With spring and summer approaching, many of my friends have been talking about one thing: losing weight. As we started talking about all the different diet plans out there, one friend asked, "Why diet, when you can just pop a diet pill?" Is it really that easy? Being completely naive about diet pills, I decided to pull a list of the top searched diet pills to find out what all the hype was about. I can see why alli made it to the top of the list. According to their customer testimonials, this pill, along with diet and exercise can increase weight loss up to 50 percent. Has alli kept it's promise? Find out more at AOL Body. Did you know Phentermine received FDA approval back in 1959? It's still the top searched diet pill today. It's strange to think people have been using phentermine for so long.
I have to say, I'm a little skeptical of all these miracle pills. There are so many diet pills that out there that I question how safe they really are. Some of these diet pills I have actually heard of like Hoodia and Hydroxycut. But what exactly are Meridia and Lipovox?
Yes, popping a diet pill does sound much easier than counting your calories or exercising, but do they really work? Have you tried any of these diet pills? And if so, what worked for you? Try searching for diet pills on AOL Search. Or, if diet pills aren't your thing, you can check out AOL Body for weight loss tips.
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The Truth about Fat & How to Use It
By: Gary Reinl
“During the past 25 years there has been a dramatic increase in obesity in the United States.”
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Our federal government estimates that the total cost of “overfatness” is approaching $100 billion dollars per year. Even though that is a lot of money … it’s not the biggest problem. There is simply no way that our existing healthcare system can absorb the predicted volume of patients if things continue at the current rate -- fat people will literally begin dying in the streets.
Have you ever wondered why there are so many more fat people than ever before?
The answer may surprise you … hint; it has little to do with eating food … and losing “weight” often ends up making you fatter.
An Excessive Volume of Food is Not the Problem
It’s true … for most of us an excessive volume of food is not the problem. Let’s say that you gained 20 pounds of excess fat during the past 10 years. If you think that’s a lot of fat ... you’re right. In fact, few people would want to gain even half that amount.
Nevertheless, if you did gain 20 pounds of excess fat in the past 10 years, you only consumed 7,000 more calories each year than you used. That to may sound like a lot, but … that is only 19 excess calories per day. That’s less than one Hershey’s Kiss® or a very modest squirt of Ketchup.
The fact is, contrary to popular belief, an excessive volume of food is not the reason most people gain excess fat.
The point: For most of us, the difference between fat and trim is an extraordinarily slight caloric intake/use imbalance … not a dietary crisis.
Losing Weight is Not the Solution
During the past 25 years, tens of millions of fat people have used hundreds and hundreds of “weight loss” programs, potions and pills and lost, literally, more than a billion pounds … net result: there are more fat people than ever before. And, according to our government … the problem is getting worse!
Obviously “losing weight” is not the solution. Yet … nearly every fat person measures their “success” (and ultimately their failure) with a bathroom scale. Here’s the really sad part … nearly everyone that loses “weight” regains it within 12 months … most end up gaining more than they lost and repeat the same process year after year (yo-yo diet syndrome).
Worse … a negative side affect of most “weight loss” plans is muscle loss. This, by the way, is clearly a step in the wrong direction. Less muscle means that your metabolism is running at a slower rate. This means, all things equal, you get fatter … each and every day.
Again, contrary to popular belief, losing weight is not the solution … in fact, it is often the problem.
The point: You are not trying to lose “weight” … you are trying to loss “fat”, while maintaining or, preferably, increasing your muscle mass. Don’t measure and track weight loss … measure and track your total amount of fat and muscle!
Which Fat Loss, Muscle Building Method is Best
The best way to lose fat is to use more calories (Remember: For most of us, the difference between fat and trim is an extraordinary slight caloric intake/use imbalance … not a dietary crisis). And the best way to use more calories is to rebuild your muscles and there-by recharge your metabolism. It only takes about 40 to 90 minutes per week (two or three 20 minute to 30 minute sessions). This concurrent increase in muscle mass and metabolism is the best way to get fat off and keep it off.
