Phentermine Diet Pills

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Coffee Confessions
Find out if you should skip the java jolt

The Science: Caffeine boosts alertness, activates stress hormones, and elevates heart rate and blood pressure--none of which are very helpful when you're trying to get shut-eye. Some people are more sensitive than others to caffeine's effects, and one's sensitivity may be hereditary. And even if you've never had a problem with coffee, you may develop one over time; age-related changes in body composition can affect the speed at which caffeine is metabolized.

If you are sensitive to caffeine, take note that its half-life--the time required by your body to break down half of it--can be as long as 7 hours. In other words, if you were to have your last cup of coffee at 1 pm, a quarter of the caffeine it contained could still remain in your system as late as 3 am. In women, estrogen may delay caffeine metabolism even further. Between ovulation and menstruation, you take about 25% longer to eliminate it, and if you're on birth control pills, you take about twice the normal time. (Newer, low-estrogen pills may have less of an impact.)

What Works for Me: It took me until my 50s to finally admit that when I woke in the middle of the night, heart pounding, it may have had something to do with the mocha java that jump-started my day--only a few cups, I told myself, and never after 3 pm. So I cut out coffee, and slept blissfully--for a week or so. Then my same old broken sleep pattern reasserted itself, only I was doubly miserable, without sleep and without coffee to perk me up. So I tried tea. It has about half the caffeine content of coffee and contains an as-yet-unnamed substance that may help calm the stress system, according to a 2007 study published in Psychopharmacology. Black tea was too strong for me, so I turned to green, which has about one-third the caffeine content of black. These days I drink 2 to 3 cups of green tea just after I get up. I don't love it the way I did coffee, but I like that it perks me up in the morning without keeping me up at night. So if you find life with decaf coffee just too bleak, there are options. (continued)

The Science: Most sleep researchers advise keeping your bedroom cool, but not cold--the National Sleep Foundation recommends between 54 and 75°F. This is because a cool room makes it easier for your core body temperature to drop, which must occur for you to fall asleep. (Body temp reaches its lowest point about 4 hours after you nod off.) However, the thermostat is only part of the story: Proper air circulation and blankets that aren't too heavy--a big problem in hotel rooms--can also facilitate a drop in body temperature. A series of fascinating studies done in the past decade and a half by Swiss researchers Kurt Kräuchi and Anna Wirz-Justice, PhD, found an inverse relation between warm feet and cool body temp: When your feet and hands are warm, the blood vessels dilate, allowing heat to escape and body temperature to fall, initiating sleep. Conversely, when hands and feet are cold, the vessels constrict, retaining heat..which may keep you awake.

What Works for Me: I sleep in a cool room--much cooler than 75°F!--but I make sure my feet are warm. Wearing light socks makes it easier to resist the temptation to pile on too many blankets in the winter. A hot bath seems an odd way of cooling down, but it works for me; afterward, body temperature falls off rapidly, "guiding the brain into sleep mode," explains Stanley Coren, PhD, author of Sleep Thieves. He recommends going directly from bath to bed, while other experts recommend waiting up to 45 minutes. I find I need twice that. Because temperature decline signals the body that it's time for sleep, turning on an electric blanket for 10 to 15 minutes and then turning it off may have the same effect. Resource: Prevention Magazine.

Blessings! :flowerforyou:

Eva

used them
loved them
no negative comments
also loved ephedra
BUT i am trying again to lose the same weight

I went to a doctor for a short time) who prescribed phentermine. When my beloved long time OB/GYN found out his words were: "You can kill yourself if you want to..."
So I went home & flushed them. They didn't seem to make much difference in my weight anyway.
Please be careful.

My doctor prescribed me Phentermine when she saw I was serious about losing weight. She said that eating right and exercising were great, and that the pills would help shrink my stomach and make me less hungry, so therefore I'd eat less. She wouldn't prescribe it to me for longer than 6 months, and she also wouldn't renew the prescription over the phone, I had to come in each month so she could monitor me and hand me the prescription. If she thought I was slacking off and not doing my part, she wouldn't prescribe it for me anymore.

I lost weight on it (and have been ever since, even after quitting taking them), I never felt jittery and was never hungry...I'd have to remind myself to eat. :laugh: The only thing was it make my mouth dry as a desert!

So I think as long as you're smart about it, and you continue to do your part and you know it's not a lifetime fix...to each her own.

I definitely like the articles you have provided as evidence.

Thank you Ava (tee hee hee, you're AVA and I'm EVA...gotta love it! , thank you, thank you :happy: :happy: :happy: Check out my before and after photos I just added this morning As I have LOST 20 pounds. And just "think about it"....I did it WITHOUT diet pills (Eva doing a jig!!)

Again, ladies, I give you TIPS, suggestions, references, photos, stories, etc., Now, it's up to ya'll to do it!! I myself was sick and TIRED of my OWN excuses. Blessings!

Eva