Diet Pills

MILF

Hi All,

Firstly, I'm not sure if this is the right section to post this up in so MODS, feel free to move it!

I was just doing some post-Christmas shopping at my local shopping centre and (stupidly) tried on a pair of trousers. I got mega depressed cos they didnt fit (stupid Christmas dinners!!). I was walking around in a daze when I came across Tony Quinn's little chalet type shop and saw a diet pill in the window that claims to suppress your appetite and help you lose inches in around 2 weeks. It helps you stop craving sugary sweet things and gives you energy (apparently!).

I'm just wondering if any of you have experiences with this pill? I really want to try it but didnt want to part with €65 before I researched it!

Before anyone starts on the whole "can you not lose weight with exercise and healthy eating?", I'm a mother of 2 and just havent the time to exercise and eat healthy but still need to lose the baby weight!

mrsberries

Hi Milf (love the name!)

I understand your frustration especially at this time of year. However I have learnt the long and expensive way that these pills really arent the answer. I have tried so many - hoodia, pu erh tea,chinese herbal pills, fat metabolisers, protein metabolisers:eek: ....and to be honest nothing but going to weight watchers has worked for me! I only need to shed a stone, which isnt much, but Im small and my bmi is over 25 so therefore i need to lose those pounds for my health.

I know it sounds like a lot of effort to follow a healthy eating regime and exercise but honestly it doesnt have to be that hard. If you dont want to follow a diet as such you could just cut out any junk and and stick to three meals a day. Eat well - plenty of protein and veg and get in a few walks, bring the kids out with you, kick some football, take the stairs. Honestly, its small steps but it will make an impact on your figure over time.

You will get plenty of good advice on these boards regarding eating healthily, so stick around. But dont waste your money on these pills, they really dont work (my dad has used them, they are no use).

Best of luck

SW81

If it was that easy don't you think we'd all have found a miracle skinny pill by now? :rolleyes: Cut out the junk and get up off the couch and take the kids for a walk.

siochain

MILF wrote: »

Before anyone starts on the whole "can you not lose weight with exercise and healthy eating?", I'm a mother of 2 and just havent the time to exercise and eat healthy but still need to lose the baby weight!

Hi MILF,
I'm afraid exercise and eating healthy are the only ways to do it. Look at it as an investment for yours and the kids future. Plus you feel so much better when eating right and getting regular exercise which can only benefit the whole family as you are spending all that time keeping the family ticking over.

Good luck and have fun

MILF

Okay, I understand exercise and healthy eating are the way to go but there has to be SOMETHING in them that does what it says on the tin or else they wouldnt have gotten onto the market without the Irish Medicines Board or some other watchdog putting the kibosh on them??

smelltheglove

MILF I am like you, I have wantyed every slimming pill there is, I have spent hundreds and hundreds on the,m but to no avail. Most recently I got one off the doctor and wow it worked, I was amazed, but after 3 mths I looked at myself and thought, I am eating nothing. I literally was not hungry at all,m sounds good yes but I decided right I still have to eat, I had been so moody and the moods eased as I concentrated on eating more than once a day, but guess what, the weight came back. I stopped taking the pilss and within 3 wks half a stone was back. Yes my appetite was curbed but there is only so long your body can handle these tablets for and it isnt nice seeing the weight come back on.

I went back to my doctor who was very happy that I had decided myself to stop as she didnt belief in long term results with them anyway.

I have tried tony quinn and honestly they did not work for me at all. Some of us justarent blessed with high metabolism and need to work at it, I just cant find the time to work at it as the kids tire you out so much.

MILF

smelltheglove wrote: »

I just cant find the time to work at it as the kids tire you out so much.

I am exactly like this. I'm so dense at things like this though, I dont even know how to up my metabolism. I have the will and the want to sort out the weight issue, its just the time and, I suppose, the support to be able to do it. It's getting so bad, I seem to be thinking constantly about it and getting moody cos I'm an 18 instead of the 14 I should be and its not fair on my partner and kids.

smelltheglove

Exactly the same as you really, I'm at 16 and wish I was 12. I put the kids into swimming lessons recently and they are loving it, 6 and 2, they are doing them in a gym where the teacher gets in the pool with them and it has encouraged me to join the gym and sopend some time swimming with them as they enjoy it so much. The family membership will work out at about 1000 euro but hopefully it will be worth it and I'll get onto some of the machines too.

Edwardius

MILF wrote: »

Hi All,

Firstly, I'm not sure if this is the right section to post this up in so MODS, feel free to move it!

I was just doing some post-Christmas shopping at my local shopping centre and (stupidly) tried on a pair of trousers. I got mega depressed cos they didnt fit (stupid Christmas dinners!!). I was walking around in a daze when I came across Tony Quinn's little chalet type shop and saw a diet pill in the window that claims to suppress your appetite and help you lose inches in around 2 weeks. It helps you stop craving sugary sweet things and gives you energy (apparently!).

I'm just wondering if any of you have experiences with this pill? I really want to try it but didnt want to part with €65 before I researched it!

Before anyone starts on the whole "can you not lose weight with exercise and healthy eating?", I'm a mother of 2 and just havent the time to exercise and eat healthy but still need to lose the baby weight!

Just read the stickies. If those pills actually worked there wouldn't be any overweight people! Good luck!

mrsberries

MILF wrote: »

I am exactly like this. I'm so dense at things like this though, I dont even know how to up my metabolism. I have the will and the want to sort out the weight issue, its just the time and, I suppose, the support to be able to do it. .

Milf, would you have any interest in joinging a weight watchers class? It does take an hour out of your week and it can be costly (depending on your circumstances) but it is great in terms of support from the group and leader and you can get great tips. Its a slow process but thats the best way, it'll stay off or take longer to go back on instead of piling it back on after taking diet pills and the such.

aare

Dead Ed wrote: »

Just read the stickies. If those pills actually worked there wouldn't be any overweight people! Good luck!

I think Dead Ed has just exceeded anything I could say on the subject...

Except to add that the amphetamine based diet pills that you get on prescription do most definately work, and IMHO, they are great fun, but they are very bad for you, and you don't even want to have nightmares about what they do to your teeth...

Doesn't weightwatchers have an online plan too? Is that free?

Also, maybe "let the diet take the strain" and simplify a couple of meals a day for you, for a couple of weeks and go with the slimfast plan or the "Special K Challenge" (they have a VERY helpful site, I was surprised).

Get yourselves a head start and use the time and effort you save to think out a future strategy?

Happy New Year...

Dags

Hi does anyone have any information on the diet pill nekapa ?

FarmerH

Please please please please dont take diet pills

They may help you lose a few pounds initially, but are you going to take them for the rest of your life?

Forget about Christmas and short term goals and focus on your long term health and well being as that will benefit both you and your children an awful lot more.