Obese men and women who replaced two meals per day with a meal replacement shake containing 215 calories, consisting of 15 grams of protein from whey protein, lost an average of 20.9 pounds in six months according to a recent study from researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Adelaide, South Australia.

Obese men and women who for the first six (6) months replaced two (2) meals per day with a meal replacement shake containing 215 calories, consisting of 15 grams of protein from whey protein, and then for the next six (6) months replaced one (1) meal per day, lost an average of 21.8 pounds in one (1) year according to a recent study from researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Adelaide, South Australia.

Obese men and women who replaced two meals per day with a meal replacement shake containing 215 calories, consisting of 15 grams of protein from skim milk powder, lost an average of 24.2 pounds in six months according to a recent study from researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Adelaide, South Australia.

Obese men and women who for the first six (6) months replaced two (2) meals per day with a meal replacement shake containing 215 calories, consisting of 15 grams of protein from skim milk powder, and then for the next six (6) months replaced one (1) meal per day, lost an average of 23.8 pounds in one (1) year according to a recent study from researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Adelaide, South Australia.

People assigned to eat a diet of 1200-1500 calories per day that included two meal replacements and two snack replacements, as well as one meal high in fruits and vegetables lost an average of 15.6 lbs in three months compared to 2.9 pounds for those prescribed a diet of 1200-1500 calories per day according to a study done by researchers at the University of Ulm in Ulm, Germany.

People assigned to eat a diet of 1200-1500 calories per day that included one meal replacement and one snack replacement lost an average of 22.9 lbs in two years compared to 16.9 pounds for those prescribed the same diet but with no meal or snack replacement according to a study done by researchers at the University of Ulm in Ulm, Germany.

People assigned to eat a diet of 1200-1500 calories per day that included one meal replacement and one snack replacement lost an average of 20.9 lbs in four years compared to 9 pounds for those prescribed the same diet but with no meal or snack replacement according to a study done by researchers at the University of Ulm in Ulm, Germany.

People using two SlimFast meal replacement shakes and two SlimFast bars in place of two meals and two snacks lost an average of 15.6 pounds in the first three months compared to only 2.9 pounds for those on a low calorie diet alone.

People lost and maintained an average weight loss of 11 percent by replacing two meals and two snacks per day with SlimFast meal replacement shakes and bars for three months followed by replacing one meal and one snack for an additional two years.

People lost and maintained an average weight loss of 8.4 percent of their body weight by replacing two meals and two snacks per day with SlimFast shakes and bars for three months followed by replacing one meal and one snack for an additional four years.

Women maintained a weight loss of 7.9 pounds after five years of using meal replacements compared to a weight gain of +10.3 pounds in controls.

Patients lost an average of 21.2 pounds or 9.5 percent of body weight in six weeks when give a 800 calorie per day liquid meal replacement, which consisted of HMR 800 (Health Management Resources, Boston, Massachusetts, USA).

Information about the HMR 800 meal replacement shakes can be found here.

Note: A couple of weight loss doctors have told me that HMR makes the best meal replacement shakes of any they have tried.

Note: I have no financial ties to HMR or this product.

Intense behavioral therapy and meal replacement shakes, entrees and bars from Health Management Resources helped severely obese women lose an average of 52.6 pounds, or 18.5 percent of their body weight, and severely obese men lose an an average of 79.2 pounds, or 22.5 percent of their body weight, according to a review of more than one thousand patients treated at three Health Management Resources weight loss centers in the U.S..

Meal replacement shakes caused a dramatic difference in weight loss or weight gain over a 5-year period according to a 2000 paper.

Weight difference in men: -12.8 lbs vs +14.7 lbs, a difference of 27.5 lbs

The average weight loss in 50 men who used meal replacement shakes was 12.8 pounds after five years versus a weight gain of 14.7 pounds for a group of “142 matched male controls”.

This is a difference of 27.5 pounds for men.

Weight difference in men: -9.2 lbs vs +14.3 lbs, a difference of 23.5 lbs

The average weight loss in 84 women who used meal replacement shakes was 9.2 pounds after five years versus a weight gain of 14.3 pounds for a group of “247 female controls”.

This is a difference of 23.5 pounds for women.

People who ate two meal replacements per day with a total of 800 to 1600 calories per day lost an average of 18.9 pounds or 9.7 percent of body weight after six months according to a review paper.

The average weight loss after two years was 11 pounds.

People trying to follow a diet by using meal replacement shakes lost 9 pounds more than people not using the shakes according to a recent study.

Women consuming 3 meal replacements shakes per day, one prepackaged entree and 5 servings of fruits and vegetables for a total of 1100 to 1200 calories per day lost an average of 13 to 14 percent in four months according to a study from University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky, USA.

Meal replacements cause roughly 5.5 pounds more weight loss after three months than a low calorie diet according to four studies, whereas two studies have found a similar amount of weight loss with a conventional low-fat, low-calorie diet according to a new review paper.

Meal replacement shakes replacing two meals a day are as effective as a 1400 calorie per day low-fat diet over a six month period according to a recent study from Australia.

Replacing two meal with SlimFast meal replacement shakes causes an average weight loss of 7 percent of bodyweight in morbidly obese low-income patients according to a new study from researchers at the University of California Los Angeles.

Meal replacements like SlimFast cause greater weight loss both short-term and long-term according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Women consuming a 1,000 calories per day including four servings of a liquid meal replacement (Optifast 800) lost an average of 12.1 percent of their body weight after five months compared to 7.8 percent for another group eating a 1,200 to 1,500 calorie per day diet versus 0.1 percent for non-dieting control group according to a new study from researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia.

People drinking Slim-Fast meal replacement shakes for two meals a day, and eating a low-fat evening meal lost as much weight as people following a 1400 calorie per day diet.

Meal replacement shakes increase weight loss by 5.6 pounds after three months, and 5.3 pounds after one year according to a analysis of six studies.

“Glycomacropeptide is a peptide that has been shown to stimulate release of cholecystokinin [CCK], which may promote satiety,” a new study from researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Adelaide, Australia starts out.

However, people did not lose more weight when given glycomacropeptide-enriched whey protein power to use as a meal replacment than those given skim milk powder.

In fact, those given glycomacropeptide-enriched whey protein powder as meal replacements lost 2 pounds less than those given skim milk powder as a meal replacement—a weight loss of roughly 22 pounds versus 24 pounds.