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Weight Loss Forum / Low Carb / January 2004slim fast lc shake- grossed out
Bought a 4-pack of the Slim Fast new low carb shakes. Nutritional info looks good, regarding carbs, calcium, fiber, protein, etc. I was drinking one today and glanced at the ingredients. After water and milk solids, the 3rd ingredient is canola oil!!! I really think that's nasty. After I read that, all I could think of with each swallow was that I was drinking chocolate flavored vegetable oil. I'll try to drink the last two, but I don't think I'll be buying them again. Too much fat....and oil. Yuck. Lee > Bought a 4-pack of the Slim Fast new low carb shakes. Nutritional info > looks good, regarding carbs, calcium, fiber, protein, etc. I was [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Lee Good move. I couldn't see very many ingredients in that product which resembled food in the least. The 3rd ingredient in the Atkins shakes is soybean oil, if I'm not mistaken. How else can they get 9 grams of fat into those shakes? LOL! LCing since 12/01/03- Me- 265/234/140 & hubby- 310/261/180 > The 3rd ingredient in the Atkins shakes is soybean oil, if I'm not mistaken. > How else can they get 9 grams of fat into those shakes? LOL! Oops...soybean. My bad. I thought it was canola. It's oil, though. Lee > LCing since 12/01/03- > Me- 265/234/140 > & hubby- 310/261/180 >> The 3rd ingredient in the Atkins shakes is soybean oil, if I'm not >mistaken. >> How else can they get 9 grams of fat into those shakes? LOL! > >Oops...soybean. My bad. I thought it was canola. It's oil, though. >Lee It might be canola in the Slim Fast shakes. I was just comparing them to the Atkins shakes. The Advantage shakes have half the fat, so they probably have oil further down the ingredients rung. Personally, I have 1-2 Atkins shakes a week (when I've GOT to eat, and have no time- and I won't do bars, they have sugar alcohols) and like that they have the extra fat in them. Fat is GOOD! Eat more fat, burn more fat, yum! LCing since 12/01/03- Me- 265/234/140 & hubby- 310/260/180 > The Advantage shakes have half the fat, so they probably have >oil further down the ingredients Oops! Sorry to piggyback posts, but I didn't mean Atkins Advantage. I was talking about the ones that come in the paper containers instead of a can. Can't think of the name right now... LCing since 12/01/03- Me- 265/234/140 & hubby- 310/260/180 || Bought a 4-pack of the Slim Fast new low carb shakes. Nutritional info || looks good, regarding carbs, calcium, fiber, protein, etc. I was [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] || drink the last two, but I don't think I'll be buying them again. Too || much fat....and oil. Yuck. Lee, Just curious ... did you taste it before you read the ingredients? Or was it only because you read the ingredients that your were grossed out? How do they taste? Canola is a "healthy" oil, high in monounsaturated fats; helps lower HDL cholesterol. Why is this gross? (I'm not being facetious, I'm serious.). Is it just the thought that you are drinking something with an oil in it that bothers you? We eat oils all the time in various foos. -- Peter website: http://users.thelink.net/marengo > || Bought a 4-pack of the Slim Fast new low carb shakes. Nutritional info > || looks good, regarding carbs, calcium, fiber, protein, etc. I was [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > it only because you read the ingredients that your were grossed out? How do > they taste? I had one of the shakes a few weeks ago, and didn't glance at the ingredients. It tasted okay - nothing great. Then, I had my second one yesterday, which is when I looked at the ingredients. After reading that oil was ingredient #3, all I could taste (and feel in my mouth) was oil. > Canola is a "healthy" oil, high in monounsaturated fats; helps lower HDL > cholesterol. Why is this gross? (I'm not being facetious, I'm serious.). > Is it just the thought that you are drinking something with an oil in it > that bothers you? We eat oils all the time in various foos. I know canola oil isn't a "bad" oil. But, that doesn't mean I want to drink it. Fat is fat. As ingredients are listed in order of weight, seems to me that there's too much oil in this "beverage", pushing it over the "healthy" limit. Lee > -- > Peter > website: http://users.thelink.net/marengo | I kow canola oil isn't a "bad" oil. But, that doesn't mean I want to | drink it. Fat is fat. As ingredients are listed in order of weight, | seems to me that there's too much oil in this "beverage", pushing it | over the "healthy" limit. I probably won't try it now either. I wouldn't be able to get rid of the image that's popped into my head of sipping from a can of 10W30 motor oil. ;-)  SignaturePeter website: http://users.thelink.net/marengo I think the drink your meal diets are insane. It just violates common sense for me. When my father was dying of throat cancer he stopped being able to swallow solids. He had to drink Ensure because he simply couldn't eat nutritiously. I can't look at the meal-drinks without thinking that that is the same idea as for people who are so sick that they drink or I.V. their meals. It isn't natural and teaching yourself to simply not eat solid food is wrong. Regardless of what they put in the stuff. >Bought a 4-pack of the Slim Fast new low carb shakes. Nutritional info >looks good, regarding carbs, calcium, fiber, protein, etc. I was [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Lee DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email) > I think the drink your meal diets are insane. It just violates common > sense for me. Let's see. I bought this 4-pack about two weeks ago, and just had my second one yesterday. I'm not sure this discussion was about "drinking" vs. "chewing" your meals, but, at least for me, these shakes were purchased and cosnumed as a convenience "food" when I didn't have time or ingredients to make a meal of solid food. I hardly think that two meal replacement shakes in a two-week span of time is "insane". >When my