How to Spot the Enemy
Here’s an easy way to sort the details: if the method under evaluation guarantees that you will “lose weight” and/or uses a weight scale to measure progress … it’s probably not a good idea.
To double-check the validity of that recommendation, peruse that “method’s” marketing material and related data. If there is no documented evidence that the practitioners (and that includes your doctor) involved with that method actually measure, track and promote both the “fat loss” and total muscle mass of their customers … look elsewhere.
Measuring and Tracking Success
Never get on any kind of weight scale again. Instead, find someone that has the necessary equipment and who knows how to measure and track both your total amount of body fat and muscle mass. Two convenient and popular methods are bio-electrical impedance (BIA) and skin-fold calibers. Both are relatively easy to do and will require less then five minuets of your time. Here’s an example of a typical result: a 20 pound fat loss and a 5 pound muscle gain show up as a 15 pound “weight loss”, but actually represents a 25 pound improvement in body composition and physical appearance. And, more importantly, due to metabolic activity of muscle, that 5 pound muscle gain (assuming a 19 calorie imbalance) will easily balance your caloric intake/use ratio. Excess fat is gone. No more fat gain … 25 year obesity trend reversed!
By gary reinl on Feb 11th 2008 at 9:09PM
I am wondering if those links for zylene bring you to a home based business selling zylene.
I have a suggestion if you want to try Zylene. Go directly to the website and do not click on any links as these may be advertising ploys.
Go directly to Zylene.com to be assured these posting people are not just grabbing for straw customers. Be wary!!! Maybe what they are saying is not true and the only way to find out will be to go directly to the site.
Thanks and good luck
By Ann on Feb 11th 2008 at 9:01PM
I've been eating a high fiber diet with nuts and much more protein, and upped my exercise regimen by 25%.
I've lost 8 pounds in 3 weeks. It's weight I'm more likely to keep off, too. Stop taking pills, the only ones that really win are big pharma and snake oil salesmen.
By atlantasmix on Feb 11th 2008 at 9:03PM
So do you have to buy all three products for the Zylene to work or has anyone had good results on JUST the Zylene????
By Cyndi on Feb 11th 2008 at 9:50PM
Two years ago my doctor suggested Phentermine to curb my hunger since I was dieting and exercising but hungry all the time. I was against the idea of taking a pill for weight loss, but was so heavy I decided to try it. He allowed me to stay on it for a little over a year and I lost 105 lbs and now weigh 137. I don't think there is any pill that is a magic bullet, but added to all the things we know we are supposed to do - it can really change your life.
By Ceci on Feb 11th 2008 at 9:15PM
The Truth about Fat & How to Use It
By: Gary Reinl
“During the past 25 years there has been a dramatic increase in obesity in the United States.”
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Our federal government estimates that the total cost of “overfatness” is approaching $100 billion dollars per year. Even though that is a lot of money … it’s not the biggest problem. There is simply no way that our existing healthcare system can absorb the predicted volume of patients if things continue at the current rate -- fat people will literally begin dying in the streets.
Have you ever wondered why there are so many more fat people than ever before?
The answer may surprise you … hint; it has little to do with eating food … and losing “weight” often ends up making you fatter.
An Excessive Volume of Food is Not the Problem
It’s true … for most of us an excessive volume of food is not the problem. Let’s say that you gained 20 pounds of excess fat during the past 10 years. If you think that’s a lot of fat ... you’re right. In fact, few people would want to gain even half that amount.
Nevertheless, if you did gain 20 pounds of excess fat in the past 10 years, you only consumed 7,000 more calories each year than you used. That to may sound like a lot, but … that is only 19 excess calories per day. That’s less than one Hershey’s Kiss® or a very modest squirt of Ketchup.
The fact is, contrary to popular belief, an excessive volume of food is not the reason most people gain excess fat.
The point: For most of us, the difference between fat and trim is an extraordinarily slight caloric intake/use imbalance … not a dietary crisis.
