If you think you are about to suffer from obesity or you are about to become morbidly obese and you would want to lose weight, you should have realized by now that eating low fat foods or low fat dieting, low calorie diets, and low carbohydrates plans don’t always work for everyone.
There are real cases that no matter how hard an obese person tries to lose weight by doing strict diet with rigorous exercise, they do not get the weight they desire. For those people who are becoming sick of eating low calorie foods and tried of sticking to strict low carb menus, there are actually many weight loss products that are safe and effective in the market today.
ABOUT WEIGHT LOSS PRODUCTS
Weight loss products—which include diet pills, dietary supplements, diet plans, and weight loss programs—can be found in market today. But, before trying any of these products, whether it is oral medication, diet plan or weight loss program, it is a must that you arm yourself with knowledge about the possible side effects of using any of these weight loss products.
Generally, oral weight loss products are categorized into two—products with prescription and products without prescription. The first set of weight loss products requires a doctor’s recommendation or prescription upon purchasing any specific product while the latter set—commonly known as natural or herbal products or supplements—doesn’t need a doctor’s prescription because these can be bought over-the-counter.
If you are planning to use any of these weight loss products, you should bear in mind that all these products consist of different ingredients that can affect a person’s current physical attributes and medical conditions. So it is best if you ask for a professional help before taking any of the to avoid further damage to your body.
Diet products and programs have become one of the most popular short-term fix for weight loss. But you must beware because most of these products only require you to spend so much money in buying special foods or pills, despite of fraudulent claims. Despite the possible weight loss that can be gained during diet, not everyone can maintain their weight because they haven’t learned to change their lifestyle yet.
Other weight loss products that are known to be ineffective include diet patches, magnet diet pills, bulk fillers like guar gum, electrical muscle stimulators, appetite suppressing eyeglasses, and magic weight-loss earrings because they are pose great threat to a person’s health.
Most diet medicines—whether they are prescribed or not—have also been restricted because they have side effects and do not work for long-term weight loss goal. Experts say that over-the-counter pills that contain the appetite suppressant known as PPA or phenylpropanolamine hydrochloride are not recommended for consumption because they people can be prone to high blood pressure while those weight loss products that contain ephedra or ma huang. being a central nervous system stimulant that suppresses a person’s appetite, ephedera can even cause serious side effects like dizziness, increased heart rate, recurrent chest pains, possible heart attack and stroke, seizures, life threatening side effects and even death.
Authorities also prohibit the use of other weight loss products such as food supplements like glucomannan supplements, chitosan supplements, chromium supplements, St. John’s Wort supplements, green tea extract supplements, spirulina supplements or algae tablets because aside from being expensive these alter regular eating patterns which is not safe for a person’s health.
WEIGHT LOSS SUCCESS
Today, almost all commercial weight loss products have their own potential of helping a person to lose weight. But you must know that there is no product available yet can substitute for balanced and disciplined diet coupled with rigorous but healthy set of workout or exercise.
Of course, it is hard to change lifelong lifestyle habits—especially a person’s eating and physical activity behavior—but with enough determination and discipline, it can be achieved.
