Product Reviews

Kim and Khloe Kardashian Touting QuickTrim Products

The Kardashian sisters – heck, the whole family, has become quite the reality sensation lately. Kim started off being known as the BFF of Paris Hilton, guess that relationship went kaput, because you never see pics of them together on the internet or in magazines any more, and I read somewhere that Paris Hilton even made kind of snide remarks about Kim’s round rear end (which by the way, lots of men like, and I happen to think she looks great with all her curves).

The only thing I know about Khloe is that she was on a season of the Celebrity Apprentice (Donald Trumps reality show where celebrities try to win the coveted prize of being Donal’s pick for his apprentice, although I don’t know that anything has really ever come of that for anyone), and she’s married to a very tall NBA basketball player.

I also know that she lost a ton of weight recently, and she looks fabulous, and very healthy to boot.  I’m not sure if both the sister’s weight loss is really due to Quick Trim or simply hard work and dedication, but they are both endorsing the QuickTrim diet supplement as a way that helped them to lose weight.

Quick Trim is basically an appetite suppressant and diet supplement that helps you to eat less and crave less food, so you can lose weight more quickly, and with less of the struggle that is typically endured during the diet cycles when you cut your food intake down and seem to be endlessly starving.  Of course, as with most other diet and weightloss supplements, you do have to also make the right food choices, but the right supplement has always helped me to kick start my diet, call it the placebo effect, but I feel like I have more control when I’m taking a good diet supplement.

The rest, of course, I know, is all up to me to actually get the weight off and keep it off and also work out on a regular schedule to burn off extra calories. Let’s not forget that the hallmark notion that you must reduce caloric intake to effectively lose weight, because after all, excess weight is excess calories. You can usually safely lose weight by reducing calories and learning how to suppress your hunger, eating about 1500 calories a day, which is totally doable if you pick the right foods that fill you up and don’t leave you wanting for more all day.

Review : Quaker Weight Control Oatmeal

Well, it looks like I have a new favorite breakfast, and the best news is that while it tastes good, and a little like you’re being naughty, this nutritious breakfast packs quite a bit of dietary fiber in it and also, even when you add some nuts, it comes in at about 400 calories when you also add a small V8 or tomato juice like I do (I like to add to this because it fills me up and keeps me full for several hours, whereas this oatmeal alone probably would not do that as well.

The one Quaker oatmeal packet that I’ve tried thus far is the banana bread one. It is so good! If you like banana nut bread, then you will definitely like this. You might even put a little dash of sugar or sugar substitute in it just to sweeten it a bit more, after all, it is weight control, so there’s not a lot of sugar in it. I like to add chopped walnuts to it also, which adds about 150 calories to this breakfast that really sticks with you but also has a lot of nutritious benefits to it. The walnuts add more fiber and protein, and they also add some of those omega 3’s that really help keep you satisfied and help keep your mind sharp, plus they’re great for your skin.

All I do is add really hot water, which I’m lucky because I have one of those hot water taps on our sink of the house we moved into, just enough to make it into a thicker “soup” like consistency, let it sit for a minute or two to cool off a bit so I don’t scald my mouth, but not too long because oatmeal always gets like paste when you let it sit too long and actually get cold, and then I add a few tablespoons of chopped walnuts to it, and voila, I’ve got a really fast, really tasty breakfast. If you wanted to, you could probably also add some sliced bananas, I haven’t tried that yet, but I bet that would taste really good and keep you full even longer.

Review : Zone Perfect Dark Chocolate Nutrition Bars

I know, I know, aren’t “dark chocolate” and nutrition a totally antonymous coupling of terms? They really shouldn’t go together, right? I mean, the only thing going for dark chocolate is that it does contain some antioxidants and has been proven, if not somewhat dubiously, to be good for your heart in certain ways, although us women have always known that chocolate, in any form, is almost always at least good for the soul, but is it really “heart healthy”?

While that is definitely debatable, we can say that these nutrition, or protein bars, are often nothing more than glorified candy bars with some vitamins and minerals added in for good measure and better, more appealing nutrition labels for the health conscious dieter. However, I do think that protein bars have their place in the healthy American diet.

It’s not as meal replacements, which is pretty much a joke since these things normally don’t stabilizy your blood sugar past an hour or two unlike a balanced meal, but as a snack, perhaps before working out for an extra carb and energy boost to power you through.

Or maybe it could be that midafternoon snack where you’re not really sure what else to eat, or you’re really craving something that’s slightly sweet, that maybe tastes a little “naughty” but you don’t want to go full tilt into a candy bar since you know that will spur on a full on sugar bomb.

The Zone Perfect Bars are pretty popular protein bars, and you can get them at most major drugstores and many department stores, like Target and Wal-mart as well. The dark chocolate ones caught my eye because they fit my criteria for a protein bar, being just under 200 calories per bar, and also having the right carb count and fiber count for me.

I purchased the marshmallow and chocolate ones, which are kind of like a smores flavor. That’s one of my favorites in the Luna bar, so I figured I’d like it in the Zone Perfect bar as well. I liked that these bars were actually heavy in weight too. Some of them are so light you wonder if they have any substance at all. The flavor was good, no funky sugar substitutes or anything, and no maltitol, which tends to make you gassy. Overall, I’d buy them again!