Healthy meal replacement bars and shakes make nutrition simple with convenient, great-tasting, and balanced daily support. Maintaining protein intake is key to supporting muscle mass while taking weight loss medication. Meal replacement bars and shakes can serve as a valuable source of protein, vitamins, and minerals, which is important when appetite is suppressed.
Meal replacement bars and shakes are doctor-recommended for people taking weight loss medication, like compounded GLP-1s or oral medication kits—available through Hims & Hers.
While taking weight loss medication, you may find yourself eating less and skipping meals due to a decreased appetite. Maintaining healthy levels of protein during a calorie deficit is important. Meal replacement bars and shakes can serve as a valuable source of protein as you eat less.
Meal replacement bars and shakes can help kickstart your weight loss journey by making you feel more satiated or less hungry, due to their high protein content. They can also help with a more consistent and accurate calorie intake
Hims & Hers protein bars and shakes are doctor-recommended for people taking weight loss medication. They feature high-protein formulas, with high-quality protein to support better protein synthesis, lean body mass, and more energy while on a low-calorie nutrition plan for weight loss.
One meal replacement shake includes 54% of the recommended daily protein intake, and 35% of the daily value for 24 different vitamins and minerals.
You can adjust how many meals or snacks you replace per day based on your daily routine. For normal days, consider replacing two meals. However, if you're traveling and want to use more of your calorie intake for dining out, you can go down to one meal replacement per day.
A review of multiple studies found that replacing at least 60% of daily calorie intake with meal replacements had a greater effect on weight loss than relying on regular foods alone.* Remember, meal replacement bars and shakes should supplement, not replace, a balanced diet.
*Disclaimer: study was on meal replacements in general and not these specific bars
*Min, Jihyun et al. “The Effect of Meal Replacement on Weight Loss According to Calorie-Restriction Type and Proportion of Energy Intake: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.” Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics vol. 121,8 (2021): 1551-1564.e3. doi:10.1016/j.jand.2021.05.001