Dieting Tablets. Opinons, experiances and advice please

[Addisonsfeet]

HI Everyone, 

I'm looking for some advice and experiences mostly.  I have struggled with my weight for a little while now, I am over weight and I would like to lose around 2/3 stone.  I started at the beginning of the year and lost roughly half a stone and then everything just stopped.  I found with no progress being made I lost my motivation and I am caring less and less.  Of course this then leads to weight gain.  

Recently at work, someone in the office lost a lot of weight very quickly.  I found out sometime after that another girl in the office had given him some diet tablets and this was why he lost the weight.  So obviously, I'm interested.

I have heard some horror stories, they just don't work, they make you poop yourself, the chemicals in them can cause health problems, they stop you going to the toilet, they make you sick, they make your stomach hurt all the time. The list is long, and on top of that, which ones do you go for? there are so many!

On the other hand, I have proven results right in front of me.

So, if people could share with me their experiences, what was good, what was bad, which ones you tried, which ones worked for you, which ones really didn't, did you have problems? Do you know why those problems occurred, why you would or wouldn't recommend them, how they made you feel day by day, how long did you take them for and how many did you take a day?  Tell me everything and don't leave out the details, I want to know what I'll be getting myself into.

All of your advice is welcomed here.  I know this is a controversial subject so please be kind.

Thank you everyone 😊

[Glenda]

@Addisonsfeet   When I was young and pregnant my doctor was worried about me gaining weight and he put me on some GREAT diet pills that I loved.  The first one he put me on I didn't take because they put me to sleep but the second ones were "near amphetamines" he said or something like that.  They gave me tons of energy.  But both times I was pregnant with and without the diet pills (which are still available last time I looked) I gained exactly the same amount of weight and got up to 142 pounds starting at 108.  By 6 weeks after I was back to 108 too.  Anyway  I read a study that said you can do just as well as with the very best and most expensive diet pills if you will just wait 45 minutes after every time you eat something before you eat something else.  Can you do that?   Try?  Best wishes !

[TraceSPN]

It’s just about guaranteed that without changing food behaviour your office colleague will regain all that lost weight shortly after stopping the pills. 

It’s the old story. Too lose weight, it’s calories in vs calories out plus exercise.

I took a prescribed (by my dr) appetite suppressant many years ago.  Yes, I lost 15kg and was hyped up like the energiser bunny.  What happened when I stopped them?  Within 6 months the weight was back, and then some.   

This time round, no pills.  Just less calories (keto diet) more exercise and a change in mindset that I will lose my excess 30kg for me.  I’ve lost 10kg in 5 weeks so far.   I’m not finding it hard, I’m enjoying the challenge.  The Fitbit has made a difference and helped a lot. I don’t necessarily lose grams each day, but the overall trend is downwards. 

The biggest help?  An online food diary.  I log every mouthful I eat and it’s changed my habits a lot.  I enjoy the planning aspect of it each day. 

Consider finding a dietitian to help you lose the weight.  Weight loss done correctly should stay off.   Pills only help in the short term, you cannot stay on them forever.   Learning about food and your relationship with it is the key to long term results. 

[Glenda]

I should have said,  different kinds of pills have different effects.  Diet pills can reduce your appetite.  And you will not be any more likely to gain the weight back when you quit taking them than you would be if you reduced your calorie intake without them.  Either way you have to add back calories slowly.   If you reduced calories by  discovering and eating lower calorie food  it would be easier for you than if you just stopped eating due to less appetite.  Learn to eat turnips & carrots  instead of potatoes;  a super special treat of strawberries covered with melted chocolate wafers; (1/2 a pound strawberries and 18 chocolate wafers for 200 calories).  1/2 cup of fat free greek yogurt with 1/2 cup frozen blueberries for 90 calories instead of ice cream. ( I add some Fiber One cereal to mine which is 60% fiber so 60% of the calories in that cereal don't count & adds nice crunch in salad too.)    Eliminate from your diet, flour and sugar.

