Diet Pills Don't Actually Work That Well

I'm sure a lot of it is placebo effect. Most of those pills work by affecting your mood centers in your brain to make you feel less like eating. Or they work like Xenical, making following a diet plan pretty much a necessary thing. I think the prescription weight loss aids can be useful to people that really are trying but just can't seem to lose weight as fast as they could, but they probably won't work if you want a quick fix.

I friend told me the other day that a pill is on the horizon that would allow us to eat whatever we want and not gain a pound. I can't imagine what would be going on inside my body with that one!

I like to see stories like this because all to often the people that do not want to put in the work to lose weight sell these products to their unsuspecting friends until some news story scares everyone off.

If you are going to use a diet/weight loss pill and rely on that then even if it were to work you would have to be hooked for life.

This has probably been beaten to death but it is all about excercise and the type of foods u put into your body.
i am a 5ft 9" male and was about 20lbs overweight. joined the army and through basic trainng lost the 20lbs and now in the best shape of my life. no pills, no mickey D's, just 2 months of pure calorie burning filled days! and damn do i look good! but i understand that not everyone has 2 months to go to bootcamp. so it is back to the basics of excercise and watching what u eat. the diet pills just add to the caloric burn and reduces your appetite. i have also heard that some people have side affects too. like heart rate increases and their head hurts.
simply forumla for losing weight
lose weight=low calorie foods(veggies, lean meats, fish, & fruits, minimal amts of carbs) + TONS of excercise

simple but very hard to maintain!

Hamma has it exactly right. I just add hormonal replacement to the exercise and healthy eating formula since I am 51 years old - I now have 10% body fat.

The fact that diet pills fail should not be a surprise. Diet pills suppress appetite. Most people who use them do not change their lifestyles – they do not try to eat healthier or exercise– they simply induce a state of starvation during which they loose weight both fat and lean body mass. They build up a tolerance to the drug and stop taking it at some point at which time they rebound and gain all the weight back or more. Often they are in worse shape because they may have a net loss of lean body mass. This is bound to fail.

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I've had a love/hate relationship with diet pills...I used to take ephedrine pills frequently because I would not feel hunger. However, they made me feel very hot, my heart would race, and I would shake all over. I was very ill at the time with an eating disorder, and I thought the results were worth it.

IT'S NOT WORTH IT.

I agree that anyone who believes they'll be able to take a pill that will magically cause them to lose wait is going to be disappointed. However, I would like to point out that this isn't what these pills claim to do, nor is it why you should take them. Changing your lifestyle is obviously necessary for healthy, sustainable weight loss - but losing weight, and maintaining a healthy weight are two different activities. Losing weight requires that you consume less fuel than your body actually needs to function - this can be a really unpleasant experience involving food cravings, irritability, loss of energy (making it difficult to work out) etc. Something like meridia can be helpful in weight loss by making it less miserable and traumatic - no food cravings, no loss of energy, etc. I know from experience that it's a lot easier to follow eating guidelines when you aren't obsessing on food the whole time. Maintaining weight requires eating exactly what your body needs to function - no more no less. If you've broken bad habits like eating when your bored, or stressed, it isn't so uncomfortable to eat just as much as you need - you don't get tired and cranky - so you don't need the pill anymore.
I'm not sure a blanket condemnation of diet pills is the way to go - probably making an informed decision about it, and being realistic about the purpose they serve is a better way to go. If you can do it without the help - hey, that's really great. But not all of us can.

I am a male in my late 30's, a white collar worker.I have been overweight since my early 20's. I have been successful at losing weight on many occasions, but an abject failure at keeping it off. I seem to follow a common pattern. 3 or 4 months of dilligent work at losing weight through healthy eating and exercise usually in the form of swimming (2000 m x4 per week). My weight loss is usually 2 to 3 lbs a week and I will loose 30 to 40 lbs. But maintaining this becomes all consuming. What and when I eat next is always on my mind. It seems to take up all the spare brain activity that is not devoted to breathing and standing upright. Add to this some external force, ie. increasd demand at work, mid winter flu, injury, whatever, and the desire to continue is overcome by mental and some times physical exhaustion. I don't mean to sound dramatic but at some point I usually hit a wall and say "F--- It I quit". So where does meridia fit into this. I have been taking it now for 3 weeks and lost 12 lbs. Pretty much my pattern mentioned above. But what is different is what is going on in my head- or what is not. My weight loss is not front and center in my mind. I do not find myself fighting my body which says "feed me". My body has been telling me "I am full" so sticking to an eating plan has been relatively easy. There have been 2 interesting side effects as well, both positive. First, my spouse has noticed I am more calm/content/less aggitated when I get home. She says I am like the person I am about 4 days into a two week vacation. Second, I have recently noticed a dramatic decrease in my coffee intake. Up until recently I would have 4 large black coffees before mid morning topped off with a couple of diet coke's in the afternoon, and another coffee for the drive home. I am now not finishing my morning coffee before it gets cold. So, negative side effects? I can say one for sure-dry mouth as mentioned in the enclosed literature. The other I am not sure how to qualify- for the first week I felt like I was in a bit of a fog, that is my best description, what think I can attribute this to is my more relaxed demenor and 5 less coffee's a day. This is going to be a long trip for me as I have 120 or so lbs to lose so time will tell.

That is absolutely true. I believe to many people focus on weight loss pills and supplements to help them lose weight. Even though every diet pill on the planet will not change your life by itself, people still buy them. We need to tell more people about health nutrition for better and real weight loss.

No professional would tell you that diet pills are an ideal solution. However, the stress that modern life puts us through means that they are sometimes a necessary last resort.

diet pills do not work at all