The pills fill your digestive system with bulk fibers so you think you're full, and eat less. You literally don't get as hungry so you don't want to it.
Other pills suppress your appetite and therefore decrease the amount of food you eat. These pills work on your mind rather than your digestive tract. You don't get hungry so you don't eat.
And finally some pills increase your metabolism by increasing your internal temperature. Green tea and caffeine are two ingredients which increase your temperature but there are herbal supplements that do the same thing.
Do these diet pills work? Yes to a certain extent. Most have to be combined with a diet program where you eat less or restrict your carbs to succeed. Do these pills burn fat fast? Most of them work not by burning fat but by increasing your metabolism.
Another pill that has recently come on the market is Alli. It works by blocking your stomach and intestines from digesting about 20% of the fat you eat. You have to go on a low fat diet when you start taking Alli. In addition you can't eat more than 15 grams of fat at any one time. You can't save up your fat allotment for the day, or several days, in order to splurge. If you break either of these rules, you suffer 'treatment effects' which include unexpected diarrhea and stomach cramps. Alli actually recommends that you wear dark pants and bring a change of clothing with you for the first week of the program. And stay close to the bathroom. Alli claims that in scientific studies participants have lost 50% more when taking Alli then just staying on a low calorie, low fat diet.
The advantages include having a little help to get you started on your diet and losing weight a bit faster. The disadvantage includes the expense, and in the case of Alli, the treatment effects. Alli is not a diet program you can cheat on and then return to without suffering ill effects. Some participants have reported treatment effects for several weeks after they stopped the program. Others have said they get treatment effects even when they make sure their fat consumption is within limits.
Everyone everywhere is making diet mistakes every day. And they're all pretty similar. Not the little slips where you gulp down a plate of ice cream in a moment of weakness... we can deal with those. But the mistakes that cause your diet plan to fail... these are the dangerous ones.
1. The "Stick to the Plan - No Compromises" Attitude
It seems once again "it's all in your attitude".
You pick out a complicated diet that is almost impossible to maintain. Before you start you purge your kitchen of any items that aren't on the program. You plan to be the ace dieter... but in a few days or a week or two it just seems so darn hard and so fun.
And then what? You quit... and you feel like a loser... again! And you go out and buy all that "bad" food you've been craving that you threw out last week.
The way forward is to make small changes to what you eat so that you have a slow but steady weight loss.
Here's the question to ask yourself: "Am I really serious about permanent weight loss or is it just a nice daydream?"
2. The Attitude of Sacrifice
This is a really big one!
You attitude is: "I'm on this diet for a month - I'll lose 10 pounds and then it's back to eating the way I enjoy".
Well... you're not alone on this one. We all do it. Why? Because overeating is an addiction and its obsessive compulsive, so overcoming the craving is a real challenge.
This is probably the biggest danger of all. If you don't first get that craving under control then you are doomed to failure.
It is better to include a little of everything in your diet and learn to enjoy it in small quantities. Yes, even chocolate... as long as it's low sugar dark chocolate!
3. Failing to Achieve your goal.
If you fail at your goal it may not seem like much. After all... you've done it before... right? But every time we fail we create another burden of shame to lug around. And like most people we just stuff them is a hidden place and ignore them. But they eat away at us.
Every goal failure sets us up for another one until we change our way of setting up our goals.
It's critical to set achievable goals. Think them out and write them down. Ask yourself this question: "Am I absolutely certain I can achieve this goal?" If you're not certain then the goal is too big.
Most people set their goals the wrong way!
The smart way to set achievable goals is to create a goal that is an action that you have total control over. Setting a goal to lose two pounds in two weeks is not a goal you can control. So you set yourself up to lose.
Make the plan of losing two pounds in two weeks your "intention" not your "goal" and then set up an action plan to achieve it.
Here's a goal that you can control: "I'll drink two glasses of water today" or "I won't eat bread for the next hour".
You see the difference? You have no control whatever over how much weight you can lose in what time, but for short periods you can control what you eat!
The best solution of course is to find a way to lose weight quite rapidly without needing to struggle with hunger all the time. All you need to do is to get control of the carbohydrate craving and eliminate it quickly. Then your goals are not such a struggle.
If you would like to know how to make this happen then I can help.
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