Tell me pros and cons on using diet pill for diets?
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Well, let's put it in a systematic way:
Pros:
- Gives you a boost in a diet;
- Placebo effect;
- The natural ones can actually give your body some ingredients it might have been missing;
- You can actually lose some "weight".
Cons:
- The "weight" you lose is rarely fat. It's mostly water or stomach size. It won't really make you thinner;
- The Placebo effect can have the aftermath - "I dropped the pills, now I'm going to gain all the weight back" - and bam, here comes double what you though you had lost;
- Makes you actually believe no diet or exercise is needed to actually lose weight;
- Makes you say things that you actually believe to be scientifically proven, read on the covers of the pills, but are just half-truths;
- Can send your body in a yo-yo weight process that will be hard to get out;
- Can be possibly dangerous in some cases - pills that increase your heart rate or can cause liver failure;
I could go on with the con's list. To be honest, there is one sure way to lose weight:
- Diet - Choose your food with some knowledge behind it. Don't go on a fad diet, or cutting everything back.
- Complex Carbs are needed, so get whole wheat bread or muesli cereals, or such.
- Protein is needed, so get white meat and fish.
- Eat fruit, but avoid mangos and other more caloric fruits. Apples and Oranges, for example, are OK. Although some people say that the fructose in them can make you gain weight, it's better to eat an apple than a cookie!
- The best of all - ALL THE VEGETABLES YOU WANT! Brocolli, lettuce, cucumber, carrots (although they have some sugar), make a great salad with a little olive oil and vinegar or lemon. Throw in some fruit and create a different salad. Your imagination rules here.
- Avoid simple carbs - sugar, cookies, soft drinks, etc... - even Coke Zero doesn't work! Have one every once in a while, depending on your daily food income and EXERCISE rate.
- Learn about the fat contained in the food you eat. It can be a lifesaver, because not only will you feel better by reducing the fat, as you will lose weight and fat percentage.
- A lot more can be said about food, but I believe these are the basics.
Exercise - Let's face it - a diet helps, but you will have extra skin and you might not lose all you wanted to lose.
- Exercise is something you grow accustomed to and eventually turns into love - don't judge it based on those first miserable days - give it some time to set in your body and the results kick in!
- Don't weight yourself all the time. It's obcessive and it won't lead to anything. Choose a day and a hour (morning when you wake up preferably) to weight every week, always on the same scale;
- Start by doing 30 minutes of cardio a day. Walk, run, bike, climbstairs, you name it. It's the minimum to not be considered a sedentery person;
- Learn about your body fat. That's what you have to reduce!
- Do cardio and weight training. No, weight training will not make you bulk up. It will make you gain muscle weight, which actually shows better figures on your body. To actually bulk up, you'd have to take a lot of supplements or do a crazy ammount of work up. Be honest, how many people who do weight training have muscles that big?!
- If you like supplements so much, you can take some for the exercise. Take a protein bar after weight training to help muscle build up. Take L-Carnitine or CLA in conjuction with training to help build up energy and tone the body, besides losing some weight. But they only work with exercise, and it doesn't have the same results for everybody;
- Above all, don't overwork yourself, or buy wierd supplements. Let your body do the work it needs without the interferance of pills. Push it to a limit, but not THE limit.
Sorry for the really long text, but I believe you have some information here to get you started!
Good luck! :)
losing weight has little to do with the physical and more to do with the mental.
when u take diet pills your basically telling yourself that you are mentally lazy and think that losing weight comes in a pill.
NO!
losing weight has to do with discipline and hard work. lose that lazy mentality and you will lose weight. if u can discipline yourself to exercise and eat right you will do well.
it burns muscle as well as fat, and they're generallly not a good idea, in my opinion at least. then again, im an all natural guy.
on the other hand, they do burn weight, so they deliver what they promise.
no specific source, but if you look at any advertisement for a weight loss pill, it says it burns x% fat, that means the rest its burning is muscle.
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