I am trying to lose weight, any good diet pills that would help?

Question

I am working on losing weight, I am working on being more active and trying to watch what I eat. I would like to lose about 35-50 lbs. Has anyone tried any diet pills that worked with no negative side effects?

Answer 1

For all of the "quick and easy" weight loss diet pill suggestions, remember, if something sounds too good to be true... it probably is, particularly if you have to pay for it.


On Yahoo!Answers I find certain questions being asked repeatedly which is simply a reflection of new people participating. A couple of common questions amount to "How do I lose weight," or more specifically, "How do I lose abdominal fat?" I have gotten very positive responses from my answers when I paused to reply (and now beginning to get "It works!" emails that are very gratifying. I like helping people)... so have recently decided to put a good solid answer on my Yahoo!360 Blog (September 10) that I can point people to. These are my thoughts as a physician and athlete.

Don't target losing more than about 2 lbs per week. If you try to lose faster, your body will go into "starvation mode" and get very stingy about burning calories while at the same time very efficient about storing any calories that you do provide. And it will make you feel awful.

There is no site specific way of losing fat... the old myth about working your abs to burn belly fat isn't true. To get rid of love handles, you need to lose overall fat. That happens with exercise and watching your diet. More on that below.

The most effective way to lose fat is aerobic exercise in the "moderate" fat-burning range, ideally first thing in the morning before you eat. When you wake your body is ready to burn fat and your levels of growth hormone are highest at that time. Later in the day it can take up to 30 minutes just to put your body into a fat-burning mode.

Another overlooked way to burn fat is by lifting weights. Skeletal muscle has very high caloric needs... almost twice that of adipose (fat) tissue. Put on a little muscle and you will burn calories all day even at rest. Be aware that skeletal muscle weighs more, so with this approach you may see your weight increasing while your body fat is melting away. Not realizing this often stresses folks who think they should be losing weight as a measure of fitness. Forget the scale, look in the mirror and you will be happy.

To lose a pound of fat, you need to eliminate about 3500 calories. You can do this by burning more with exercise or by modifying your diet to reduce intake. If you do a Google search on say, "swimming calories" you will quickly find a website with tables of calories burned for a given exercise. You can use such lists to estimate how many calories you are burning up with your routine.

For diet, keep a diary for a couple of weeks counting calories, grams of protein, and grams of fat intake. It is easy with online sources of nutritional information (type the name of the food and calories into the Google search engine) and packaging labels. That will let you quickly figure out where the fat is coming from in your diet.

Fat gives you 9 calories per gram. So take the number of grams of fat, multiply by 9, then calculate what percentage the fat calories are of your total daily calories. Restricting the calories from fat to about 20% of your total intake is ideal for a maintenance diet... that isn't overly restrictive. Of note, you need some fat in your diet. For instance, the body uses fat to produce hormones. Once you have a picture of how to modify your diet, you can drop the diary and just go back to it occasionally if you are wanting to tweek things further.

There is a subset of questions that goes further and asks about "How to get a six-pack?" The answer is the same. Six-packs are 20% abdominal exercise and 80% diet. There is one caveat... abdominal muscles will form in the position that you work them, so be certain to pull them tightly toward your spine while doing crunches, etc. Also, during most lifting, the "core is active" which means that you should be stabilizing with contracted abs then too. Fail to do this and the abs will form, but bulging outward and the result is not attractive.

If you are trying to build muscle as a way to lose fat, then you may need to increase total calories and specifically your protein intake. I target about 0.8 g of protein per pound of body weight each day when actively building. That is far more protein than most people need in their diets.


