What would you consider to be the best weight loss "diet pill"? Hydroxycut? Lipo-6? Xendrine?
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Do NOT take diet pills! They are dangerous!!
Last year I was visiting my parents and took diet pills on top on my exercise routine and normal diet. I was 26 at the time, 5'11, 180 lbs. By week three I was sick. I had diarrhea, dry heaves, dizziness, headaches, and a general feeling of being sick. I thought I had caught the flu or something. I had lost 13 lbs in 4 days. One morning I told my mom I didn't feel good. My vision kept blacking out and I felt (for lack of a better way to say it) stoned. Later that afternoon I was walking from the bathroom to my bedroom (a 5 foot walk) and I passed out. I was rushed to the hospital emergency where they did a bunch of tests on me.
My pulse was up to 120, My blood pressure was 150/40, they had to start me on an IV, the did an EKG on me, took blood and urine samples, and a whole barrage of other tests.
They finally got me stabilized and said that I was dehydrated and malnutritioned. I told him that I took diet pills. When I mentioned diet pill, the doctors face lit up and said that's why. He said they can cause a whole bunch of health problems, including death. He told me to toss the diet pills or next time I might not be so lucky.
I was kept in the hospital for almost 10 hours, given 3 or 4 IVs, potassium, juices, and monitored (by the EKG, blood pressure, and heart rate machines) every 15 minutes.
Please take my story as a warning. If you seriously want to loose weight there are better ways (I know because I've lost weight after this)
The quickest way to lose weight is to cut out red meats, starches, breads, sugars, alcohol, and sodas.
Eat veggies (salads are good), soups, and drink TONS of water. If you get hungry between a meal, drink water to fill up.
In moderation eat white meats, and fruits (fruits contain natural sugars, and that can put on weight)
Practice portion control. Yes, you'll feel hungry at first, but think of your goal, and soon your stomach will start shrinking and you won't have that feeling anymore.
Eat 5 times a day. A small breakfast. A mid-morning snack, such as an apple. A small lunch. A mid-afternoon snack, such as carrots. A lite dinner. Do not eat any later than 7pm (6pm is better.)
Go exercise for at least an hour - two a day, incorporating weight training along with your cardio. Cardio helps to melt the fat, while weight training builds muscle. Muscle burns fat, even when you are resting. You get the idea. It also gives tone and definition. Also do a few yoga and pilates exercises to help tone those hard to reach and stubborn areas.
Stay away from all diet pills. They all essentially work the same, by speeding up all of your body's natural processes as well as your metabolism, but this is very dangerous and while you will see some results in the short term, your body will receive considerable long term damage, and you'll actually just end up gaining weight because your metabolism will be really messed up.
Diet and exercise is cliche, but is really a better way to go.
Best of luck!
I choose "E" none of the above.
First of all these aren't weight loss pills even though they're marketed as such. The idea is they're supposed to raise your body temperature, speed up your metabolism and hopefully through thermogenesis you'll lose weight. Personally I think that any weight loss you get from them will be purely co-incidental. When I tried to lose the last 10 pounds around my gut I turned to pills such as these and found they were completely ineffective. Even "Lean System-7" which everybody was raving about turned out to be worthless as far as I was concerned.
Having said that, I've had a great deal of success using a simple ECA (ephedrine/caffeine/aspirin) stack which you can make at home. It enabled me to go a little further when lifting to failure and sometimes one or two more reps can make a difference. I will say that this stack really needs to be used in conjunction with proper diet and exercise as it's an aid to weight loss but it's not the solution all by itself.
These pills can give results, yet it is important to remember that these results are often grossly exaggerated, as this companies are meant to sell as much as possible.
Really these pills do mess with your metabolism quite a bit. My aunt took pills to loose some weight just casually because she didn't have time for the gym and whatnot. Well, after she got off the pills she ballooned. Seriously and wound up looking MUCH worse than she started.
In addition to the negative effects on your metabolism these pills allow you to look the way you want without changing your diet or exercise to achieve it; ie you get some of the reward temporarily without paying the cost. ANd results gained this way are not valued as much and tend to be tossed away just as quickly.
Honestly, there are plenty of things you can do. Do you take a protein supplement? I originally thought that this was just for bodybuilders and whatnot, but it really does help build lean muscle and can really help you loose weight. Remember that the more muscle you have the more calories you burn doing whatever it is you do during the day...
And lastly, don't expect the pounds to drop off. You can't really expect to lose more than 2-3 lbs a week. If you do you are loosing stuff you don't wanna loose, like muscle.
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