I recently had the opportunity through Mom Central to review some UnderWAY and Smart for Life products.
The concept of Smart for Life is simple: eat cookies and lose weight. They are specially formulated cookies that are high protein and fiber to keep you feeling full. The products are all natural and are made with 60% organic ingredients. The idea is that you eat six per day (one every few hours) and then one light meal, while drinking plenty of water and eating no fruits. A multivitamin is recommended to make up for the missing fruit nutrients.
I'm not a fan of diets that cut out foods entirely. However, the advantage of this is that there is no guesswork. You eat the cookies (or some of the other products sold by Smart for Life) as your meals, and drink lots of water. For short-term use, this would be ok, I think, but I wouldn't want to give up fruit forever.
The products themselves are decent. They have a different texture than normal cookies - they feel much drier than soft cookies usually do, but this really does encourage you to drink more water. The flavor is fine, and they are pretty satisfying. They're small, though, so you need to trick your mind by eating small bites so that they last more than a minute. There are also muffins (under the ThinAdventure name) and other things (like cereals and soup) that can be eaten instead of the cookies - and I really liked the taste of the muffins. Not too sweet, but sweet enough. ThinAdventure is geared a little more towards kids and promoting healthy eating - although I'd only use them as snacks, since I definitely don't think kids should "diet" except in extreme circumstances and certainly shouldn't forgo fruits.
UnderWAY is an appetite suppressant drink. The taste was pleasant, and again, you may need to override your mind's signals and focus on your body instead. (In my husband's experience, he still felt hungry, but it was more of a mental thing, because when he distracted himself he forgot he was hungry.)
The Boca Raton Smart for Life Weight Management Center recently conducted a study. Out of 46 subjects that visited and used a portion-controlled, protein-rich, low fat cookie with unique fiber technology, all subjects lost weight with the average being 13.1 pounds in 35 days. Five subjects lost over 20 pounds in 35 days and 20 subjects lost over 15 pounds in the first 35 days. The 46 participants lost a total of 601 pounds with one patient losing 38.7 pounds in 35 days.
If you're interested in purchasing online, you can get 10% off using MCUS10OFFUW for underWAY products and MCUS10OFFSFL at the Smart for Life site. These will expire August 30th.
"I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour campaign by Mom Central on behalf of underWAY and Smart for Life and received samples of the products to review."
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