father was dying of throat cancer he stopped > being able to swallow solids. He had to drink Ensure because he simply [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > to simply not eat solid food is wrong. Regardless of what they put in > the stuff. So, you personally, have problems with meal replacement shakes becuase of past trauma. Sorry about the loss of your dad. But, keep in mind that our experiences are different - what works for some may not work for others. That's no reason to call someone else's way "insane". Lee > >Bought a 4-pack of the Slim Fast new low carb shakes. Nutritional info > >looks good, regarding carbs, calcium, fiber, protein, etc. I was [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email) My past "trauma" just makes it more obvious that meal-replacement is, in fact, "fasting" under a new clever marketing term. Practicing "fasting" meals as a way to maintain weight doesn't seem practical or wise. Might as well try Slim-Fast and teach your body to eat only one meal a day. >> I think the drink your meal diets are insane. It just violates common >> sense for me. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] >that our experiences are different - what works for some may not work >for others. That's no reason to call someone else's way "insane". DiGiTAL_ViNYL (no email) I make my own shake using 1/3 cup cottage cheese, cold hazelnut coffee, ground flax seed and splenda or sweet & low to taste, plenty of ice. It's not that bad. If you can afford the carbs you could use frozen strawberries & coconut flavoring. Granny > Bought a 4-pack of the Slim Fast new low carb shakes. Nutritional info > looks good, regarding carbs, calcium, fiber, protein, etc. I was [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Lee >Bought a 4-pack of the Slim Fast new low carb shakes. Nutritional info >looks good, regarding carbs, calcium, fiber, protein, etc. I was [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Lee Eww. Maybe the oil sippers will like it. ;-) > Eww. Maybe the oil sippers will like it. ;-) So you don't use any oil when you cook? What's the difference between ingesting oil with solid food than with liquid food? Kalish > So you don't use any oil when you cook? What's the difference between > ingesting oil with solid food than with liquid food? Kalish I sure don't use that much oil when I cook. Maybe if I had a calorie deficit, I'd think of trying there, but they sound ugsome (that's a real word!) to me. SignatureJean B. > > Eww. Maybe the oil sippers will like it. ;-) > > So you don't use any oil when you cook? What's the difference between > ingesting oil with solid food than with liquid food? Kalish You don't see any difference between drinking oil and adding a bit of oil to your pan to sauté dinner? Of course I ingest oil, and use it for cooking. Just never thought of it as a beverage. Lee >> Eww. Maybe the oil sippers will like it. ;-) > > So you don't use any oil when you cook? What's the difference between > ingesting oil with solid food than with liquid food? Kalish There's food in those shakes? <grin/duck> Oil and milk solids were the only remotely recognizable ingredients in the posted list of ingredients. I actually don't mind taking a tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil straight sometimes. Suppresses the appetite and coats the stomach and digests slowly. All for the price of 120 little calories. >> Eww. Maybe the oil sippers will like it. ;-) > >So you don't use any oil when you cook? What's the difference between >ingesting oil with solid food than with liquid food? Kalish Where did the oil sippers go? >>Bought a 4-pack of the Slim Fast new low carb shakes. Nutritional info >>looks good, regarding carbs, calcium, fiber, protein, etc. I was [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > >Eww. Maybe the oil sippers will like it. ;-) After David Letterman had his heart bypass, he had a cooking segment on his show and while the guest was preparing the meal, Letterman took several swigs of olive oil straight from the bottle. I'm pretty sure that his highly paid heart team told him that he needed to add olive oil or other healthy oils to his diet. So sometimes I do that. PJ > After David Letterman had his heart bypass, he had a cooking segment > on his show and while the guest was preparing the meal, Letterman took [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > So sometimes I do that. > PJ OTOH, if I was told to consume it, I would cook with it and not chug it. SignatureJean B. > OTOH, if I was told to consume it, I would cook with it and not > chug it. I don't heat extra virgin, cold pressed olive oil. It's liquid gold in its pure form. I put it atop salads in the form of dressing. Yum! > > OTOH, if I was told to consume it, I would cook with it and not > > chug it. > > I don't heat extra virgin, cold pressed olive oil. It's liquid gold > in its pure form. I put it atop salads in the form of dressing. > Yum! Sure. When I say cook, I don't necessarily mean with heat. I guess I think of making salads and salad dressing as "cooking". Interesting evolution of the word I guess. SignatureJean B. > After David Letterman had his heart bypass, he had a cooking segment >on his show and while the guest was preparing the meal, Letterman took [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > So sometimes I do that. >PJ There you are. There used to be several sippers here, one was a neighbor of mine. I've nothing against it, just prefer to find some other way to get it into my diet. > Bought a 4-pack of the Slim Fast new low carb shakes. Nutritional info > looks good, regarding carbs, calcium, fiber, protein, etc. I was [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Lee I guess I'm in the minority here because I really like them! BUT I don't drink them I freeze the cans & eat it like ice cream. Two carbs for 11.5 oz. of "ice cream" is a nice nightly treat. I couldn't drink them as 2 meal replacements like they suggest. I love my meat too much! Teresa 244/226/140 |
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