Losing Weight is Not the Solution
During the past 25 years, tens of millions of fat people have used hundreds and hundreds of “weight loss” programs, potions and pills and lost, literally, more than a billion pounds … net result: there are more fat people than ever before. And, according to our government … the problem is getting worse!
Obviously “losing weight” is not the solution. Yet … nearly every fat person measures their “success” (and ultimately their failure) with a bathroom scale. Here’s the really sad part … nearly everyone that loses “weight” regains it within 12 months … most end up gaining more than they lost and repeat the same process year after year (yo-yo diet syndrome).
Worse … a negative side affect of most “weight loss” plans is muscle loss. This, by the way, is clearly a step in the wrong direction. Less muscle means that your metabolism is running at a slower rate. This means, all things equal, you get fatter … each and every day.
Again, contrary to popular belief, losing weight is not the solution … in fact, it is often the problem.
The point: You are not trying to lose “weight” … you are trying to loss “fat”, while maintaining or, preferably, increasing your muscle mass. Don’t measure and track weight loss … measure and track your total amount of fat and muscle!
Which Fat Loss, Muscle Building Method is Best
The best way to lose fat is to use more calories (Remember: For most of us, the difference between fat and trim is an extraordinary slight caloric intake/use imbalance … not a dietary crisis). And the best way to use more calories is to rebuild your muscles and there-by recharge your metabolism. It only takes about 40 to 90 minutes per week (two or three 20 minute to 30 minute sessions). This concurrent increase in muscle mass and metabolism is the best way to get fat off and keep it off.
How to Spot the Enemy
Here’s an easy way to sort the details: if the method under evaluation guarantees that you will “lose weight” and/or uses a weight scale to measure progress … it’s probably not a good idea.
To double-check the validity of that recommendation, peruse that “method’s” marketing material and related data. If there is no documented evidence that the practitioners (and that includes your doctor) involved with that method actually measure, track and promote both the “fat loss” and total muscle mass of their customers … look elsewhere.
Measuring and Tracking Success
Never get on any kind of weight scale again. Instead, find someone that has the necessary equipment and who knows how to measure and track both your total amount of body fat and muscle mass. Two convenient and popular methods are bio-electrical impedance (BIA) and skin-fold calibers. Both are relatively easy to do and will require less then five minuets of your time. Here’s an example of a typical result: a 20 pound fat loss and a 5 pound muscle gain show up as a 15 pound “weight loss”, but actually represents a 25 pound improvement in body composition and physical appearance. And, more importantly, due to metabolic activity of muscle, that 5 pound muscle gain (assuming a 19 calorie imbalance) will easily balance your caloric intake/use ratio. Excess fat is gone. No more fat gain … 25 year obesity trend reversed!
whyarewesofat.com
By gary reinl on Feb 11th 2008 at 9:09PM
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By GARY on Feb 11th 2008 at 9:25PM
Folks dont Believe the HYPE about Alli all it does is cause massive amounts of stool and diaherra, I have been on it for 4 months have had numerous accidents in my pants, and have only lost 5 pounds.
Its not worth the high price they are asking I am not buying anymore and my MD told me its garbage.
By demi on Feb 11th 2008 at 9:26PM
I went to the doctor a few years ago and was prescribed Adipex. IT DID NOT WORK (suprise!) The first day I felt great, and every day after that it was as if I wasn't taking anything. The only thing that got smaller was the balance in my checking account. Also be aware that if you do decide to take it, you WILL pop a drug test. If I recall correctly it is a methamphetamine, and I almost got fired when my job decided to do random drug testing one day. Luckily I had the prescription with me and I was cleared. Zylene sounds good, but like some of the others are saying, how do we know if these people that are saying how wonderful it is are actually trying to just sell the stuff?
By Angela Me on Feb 11th 2008 at 9:28PM
I think many of you think we readers are dumb. It's sp obvious you guys are trying to make money from Zylene by your fake e-mails.
