Sample Menu
Here’s a typical one-day Slim-Fast menu:
Breakfast
Slim-Fast French Vanilla Shake
Snack
½ banana
Lunch
Slim-Fast Chocolate Cookie Dough Meal Bar
Snack
1 apple
Dinner
Asian beef salad
Snack
Slim-Fast Chocolatey Vanilla Blitz Snack Bar
Nutrition
Here’s a breakdown of the nutritional content of a day of meals in the Slim-Fast diet, alongside recommendations from the government’s 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Diet figures were supplied by Slim-Fast.
| Slim-Fast Diet | Recommended | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Calories | 1,200 | Women | Men |
|
21-25: 2,000 26-50: 1,800 51+: 1,600 |
21-40: 2,400 41-60: 2,200 61+: 2,000 |
||
| Total Fat | 24% | 20%-35% | |
| Saturated | 6% | Less than 10% | |
| Trans | 0% | N/A | |
| Total Carbohydrates | 58% | 45%-65% | |
|
Sugars (total except as noted) |
N/A | N/A | |
| Fiber | 29 g. | Women | Men |
|
19-30: 28 g. 31-50: 25 g. 51+: 22 g. |
19-30: 34 g. 31-50: 31 g. 51+: 28 g. |
||
| Protein | 22% | 10%-35% | |
| Sodium | 1,215 mg. | Under 2,300 mg., under 1,500 mg. for 51+ | |
| Potassium | 3,290 mg. | At least 4,700 mg. | |
| Calcium | 1,230 mg. |
19-50: 1,000 mg. 51+: 1,200 mg. |
|
| Vitamin B-12 | 4.3 mcg. | 2.4 mcg. | |
| Vitamin D | 9.5 mcg. | 15 mcg. | |
Recommendations apply to adults 19 and older except as noted. Recommended calories assume a sedentary lifestyle. Because of rounding, protein, fat, and carbohydrate content may not add up to 100 percent.
Last updated by Angela Haupt | January 02, 2013
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