Can a Meal Replacer Help You Lose Weight?

By Vito La Fata


What Are Meal Replacements? Meal replacements may include beverages, packages of shelf-stable and/or frozen entrees, breakfast cereals and meal or snack bars that may be eaten as a sole energy source or with a combination of foods to replace a higher calorie meal.

Will You Be Hungrier on Meal Replacements? It is tempting to assume that people who consume fewer calories during one meal replacement might compensate for the calorie deficit at a subsequent meal, but this does not appear to be the case. People may adapt to the meal replacement as the "norm" for that meal, modifying their behavior in ways that reduce the need to consume more food.

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.

How to choose an effective meal replacement. Meal Replacement products can be found at the local grocery store and/or supplied by a medical or weight-loss professional. Key points to check: Meal replacements should have approximately 200-300 calories. Replacement bars and shakes with high sugar content should be avoided. Products should be fortified with a third of the daily vitamin and mineral requirements.

If you have some medical issues that you are currently dealing with, it is advised to talk to your health care practitioner about using a meal replacer. He will want to know what your plans are and how you plan to work the meal replacer into your overall nutrition plan.

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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