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Slim4Life Diet: Slimgenics
The Slim4Life program is a holistic approach to weight loss and weight management, available at a chain of weight loss clinics in Denver and Minneapolis/St. Paul. Slim4Life has been enabling people to lose weight and learn new eating habits for over 25 years.
Note: The Slim4Life diet program is not the same as the UK-based The Juice Master’s Slim 4 Life books, health & fitness program – see comment below.
Slim4Life operates as SlimGenics in Colorado, California, and Minnesota but are two separate companies.
Background
Slim4Life offer comprehensive weight reduction programs for men, women and children from age 10. The programs are professionally supervised and nutritionally designed to develop proper eating habits for long term success. The Slim4Life Weight Loss Center with which you enroll provides a program which is individualized, monitored and supervised with one-on-one counseling. Existing medical conditions are taken into account when developing your personal weight loss program. The diet employs a
well-balanced food program (based on regular food from the supermarket), supplemented with proprietary weight loss aids.
Slim4Life Diet Program
Weight loss plan
The Slim4Life program provides up to 1,500 calories daily (depending on the degree with which you are overweight or obese, your health profile, and age) in a
carefully balanced nutritional diet rich in vitamins and minerals and low in refined carbohydrates, fats, and sodium. The diet consists of fruits, vegetables, meats, eggs, starches, dairy and fats, plus a range of supplements, and there is a vegetarian program for those who do not eat meat. Some foods and beverages are restricted during the weight loss period,
and gradually added back once the goal for
weight loss is achieved. The nutritional plan is individualized for you, and is completely flexible with room for individual choices of food selection.
Exercise
Slim4Life program participants are strongly encouraged to increase their physical activity level as part of leading (or gaining) a healthy
lifestyle. Slim4Life claims that you can lose 3-5 pounds/1.3-2.3 kg per week (on average 3.3 pounds/1.5kg), eating grocery-store food and without pre-packaged meals.
Weight maintenance
On successful completion of the Slim4Life weight loss program, there is a post-reduction maintenance program to reinforce the learned behavioral changes. Overall, with Slim4Life you may expect to have developed ‘the tools, knowledge and the efficient metabolism to manage your new healthy body weight for a lifetime!’
Cost
It appears to cost over $600 to start the Slim4Life program, although if you don’t meet your goal as initially expected, there are further costs in order to continue. Also, the programmed supplements, vitamins, snacks, etc are an additional cost to you.
Some perceptions of the Slim4Life diet program
These are some of the reactions of Slim4Life participants
- My personal Slim4Life plan tells me what to eat and when, which helps tremendously with meal planning. For example, I eat 3 meals a day plus 2 ‘nutrients’ (a shake and a candy bar). Each meal includes a protein, a starch and fruit. For breakfast add milk, and for lunch/dinner add 2 vegetables. The plan is easy but also requires me to prepare the ‘limited food’ items which I’m allowed.
- 5th day on Slim4Life, and now off the ‘preparation’ stage. Today’s menu: breakfast 2 eggs and an orange, lunch a cup of raw cauliflower (dipped in fat free ranch dressing) and an orange, supper 4oz grilled chicken, shredded, in a 6″ corn tortilla with ½ cup lettuce and some fat free ranch dressing – actually pretty good.
- Finally at the end (11 weeks on) and am very excited. My Slim4Life diet consists of a strict food regime, only eating a certain amount of vegetables, lean proteins, fruit, and 80oz of water a day, combined with vitamins, herb supplements and essential fatty acid pills. I was not allowed to drink alcohol, eat sugar, dairy, oils, or preservatives. I’ve officially lost the 20lbs I set out to (I lost 11¾in. in my waist alone!), and have now begun the ‘stabilization’ phase. Slowly, over a 6 week period, they begin to reintroduce food into my diet. My weight will be monitored for one full year.
- I signed up for Slim4Life, and paid $800 for personal counseling 3 times a week for 34 weeks. It’s really a very restrictive, prescribed diet, designed for fast weight loss. I still don’t know if fast weight loss is really the healthiest solution, but considering that I have yo-yo’d the same 50 lbs 5 times in eight years, I think it’s the only thing that’s going to keep me going.
- This is what my diet consists of each day:
a TON of supplements: vitamins, metabolizing herbs, essential fatty acids, carb blockers
I can eat 2 servings of protein a day: lean meat (limited red), chicken, turkey, fish, limited eggs
2 servings of starch a day: diet bread, brown rice, or 2 tbsp bran flakes
2 small fruits
basically unlimited green veggies, ½ raw, ½ cooked
2 tbsp of fat free salad dressing
1 serving of “lite” fat: mayo or margarine
herbal tea
diet seven up
80 oz of water per day
2 specials made from the program supplement foods: one is sweet, the other a soup or juice
2 cups coffee, with just skim milk and nutrasweet (only 2 pkts of that per day)
½ tsp low sodium salt (nothing else can have salt in it)
unlimited apple cider vinegar (salad dressing)
the juice of 1 lemon
Is Slim4Life Successful?
