a go instead as I could just order them over the net which would be a lot easier than having an hour round trip to the chemist to pick up LT. When I looked into it though you only got the packs at a reasonable cost if you bought a month's worth in the flavours that came in that pack. Buying individual flavours cost a lot more and you still couldn't buy a few packets, it had to be a whole week's worth (I think!).
So surfing round again I came across Slim and Save and liked the fact that I could buy a starter pack containing every flavour and type that they did, and then I could just order the ones that I liked after that in quantities that suited me. I looked at the nutritional information and decided to give it a try. If I didn't like it I was only committing myself to a week's worth. I did like it though! The shakes in the silver packets (apparently old stock, Target Slim shakes) are not nice but the new range (white packets) are nice. The bars are lovely and the spag bol is lush! I'm not a lover of the soups but as I'm on 3 per day I tend to have a shake, a bar and a meal so only have the soup instead of a bar about once or twice a week anyway.
The cost of this diet is relatively low too although that wasn't the overriding factor for me. It was being able to choose what I wanted, when I wanted it.
I kept some notes last time I did LT with my weight losses and other things that have been interesting to look back on now. I could only stomach the chocolate shakes so survived my 4 months just on those. I ended up giving up on LT before I hit my goal weight as I couldn't take the boredom of the diet and the pain of the constipation. I didn't realise that the diet would make me constipated from the start last time and was in a really bad way when I finally managed to go after more than a week. This time though I'm much better prepared and the variety of flavours in this diet is really helping me to keep on track and not get bored of the choices on offer.
