Magic Weight Loss Pill?

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 at 5:08 pm

Everyday we get bombarded with advertisements for weight loss pills and supplements. They all have these great before and after pictures. I bet you have asked yourself at least once, will they work for me?

These weight loss pills and supplements are everywhere you turn, from TV commercials, magazines, and right in front of you on shelves of your local stores. You may know someone who has tried them before. You may have even tried them before yourself.

Have you ever looked at the ingredients?

Do you know how they will help you lose weight?

There are 3 basic categories of weight loss pills and supplements:

Stimulants

These weight loss pills use caffeine and vitamins to raise your body’s energy expenditure levels, while reducing your appetite. The basic idea is to increase your energy and boost your metabolism.

Appetite Suppressants

These pills work to suppress your appetite by using chemicals to basically tricking your brain into feeling full, making you less likely to over eat.

Fat Blockers

These pills work by preventing a percentage of the fat that you consume from being absorbed during the digestive process.

Will these pills work for you?

Selling weight loss pills and weight loss supplements is a multibillion dollar a year industry. With all of the money spent on these weight loss pills, you would think that everyone would be skinny and that our country would not have an obesity problem, but unfortunately that’s just not the case.

Companies make promises like,” Lose 40lbs in 40 days” or something ridiculous like that. The problem is that these are just outrageous claims. There is no real quick fix for losing weight and keeping it off. The truth of the matter is that it comes down to eating healthy and exercise regularly.

Sure, weight loss pills may slightly increase your metabolism and suppress your appetite, and you may even initially lose a few pounds. However, weight loss pills themselves cannot produce any serious or permanent weight loss. The truth of the matter is that it still comes down to eating healthy and exercise regularly.

The following is just a few of the side effects of weight loss pills and supplements: