Supplements/Weight loss Pills, YES or NO?

Save the money from the pills, buy a digital food scale instead with the money. Then eat at a deficit. You'll lose weight and then keep it off.

Save the money from the pills, buy a digital food scale instead with the money. Then eat at a deficit. You'll lose weight and then keep it off.

Best advice you can get. But if you buy the scale and then still want to spend money and if like me you're a novice when it comes to cooking from scratch, try a healthy cooking class or hit the bookstore up for some healthy food cookbooks and spend your money on that. Because pills will either not work or only work until you build up a tolerance (it doesn't take long). Cooking skills on the other hand lasts a lifetime.

Supplements, yes. Diet pills, no.

I take a food-based multivitamin, magnesium supplement, Vitamin D, fish oil, and COQ10. There is no quick way to lose weight and keep it off. It's all about hard work, determination, and persistence.

Yeah... I work in a bank and diet pills are like candy here. When a new "amazing" one comes out, everyone here is buying and selling them. It's been this way since I started here 8 years ago and guess what...all of the pill poppers are STILL trying to lose the weight.
They always have an initial big loss at the beginning and then it tapers off...and then comes right back. So it's on to the next one.

we'd all like there to be an easier way to lose weight. wouldn't it be great? sadly the things that make you lose weight fastest all come with a price - reduced muscle, which in turn means you burn less calories and so put on more weight, and sometimes damage to health. juice fasts, diet pills, over-exercising, cutting calories dangerously low will all give accelerated weight loss, but the price is too high.

diet pills that work don't accelerate metabolism that much - the prescription ones that work are usually speed, and the main effect is that people who take them won't want to eat. and while people who take them lose weight, they lose a lot of muscle, which is what burns calories, so after they quit the pills (which are, btw, addictive), their bodies burn less calories than they did before the pills. i've never known a person who took them who didn't gain all the weight back plus some more and some ended up on a cycle of gaining weight, taking the pills, losing weight, gaining weight, taking the pills and so on. prescription diet pills also raise your blood pressure and can also damage various organs.

for supplements, i use a low potency multi vitamin (whole foods adult multi plus iron) plus an unsweetened protein powder that i sweeten with stevia.

Just a note

There is very little regulation on supplements because our lovely congress loves taking money from the industry, and a lot of these companies are run by some pretty shady people. So stay far away from thermogenic supplements. There is some research showing that they work, but they pose a great risk to your health because no one knows what happens when you take them for a long time.

The biggest reason to not take supplements is that you are cheating your progress. To get thin and healthy is better to push yourself because you will be stronger in the end and able to hold the weight off. If you get there by chemical means then you didn't get the advantage of working for it and all that it does to your body.

A multivitamin is a good option, although if you eat well a MV is not really needed, but sometimes women have a hard time getting all there nutrients on a calorie deficit.

Voting for "No".

I second investing in a digital food scale and losing fat, not just weight. Eat at a moderate deficit, pick up a resistance training program and win. Even IF diet pills make you lose faster (pixie dust and rainbow farts)....what good is it to be skinny fat?

This!^

No diet pill is going to help you keep the weight from coming back. You have to change habits....change your lifestyle to keep any weight lost from coming back.

Losing & re-gaining stinks. You lose fat+muscle (without steps to maintain muscle)......gain the weight back and you just gain fat. You end up with a higher body fat % than when you started.

Diet pills don't work.

Hard work, discipline, and a caloric deficit do though.

Rev your metabolism by EXERCISING.

Forget the pills. Lift weights and add some muscle mass. Never in a million years did I think I could eat 2600 calories a day and have that be my maintenance. Adding muscle will boost your metabolism better than any diet pill will.

IMO diet pills are a bad idea. Just eat at a deficit, and do 80% healthy/20% indulgent so you can still eat the foods you like.

Supplements can be useful in moderation.

Weight loss pills do jack squat OR very little and wreck your health.

I know pills are tempting when the weight isn't coming off as fast as you would like.

But in reality they will only cause more of a delay, because when you stop them, you'll gain back the weight and have to start all over again.

Keep track of your calories, exercise, and most of all be patient. Patience is the key.

Supplements, yes. Diet pills, no.

I take a food-based multivitamin, magnesium supplement, Vitamin D, fish oil, and COQ10. There is no quick way to lose weight and keep it off. It's all about hard work, determination, and persistence.

^^THIS

my body is made to gain and lose fat depending on what i eat and how i burn it off. . trying to speed up what comes natural or find an easier way than just doing what needs to be done sounds like a cop out, and its not very respectful to my body, which worked hard to make itself and its whole complicated machinery. respect the process. eat less. move more.

there are some illnesses that hinder its progress. but rarely will a good doctor prescribe a diet pill for them, instead they try to right the imbalance. same can be said for your diet and lifestyle. right the imbalance. the rest will follow.

diet pills... no.