Weight loss pill ?

Gracelenamethyst

Hi.. has anybody ever consumed diet pills ?? If you have.. I hope you can share your experience.. thanks..

tweetyjf

if a good one excisted oprah winfrey would have claimed it by now.
usually they either jack up your heart rate. make you go to the bathroom all the time etc. etc.
and you will lose your money instead of weight...

onwarddownward

I took meridia under a doctors rx for 17 months ending five years ago, April 15th.

I lost 121 lbs and was the darling of the medical practice....until:

I had to have my gallbladder out
I was hypertensive (since it is a Phen drug)
I was addicted to Xanax for sleep
I had heart palpitations
My endocrine system crashed
I somehow developed a false pregnancy from my hormones being shot.
Miscarried, hemorrhaged and nearly died in my bed
Had to have a D&C with E.
Developed a HUGE ovarian cyst, which required hormone therapy

And regained it all at the rate of about 10-15 lbs a month

Other than that .....



Forget diet pills. I'm lucky I didn't permanently damage my heart. I'm lucky to be alive.

LvlyLars

I've taken quite a few brands; always thinking that's going to be the fix I need. In college I was taking pills and couldn't sleep b/c my heart was racing so fast, I thought it was going to pop out of my chest. So I've tried different varieties and none had had that effect like the ones I took in college but they still didn't work. I didn't feel they helped me with appetite suppression; they're just caffeine. And if I happened to lose a couple pounds, I gained it right back after a week or so of being used to the pills.

Don't believe all that you read in reviews, trust me!!! Those reviews you'll read on their website or on Amazon, in most cases (the good ones anyway) are written by employees of the pill. In most cases you can tell b/c of how it's written and they'll try to misspell a word here and there as their way of sounding less scripted.

onwarddownward

Don't believe all that you read in reviews, trust me!!! Those reviews you'll read on their website or on Amazon, in most cases (the good ones anyway) are written by employees of the pill. In most cases you can tell b/c of how it's written and they'll try to misspell a word here and there as their way of sounding less scripted.

Or they are written by the multi-level marketing representatives who have decided to make selling the pill (or shakes, cleanse, supplements, etc.) their new job.

And if YOU sell to three people, your next month is FREE!

Garbage.

carolmcgov

I took meridia under a doctors rx for 17 months ending five years ago, April 15th.

I lost 121 lbs and was the darling of the medical practice....until:

I had to have my gallbladder out
I was hypertensive (since it is a Phen drug)
I was addicted to Xanax for sleep
I had heart palpitations
My endocrine system crashed
I somehow developed a false pregnancy from my hormones being shot.
Miscarried, hemorrhaged and nearly died in my bed
Had to have a D&C with E.
Developed a HUGE ovarian cyst, which required hormone therapy

And regained it all at the rate of about 10-15 lbs a month

Other than that .....



Forget diet pills. I'm lucky I didn't permanently damage my heart. I'm lucky to be alive.

Wow! you've been through it all! If that doesn't turn anyone away from diet pills I don't know what will!

delonda1

depends..some work, some dont

people are honestly ANTI-PILL but they do work when you are exercising and eating right and still nothing is working..it helps kickstart.

i've used them and they do help...but usually i do one cycle when beginning to cut

SenseiCole

someone said this to me once

"If you didn't need a pill to get fat, why would you need one to get unfat?"

KevinMassine

I have had EXCELENT progress with the Diet pill I have been on over the last few months and it has worked wonders. Lost weight and changed my body to be lean muscle

Brand Name : Kick your *kitten* off the couch

Directions: Eat a heatly quantity of healty foon x regularly ..... Results are better if done daily for every meal

Enforce regular Exercise (Weight Resitant Training Perfered)

The Results can be mind blowing if this product is used correctly ... No known side affects except feeling good about yourself !

majope

I took meridia under a doctors rx for 17 months ending five years ago, April 15th.

I lost 121 lbs and was the darling of the medical practice....until:

I had to have my gallbladder out
I was hypertensive (since it is a Phen drug)
I was addicted to Xanax for sleep
I had heart palpitations
My endocrine system crashed
I somehow developed a false pregnancy from my hormones being shot.
Miscarried, hemorrhaged and nearly died in my bed
Had to have a D&C with E.
Developed a HUGE ovarian cyst, which required hormone therapy

And regained it all at the rate of about 10-15 lbs a month

Other than that .....



Forget diet pills. I'm lucky I didn't permanently damage my heart. I'm lucky to be alive.

Thank you for this! Eye-opening.

drop_it_like_a_squat

Just NO.

socioseguro

I took meridia under a doctors rx for 17 months ending five years ago, April 15th.

I lost 121 lbs and was the darling of the medical practice....until:

I had to have my gallbladder out
I was hypertensive (since it is a Phen drug)
I was addicted to Xanax for sleep
I had heart palpitations
My endocrine system crashed
I somehow developed a false pregnancy from my hormones being shot.
Miscarried, hemorrhaged and nearly died in my bed
Had to have a D&C with E.
Developed a HUGE ovarian cyst, which required hormone therapy

And regained it all at the rate of about 10-15 lbs a month

Other than that .....



Forget diet pills. I'm lucky I didn't permanently damage my heart. I'm lucky to be alive.

Thank you for sharing this. I wish you a complete recovery. Your experience should be "required" reading for all Newbies at MFP. Unfortunately, there is always somebody who wants to waste their hard earned money on illusions. Such is life.
Good luck on your journey

ndj1979

repeat after me ...eat in a deficit and exercise, eat in a deficit and exercise, eat in a deficit and exercise....

beachlover317

repeat after me ...eat in a deficit and exercise, eat in a deficit and exercise, eat in a deficit and exercise....

QFT. Plus, if there was a pill out there that really worked - this place would be an empty parking lot.

BamaBreezeNSaltAire

Nope and never will.

ndj1979

depends..some work, some dont

people are honestly ANTI-PILL but they do work when you are exercising and eating right and still nothing is working..it helps kickstart.

i've used them and they do help...but usually i do one cycle when beginning to cut

No, the exercising and eating right worked..the pill was just a waste of money...

onwarddownward

I worry about the trend toward stomach altering, too. I won't do it, but so many people are and I just know that it's not going to go down in history as a medical win.

Jan

tammyvaughn1957

I agree with tweetyf. I did once and I had a rapid heart beat. NEVER rely on diet pills. It is better to lose weight slowly, if you lose weight too quickly, you are liable to put it on again, plus more.

Hope this helps!

mazdauk

There is no short cut, no quick fix which doesn't have a down side.

Eat less + move more = sustainable weightloss

PetulantOne

I would have been better off lighting the money on fire. There is no magic cure.

Sean_The_IT_Guy

someone said this to me once

"If you didn't need a pill to get fat, why would you need one to get unfat?"

You didn't need a wrench to break your car, but you might need one to unbreak it.

Diet pills are tools, and if nothing else is working, it can help. However, one has to learn how to eat properly, because your appetite WILL COME BACK when you stop taking the pills. If you go back to old eating habits, which is exceedingly easy, you will gain the weight back, too.