Do Diet Pills Work – Can They Make You Lose Weight?

This is a part 2 of a 3 part series about diet pills. I would highly recommend you read the first part as well: How Do Diet Pills Work? as it explains the mechanics utilized by weight loss pills, and the understanding of which, in general form, is important to understanding this part as well.

With the above out of the way, let’s get back to the topic at hand – Do diet pills work? It’s a very interesting topic and if you ask around you’ll get all sorts of conflicting answers. However the real answer to this question is both yes and no. Diet pills will help you lose weight, at first, but in the end if you don’t change your lifestyle you will end up weighting just as much as you did before taking supplements. Here is the general pattern people experience when taking weight loss supplements:

  • First Day: You start using diet pills – almost right away you can notice a difference (less hungry, more energy etc)
  • 1-2 Weeks: You’ve lost a bit of weight, you don’t feel hungry as you often did before – you love it and are really happy with the results.
  • 3-5 Weeks: The weight loss seemed to stop, you haven’t lost anything in the last week, you seem to be eating more than the first week, and are wondering what’s going on and what should you do.
  • 2 Months or more: You haven’t lost any weight in weeks, you eat almost as much as you did before taking pills, which makes you wonder if the pills even work at all. You are annoyed and upset about the situation, you are about to stop taking diet pills.
  • Few Weeks after stopping using diet pills: You gained most of the weight you’ve lost by using diet pills back.

Depending on the stage they are on people will tell you that diet pills work very well or that they don’t work at all. In reality they work, but your body adapts, counters the mechanic the supplements use to achieve weight loss – you get no results and stop using supplements. Your appetite increases (no pills to hold your it back) which your body counters again but not before you gain some weight back, which in most cases will be equal to the amount you’ve lost at the beginning.

Well, that about sums ups this part. Weight loss supplements can work well if you need to lose a few pounds in a few weeks but don’t want to do anything to achieve it. However diet pills do not work as a long term solution to weight loss.
Be sure to check out the last part of this mini series of posts: How To Use Diet Pills To Lose Weight.

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