By Barb on Feb 11th 2008 at 9:29PM
i tried phentrimine... ok i got addicted to phentrimine, and lost 22lbs in 2 months. i only recieved a 3 month prescription, but found different ways to order it online. i stayed on it for 1.5 yrs.
i decreased y dosage to less than half to be safe. in that time, i lost my sex drive, couldn't sleep, and felt no highs or lows about a lot of things. the loss of the sex drive killed me most. than came my blood pressure. my blood pressure sky rocketed to 155/98 consistently. now i am a moderatly healthy atheletic girl. my bp was usually 112/72. anyway, i got off the pills. in the first 3 months i gained my 22 lbs back... with an additional 15 lbs in the next 3 months. i did diet n exercise, but nothing would happen. it took a year for me to start losing weight again. i have lost 20 lbs, and still have 20 more to go. if anyone is tkain advice PLEASE do not to the diet pill... they work temporarily, but that is it.
By gala on Feb 11th 2008 at 9:40PM
I think the best way is no pills and do Weight watchers. if losing weight was really as easy as taking a pill there would not be as much obesity in the US.
By lindaacexo on Feb 14th 2008 at 8:35AM
A few years ago, my son who was about 40 yrs old then went on a crash diet and took Phentermine for about 6 months. His Aortic valve was compromised, but yes he lost weight and was so miserable his wife left him. Good luck with your diets.
By Audrey Booth on Feb 11th 2008 at 9:34PM
its all bs...i have tried them all........nothing works but moderation...fruits veggies and healthy foods in moderation...these pills don't work i have tried them all..........
By sylvia on Feb 11th 2008 at 9:37PM
Viral marketing for the lose...this is one of the most obivous exaples ive seen of it. Definitally one of the dumbest marketing ideas seen in awhile.
By Jbarnes on Feb 12th 2008 at 12:24PM
Lipo-6 works!
By Trevor on Feb 11th 2008 at 9:44PM
What ever happened to Stacker being a great diet pill? Its still around, you can get it at Walmart and Kmart for sure, I never see ads for it anymore but it used to be HUGE! I remember the WWF wrestlers were on their advertisements years ago.
By Savannah on Feb 11th 2008 at 9:50PM
I have never had more success then with Isagenix Accelerator Capsuls. It is an all natural formula that is Ephedra free and that supports the bodys cleansing process. In order to reduce weight one has to cleanse the body of toxins that the body is storing in the fatty tissue of the body. The body is building this fat to make a so called protection from all the invironmental toxins that enter our body every day. When we are slim our body is still able to deal with these toxins. Or should I say our liver, colon and Kidneys. When these organs can no longer protect the body we will start storing fat and in this fat we will also store toxins. So to say all this short and sweet. Cleanse your Body and support it with a good invironment....eat good organic foods, that are fresh. Make better choices in what you eat. Portion control is important. No diet Pill in the world can help if you do not committ. And know YOU ARE WORTH BEEING HEALTHY, for yourself and nobody else. And please, please, please check Isagenix out. They will have the propper support system to help you cleanse. You stop the Diet pills and you will gain all your weight back!!
If you have any questions feel free to mail me.
Kalmarse4@aol.com
By Marion Kalmar on Feb 11th 2008 at 9:49PM
I used Phentermine under my doctor's supervision with good results. However, I was also following the South Beach Diet and exercising at least twice a week (which really isn't that much) and taking a multi vitamin daily. I have been off of it for 6 months now and as long as I work out 3 times per week, I have been able to keep the weight off. And I now can eat some things that were prevoiusly off limits. Once you get on the treadmill and see how much work it takes to burn the calories, a candy bar just doesn't have the same appeal it used to.
By Kym Tabor on Feb 11th 2008 at 9:59PM
I will take Tessa's advice. And Ann, I tried, as you suggested, to go directly to Zylene's website, except...
They don't have one! There is no such URL as www.zylene.com. You have to go to one of the websites, or Amazon, or Ebay that the others are suggesting. Sounds a little fishy to me. If this product were really that great, they should have their own website!!
By Angela Me on Feb 11th 2008 at 9:58PM