Losing Weight with Shakes: What is Really Important?

Diet shakes are a popular way to lose weight. You can find out how to find the right powder for you here.

Weight loss with shakes: Background

• When losing weight with shakes, the rule applies: diet shakes replace meals or serve as a supplement. The aim is to save calories and lose weight relatively quickly with shakes.
• Losing weight with shakes is also known as a formula diet. You can find more information on the procedure in our separate article on this subject.
• From Almased to Yokebe – the list of powder suppliers is long. In this text we explain what criteria you should look out for when choosing.

Losing weight with shakes: Criteria

To save calories with powder and water (or milk), you should test certain criteria for powder.

• Protein content: A protein-rich diet provides the body with important amino acids and also supports fat burning. Since our body needs energy to break down protein, protein also makes up a better part of our calorie balance than carbohydrates or fat. A good diet shake should therefore have a high proportion of protein. In addition, the source should also be high quality (e.g. whey instead of soya).
• Taste: What good are the best values if the powder tastes so disgusting that you cannot replace meals with it? Nutrition and also a diet must not become a torture, otherwise you will not be able to keep it up. A good supplier should therefore also offer several flavours.
• Budget: Of course, price should not be the central criterion in the selection, after all, it is your body that is at stake and you want to feel good. However, there are big differences between the suppliers and some powders simply cost four times as much as others. Here you should carefully consider to what extent the other criteria presented here justify the higher price.
• Fill up: Good diet shakes replace meals and save calories without making you very hungry. Fibre and a high protein content, for example, ensure this. In moderation, fats also ensure good satiety.
• Healthy: Especially if you mainly use diet shakes, i.e. powder with water or milk, it is important that you are supplied with all relevant vitamins and minerals. So look carefully at the nutritional information on the packaging and keep an eye on the micronutrients (vitamins etc.). Many powders contain far too much sugar and thus boost your ravenous appetite.

Lose weight with shakes: 3 important tips

1. Check it out: Just by looking at the packaging you can exclude products, but taste and saturation only come to the fore when drinking. Choose the most appealing drink for you and test it for at least two weeks. Then you can analyse the first results and if you feel that you need to change your diet, you can either test a different powder or try a completely different diet. Not everyone can cope with food in the form of shakes.
2. Holistic diet: If you have never thought about your diet before and now want to switch to shakes quickly, you will hardly pass the test. Shakes can make losing weight easier and support you, but the basis is always a balanced diet and conscious eating. You can find out here how you can easily create a diet plan.
3. Transition: Depending on how many meals you replace with shakes at the beginning, the aim is to get a long-term diet that you can sustain over the long term. In the stabilisation or life phase, the aim is to use the shakes only selectively as a supplement or even to leave them out completely. This is also a criterion where you can compare and evaluate the recommendations of the providers. Find the right diet for you.