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me@privacy.net - 19 Aug 2004 01:07 GMT

Help I'm on slimfast and feel tired all the time.

I have one shake for breakfast usually and eat salad or low fat and
low cal food until 6pm where I have a 600kcal meal.

I am feeling really tired all the time and I when I used to over eat I
could stay awake for 15 hours easily.

Now I can only stay awake for 12 hours, I used to sleep not more than
6 or 8 hours a day before the diet.

What I can I do to keep losing weight but not feel so tired all the
time. Sleeping is not the answer because I can't cut my hours down and
I can't sleep for 12 hours because that is bad.

I've just joined a fully featured gym which I hope will help me but
anything I should be eating or doing to stop me feeling soooooo tired?

Slimfast helps because when I drink the shakes, I don't feel hungry
and I don't need to eat sugar. It's only one shake a day anyway.

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Crafting Mom - 19 Aug 2004 01:17 GMT

Slim fast is full of sugar. The overload of sugar wreaks havoc on a
person's system.

In alt.support.diet me@privacy.net wrote:

>Help I'm on slimfast and feel tired all the time.
>
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>Slimfast helps because when I drink the shakes, I don't feel hungry
>and I don't need to eat sugar. It's only one shake a day anyway.

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me@privacy.net - 19 Aug 2004 01:42 GMT

>Slim fast is full of sugar. The overload of sugar wreaks havoc on a
>person's system.

At the moment, if I don't have Slimfast I snack out on Sugar, at least
30g of fat per chocolate bar and I'll have at least 2 of that a day!

I've had this tiredness problem for about 4 years whilst being slim..
When I've been slim and of normal weight, I could not get up in the
morning. I was always late for work at all of my jobs.

I used to be overweight when I was younger then I starved myself and
went from 15st down to 10.4st. People then said I was too skinny and I
should put on weight which I did, and went up to 11.5st. I stayed at
11.5 to 12st weight, waist sizes 32 to 34 for 4 years without any
problems.

Then suddenly, this year I sat around for a couple of months at home,
didn't go out, took advantage of the free big mac offers at McDonalds
(2 for 1) and the weight piled on. I used to be a 34 waist and now I'm
a 38 - all in two months!

I know when I lose the weight again, I'll feel tired like I used to. I
need a long term solution because I always feel tired when I'm slim.

When I was overweight in my mid teens, I had loads of energy.

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Patricia Heil - 19 Aug 2004 01:51 GMT

> >Slim fast is full of sugar. The overload of sugar wreaks havoc on a
> >person's system.
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> When I was overweight in my mid teens, I had loads of energy.

Have you ever been tested for underactive thyroid? It is one of several
badly under-diagnosed problems.

Second do you exercise. If you don't you won't be healthy no matter what
you do.

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Patricia Heil - 19 Aug 2004 01:50 GMT

> Help I'm on slimfast and feel tired all the time.
>
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> Slimfast helps because when I drink the shakes, I don't feel hungry
> and I don't need to eat sugar. It's only one shake a day anyway.

I'm sorry but this reminds me way too much of the old skit,
Doctor, it hurts when I do this.
Then don't do that.

You don't say you're exercising. You can't be healthy without exercise and
you can lose weight and prevent a number of major life-threatening diseases
if you do exercise.

You obviously haven't read the Slimfast can. There is a LOT of sugar in it
according to what has been posted here in the past. So I imagine you might
be suffering from sugar crash.

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Ignoramus22762 - 19 Aug 2004 02:10 GMT

try eating food.

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> Help I'm on slimfast and feel tired all the time.
>
[quoted text clipped - 16 lines]
> Slimfast helps because when I drink the shakes, I don't feel hungry
> and I don't need to eat sugar. It's only one shake a day anyway.

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Annabel Smyth - 19 Aug 2004 09:39 GMT

wrote in alt.support.diet on Thu, 19 Aug 2004:

>Help I'm on slimfast and feel tired all the time.
>
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>time. Sleeping is not the answer because I can't cut my hours down and
>I can't sleep for 12 hours because that is bad.

Eat a better diet! Slimfast works, but it's just so much junk food -
and you can't live on it indefinitely. You would do much better to work
out an eating plan that you can follow indefinitely, allowing for the
occasional blow-out, holidays, visits to parents, etc. Your excess
weight didn't go on in a hurry, and it won't come off that way, either.
Aim to lose no more than 2 lb/week - a weight loss of as little as 8 oz
is fine (after all, after a year you will have lost 26 lbs).

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90/88/80kg

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Aquarijen - 19 Aug 2004 15:21 GMT

> Help I'm on slimfast and feel tired all the time.
>
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> Slimfast helps because when I drink the shakes, I don't feel hungry
> and I don't need to eat sugar. It's only one shake a day anyway.

If you are a shake person and do not wish to eat something instead of a
shake, there are many other meal replacement shakes out there that are more
filling and have less sugar than slimfast. I'll leave you to do your own
research on which one you would like best, but slimfast is like drinking
chocolate milk and it gives me a sugar crash - this means that if I drink a
slimfast shake, I'm tired just a little while later. I'm not hungry, but I
want to go to sleep. Perhaps, find a better shake if you do not want to try
real food in a balanced diet. You want one that has more protein and less
sugar.

Take Care,
Jen

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JMA - 19 Aug 2004 17:11 GMT

>> Help I'm on slimfast and feel tired all the time.
>>
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> Take Care,
> Jen

Whey protein powder (or soy protein powder) makes a great shake. I blend my
whey with lowfat soy milk. Some people in the group use Myoplex Lite shakes
for light meals or snacks - they're also very tasty and much less sugar than
slim fast.

Jenn

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jmk - 19 Aug 2004 17:30 GMT

> Whey protein powder (or soy protein powder) makes a great shake. I blend my
> whey with lowfat soy milk. Some people in the group use Myoplex Lite shakes
> for light meals or snacks - they're also very tasty and much less sugar than
> slim fast.
>
> Jenn

Actually, now that you mention it, I'm kind of surprised that no one
mentioned this in the "work stash" thread.

P.S. cross posting removed

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