Anyone have any good results with Hydroxycut?

babylemonade
babylemonade Posts: 250 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I just gained some weight back after falling off the wagon. I guess it happened because I hit a plateau and I couldn't get past it so eventually I just gave up. I got some Hyrdoxycut hoping that on top of my working out and calorie-counting, it'll boost me up and help me get back to my lightest weight (180, I'm 230 now).

Did anyone have good results with this? I don't want to buy it anymore if it doesn't work, because it's expensive for something you have to take 3 pills a day at first and then 6! It will go fast especially since my fiance is planning on taking it too.
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  • arcticfox04
    arcticfox04 Posts: 1,011 Member
    Save the money. The best thing to do is clean out the house of all the junk foods. Donate the food to the local food bank. Then go shoppings and bring home good healthy foods.
  • kaypee65
    kaypee65 Posts: 120 Member
    What Arctic Fox said.

    Hydroxycut is a diuretic, so you lose water weight, not fat. It might give you a psychological boost, but you're really not accomplishing anything useful.
  • MizTerry
    MizTerry Posts: 3,763 Member
    I tried it a long time ago. Oh look, I'm here now. Nope, as Arcticfox said, don't waste your money. :bigsmile:
  • sunsnstatheart
    sunsnstatheart Posts: 2,544 Member
    Please don't. Please use the tools on here to determine your total daily energy expenditure, set a reasonable weight loss goal and limit your calories accordingly, and exercise. Then be patient and weigh yourself no more than once a week. The weight will come off if you measure and weigh your food and follow the plan.
  • chimp517
    chimp517 Posts: 185 Member
    Focus on diet, dont waste money on snake oil
  • monty619
    monty619 Posts: 1,308 Member
    fat burners are a waste of money... especially if you are far from your goal.
  • HorrorChix89
    HorrorChix89 Posts: 1,229 Member
    Sent you a PM
  • Lift_This_
    Lift_This_ Posts: 2,756 Member
    the results are saw were the fat stacks of money that were staying in my wallet and not being spent on a drug that is just a fad.
  • foleyshirley
    foleyshirley Posts: 1,043 Member
    I tried it a long time ago. Oh look, I'm here now. Nope, as Arcticfox said, don't waste your money. :bigsmile:

    Love this honest answer :). Try it the right way. It does work, I swear.
  • TheConsciousFoody
    TheConsciousFoody Posts: 607 Member
    I took that once for weeks. Ended up in the hospital, I say stay away.
  • galenofedgewood
    galenofedgewood Posts: 146 Member
    Honestly, no.

    Metabolife 356 I took way back in 99-01 (don't remember exactly) worked well for me, but ephedra was considered way too dangerous. Looking back, probably was. Then again, I was also in performance dance, step aerobics, and my friends and I played a lot of racquet ball that semester, so who knows exactly what it was that really worked.
  • 1FitBabe
    1FitBabe Posts: 111 Member
    It triggered panic problems for me.
    I would never take it again.
  • TheNewDodge
    TheNewDodge Posts: 607 Member
    It only works if you cut it with blow and snort it.
  • kdeaux1959
    kdeaux1959 Posts: 2,675 Member
    This has a really dark history. My wife bought some about a year or so back... Before she took any I found out it had some really serious side-effects (including liver damage and death) and was pulled from the shelves for a while... Soon it was back on the shelves after some modifications. We threw the stuff away, unopened. I just don't trust it.... I urge you to "GOOGLE"... Hydroxycut liver... see what pops up then decide.
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    It only works if you cut it with blow and snort it.
    With hookers.
  • TheNewDodge
    TheNewDodge Posts: 607 Member
    It only works if you cut it with blow and snort it.
    With hookers.

    Well yeah. That too
  • Doberdawn
    Doberdawn Posts: 733 Member
    If I've said this once, I've said it a hundred times.... UNLESS & UNTIL you see Oprah Winfrey skinny as a toothpick, accept this an uncontrovertible fact.... There is NO MIRACLE CURE for fat and weight loss that you can buy and take. PERIOD. No IFs, ANDs or BUTs about it. With all her money and her constant quest for health and weight loss... if it could be bought in a pill, she'd have it. So, just dig in and get ready to WORK for it. NO EASY SOLUTIONS. NO MAGIC PILLS.
  • Topher1978
    Topher1978 Posts: 975 Member
    Hydroxycut Hardcore, the kind that was recalled, I used it for 2 years, and loved it! It worked very well. Never tried the reformulated version, though.
  • Topher1978
    Topher1978 Posts: 975 Member
    I thought it was feckin' awesome. Did everything it promised. Suppressed my appetite, did weird things to the fat I still had on me… I guess that would be the so called shrinking of the fat cells. I took it as directed. On my belly, if I would squeeze a section, the fat would collapse on itself… not the best words for it… Kind of like there were areas where the fat disintegrated, and squeezing that section would push the fat together… Any way, I was eating low carb and working out 4 to 6 hours daily as well. But it did it's job, that's for sure.
  • AntWrig
    AntWrig Posts: 2,273 Member
    The Ephedra based one worked. The new version is trash.
  • originalcookiemonster
    originalcookiemonster Posts: 278
    I thought it was feckin' awesome. Did everything it promised. Suppressed my appetite, did weird things to the fat I still had on me… I guess that would be the so called shrinking of the fat cells. I took it as directed. On my belly, if I would squeeze a section, the fat would collapse on itself… not the best words for it… Kind of like there were areas where the fat disintegrated, and squeezing that section would push the fat together… Any way, I was eating low carb and working out 4 to 6 hours daily as well. But it did it's job, that's for sure.