The Slim4Life diet program appears to be a sensible plan with plenty of personal support and encouragement, and has brought successful weight loss for many overweight people, although the cost needs to be evaluated before enrolling.
The Juice Master’s Slim 4 Life book, health & fitness program
Slim4Life is not to be confused with The Juice Master’s Slim 4 Life book, Freedom from the Food Trap, and other related publications. This book promotes the program in the UK to ‘get slim, get fit, and get energised – or “juiced” ‘ by Jason Vale (the Juice Master), a successful health and lifestyle coach. The Slim 4 Life book is not about dieting, juicing, or about what’s good and bad for you. Rather, it helps to change the way you see food. Slim 4 Life majors on these points:
- Quit so-called “drug foods” – nutritionally worthless addictive substances (eg sugar and caffeine) – and return to a fresh diet
- Eat the freshest plant ingredients and feel the health benefit of raw juice which is full of healthy enzymes
- Reject the food industry’s ‘brainwashing advertising’
- Use food combining to help your digestion
Resources
Home of the Slim4Life Diet Program
The book – The Juice Master’s Slim 4 Life: Freedom from the Food Trap
37 lbs gone on Slim4Life. I haven’t seen 190 in a long long time. My goal was 165 but I think I’m going to push for 160, maybe even 155. That will give me some playing room if I have a dinner date or a party
Rebecca, where are you keeping your blog? I just started the program and wanted to see how you are doing.
Thank you
I’m down 30 lbs on Slim4Life! My friends, family and colleagues have all noticed the weight loss and tell me I’m melting away.
The first question they ask me – Is it expensive? I am honest in my answer and give them the breakdown of costs for the plan, the supplements and herb, etc. I’m dedicated to taking it off for good this time and my counselor is wonderful.
Dallas S4L is awesome.
Dedication IS the key here, and any other weight loss plan.
@mary: I don’t know what center that is, but I would have reported them to the corporate office.
My counselor has taken a genuine interest in my success. Maybe she and I just click? When I have gone off plan, 3 times, they were all good about getting me back on – changing things up – to get me back on track. But it was my own dedication and committment to myself that got me back on track.
They don’t push products on me. They tell me what’s new and ask if I need any product. If I say no, I have plenty, end of conversation. They have several different products, but you don’t HAVE to take the extra ones. Of course they will suggest carb blockers if you are eating too many starches, oK? Makes sense.
I am down 25 lbs to date and I can see my goal on the horizon. The lessons and eating habits I am learning from S4L will be my way of eating for the rest of my life.
Oh, and they have weekly specials that I took advantage of. The best was 4 visits in one week, you get a free week added to your total weeks on the plan. So, I signed up for 22 weeks and I have 5 weeks added to that for free, so my plan had been extended for a total of 27 weeks.
They aren’t doing this during the holidays, they have something different going, but choosing to take the additional weeks was definitely a bonus for me.
Love and peace to all.
This slim4life plan does work if you are truly dedicated to losing weight but the “counslers” all work on commission and their sole purpose is to sell you their products. They may tell you to your face that “it’s all about the client” but it isn’t. Most of them don’t really care if you succeed or not. The managers push the plan on people who aren’t really committed because they work on commission too. Some of them make fun of the clients once they walk out of the centers, especially if that client isn’t as dedicated. I overheard one manager making fun of a client that was handicapped by imitating her and another manager saying her client was a “fat cow”. The program works but only if you are truly dedicated to losing weight and the managers don’t really explain what the one year program entails. I have seen people run out of weight loss weeks and have to pay for more because the manager didn’t explain they only get a set amount of wt loss weeks and a set amount of other phases. So it has it’s pros and cons and they don’t offer refunds or exchanges which they don’t mention until you want to do either one of them.
18 lbs gone and counting
I had some serious sweet cravings a couple of days ago, but I ate an extra protein bar instead of a Twix. It successfully got me through it!
15 lbs gone, and counting. Slim4Life has a NEW supplement to replace the metabolizers. Instead of taking 2 prior to each meal, you take 1 of the new formula. This is a big PLUS. The less pills I can take, the better. They are reformulated to decrease hunger and stimulate your metablolism, still all natural. I will be trying these out when all my metabolizers are gone, which is about another week.
I went to the dentist yesterday. Hadn’t seen him since June. First he said my hair was different. Yes, I told him it’s lighter shade. We talked for about another minute and he said Have you lost weight? You have lost weight! You look great!
I was pleased
So far, so good on the plan. I’m on day 3 of the plan, day 6 total if you include prep. I have a blog where I’m journaling my results if you’re interested in details.
Officially down 13lbs, even after a weekend of travel, and a party where good old soul food was served. The mac and cheese and dirty rice was so tempting, but I opted for the salad with no dressing and a bbq chicken leg. I still managed to be down 2 lbs at my weigh in this morning.
Starting my 3rd week and the starter pack looks like it will be good for a couple more weeks.