[Addisonsfeet]

I had little response to this question, which was disappointing, but should anyone come across this and want to know, The person at work taking the diet pills put nearly all of the weight back on.  They have since started the C9 diet with another person in the work place.  One of them lost 8 pounds over night, which I find really worrying.  It's great to lose weight, but that much that quickly is not good.  I've also found that a side affect of this diet seems to be that they can no longer control their bowels. (If I pooped myself at work I would never show my face ever again, but maybe that's just me)  

I on the other hand have started doing slimming world.  I lost a Stone before Christmas, have put a small amount back on when over indulging at Christmas and I am losing again now.  I am learning about what I am eating and the affect it has on my body.  I am losing slowly and when I have reached target, I will have all the tools I need to maintain my weight loss.

I hope this helps anyone who may have a similar question about these things

[Heybales]

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@Addisonsfeet wrote:

I had little response to this question, which was disappointing, but should anyone come across this and want to know, The person at work taking the diet pills put nearly all of the weight back on.  They have since started the C9 diet with another person in the work place.  One of them lost 8 pounds over night, which I find really worrying.  It's great to lose weight, but that much that quickly is not good.  I've also found that a side affect of this diet seems to be that they can no longer control their bowels. (If I pooped myself at work I would never show my face ever again, but maybe that's just me)  

I on the other hand have started doing slimming world.  I lost a Stone before Christmas, have put a small amount back on when over indulging at Christmas and I am losing again now.  I am learning about what I am eating and the affect it has on my body.  I am losing slowly and when I have reached target, I will have all the tools I need to maintain my weight loss.

I hope this helps anyone who may have a similar question about these things

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Extreme attempts can lead to extreme results - but almost always lead to the same 80% failure rate to reach or maintain goal weight for any decent amount of time.

If you've been a high carb person, and actually do some exercise so the body feels the need to store carbs in muscles, and a high sodium person, and have a last gut of food waiting to pass through - yeah, not too hard to lose 8 lbs of mainly water weight overnight.

Maybe they lost some ounces of fat weight along with it.

Since that kind of weight is rarely a visible loss anywhere (unless bloated stomach now gone) - I just don't see how it's encouraging.

Depending on how foolish the diet, the body also breaks down muscle as part of everything that is slowly replaced daily - don't provide enough protein and that is not built back up, so count losing muscle mass too.

That is a real kicker because it's hard to actually build back muscle, much easier to lose it from foolishness.

I'm glad you have an example to watch of where you do NOT want to ever go. Lifelong yo-yo dieting, each time getting harder, having a terrible relationship with food and your body - what a terrible state to end up in your 50-60's, is where I see many women finally having enough and wanting to do it the right way.

[BASILCHIVES]

In my humble opinion from years of experience a DIET is a temporary change in food to achieve a specific result.    Over and over we diet, get to goal, go back to our 'normal' eating habits and the weight comes back, sometimes with more weight.   We all want a quick fix, overnight effortless success.   Diet pills we think might be the answer because 'if we get to goal we KNOW we can stay there without more pills.'

To lose weight and keep it off we need a food plan that is a permanent change, so no crash diet, no pills, no laxatives.   A sensible, lifetime way of eating that will get us to a healthy body and keep us there.   Diets often make us feel deprived, we can't wait to be done so we can have the food we love.   Small changes will be more likely to last, yes it take longer to lose will be more likely to stay off.

Change your habits, find healthier versions of the food you like, if a food triggers a binge, it might be a food you eliminate.     

[ValentinRodgers]

Tbh, I’ve heard of such tablets before. I guess it’s all because I’ve never had such issues. Though I gained weight, I lost it naturally. All I needed to do was to eat healthy food and exercise. So, I’d be very grateful if you could tell me more about these tablets. I have a friend who’s been struggling with gaining weight for a long time. I guess she has some problems with her hormones. Do you think it’s worth going to an endocrinologist? Sometimes diets just don’t work. So do tablets. The only tablet that always works is noshpa ( https://www.aptekastore.com/en/no-spa-noshpa.html ). It helps me literally every time. Anyway, I’ll be waiting for your replies. Thanks for keeping the thread updated.

[alexthecat]

@ValentinRodgers has your friend asked you for weight loss information? If not, it might be more polite not to share advice with her on that topic.