Phentermine, Dont Judge Me!

It is speed....period end. Will you lose? Probably. Is it healthy? Probably not. Is it a quick fix? Yes! Will you gain it back plus some? Probably.....I have taken it myself and don't recommend it to ANYONE! Have you thought about eating a healthy balanced diet at your BMR and exercising?

How you choose to lose weight is your decision, and nobody on here should judge you for it. Everyone has one way or another that they prefer, and that they thinks works best for them, so if someone has a problem with it...let that be their problem and not yours. Anyhow, I have been taking phentermine for about a month.Three to four years ago I lost 80 pounds when I started eating better and running. I kept the weight off until last year, and I gained about 35 pounds back. I realized I wasn't being smart in my food choices and wasn't working out in the right ways (only running, not lifting), and it all caught up to me. Anyhow, so I started at 270 pounds, and dropped to 190 on my own. I got up to 225, and went back to eating better and working out more. Between the phentermine and working out, and I down to 203. That is not just from the pills though, I lost some of that before I started taking it.
Anyhow, I haven't had any side effects at all (other than I couldn't sleep the first night haha.) The pill is not a miracle drug, I am still hungry and can still eat, but my cravings have subsided which has really helped. To be honest, I think this site has helped more because I realized how bad my diet had become. Anyhow, just realize it is not a miracle drug. Some women eat fast food before they start taking it, then the pills doesn't allow them to eat as much fast food...so they lose weight. Needless to say, when they are not taking the pills and want to eat more, they will gain the weight back. Your diet doesn't have to be perfect, but you absolutely have to be aware of what and how much you are eating. Go in to it with realistic expectations, and use the time to fix your diet. If you can do that, it is a great tool. If you don't, it could backfire on you.

I started out eating about 1200-1800 calorie and did not exercise. I now exercise about 4 hours a week (2 hour Zumba) (2 30mins at the gym) and eat the same. Somedays I mess up and eat 2000-2500 calories. I loses weight all threw the week and then I gain it back when I go to work. I work 16 hour shifts two in a row, and I can not control my appetite when im there. So I gain back the couple pounds I lost in the week.

sounds like your plateau was caused by not eating enough if the loss stopped when you started exercising?
I was eating 1650 / 1200 when i started @ 256lbs as thats what MFP set me on for a 2lb loss. Due to injury i had to not exercise at all, continued to eat 1650 and lost more than i had before! Now I can exercise again, ive increased to 1950 to keep my net at 1650 (my bmr is 1574) and am losing 1.5 pounds consistently - i exercise around 5x a week (boxing / swimming / weights).
Cutting out processed / salty / sugary foods helps too, I had a bit of a bad week with these last week and only lost 1lb, so it really makes a differnece where you get your calories from.
You could adjust your calorie goal to compensate for when you are at work, so you go over but its planned if you get me?
my allowance should be 1950 per day, but i was always going over on the weekends, so I changed to 1850 with a 700 'over allowance' for the weekends.
my diary is open if it would help you x

I did it under doctor supervision. the upside of the weekly supervision is that they monitor your blood pressure and other vital signs in the hopes that your pressure is normal. You do get dry mouth, and extra energy. Calorie intake was about 1200 a day divided into 4 to 6 meals.
To be honest, you can lose just as much with or without it. It is all based on the caloric intake coupled with your exercise. The pills just curb the hunger.

I wish you the best of luck on it as I have never used it. Might a suggest you keep a dairy of how you feel. I'll use me as an example as to why I say this.

For me caffeine was my drug of choice when combine with my allergy medication is was not good for me. I was taking flight lessons and my instructor noticed some days I would be all erratic and others I would by extremely calm. So she had me keep a food dairy and how I felt that day. In this case I had to log how I felt at the start of the lesson and when it was over. She also kept a log. We noticed that any day I had allergy meds I felt just ok and thought I flew ok. she thought I was not as focused. on the days I had caffeine I felt and thought I flew great however she thought I was erratic and when you combined the two I was worse.

So I stop all my caffeine consumption and never took allergy meds 24 hours before any flight and our log match up with how I felt and performed.

In short might want to keep a dairy/log or whatever on how you feel.

