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Shake Mix: Easy way to lose weight

Obesity is skyrocketing and everyone is looking for a convenient and affordable way to lose weight, shake mix or as commonly known meal replacement has been in the market for long time and has helped millions lose or maintain weight.

Weight loss experts believe that pushing obese people to lose weight by increasing exercise is impractical, and it is clear that obesity is caused by people eating more rather than doing less exercise.  Prof Speakman from Aberdeen University thinks the amounts of exercise needed to lose weight are too much for some individuals.

If you are obese with BMI reading of 35 and more you need to exercise 2-3 hours every day to lower your BMI and this is impractical for most of us, considering other responsibilities we are faced with daily. I’m not obese and I exercised for 3 hours per week to lose 10 kilograms of my body weight, it was not easy and I needed to motivate myself and stick to my fitness regime.

The focus is now shifted to educating people about eating less, if you eat less and exercise lightly is better than eating more and exercise more. But the difficulty facing all of us is how to eat less. People are put off by complicated weight loss programs that add extra tasks to our daily routine.

Shake mix or meal replacement is the easy way to control your calorie daily intake, it make it easy to know how much calories you have consumed for that meal without doing any calculations.

These are main reasons for meal replacement popularity:

1. Easy to control calories consumed, most available brands of meal replacement provide 200 calories per meal and some are less. Herbalife Formula 1 gives you 170 calories per meal. For losing weight we have two options, through exercise or eating right amount of calories needed per day. If you can combine both exercise with eating less, you will lose weight, however if you don’t like to exercise then lowering you calorie consumption will lead to weight loss at slower speed, and this why meal-replacements work.
2. Easy to use any where any time, while traveling and while at work.
3. Easy to use by busy individuals, each meal can be prepared in less than 5 minutes.
4. Available in different flavors and you have the option to enhance its flavor with your creativity.
5. It is affordable, it is for everyone. Per meal the cost is less than AED10.

High protein and standard protein meal replacement are two type of meal replacement available in the market, however studies indicate that there is no difference between the two, and protein amount is within the daily need recommended, both high protein and standard meal replacement contains 1.2-1.8g of protein per serving and both will give you same weight loss result. Protein is important for losing weight special when taken in breakfast, it is important that your meal replacement contains the amount of protein need for your body.

Soy or milk-based meal replacement, for weight loss soy meal replacement did better slightly per week however in long term its effect on lowering cholesterol was significant according to Journal of the American College of Nutrition

How to choose your meal replacement? Most meal replacements available in the market will help you achieve your weight loss goal; the difference is some are soy- based while other milk-based and some contains sugar, as for calorie per meal it is between 170 and 200 calories.

What is important in choosing your meal replacement is the mineral and vitamin that it contains, meal- replacement is replacing your meal and it is important that you get all the minerals and vitamins that your body needs.

How to lose weight with meal replacement? Meal replacement plan for weight loss works in the long run, it is not a quick fix but result is guaranteed.  You need to make meal replacement part of your lifestyle and eating habit. Most people noticed drop in their body weight after week for of uninterrupted usage of meal replacement.

For better and faster result take your meal replacement three times a day replacing all your daily meals for thirty days and then twice a day for anther thirty days. Once you have achieved your weight loss goal and lost the amount of fat you intended to lose switch to taking your meal replacement once a day -preferred for breakfast- .

How to make meal replacement work for you?

Add Active Fiber Complex to your meal replacement for feeling full for longer time, fiber makes you feel full so you will end up eating less, it also helps with bowel movement.

Take Total Control tablets if you feel low on energy and need to boost your alertness. For those who need to lose too much fat, Total Control is a great help.

Taking Thermobond tablets with your meal replacement makes you feel full for longer time. This is an alternative to taking active fiber complex.

Shake mix is affordable way for losing weight, per meal you need to spend less than AED10 and It is convenient and easy to use. It is the healthy meal that can be prepared in less than 5 minutes, use it for one month to see results.

Herbalife claims almost a third of global meal replacement shake market. Herbalife’s share of the global meal replacement shake category has more than doubled from 12% in 2003 to 30%+ today.  Source

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