Fat burners

drbuzzard91
drbuzzard91 Posts: 1,204 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Hey everyone I just want to know if anyone takes any fat burners such as phen375 or rasberry keytones or whatever. And if anyone has taken these did they help at all? What fat burners can I take to help assist myself with? Anything would be great and thank you! I do a lot of exercise but for losing fat around my stomach area is almost impossible for me. Also add me for friends!

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  • ariana_eatsandlifts
    ariana_eatsandlifts Posts: 197 Member
    Don't waste your money. Just eat at a deficit and you'll lose weight.
  • Azexas
    Azexas Posts: 4,334 Member
    edited October 2015
    A lot of the OTC fat burners are a load of garbage. They have caffiene In them which allows them to be labeled as an appetite suppressant. I would suggest saving your money. If you eat at a reasonable calorie deficit, you will lose weight. There is no magic pill that you need to take to speed anything up.

    Unfortunately you cannot spit reduce fat. That will come off with the calorie deficit.


    ( yes I have taken fat burners before and I can tell you first hand that they do not work. )
  • queenliz99
    queenliz99 Posts: 15,317 Member
    Pills don't work but a calorie deficit does. Don't waste your money!
  • Mycophilia
    Mycophilia Posts: 1,225 Member
    edited October 2015
    http://examine.com/supplements/fat-burner/ Here you'll find a list of most fat burners and what research has to say about them.

    Edit: found this, made me laugh
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  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,384 Member
    edited October 2015
    http://Ultimatefatburner.com is a source I've used for years to get an objective viewpoint on many supplements.

    To the OP, there is no such things as "fat burners". Most are just stimulant based products. Burning fat will ultimately come from eating less than you burn (CICO).

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  • kjm3579
    kjm3579 Posts: 3,974 Member
    The best fat burners are things like walking, running, cycling, swimming..... I think you get the picture -- there is not short cut to fitness, just hard work.
  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,648 Member
    Exercise. That is all.
  • rankinsect
    rankinsect Posts: 2,238 Member
    edited October 2015
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    To the OP, there is no such things as "fat burners". Most are just stimulant based products. Burning fat will ultimately come from eating less than you burn (CICO).

    Well, there are theoretically some mechanisms the body has to increase energy burned without actually spending that energy on exercise or other activity. Your body actually makes use of this in thermoregulation - non-shivering thermogenesis primarily works by making mitochondria less efficient at generating ATP, so they oxidize the carbohydrates, proteins, or sugars as if they were going to manufacture ATP (the unit of cellular energy) but certain chemicals make the mitochondria "leaky" - where only a portion of the energy they release from the food is stored in ATP, and the rest released as heat.

    There is an extremely dangerous banned diet drug that worked very strongly on this effect - so strongly that it could and did kill people from hyperthermia, when their bodies couldn't dissipate the amount of heat they were producing. There is still some research into this, and there are a few chemicals that have a weak thermogenic effect (caffeine, capsaicin). There isn't anything in the sweet spot of effective-but-not-too-effective that I know of.
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  • Liftng4Lis
    Liftng4Lis Posts: 15,147 Member
    Save your money.
  • blessingsfromabove721
    blessingsfromabove721 Posts: 161 Member
    shell1005 wrote: »
    If fat burners worked.....no one would be fat.

    ^^^THIS
  • dhygirl
    dhygirl Posts: 137 Member
    Took raspberry ketones and Garcina/Cambogia.... couldn't tell one bit. I do take a digestive enzyme called Proactizyme and I like it. I can feel a difference when I take it.
  • Kimegatron
    Kimegatron Posts: 772 Member
    I got a bottle of Garinia Cambogia for free. That wasn't even worth the money I spent on it, which is none. I tried it for a full month, twice a day as recommended, NOTHING. When I told my husband I ordered a free trial, I called them my "free diet pills." So I wasn't expecting anything at all, but hey, they were free. I just wanted to know what all the hub bub was about. I did start losing pretty quickly when I started MFP for real this time. I have another account that I made 2 years ago, I never used it though.
  • BurnWithBarn2015
    BurnWithBarn2015 Posts: 1,026 Member
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  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,341 Member
    edited October 2015
    The only place you'll lose weight from buying "fat burner" supplements is in your wallet. If any of them actually did what they claimed, everybody in the world would know about it and they'd never be able to produce enough for the demand.

    Think about this: Dr. Oz is one of the biggest snake oil hucksters going. Every week he has some new "miracle supplement" guaranteed to literally melt the fat right off your body. Oprah Winfrey is one of the richest women in the world and she's one of Dr. Oz's "patients". Does she look like his magical fat burners work?

    I do a lot of exercise but for losing fat around my stomach area is almost impossible for me.
    You can't spot reduce, and no supplement will help that. Where the fat is deposited on your body and how it comes off is determined by your genetics. For many guys, the abdominal fat/love handles is one of the last places it comes off. No supplement or exercise routine will change that.
  • Leslierussell4134
    Leslierussell4134 Posts: 376 Member
    Coffee!!!! Makes me workout longer...in turn I burn more fat!!!
    Other than that, don't think any OTC things work so well.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,384 Member
    rankinsect wrote: »
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    To the OP, there is no such things as "fat burners". Most are just stimulant based products. Burning fat will ultimately come from eating less than you burn (CICO).

    Well, there are theoretically some mechanisms the body has to increase energy burned without actually spending that energy on exercise or other activity. Your body actually makes use of this in thermoregulation - non-shivering thermogenesis primarily works by making mitochondria less efficient at generating ATP, so they oxidize the carbohydrates, proteins, or sugars as if they were going to manufacture ATP (the unit of cellular energy) but certain chemicals make the mitochondria "leaky" - where only a portion of the energy they release from the food is stored in ATP, and the rest released as heat.

    There is an extremely dangerous banned diet drug that worked very strongly on this effect - so strongly that it could and did kill people from hyperthermia, when their bodies couldn't dissipate the amount of heat they were producing. There is still some research into this, and there are a few chemicals that have a weak thermogenic effect (caffeine, capsaicin). There isn't anything in the sweet spot of effective-but-not-too-effective that I know of.
    At rest and at sleep is when the body uses fat primarily as it's energy source. I'm aware of certain illegal drugs that can help with increasing thermogenisis, but I'm pretty sure that's not what most people are looking for.
    Either way, without a calorie deficit, fat reduction isn't likely to happen significantly.

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  • drbuzzard91
    drbuzzard91 Posts: 1,204 Member
    Thanks all!
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