    Yeah... I'm pretty sure that was the hydroxycut.... by no means could that have been the 4-6 hours working out daily. Silly me.
  • Lyadeia
    Lyadeia Posts: 4,603 Member
    I didn't read all the responses, but I am sure you received plenty that tell you to save your money (I hope). I just wanted to share my experience with it. Back in 2007, my ex-boyfriend (wasn't an ex at that time) started taking it because he wanted to lose weight fast. He followed the instructions on the bottle, and I got a phone call from his employer after 1 week of using it saying that they are sending him to the ER. His blood pressure was through the roof and he passed out at work. I went to the ER and the doctor told him to throw that bottle of snake oil into the trash. His BP was normal before taking it and returned to normal after he quit. And NO, this was not the old style with the ephedra. It's a dangerous waste of money.
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    If I've said this once, I've said it a hundred times.... UNLESS & UNTIL you see Oprah Winfrey skinny as a toothpick, accept this an uncontrovertible fact.... There is NO MIRACLE CURE for fat and weight loss that you can buy and take. PERIOD. No IFs, ANDs or BUTs about it. With all her money and her constant quest for health and weight loss... if it could be bought in a pill, she'd have it. So, just dig in and get ready to WORK for it. NO EASY SOLUTIONS. NO MAGIC PILLS.
    Excellent point, Dawn. If the richest, arguably most powerful woman in the world (and queen of yo-yo dieting) can't find/buy a magic pill that will melt her weight off, it doesn't exist.
  • babylemonade
    babylemonade Posts: 250 Member
    I understand that some of you disagree with the use of diet pills, but as you can see from my original post I already wrote that I am counting calories and exercising. It's irritating that I can't get an answer from someone that isn't acting like all I want to do is take this pill and magically lose weight while not doing anything else. I'm not looking to lose weight super fast, I 'm just hoping this will help me with my metabolism.

    I'll be wary because I read the responses that said some people became ill. Thanks for the advice from the people who actually read my whole post.
  • ChristinaK69
    ChristinaK69 Posts: 249
    If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Don't waste your money. Use the money instead to buy healthy non processed foods
  • Topher1978
    Topher1978 Posts: 975 Member
    I thought it was feckin' awesome. Did everything it promised. Suppressed my appetite, did weird things to the fat I still had on me… I guess that would be the so called shrinking of the fat cells. I took it as directed. On my belly, if I would squeeze a section, the fat would collapse on itself… not the best words for it… Kind of like there were areas where the fat disintegrated, and squeezing that section would push the fat together… Any way, I was eating low carb and working out 4 to 6 hours daily as well. But it did it's job, that's for sure.

    Yeah... I'm pretty sure that was the hydroxycut.... by no means could that have been the 4-6 hours working out daily. Silly me.
    For appetite suppression, it was GREAT!
  • babylemonade
    babylemonade Posts: 250 Member
    If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Don't waste your money. Use the money instead to buy healthy non processed foods

    Buying healthy foods goes without saying. Whether I take Hydroxycut or not, that isn't going to affect everything else I'm going to do.
  • pinkjennybean
    pinkjennybean Posts: 3 Member
    Heya! A few years back (before I got lazy and gained some weight back which is why I'm here) I went from 250 to 120 pounds. I didn't start taking any thermogenics until I got to about the 150 mark and plateaud. They did help me get over that hump that I was stuck at for so long. I was sweating like a maniac some days and my sweat stank (ew!) but they CAN work. After so many weeks I would stop for awhile as the effect was no longer then start up again a month or so later. I think your body just gets used to them? Hydroxycut was one of the ones I took and yes it helped. Like I said it was a while back so unfortunately I can't remember how log it took me to lose the extra pounds... I hear they don't work the same for everyone though but I say if you have some extra cash laying around try it out! There are also some stronger formulations out there...
  • kelly_e_montana
    kelly_e_montana Posts: 1,999 Member
    I had excellent results with Hydroxycut when it was an ECA stack. It was great at controlling appetite, too. But, now it's been re-formulated and it doesn't seem to work anymore.
  • kelly_e_montana
    kelly_e_montana Posts: 1,999 Member
    The other thing is I like how people post on these things without indicating whether they've even taken Hydroxycut, which I assume means they have not.:yawn:

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