Anyone using diet products, what worked and what didn't?

Im on slimfast...i thought it would be a quick fix...but its turning out to be more work then i thought! I dont have much time to work out so cutting calories is what i have done. SUPRISE haha...i need to exercise with it too...which it says but i thought i could cut corners?! IDK but im determined to make more time & get the end result i have been hoping for!!! So once I hold up my end of the bargin ill come back and let ya know if it works!!

I have tried GNC's D-4 Thermal Shock & Burn 60. I don't really see where I feel any different on either one of them...especially the Thermal Shock.

I returned the Thermal Shock and got the GNC Burn 60 in it's place. I don't feel any different on the Burn 60, but I do notice I am more in the "zone" durning my exercise. I also take L-Carnitine.

I also use to take T-Lyte in high school and it worked with diet and exercise...but it is extremely hard to find now days. I got down to the smallest I have ever been when I was on this.

There is no magic weight loss pill.
A sensible diet & consistent exercise has NEVER failed me.
I have my limits on what I'll do to sustain/maintain my weight loss
and popping a pill or concoting a magic drink, for the rest of my life is not
something I'm willing to do.

Mega T Green Tea fat burning supplement. I think it helps me keep my appetite in check. This is the first time I have been able to successfully exercise portion control in many years and I think the Mega T may be partly responsible.

It isn't very expensive and I have had no bad side effects, so I am sticking to it.

I started out on slimfast. It helped me to break the cycle of grazing on junk all day and gave me a structure. After a few months I slowly changed from the shakes to real food and counting cals on MFP. The combination of the shakes and MFP really worked for me.

I've used a few through the years before just doing plain ol' exercise and counting calories...here's a list a summary of why I personally didn't like them:

Slim Fast. I was starving because I wanted to chew some food! When I finished, yeah, I had lost weight, but as soon as I started chewing my food again, the weight came back.

Hoodia. Just didn't work. At all. Pure hype.

Hydroxycut. It made me sick on my stomach! Yeah, I lost weight...cause I couldn't actually eat without being sick.

Dexatrim with Green Tea. I think this helped a little bit when I worked out, but when I didn't exercise, I saw and felt no difference with anything. I think it was supposed to suppress my appetite, but it failed for me.

I even took a few that are no longer sold in the US, so I won't bother posting them. :bigsmile:

I have taken one product from Max Muscle called "Quadra Cuts Extreme" which is supposed to increase your metabolism helping you get through your workouts better. I did notice that this seemed to work a little. I was in a weight loss study where I got the product for free for 2 months, and I saw that it was working...but the drawback is the price. When I finished the study and had lost some weight by doing the same thing I was doing before only adding the supplement, I could see it did it' job cause I lost weight faster. But, the bottle was like $40 for another month's supply. So I didn't get it...

So I don't even take any more diet products at all. I just exercise and try to eat right and it works best for me.

Are you willing to take those "green tea" pills for the rest of your life? Are they teaching you how to control your portion size?
Why not just drink green tea?

I don't know that I will have to take them for the rest of my life. I am learning how to control my portion size, of course, the pills don't cause you to lose weight. You have to do the same things as anyone else to lose weight. Eat less calories than you burn. That's why I am here, although I did start to lose weight before I came here just by eating better and taking the pills.

All I said was that I think they are helping me curb my appetite so I can control my portion size. I don't know why you are so disparaging of people using a crutch. It is working for me, that's all I said.

Someone else can drink green tea if they want. I don't care for the taste.