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Meal Replacement Products (MRPs)
To burn fat, the body’s metabolic rate must be increased. One of the ways to effectively speed up your body's metabolism is by eating small, well-balanced, nutritious meals or snacks every three to four hours. This alone can drastically improve the efficiency of your body's metabolism.
Now, for those of us with busy, often hectic lives, eating every three to four hours can be challenging, if not impossible. What are the chances of eating something healthy and nutritious every two to three hours? Unless you have a lot of time to prepare and package meals or hire your own personal chef to cook for you, this can be a daunting task. That’s where MRPs come in! Many people I have spoken to over the years attribute meal replacements being one of the biggest reasons why they were able to lose a lot of fat weight.
Meal replacements are probably the most valuable and underrated supplement on the market. In fact, they really are not supplements at all when you come to think of it. They are complete meals. People are always looking for the magic solution to fat loss or building muscle, buying some drink or pill that promises miraculous results. We gain body fat by having poor eating habits, so the only way to undo the damage is to reverse the cycle by developing good eating habits. Meal replacements make this possible. Meal replacements are pre-packaged powdered drink mixes that you mix with water, milk, or juice and then drink in the place of a meal. They are convenient, inexpensive, and most taste pretty good. For optimum fat-burning and muscle-building results, we need to consume a high-protein, moderate-carb, low-fat meal about every three to four hours. This equals approximately five to six meals per day. So, replace two or three of your whole food meals with meal replacements and you will drastically start cutting out unneeded calories, calories that can add up and, if not burned off, be stored as body fat.
Meal replacements provide a perfect, compact meal in a packet that is high in protein, low in fat (some have no fat) are low in carbohydrates, and contain a wide array of vitamins and minerals. They are low in sugar and cholesterol. They are very nutrient dense and can be mixed easily and conveniently. In order to get the same benefits from whole food as some of the high quality meal replacements, you would have to put together a large meal like a chicken breast (protein), a potato for some carbs, and a salad for the vitamins six times a day. Why bother when you can just rip open a meal replacement packet and toss it into a cup with some water or skim milk. Presto!
MRPs are actually pretty cheap too, considering you're getting an entire meal for under 3 bucks. You can find some that cost only about $2.00 a shake. It's hard to find something that nutritious and low in calories for fewer than 2 bucks. Think about it, you cannot even buy a McDonalds Happy Meal for less than 2.00 dollars and Happy Meals are loaded with fat!
When buying MRPs, check the ingredients. Stick with meals replacements that use a combination of whey, milk, and egg proteins as the first ingredient. Most meal replacements, if taken with water, offer at least 40 grams of protein with minimal fat. Most are under 300 calories, chock full of vitamins and minerals, and taste rather pleasant.
Most MRPs in the market today are almost similar in that they all offer the same required amounts of essential nutrients and low calories. As such, there are no particular products which stand out above the rest in terms of performance and efficacy. I have, however, compiled below a short list of the most tasty (hence most popular) MRPs around. I realise that taste is subjective, and the best judge of whether something tastes good or not is ultimately yourself. But these products listed on the next page pretty much get everyone else’s vote!
Now, for those of us with busy, often hectic lives, eating every three to four hours can be challenging, if not impossible. What are the chances of eating something healthy and nutritious every two to three hours? Unless you have a lot of time to prepare and package meals or hire your own personal chef to cook for you, this can be a daunting task. That’s where MRPs come in! Many people I have spoken to over the years attribute meal replacements being one of the biggest reasons why they were able to lose a lot of fat weight.
Meal replacements are probably the most valuable and underrated supplement on the market. In fact, they really are not supplements at all when you come to think of it. They are complete meals. People are always looking for the magic solution to fat loss or building muscle, buying some drink or pill that promises miraculous results. We gain body fat by having poor eating habits, so the only way to undo the damage is to reverse the cycle by developing good eating habits. Meal replacements make this possible. Meal replacements are pre-packaged powdered drink mixes that you mix with water, milk, or juice and then drink in the place of a meal. They are convenient, inexpensive, and most taste pretty good. For optimum fat-burning and muscle-building results, we need to consume a high-protein, moderate-carb, low-fat meal about every three to four hours. This equals approximately five to six meals per day. So, replace two or three of your whole food meals with meal replacements and you will drastically start cutting out unneeded calories, calories that can add up and, if not burned off, be stored as body fat.
Meal replacements provide a perfect, compact meal in a packet that is high in protein, low in fat (some have no fat) are low in carbohydrates, and contain a wide array of vitamins and minerals. They are low in sugar and cholesterol. They are very nutrient dense and can be mixed easily and conveniently. In order to get the same benefits from whole food as some of the high quality meal replacements, you would have to put together a large meal like a chicken breast (protein), a potato for some carbs, and a salad for the vitamins six times a day. Why bother when you can just rip open a meal replacement packet and toss it into a cup with some water or skim milk. Presto!
MRPs are actually pretty cheap too, considering you're getting an entire meal for under 3 bucks. You can find some that cost only about $2.00 a shake. It's hard to find something that nutritious and low in calories for fewer than 2 bucks. Think about it, you cannot even buy a McDonalds Happy Meal for less than 2.00 dollars and Happy Meals are loaded with fat!
When buying MRPs, check the ingredients. Stick with meals replacements that use a combination of whey, milk, and egg proteins as the first ingredient. Most meal replacements, if taken with water, offer at least 40 grams of protein with minimal fat. Most are under 300 calories, chock full of vitamins and minerals, and taste rather pleasant.
Most MRPs in the market today are almost similar in that they all offer the same required amounts of essential nutrients and low calories. As such, there are no particular products which stand out above the rest in terms of performance and efficacy. I have, however, compiled below a short list of the most tasty (hence most popular) MRPs around. I realise that taste is subjective, and the best judge of whether something tastes good or not is ultimately yourself. But these products listed on the next page pretty much get everyone else’s vote!
NOTE: All products listed in this section have been verified to be LEGITIMATE fat loss products, i.e. they do work, in varying degrees. I wouldn’t even bother to include them here if they were rubbish. (No point wasting my time, or YOURS). Please note that these are independent reviews and NOT sales letters or ads. The author(s) of these reviews were not paid to write these reviews. All products reviewed here were personally tested out either by MYSELF, or by other highly credible sources with no affiliations whatsoever with the product companies, thus ruling out the chance of a wily marketer trying to pass off a sales pitch here as a ‘critical unbiased review’.
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