Meal replacement Powders and meal
replacement bars to help you lose weight and control your
hunger.
Controlling your hunger and losing
weight using meal replacement powders and bars.
The market is flooded
with weight loss supplements that make weight loss look like
an easy thing.
You see a perfect bodied young man or woman
giving credit to this pill or that pill. I believe there are
some merits to some of the weight loss pills on the market
but this article is about using supplements in a different
way.
I am not going to talk
about taking a pill to lose weight but about using
supplements to control your hunger. The supplements I am
speaking of are Meal replacement powders (MRP’s) and meal
replacement bars. These are sometimes referred to as protein
powder, protein shakes, diet shakes, diet bars, protein
bars, food bars, food shakes, low carb bars, low carb shakes
and the list goes on and on. What these supplements were
originally designed for was as a meal replacement. Usually
you replace a meal or two a day with one of these delicious
meal replacement powders or meal replacement bars and then
you eat sensibly the rest of the day.
The problem I see with
this plan is that it does not control your hunger and then
you end up making bad choices for your meals and snacks. I
do really well with my eating choices until I become too
hungry; at this point I will usually eat anything that gets
in my path.
I have found that I can
control my hunger by using a nutritionally packed meal
replacement shake or meal replacement bar. (A word of
caution; I am speaking of high quality meal replacement
shakes or meal replacement bars, not sugar packed candy bars
stuffed with a few vitamins and then marked up in price and
sold as an energy bar.
As I said before, I get
very hungry and then make bad choices. I typically eat every
three hours, so I must be very careful about my choices. By
eating a meal replacement bar or drinking an MRP, I can
control my hunger for those three hours. I am not suggesting
that you eat every three hours. That just happens to be my
natural schedule. If I make bad choices every three hours
you can imagine what the outcome might be. When I sit down
to eat a meal, I am usually just three hours past a meal
replacement powder and not overly hungry. This means that I
can eat until comfortable and sometimes even eat cheat
foods.
If you are the type of
person that eats “three squares” a day then you might want
to use your meal replacement powders in the following way:
Breakfast: Meal
replacement powder or Meal replacement bar
Lunch: Meal replacement
powder or Meal replacement bar
Dinner: Sensible dinner
with plenty of fresh vegetables.
If you are like me, and
eat about every three hours try this:
Breakfast: Meal
replacement powder or Meal replacement bar
Snack: Half a meal
replacement bar
Lunch: Sensible lunch
with plenty of fresh vegetables
Snack: the other half of
the meal replacement bar or shake.
Dinner: Sensible dinner
with plenty of fresh vegetables.
If you are the type of
person whose weakness is snacking then try carrying a meal
replacement bar and taking a bite of it every now and then
when the urge for a snack hits you.
Meal replacement powders
are extremely portable. Find a shaker cup and a water
fountain and you have the perfect meal in seconds! I take
two shakes with me to work and very rarely travel in my car
without a meal replacement bar.
Shop around to find the
perfect meal replacement bar or shake for you. I suggest
purchasing small quantities and experiment with the tastes
before you order large amounts. Some simply do not taste
well at all.
Meal replacement bars
and shakes can be very cost effective when you compare them
to the cost of eating out.
I wish you the best of
health!
Bill
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