FAQs

If you're sticking with the quantities suggested on the Celebrity Slim Programme and still seem to be hungry all the time, there are a few strategies you can use to manage your hunger. First of all, make sure you are truly hungry and not just wanting to eat out of habit - a trap that many of us fall into. If you are still truly hungry, try some of these suggestions:

• Drink more water with your meals and snacks
• Increase the portion size of each meal and snack by about 10% for a few days, and then slowly reduce it if you can.
• Add a small handful of allowed nuts with a glass of water to each allowable snack meal.
• Cut up allowable vegetables into sticks or chunks, such as celery, carrot and capsicum, keep them in the fridge, and munch on them when you get hungry
• Add a small amount of olive oil, about 5ml, to you Celebrity Slim Shake. The oil will slow your digestion and help you to feel fuller for longer.

Celebrity Slim is classified as a weight loss dietary food and is designed to be used by people over 16 years of age. While all of the ingredients used in Celebrity Slim are natural, we would not recommend its consumption by children under 16 years.

Because the Celebrity Slim diet programme is based on a reduced kilojoule diet, we do not recommend it for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding as the diet may not contain enough nutrients to support the needs of both mum and baby.

Some dieters use meal replacement shakes as their only food to lose weight quickly. While this may get you slim in the short term, this diet is not a balanced way to eat for any longer than a few days. We always recommend combining Celebrity Slim shakes with healthy balanced meals and snacks to ensure you are getting a good intake of fresh food nutrients every day to help you lose weight and stay healthy.

Celebrity Slim Shakes are simply a delicious high protein food. They are formulated using a blend of common food ingredients and are perfectly safe for use by normal healthy adults.

One of the wonderful things about the Celebrity Slim programme is that correcting your abnormal body chemistry almost always removes the cravings for sweet and fatty foods. One of Celebrity Slim's main goals is to normalise the way your body handles glucose, a type of blood sugar. Once this happens, the food cravings disappear by themselves.

The Celebrity Slim programme guides you on how to select the correct foods as well as to gently change undesirable lifestyle habits. Phase 1 of the programme starts you on a rapid-burn phase. Early success will prove to you that you can achieve your body image goals. Celebrity Slim will gently help you to retrain the eating and lifestyle habits which caused your problem in the first place. Retraining your eating habits is not as difficult as it might seem when you take it a step at a time.

While you will need to be more active in order to maintain your new body shape, exercise need not include punishing sessions at the gym; walking regularly at a reasonable pace can be as effective in the long term. Just as importantly, you will need to consider incidental exercise; for example, take the stairs instead of the lift or park the car 10 minutes away from your destination so that you are becoming more active in your day-to-day activities. Celebrity Slim will teach you how to make these subtle changes. Although these small changes may not seem like much, over a year, they can make a significant difference to the amount of energy you burn.

One of the great things about Celebrity Slim is that your results are mainly diet dependent. That is, you don't have to do any real exercise to achieve your goals. The really good news is that if you do combine Celebrity Slim with regular exercise, your rate of fat loss will increase significantly!

Not only that, but exercise will also give you a whole range of additional benefits. Now we're not saying you must exercise - just the fact that you are getting down to a healthier weight is fantastic. However we do recommend you consider some reasonable form of regular exercise - it will make your results that much better.

So let's assume you decide to start exercising regularly. What should you actually do about it? If you already follow a regular exercise programme. This is a good time to review your progress and perhaps re-align it to help ensure you burn off even more fat.

Celebrity Slim works by restricting carbohydrates and overall kilojoules in your diet which stimulates your metabolism to burn more fat. Eating smaller meals more often throughout the day is also important to boost your metabolism. We ask you to aim for 5 - 6 smaller meals, rather than the traditional 2 or 3 larger meals. The result of changing to this way of eating is that you will lose weight.

One of the ingredients in Celebrity Slim shakes, soups and bars is 'skim milk powder' which does contain lactose, so the shakes are not suitable if you have a lactose intolerance.

There are two main types of diabetes mellitus:

• Type 1 diabetes requiring insulin medication - This type is usually caused by the body's inability to produce the hormone insulin which helps process blood sugars.
• Type 2 diabetes also known as adult-onset diabetes - is often the result of lifestyle factors including diet and obesity and involves the body's inability to process blood sugars effectively.

RECOMMENDATION
Type 1 diabetics should not use Celebrity Slim and should adhere closely to their doctor's dietary recommendations.
Type 2 diabetics can often benefit from the Celebrity Slim programme but must first receive written clearance from their doctor. Blood sugar levels and medications should be closely monitored and adjusted if necessary while a patient is on the CS programme.

Some of the flavours used in Celebrity Slim may contain traces of gluten so we would recommend that if you have this condition Celebrity Slim would not be suitable.

Here are just a few ideas for allowable snacks you can enjoy on the Celebrity Slim Programme:

• ½ cup berries - strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, cherries etc.
• ½ medium apple.
• ½medium orange.
• ½ medium peach.
• ½ medium pear.
• ½ medium grapefruit.
• ½ small mango.
• ½ medium nectarine.
• 30 g (small block or slice) of tasty cheese or cottage cheese.
• 1 - 2 slices of deli meats such as ham. Avoid fatty types such as salami.
• 30 g (small handful) of nuts such as raw almonds, peanuts, brazil nuts, walnuts or pistachio. Go easy of salted nuts and avoid coated nuts.
• Small dob of cream (1 dessert spoon) can be added to fruit such as raspberries occasionally, better still, try using low fat natural yoghurt.
• Small snack size tin of tuna in springwater or brine preferably.
• Top 2 sticks of celery with crunchy peanut butter or low-fat cream cheese.
• Two veggie sticks (red and green peppers, carrot, celery, courgette) with low-carb dips (pesto, cheese based dips).
• Wrap ham or chicken or egg with mayonnaise in lettuce leaves.

Check out our recipes section for more yummy snack recipes!