I’ve been overweight since about the third grade, and I’m getting pretty tired of it at this point. I’ve had a membership to a gym for more than a year now, but it seems like no matter how many times I go a week, I never lose any pounds. I get stronger, but there’s no weight loss, and now I have a job and am working 20-25 hours a week in a deli. I think I’m getting enough exercise at work, and the gym bills are something I’ve been thinking about dropping, especcialy since my mom is losing her job and I’m starting to help pay the bills.
My main problem is that I get hungry too often. I just need something to settle down my ample appetite. I could eat healthier, but that’s easier said than done. My mom is the one that does the grocery shopping, and she just doesn’t buy healthy food. I asked her if she could start, and she did…once. After that, she said “Well you don’t have to eat everything I buy” and left it at that. Well the problem is I do. After a while, I finish the healthy stuff, and all I’m left with is the unhealthy stuff, and how much do you want to bet that she’s not going to go shopping again untill that’s gone? So then it’s back to pasta, pizza, and some other tasty but fattening stuff for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Now I know someone that lost tons of weight while taking some diet pills, so much in fact, he was damn near unreckognizable. Granted he was on the atkins diet at the same time, I’m sure both helped. My job is fast paced enough that I’m sure I could lose some weight if I could just cut down on eating.
Does anyone have any advice? Past experiences you could share?
I’m 18, and weigh the same as Homer Jay Simpson from season one. This is good for a laugh, but the joke is getting old.
what kinds of pills? there are pills for different types of weight loss. Some help with lipolysis (helping yoru body use fat for energy), some help increase metabolism, and some decrease appetite. Pills also has a loose connotation. eating 4 servings of dairy a day helps with lipolysis, but it is not technically a diet pill. Green Tea is a food too, but it comes in pills. ALCAR is an amino acid, etc.
However some are dangerous and some are prescription only, but none are controlled substances as far as i know. Since it is against the TOS to recommend the illegal or prescription ones i won’t.
5htp, satietrol, ephedrine HCL (this is still legal, only ephedra is banned) green tea or tyrosine should help.
Also, increasing your fiber and protein intake in your diet will cut your appetite too. So will eating a diet with a lower glycemic index (GI).
Temptation stares you in the face when you work in a place like that, ever thought of landscaping? It’s tons of exercise, good pay, and you get to be outside all day. Until you find your solution offer to do all the heavy lifting there is, i.e. stocking the cooler, unloading the supply truck.
It can stare at me all it wants, I only have enough money to buy food there on payday, and even then I just buy some lunch meat and some cheese, nothing too big or fattening. Besides, it took me over a year to find this job (untill then, I had applied at countless businesses in my area. Very very few places were hiring), and it’s the first one I’ve had that has air conditioning. I live in florida, and it’s summer. I’d prefer to stay inside as much as humanely possible. You’re talking to someone who swims in the pool outside during the winter when it’s 40 degrees outside because I hate the warm weather so much. I’m not complaining, nor do I think it’s contributing to my problem. I get myself samples every now and then so I can taste all of the different meats and cheeses we’re selling, but that’s pretty much it.
I’m looking for pills to decrease my appetite. How much would a bottle of such pills cost?
Ephedrine Hcl is relatively cheap, 60 pills for $7, and you take 1-3 a day. 5htp is cheap too, about $20 for 20 grams of powder and you take 100-300mg before meals. pre made pills are more expensive. I would combine both of them, places all over the internet sell both. You’ll get the 5htp alot cheaper if you just buy the powder instead of pre-made pills.
There are no medicines which have been demonstrated to cause lipolysis, or increase metabolism, in such a way as to effectively lose weight. Stay away from anything that makes these claims. Meds which contain thyroid hormones can seriously damage the body, when taken in improper quantities. And when taken properly, they merely restore your body’s ability to regulate its own metabolism. Assuming you are hypothyroid to begin with. People without thyroid dysfunction should not take them.
Appetite suppressants have not been shown to cause sustained weight loss, and have dangers of their own. Ephedra-type compounds can cause hypertension and insomnia, and lose their effectiveness within a few weeks, unless the dose is constantly titrated upward.
Prescription appetite suppressants are almost all Controlled Substances, up to an including dextroamphetamine. These are generally not helpful in achieving sustained stable, healthy weight loss either, and aren’t heavily prescribed much for diet purposes anymore (the med which damaged heart valves 5 or 6 years ago saw to that).
Fat blockers, starch blockers, etc. are all interesting ways to experience exciting new gastro-intestinal symptoms without achieving stable weight loss either.
Multiple studies on dairy intake have shown eating 4 servings a day of dairy cause more weight loss with the same diet than not eating dairy. This is proof of lipolysis.
As far as metabolic boosters, aside from thyroid drugs there are uncouplers like dinitrophenol or usnic acid which make the metabolism more inefficient, resulting in a higher metabolic rate. These drugs are even more dangerous than cytomel, but they do exist.
Sorry, wesley, that came off snarkier than I intended.
I am not denying the existance of those phenomena, but I did say that the drugs associated with them have NOT been shown to cause either safe or effective weight loss. Therefor I consider use of them for such purposes dangerous.
JoeSki, this is scaring the hell out of me. No offense to Wesley Clark, but he is NOT an MD, and you should not be taking recommendations for drugs from strangers on the internet.
Ephedrine HCL is related to Ephedra. However, since it is marketed as a bronchodilaor rather than a dietary supplement, the rules banning ephedrine don’t apply to it. You can read some about that here, in the entry marked 6/16/04.
Ephedra was banned for a very good reason: It killed some people. Not everyone who took it, obviously; a lot of people took it, and it did speed up their metabolisms and helped them lose weight. In other people, it pointed out some previously unknown silent cardiac problems, and did this by way of killing them.
Remember Krissy Taylor, younger sister of model Nikki Taylor? She died of an attack of a previously undiagnosed heart ailment (ARVD) triggered by an OTC bronchodilator.
If you feel you must take this stuff, please check it out with your doctor. You will be using it for an off-label purpose.