Jump-starting A Diet With Slim-Fast Meal Replacement Shakes

It is 11:20 and I am hungry. My holiday festive eating orgy, that began in mid-December, is now over.  Yes, it is.  Really.  I promise.  Moreover, I am now ready to shed the ho-hum-how-many pounds that I’ve gained since then.

To that end, I’ve got in the refrigerator a four-pack of Slim-Fast chocolate shakes that I was sent before the holiday but have waited until now to use.  It occurs to me that my timing may not have been what Slim-Fast intended.  Probably they thought I would want to use their meal-replacement shakes to shed a few pounds so I could shimmy into my party dresses for Christmas and New Year’s Eve.  Ha! My attire for both of those holidays is flannel pajamas–and maybe, depending on who is around, a bra.  If I am going to pig out, I am going to do so in comfort.

However–ahem–the season is now long-gone and so must be the five or so (but who’s counting?) pounds that accrued.  Thus, the need to jump start my Better-Eating-Wise-Food-Choices diet with Slim-Fast Meal Replacement Shakes.  I am determined not to chug it like so much medicine, but to savor my tasty drink, enjoying it as I would if it were–well, a real milk shake.  To that end, I’ve put it in a glass mug.  I’ve chilled it, as the label directs.  And–

–it’s chocolatey.  Definitely, aggressively chocolatey.  That’s a plus, I think.  There’s a second note after the intense chocolate and that is not such a plus: it’s sickly sweet.  But it’s still drinkable.  I continue my taste test and note that there’s an odd sensation in the back of my mouth, a kind of puckering up, followed by an aftertaste.

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