Take care

I have ADHD (actually DO have it, documented and everything, see a doctor, etc.) and I was never medicated for it in the past but during law school I started having problems focusing because I was also working at the time. I know it's not the same drug but it's in the same family - I took a small dose of Ritalin and it worked wonders for my concentration. Caffeine and other stimulants don't really affect me, I can drink coffee right before bed and don't get wired from any of that stuff. Anyhow, I only took Ritalin during my last year of school and during Bar exam study and I developed mild pulmonary hypertension from it, which is high blood pressure in the arteries of your lungs. My doctors knew I was on Ritalin and never said anything, even when I asked if it could be the Ritalin they dismissed it. I stopped it on my own and instantly felt much better - no chest pain, etc. like I was having before. My last echocardiogram was normal. I was sad to have to stop it because it was really helping me, but at the same time I don't need it because I'm not in school anymore and I can manage things on my own if I work hard enough at it. Having that experience scared me because pulmonary hypertension can result in heart failure - there isn't really any medication to take for it. Most people who have it manage, but I was only 26! Anyway long story short, if you're going to take the Phentermine, do it for the limited amount of time and if you start feeling weird or having any kind of strange side effects, stop immediately. Your health is most important.

That is not true. When i first started my diet i took phentermine that was given to me by my doctor. I have not took the pills in the last month because i don't need them and know how to control my hunger. So saying that you will gain the weight back is not true at all. If you learn how to eat the right foods at the right time, you will continue to loose the weight. To me phentermine does not work anyway unless i had a low dosage.

I'm not being funny....but unless I'm reading it wrong, you are overweight because you are addicted to food? If that is the case, wouldn't something like hypnosis be more safe? I know here in my neck of the woods they do hypnosis for smoking, and all other addictions including food. Could that be something you could try? I'd be terrified to try something like the pill you are on. :flowerforyou:

Hey, I get it... I have been obese my entire life. I realize how difficult it can be. However, keep in mind, all drugs have side effects. I would suggest getting a second opinion, because it never hurts to have another professional take a look at the situation.

Personally, I am having AMAZING success with eating clean - no perservatives, no sugars, no artifical anything... Lot's of veggies, huge meals, real food, organic dairys, etc. I am eating like 1,500 calories/day, getting every type of nutrient a human needs, and I have lost 69 pounds in 4 months. - with just walking as excersize.

I know the despiration you feel, but I don't want you to hurt yourself just because you want to be thin. So try to get a second opinion, weigh your options, track any changes in your body, take your pulse a few times a day, and stop if you don't feel right.

Best of luck

I took it about 7 years ago. I lost about 10 lbs a month. My doctor gave me a 1 month trial to see if I liked it. I though It was awesome ans she then prescribed me a 3 month supply. I LOVED it. BUT THEN.... after i quit taking it, i ended up gaining all of the weight I lost back plus more. Looking back, It did suppress my appetite but it did not teach me how to eat. So when I was off of it, I went back to the regular way I ate ( and I found myself VERY hungry).

A couple years later, I had asked my doctor to prescribe it to me again. This time she said she quit prescribing it and gave me a reason like "there was a girl that sued them" or something along those lines. Then when she checked my records, she was surprised she had prescribed it at all to me since at that time I was taking zoloft. She went on to tell me that It could have caused seritonen shock mixing the 2 meds. I googled drug interactions and yup. She was right. I could have died. Sooo,

My advice would be:
1. Google drug interactions and make sure if you are taking anything else, that you will be ok
2. If that everything is ok with drug interactions, use this opportunity to retrain yourself on eating nutritious foods and portion control.

Here is the best way to think about it in my opinion, and this applies to taking drugs for ANY reason at all.

Drugs don't cure anything at all, ever. They simply suppress the issue. Diet tables will suppress appetite, Ritalin will suppress an over-active child, Flu tablets suppress the symptoms of flu, aspirin will suppress pain... I could go on for a very long list. Not a single one of them actually fixes the problem, and when the drugs stop being taken the problem is back unless you solve it in the mean time. Unless you plan to take the drugs till the day you die (which with some medical issues is the case), the problem will come back. The only exception to this rule I believe is antibiotics.

In the case of flu or a headache, your body fixes the problem itself, so you take the drugs to suppress the symptoms while your body mends itself, and stop when you are better. That's fine. With diet pills, the problem isn't fixed by anyone other than your own attitude, and if you are taking pills to "fix" it, you won't do anything else. Whether it is an obsession with food, or lack of self control, or lack of understanding about nutrition, those issues will still be there when you stop taking the drugs, so you WILL put on weight again, 100% guaranteed. If you are serious about loosing weight, changing your eating habits permanently and becoming more active permanently is the ONLY way to fix the problem.

I believe that most people can lose weight without the aid of supplements like the one in question. I don't know your medical history, but I'm inclined to say that you can do it without them!

LOL! My husband would say the same thing!!! it made me very anxious and have little to no patience!