Are there any safe/proven diet pills that are good to take if you are obese?

Question

I was just wondering this because iv'e seen so many diet pills advertised on tv and I was wondering the differences between all of them.

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. Here are some aggressive but realistic suggestions if you are serious about improving fitness.


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 2

Prescription diet pills are useful for severe obesity problems. These pills are regulated and their side effects are monitored. Some of these pills are Meridia (Sibutramine), Xenical (Orlistat), Adipex, Bontril, Didrex, Phentermine and Tenuate. These pills will not be effective for losing weight , if a conventional weight loss plan is also not followed. More information on weight loss pills and their side effects at http://www.toloseweight.org/weightlosspill.html

Answer 3

they are either bad for you or they don't work. Seriously, there is NO quick fix to obesity, so don't be tempted by any of them. Losing weight requires time, just like gaining weight. You need to eat healthier and exercise. It is a lifestyle change. Our bodies are a product of years of evolution and are designed to live a certain lifestyle... eat a certain type of diet, a certain amount of food, do a certain amount of activity, and when you mess up that balance, your health suffers. You can't expect your body to adjust from what it has set in its genetic code which has been established for thousands of years. You need to break away from this modern lifestyle, your unhealthy lifestyle which has evolved only in recent years and left our bodies in shambles.

Our bodies are DEFINITELY not going to adapt to some pill... it is unnatural.

It's a good thing you at least asked and are wondering about it as opposed to blindly taking some pills. Good for you for taking a step towards improving yourself as well and getting healthy. Our bodies are a gift and we shouldn't abuse them.

Answer 4

Diet pills are not healthy and most contain un-natural ingredients ... I have recently discovered a new revolution in weight loss ... It's not a "diet plan" it's an "addition plan" ... What that means is that you simply add this to your current lifestyle, don't skip meals, and you will see results and it's healthy and natural ... It doesn't contain chemicals that can eventually hurt your health ... I have lost 18 pounds in 21 days and 2" in my waist ... Now this is without go hungry, skipping meals, or even exercising ... Go to www.newlifestyletoday. org and add the weight loss plan to your life ... God Bless ~ Pastor J ~ Texas

Answer 5

Don't drink soda, milk, or energy drinks. Don't eat cheese, sweets, or fast food. Drink plenty of water. Don't over work out your body needs rest every other day. Walk as much as you can. Do leg raises to burn stubborn fat. And eat breakfast with plenty of water. By the time your 16 you will be thin because by then you should be taller and your hormones will boost up. Anyways diet pills never work. I use to be 50 lbs over wait at your age and an inch shorter. Pray and keep faith you can do it!!!!!!

Answer 6

They all don't work if you're not going to exercise. Diet pills are supposed to be taken with it in order to lose the weight and excess fat. Don't take them unless you're planning to do so because, as the first person said, it's not worth your life.

Answer 7

all diet pills can kill you so your best bet is to diet and exercise....dont try to take th easy way out because it's not worth loosing your life

Answer 8

Practice deep brearhing exercises to reduce the stress hormone cortisol

Answer 9

try a pasta less spaghetti by mixing shredded zucchini veggie meatballs and raw tomato sauce seasoned with a dash of zesty oregano

Answer 10

find the right diet for your individual body because there are many ways are there to lose weight just find what works for you