Anyone taking Adipex (Phentermine)?

The amount of diet and exercise you are getting is great, but everybody I have ever know that has used diet pills has gained all of the weight back after they stopped taking them. Because of your diet and exercise, you probably won't gain it all back, but I would be prepared to gain some back after you stop taking them. I personally stay away from that kind of stuff.

I took this several years ago. While your taking it the weight falls off, but as soon as you stop you gain it all back and more. Its not good for you either. I would just use this site it really works.

phentermine is basically an amphetamine so it can totally screw your metabolic rate up. Do not just stop it, wean your dose down slowly and look up methods to boost your metabolic rate. Body building forums would be able to help you with that. If you do it correctly you should be able to avoid the weight gain when you stop and with what you are learning as regards your diet and exercise you should be able to keep it off.

Good luck

I'm taking Phen too. I'm on my last month of it. I started in June at 207 and I'm down to 164. My loss was much more gradual than yours, but my intake was about half yours was when I wasn't taking it. I'm also taking in 1200-1400 calories and trying to work out but it's difficult because I have two kids and my hubby travels for work. I usually only end up going 3 times a week.

Watch out, there are a lot of Phen HATERS out there. Most say they gained it all back when they went off it and I'm determined that isn't going to happen to me. Others say that the stuff is TERRIBLE and its going to make you sick. I think they all just used the pill to help them stop eating, lost all the weight and gained it all back when they stopped taking the pill because they didn't change their habits.

My thoughts on it are that one just has to be careful and the phen is a HELPER and one has to completely change their lifestyle when they are trying to drop the pounds. I don't plan to go back to my old eating habits once i'm off. I plan to keep my current habits and MAINTAIN my weight. I CAN'T WAIT to post to all the Phen haters in 6 months that I haven't gained any of the weight back. I put the weight on because I was eating whatever I want and not exercising. Now that I'm older, I can't eat whatever I want and I NEED to exercise, I plan to keep it up forever.

My goal is to hit 150 by Christmas, with a mini goal right now of 160 by Dec. 1.

I think it's OK as long as you are making lifestyle changes at the same time. But it can be a crutch-so be careful! I occasionally use them (like around TOM) and have gone through one 30 day supply in a year. So I don't think that's bad at all! Good luck.

YES, safe if not abused. I've been on it for 6, the max my doc will let me do. i'm going to wean myself slowly off it this month, hopefully to help my metabolism, like someone else suggested on this thread. Doc says I don't need to, but i'm going to anyway. That'll also make them last just a little longer and hopefully I can reach my goal. Glad to see another Phen non-hater!

Have a look on body builder forums for how they boost their metabolic rates, also look up refeeding...bodybuilders and those on very low calorie diets do it to boost their metabolic rate.

I'm not exactly a fan of diet pills but I would hate to see people fail partly because its expected and partly because theyre not aware of how these tablets work.

Remember the better eating habits you have discovered and the weight should stay off!

I gained weight again after stop taking Adipex. Definitely Phentermine is not the solution for long term diet.

Hi I am still new to this site, but started my weight loss in September of this year. I have been taking phentermine since Sept 14th and I have had great sucess so far. However I am really trying to change my lifestyle through diet and exercise while I have the help of the diet pill. I have heard mixed views about this drug and I was really hoping to find some people who are in the same boat as I am with this. I have been working out and dieting with the help of phentermine for 11 wks and 2 days as of today (11/24/10) I have lost 39 pounds and a ton of inches. I know that's a lot in a short time but I have cut back my calorie intake to 1200 - 1500 a day and coming from eating like 4000 - 5000 a day, that's pretty extreme! AndI have a treadmill that I walk on daily for 45 -60 minutes, with 3 pound weights at 3.5 mph. I have a heart rate moniter to count calories and I make sure I eat regularly and as healthy as I can. So I am not starving myself because of the pills. I was hoping some of ya'll may have had good results with the phentermine if making some changes like this as well? I would love to have some 'accountablity friends' who are going through the same thing. Thanks for reading this.

I'm 27 years old
starting weight 204
current weight 165
height 5'6"
goal weight 140
plus I have 2 toddlers for added exercise! LOL

Your daily routine is going to help you once you are off the drug. You have to build a healthy lifestyle if you want ANY weightloss program to work. People that get surgeries or do fads gain the weight back because they want an easy fix that they don't have to work for. Heck--we all want what we want when we want it without working for it. I think you are doing the right thing.

I don't know if anyone is still reading this post since the person who wrote this wrote it 3 years ago. I just wanted to put my input about Adipex on here. I have taken Adipex on and off for the past 5 years. The reasons why are: The first time I weighed 205 lbs. (I am 5'4) and I wanted to loose weight but wasn't motivated. Adipex really helped motivate me and helped me to be more conscious about what I was eating. I learned how to write down what I was eating each day and count calories and exercise right. I ended up losing 55 Lbs. and when I got down to 150 I got pregnant. Then during my pregnancy I stopped working out and ate what I wanted to and I gained it all back. After my pregnancy I went back on them and lost even more weight than before I had my son. I got down to 133 lbs!!!! THEN, (lol) over time I stopped working out and being so strict on what I ate and I leveled out at 160 Lbs. I then got pregnant again and at the end of this past pregnancy weighed 215!!! The most I've ever been! I just recently started Adipex again and I started out at 200 (after loosing 15 of it that I gained from pregnancy) and currently I am 184. My goal is 130. I have 2 more months and then I will be going off of Adipex for a while and then on one more time until I achieve my goal and then I have NO desire to go back on Adipex ever again! It IS a great tool to motivate you and to help you to have energy and not be as hungry, but what I've learned from gaining and losing, gaining and losing is that you have to make a LIFESTYLE change and work out and eat right for the rest of your life. It's not about a diet, it's about being healthy and if you do that you will lose the weight you want and then maintain!! Good luck to everyone who is going this route but if you can do it on your own, I would recommend doing that b/c diet pills can become addictive and you will feel like you can't lose weight without them. If you try it without them to begin with you will have faith in yourself to do it on your own.