How does this stuff work?

Piste

In a fit of New Year's guilt, I bought this stuff in Boots called "Slimshot" which is three types of effervescent tablets you put into water to make a fizzy drink that you drink at different times of the day. I'm not 100% convinced of the effectiveness from looking at the packet, but there are a lot of vitamins in them, and at the very least it'll be a nice drink and a way to get water into me (grasping at straws here!).

The first drink is to be taken during breakfast and contains: green coffee, green tea and olive wood ("to reduce surplus fat by increasing the body's energy expenditure, thus favouring real slimming"), cherry stalk, orthosyphon(wtf?) and wild pansy extract to "facilitate the draining and removal of toxins", ash wood and meadow sweet to "reduce cellulite" (no need for this tho! \o/) and vit E, C and B vits.

The second drink is to be taken half an hour before lunch and contains citrus pectins, apple pectins and guar gum to "effectively moderate the appetite" and cider vinegar to "restric fat storage".

The last drink is to be taken at the start of dinner and contains chromium to "moderate the appetite" and papaya to "restrict fat storage", cacao and orange peel "stimulate thermogenesis".

So this all sounds wonderful. Look at all those natural ingredients! I'd like to know how they work though, does anyone have any idea of the mechanisms in which all these fabulous extratcs do the things the box says they do?

neuro-praxis

They won't work. They might have a placebo effect though. And your tummy might feel better for having a vitamin drink before meals.

Piste

At least they might taste nice.

El_Dangeroso

I always think if there was a supplement(or drug) you could take that would make weightloss effortless then surely Oprah would have found it.

Piste

Apparently Beta3 blockers are close enough to that "wonder drug" but there are some pretty bad side effect that are yet to be eradicated.

Some day though!


I think the general idea is that it speeds up metabolism to an extent but obviously has to be taken in conjuction with diet and exercise and all that stuff that's nowhere near as fun as a fizzy, fruity drink.

Sapsorrow

Sounds like expensive herbal tea to me!