White Mulberry Leaf Thoughts?

Waste of your time and money. Any diet based around supplements just another gimmick. Usually they have you get the supplements and give you a very restrictive eating plan and you give credit to the supplements if you lose weight, especially if you lose a bunch of water weight at first.

All you need is a sensible calorie deficit, no supplements necessary.

You may want to read the sticky threads about how weight loss works.

A few random things.

Your scale shows you the force exerted on the collection of items that stepped on it.

The collection of items is more than just fat.

To lose 1lb of fat you need to create, approximately, a 3500 Cal deficit.

You don't just lose or gain fat on a daily basis. In fact the most likely thing to lose or gain is water weight (due to sodium, hormones, or exercise). Food in transit is another component. Glycogen (carbohydrate stores in muscle tissue and the liver) which is your body's ready reserve for peak energy needs also fluctuate. Each single gram of glycogen yielding 4 Calories of energy is stored with 2 to 3g of water in your tissue. So the weight fluctuation you see is almost 4g for those 4 glycogen calories.

In perspective, if it were possible to create a 3500 Cal imbalance that would solely affect glycogen (which it isn't), you would lose or gain 6.5lbs as opposed to the 1lb of fat the same caloric imbalance represents.

Which is why people, in my opinion, should weigh daily, at approximately the same time, after using the bathroom and before eating or drinking, wearing the same or no clothes or other items, using a scale that is placed on a firm unyielding surface, and which has fully loaded batteries and no grit under the sensors.

Then they get to stick the number they get into a weight Trend application such as happy scale for the iPhone, libra for Android, or trendweight.com using a connected scale or freely available Fitbit account even without a device, or weightgrapher.com if all the rest doesn't work for them.

And they should probably consider that trend weight to be their actual weight for calculations moving forward.

Now having said all that, you also get to choose to stop acting according to it, or change, your user name, or fail.

Sane deficits top out (the word is top or peak, not minimum) at 20% of Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE). 25% if your stored energy reserves are such that you would be correctly categorized as obese.

You should be aiming to lose no more than 0.5% to 1% of your bodyweight a week. (This could shoot up to 1.5% while morbidly obese). But.

For people doing this on their own using MFP, I fell that cumulative weight losses over time associated with longer term compliance trump the extra short term losses achieved by engaging in faster loss to failure.

Not only because of the better physiological outcome due to the slower rate of loss, but also because you get to learn about yourself and how to eat and move to maintain as opposed to relying on a diet mindset to succeed.

But hey, you're impatient... so best of luck!