A girl I know has weight problems and her gynecologist recommended meal replacements for her.

Now, there are so many reasons why a gynecologist shouldn’t act like a nutritionist , the main one is that she isn’t. But the woman is convinced that the gynecologist’s advice is good because she is still a doctor and because meal replacements make her lose weight, so they work.

I will never understand this “works so it’s fine” thing when it concerns delicate things like people’s health and their nutrition. In fact, you can lose weight in many ways, but if we do not want to regain the weight lost, it is good to do it in the smartest way, which is to learn something from our weight loss, acquiring better habits.

Meal replacements, for example, work no matter what brand you take .

They create a calorie deficit, and in most cases they have more protein than fat and carbohydrates, compared to 150/250 calories.

But once you finish taking the meal replacement you haven’t learned anything, because basically you didn’t give a damn aside from losing weight.

You don’t know how to dose your portions, you don’t know how to reduce calories and how to balance macronutrients, an important thing if you are a sedentary person, in order to avoid high glycemic and insulin loads. At the time of writing, I often see advertisements for So-Shape
meal replacements on social media . On pages two and three I explain the cons of these meal replacements, but I anticipate that yes, they work for weight loss as long as you don’t overdo the free meal. And here comes the drama .