Anyone found hydroxy cut successful?

Honestly, the only people who find hydroxycut successful are the ones that are making a killing off this useless med.

I tried it a few years ago and ended up in the hospital with chest pain. Please be very careful.

An espresso usually gives the same effect. Failing that regular black coffee works for me

It dries me out. That's the best I can explain it lol.

It helps you drink lots of water to compensate though.

jasmon wrote: »

An espresso usually gives the same effect. Failing that regular black coffee works for me

This^

The plus is you get the benefit of tasting coffee. Pills don't give you that.

I found it made me really nervous and I stayed awake until after 4 am. This is from someone who regularly drinks her caffeine. So I didn't stick with it. I have been reading a lot about garcenia cambogia and a co-worker claims it helped boost her weight loss without the side affects. Any thoughts from this group?

To respond to kommodevaran's comment, saying only exercise increases your metabolism is incorrect.

Anything that increases your core body temperature does indeed increase your metabolism... thats why it is called calorie "burning"... its directly related to the temperature in which your body is operating. So by that very simple definition, anything that raises your core body temperature does for a brief period of time increase metabolism (including but not exclusively to exercise)... thats why some trainers recommend a black coffee befrore the gym etc, but other ingredients raise your temperature as well... try a hot pepper for example... absolutely causes a brief spike of metabolism.

Products like hydroxycut have a combination of those type of ingredients to cause small increase in metabolism for a short period of time. Taken before the gym and yes you will burn more calories, but by no means is it a magic pill. Lets say an activity you do burns about 250 calories... taking a product to increase metabolism may result in 280 calories burned in that same activity.... 30 calories more equals 0.8% of a pound of fat... so magic pill it certainly is not... but it does inch you closer to negative calorie deficit and every little bit can help. Take it if you like, I personally find hydroxycut too expensive so would recommend finding something with similar ingredients in a less marketed brand... or even a straight forward high potency green tea pill high in EGCG (catechins)will have a similar effect.

People love to talk poorly about supplements but rarely are they posting any clinical evidence so always do your own research. They are supplements, as in they supplement what you are already doing and nothing more. But do they assist towards your goal. Absolutely, here are some real scientific references regarding Green tea that if you are curious about you can look into if interested.

Ingestion of a tea rich in catechins leads to a reduction in body fat and malondialdehyde-modified LDL in men. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2005;81(1):122-129.

Body weight loss and weight maintenance in relation to habitual caffeine intake and green tea supplementation. Obesity Research 2005;13(7):1195-1204.

I have no vested interest in whether you take it or not in fact drinking Green tea can be just as effective in the right amounts but if you want to supplement by all means they do assist. They burn a small percentage more calories then the same activity without them but unless your calorie expenditure exceeds your daily intake they will not make you lose weight but technically help lower the amount you put on from in taking more calories than you have burned.

But the supplements do work but the are a small piece of the puzzle.... exercise and diet will always be the biggest factors.