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Answer 3

No. Don't go in for diet pills. Diet pills are widely advertised as a quick and easy way to lose weight , but most of them are not effective. Even the most natural weight loss pills can have side effects and harm your health.Some weight loss pills may help you lose weight for a short time, but after a month or so, the body becomes immune to them. More information on weight loss pills and their side effects at http://www.toloseweight.org/weightlosspill.html

Answer 4

I'm not a nutritionist but I do read and what I've read says a couple things about this. One, diet pills don't work. Most of us want things with minimal effort (that's why lotteries are popular), chances are neither you or I are going to get rich from the lottery. I should loose about 20-25 lbs and I'm not going to if I don't get off my butt and get some exercise. One study found that exercise is far more important than diet or pills in loosing and keeping off weight. Two, aerobic exercise actually gives you something for nothing (or as close to it as you're likely to get). If you reach your target heart rate and hold it for a half hour, your body will continue to burn calories at the same rate for 6 more hours. Third, what is your body mass index (BMI) and should you really loose that much? Don't damage yourself going for a look that's not good for you.

Answer 5

I recently joined a gym and am hoping to lose about 30 lbs. I have tried practially every weight loss gimmick out there, and I have come to the realization that there is no quick fix or magic "pill." Eat well, exercise 4-5 times per week doing lots of cardio mixed with some strength training, and you'll see results. Don't waste your money on any pills. THEY DON"T WORK. Good luck! I feel your pain! :)

Answer 6

Forget the pills. Just watch what you eat, drink plenty of water, and get moving, walking, etc. Stay away from all sodas (even diet).The weight will stay off much longer this way, but when you use pills to accomplish weight loss, the gain will start again when you go off of them. Natural methods will continue to work, and will make you feel much better, which in turn will make you much more likely to be even more active, thus reducing the chance of regaining weight.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

You're doing this all wrong.

Diet pills do one or all of three things: make you crap more, kill your appetite, or raise your energy level (caffine). Unfortunately, since you made no changes in your life, the minute you go off of the pills the weight comes back with a vengence.

When you "diet" like you describe, your body gets primed to gain it back even faster. You get more and more fat cells each time you gain weight, and when you lose, the brain thinks, "Well, we're prone to shortages of food, so we'll store it even FASTER next time."

You need to look at a LIFESTYLE change that will last FOREVER. You know... eating differently, getting more exercise, etc. In fact, it will demand that you change your lifestyle as much as if you CHANGED RELIGIONS.

Your body is a machine. You take in fuel (carbs in your food, measured in calories) that your body burns (exercise). IF you take in more than you burn then you will gain weight, as extra energy is stored in an ever-increasing number of fat cells. If you burn more than you take in, then your body uses up the stored energy, although the fat cells remain.

You need to find a way of eating where your fuel intake is at the very level that your body is burning. In addition, you need to bump up your exercise level. To lose one pound per week, you need to change your calorie / exercise balance so that you either burn 3500 more calories per week, or decrease your intake by 3500 a week, or some combination that equals 3500.

One carton of McD's fries equals an one-hour killer -- and I mean KILLER, as in running, treadmill, etc -- workout. However, you can fill up on many other things, such as veggies, and not have very many calories at all, certainly not as many carbs. Sooo... you can eat fries, but then you have to pay the price for an hour.

SO THE ANSWER IS... there are no diet pills "with no side effects." And, non work long-term, and in fact, will lead you to gain more in the future.

Answer 9

I will try to keep it simple. Your metabolism is basically the rate at which your body burns calories to create energy. So the faster your metabolism, the faster you burn calories and the easier it is to lose unwanted weight. To boost your metabolism naturally you just need to eat the right foods.

You can sit down and literally eat a 1,000-calorie dinner and yet be absolutely starving just a few hours later and the reason is simple: Because your body didnt get what it needed in those 1,000 calories so it sends signals to your brain telling you to ingest more calories and thus, the late-night cravings. That means that the surest way to end those late-night cravings and keep your weight loss goals on track is to eat a more balanced, nutritious diet that actually gives your body what it needs.

It's VERY EASY to lose weight if you eat the right foods. Check out Dr. Charles Livingston's video here: http://www.sexyjese.com - it will blow your mind.

Answer 10

Most diet pills are just scams. If you want to lose weight, I suggest you just excercise and eat healthy foods, like you said you were doing. Besides that, there's really not much you can do.

Answer 11

Im not sure but i know if it was me, i would lose weight and then try, i wouldnt be trying at the same time as taking diet pills. My advice is lose the weight first and then try once you have lost the amount you want.