Secondly, as you think about losing weight, carefully and honestly evaluate your current situation. Is it just a few pounds, say 5 or 10 you want to lose? Maybe it’s 20 to 30? These amounts usually can safely be lost without help of health professionals. If you need to lose 50 or more pounds, I strongly suggest you see your physician before you begin any weight loss plan.

Next, you need to evaluate why you’ve gained weight. There are many reasons people gain weight. Some eat more than they need as a mental pick-me-up. Some eat because they have nothing else to do. Others don’t really overeat, they simply make wrong choices of what they eat. Then there’s those of us who have put on a few pounds each year and now all of a sudden, nothing fits anymore. Whatever case, you can lose weight. It will take right attitude, level of commitment and right actions. Yes, there are plenty of diets and pills available to help you along way. They aren’t all bad, but do keep in mind that unless permanent lifestyle changes are made, weight will come back when you stop diets and pills.

Diets and Pills

There are almost as many weight loss methods and diet pills available as there are people who want to lose weight.

There are diet pills that stop your hunger so you eat less and burn more fat. There are diet pills that cause body not to metabolize all food you eat, so it’s passed out of your system and not stored as fat. Then there’s combination of these two. As you begin your search for perfect diet pill, be careful as some can have harmful effects on your body.

Diet Pills work by shifting levels of brain chemicals (neurotransmitters) that control satiety (fullness) and desire for food. Some also slightly increase your metabolic rate - rate at which your body burns calories.

Examples of weight loss diet pills include:

Diethylpropion hydrochloride (eg. Tenuate) Mazindol (eg. Mazanor, Sanorex) Phendimetrazine tartrate (eg. Bontril) Phentermine hydrochloride (eg. Adipex-P, Ionamin)

All these can be used to help with weight loss. Be careful of pills containing ephedra, or caffeine. These can have negative and sometimes even deadly effects on body. Use with caution.

Three Steps

Whatever method you choose to help you lose weight, here’s three steps that will help. Evaluate your situation and reasons behind weight gain honestly. Sometimes it’s difficult to accept true facts about why we’ve gained weight, only by realizing and accepting truth can you being to deal with it using a positive attitude. Make sure your attitude is positive about changes you make. Don’t dread changes or say things like I hate not eating cake…. Instead whenever you have one of those kinds of thoughts think about how much happier you will be with your new slimmer body.

Visualize positive effects your good actions are having. Get a mental image of “new you.” Whenever you’re tempted not to be active or to eat wrong things, picture “new you” you will be if you overcome temptation.

Don’t believe magical ads. You can’t keep doing same things, and expect something different to happen. You can use products to assist you with weight loss, but ultimately you must be in control for weight to stay off without taking diet pills.

There are some instances when diet pills can be helpful. Usually these are indicated in truly obese person. For person wanting to lose 5 or 10 pounds, they usually aren’t necessary. So you may ask, how does diet pills work to cause weight loss, while I continue to eat same amount? In recent years, it seems everyone has PERFECT answer to help with your weight loss. There are almost as many weight loss methods and diet pills available as there are people who want to lose weight.

There are diet pills that stop your hunger so you eat less and burn more fat. There are diet pills that cause body not to metabolize all food you eat, so it’s passed out of your system and not stored as fat. There’s combination of these two. As you begin your search for perfect diet pill, be careful as some can have harmful effects on your body. Diet Pills work by shifting levels of brain chemicals (neurotransmitters) that control satiety (fullness) and desire for food. Some also slightly increase your metabolic rate - rate at which your body burns calories.

Examples of weight loss diet pills include: Diethylpropion hydrochloride (eg. Tenuate) Mazindol (eg. Mazanor, Sanorex) Phendimetrazine tartrate (eg. Bontril) Phentermine hydrochloride (eg. Adipex-P, Ionamin)

4. Monitor/Increase Your Activity - Regardless whether you’re taking diet pills or not to help with your weight loss, it’s still important to maintain a regular exercise program. This is beneficial not only for your weight loss, but also for your overall health. In many ways we in developed country have a much more sedentary lifestyle than our bodies need. Obviously it’s easier for us than in era when people had to be very active simply to survive, yet it’s not necessarily healthy for us not to be active. Start and maintain some sort of exercise plan no matter what your age. Especially for middle-aged and older people exercise play a very, very important role in quality of health and staying within normal weight ranges.

5. Develop a Plan for Maintenance. Even if you’re taking diet pills to help with your weight loss it’s important to keep in mind, that once you stop pills, unless you maintain a balance between your activity level and food you eat weight will come back. While it may take some time to become accustomed to a change in diet and activity, rewards are well worth time and effort spent to reach and maintain a healthy weight.