Archive for May 28th, 2008

What are Slim Shots?

Well, I have to admit, I’m just as curious about the latest and greatest findings in the diet pill world, including herbal weight loss pills, different natural types of appetite suppressants in various forms like liquid, pills, powders and even homeopathics ones that you hold under your tongue until they dissolve.  So this new Slim Shots appetite suppressing product that I saw in the middle aisles at Wal-mart just the other day – you know, the displays of items that they know are bound to get the attention of the dieters and summer conscious people?

I also noticed the steep price, which was around twenty five bucks for only a 21 day supply of the shots, which appeared to look like they were the size of coffee creamers you’d get at restaurants, or the kind of liquid creamer you get with your coffee at McDonalds and other fast food restaurants.  I was reading the labels, hoping to find some breakthrough or interesting information on why these might be worth the price, other than their novel approach at getting people to buy them by putting them in a one shot container and calling them “shots”, appealing to the novelty lover in all of us – including me! 

However, I couldn’t find anything out about the ingredients – at least not any that I thought were the active ingredients which made the appetite suppressing quality of them work, because it was called a “proprietary blend”, which means they did not disclose what was in that proprietary blend on the label, leaving the buyer to wonder what exactly it was they were ingesting.

However, the packaging did state that it was “clinically proven” to reduce appetite by about 30% when the product was taken in the morning.  I read some reviews online and couldn’t find much except that the product worked for some people, and that it tasted a lot like milk of magnesia, with not a lot of flavor but a thicker consistency.  If anyone has any reviews of the product or has tried it, please post them here so others can read them if they’re thinking of dropping a lot of money and want to get information before doing so.