I used this plan several years ago and remember the quick weight loss so I went back. This time I am finding it to be very different. There are so many pills and I don’t really know why I’m taking so many. They make me feel sick to my stomach all the time and my body is omitting an oder that makes me sick as well. The cost is ernormus and you are somewhat deceived. I am sorry I joined the plan. Beware!
Day 17 and I am down 11 lbs., and this is after I had a scrumptuous lunch date yesterday, with fish, eggplant, pita and salad. Just making better choices makes a huge difference, but also the herbs and supplements on the program are keeping my hunger and energy in check.
I just finished the prep phase. I had a hard time eating all the beef, but managed. I lost 8 lbs in 3 days.
Today I started the weight loss, phase 2. I have had plenty to eat. Will be going grocery shopping tonight because I don’t buy a bulk supply of fruit and veggies. They go bad before we can eat them. It is only my husband and myself.
Yes, the cost is $540 on the special they are running right now. This is for 1 year, like a membership and you get a starter pack that includes everything you need, as far as vitamins and herbs, for a month, and supplements for 1 week.
You can buy in bulk and save money with a 30% off coupon in your first nutrition class if you want to, but you can buy items as you need them, too. I chose not to buy in bulk, #1 because I didn’t have the extra $245, but I don’t know if I will like everything they have to offer. So far, I have the toffee protein bars and the lemon drink supplements and they are both quite tasty.
The important thing is to get all the protein – your chicken, fish, turkey, eggs, etc. Eggs and beef are limited after you complete the first phase. Also very important to get the entire 80 oz of water daily.
I’m feeling confident about the program right now. I have 56 lbs to lose.
There is already a drastic change in my blood pressure as well, but I think that is contributed to the 80 oz. of water daily.
SLIM$4LIFE is a scam. All they want is your money. The results are temporary. And even though they say they will make sure you don’t gain your weight back, they will charge you to help you if you do. Very pricey. I’d avoid at all costs.
Has anyone had any issues with taking the Neuroslim? I took them for 5 days and after day 3 was in a “blue” funk and felt hopeless. Was that just me?
I have been on Slimgenics for two weeks and have already lost 8 pounds. I have 19 more pounds before I make my goal. I have tried for 15 years to take this 20-25 pounds off using Weight Watchers, Atkins, The Belly Fat Diet, South Beach Diet etc. Of all I’ve tried I feel satisfied and am never hungry. I went to the center for counseling at least 5 times my first week. So far so good!
I would guess through their official website.
I would like to speak to someone at the corproate office, do you know how to contact them?
Thanks!
I would like to learn more about slim4life diet plans
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I was very successful on this diet, losing over 60 lbs. (I’m a Type 2 diabetic.) I have kept off most of it, as the food is balanced and sensible. I found out that when someone is looking over my shoulder and keeping me accountable, I do much better over the long haul. The counselors are great and very well-trained to know how to help with snags as you go along. If you follow this diet the way they coach, you won’t get hungry and that was very important for me. (I’m sometimes gently chastised for not eating everything I should.) Foods allowed are lean red meats, poultry, fish, veal, liver, eggs, light dairy, many (but not all) fruits and vegetables, limited starches, some condiments, and light fats including a little bit of olive oil. Plan portions will vary based on your medical needs and how much you have to lose.
PROS: They watch you like a hawk to make sure you are successful. You are really cheered on! You meet with your revolving counselors individually and when it’s convenient for you. Plan on visiting the centers 2-3 times a week. The visits are pleasant and may include samples of snacks and recipies. You leave feeling armed with techniques and tips, and with renewed determination.
CONS: This isn’t cheap! You pay up front for all you’ll need. Very limited locations in Colorado, Minnesota and California. You must live near a center. You will be buying pricey packaged protein snacks to eat at least twice a day. You will be buying herbal supplements to curb your appetite and rev up your metabolism, which can cause sleeplessness in some people if not monitored.
TIP: When you first sign up, they will calculate the number of supplements that should get you through your weight loss to your goal weight, so use your outside goal and not just dip in one toe. This is the cheapest time to buy the herbs and protein snacks, so stock up on more than what you think you’ll need. Buy a good variety to avoid boredom. Plan on several hundred dollars of these (as part of the initial fee) and continued purchases later, to keep you sane and satisfy cravings. They really help and most are really tasty. Drinks, puddings, dessert bars, salty snacks, shakes, etc., all laced with protein.
SECRET: There are internet sites that sell the protein snacks cheaper than the best sale at the centers. I buy from both the web sites as well as at the center when there’s something I really want to have on hand. Some of the counselors work on commission from those sales, last I knew. So I prefer to do them a favor from time to time, too.
CONCLUSION: I recommend this diet to folks that have more than 25 lbs to lose. Less than this and it’s still very possible, but pretty expensive.
I would like to know more about the slim4life diet. Thanks
Does the slim4life have some one I could speak to
as I would like to know moreI reside in Whangarei thanks