Meal Replacement Shakes

For years my 83 year old grandmother has been drinking Slim-Fast. She has one shake at breakfast, and hasn't lost a pound--ever!

Here's why, after her shake she eats a big full breakfast, lunch and dinner. She's from the "old country," and thinks it's a magic potion.

But the shake isn't hocus-pocus, it's meal-replacement. You have one and not the other. A shake instead of a meal, not both!

Yet another weight loss infomercial, one on the Oxygen network called Amaze Rx has come under scrutiny. Amaze Rx is a meal replacement shake similar to a Slim Fast shake and the 30-minute infomercial suggests that you can lose large amounts of weight drinking them.

What wasn't made clear is that the before-and-after photos were taken of people who'd had lapband surgery!