I have a sneaky feeling that you already know the answer to my question? But let us do a bit of self examination.
Have you ever taken lose weight diet pills and felt a lot better at first? Maybe you didn't get slim fast but there was some progress.
If so, I am with you on that.
There was a point when, if asked do diet pills work, I would probably have said yes (although if I am really honest with myself I would admit that I never thought it was the best way to lose weight).
But later on, did you lose your grip on self discipline and sure enough, even with the diet pills, your weight began to creep back up? Looking back, could that have been because you started to forget about eating the best foods to lose weight? Maybe it was wishful thinking at the beginning or just sheer desire that the pills would work, I think that was partly the case for me, you know a kind of placebo effect, where belief becomes the cure.
Back then, everyone seemed to have a different opinion on whether lose weight diet pills really work, or whether they were going to cause some horrendous side effects later on.
So I thought I would make up my own mind.
On the subject of opinion and the question -- do diet pills work? Recent research from Sweden has put the last nail in the coffin in terms of my belief in lose weight diet pills.
The headline was: No Evidence That Popular Slimming Supplements Facilitate Weight Loss, New Research Finds (ScienceDaily.
com July 14, 2010).
"New research evaluating the effectiveness of a broad selection of popular slimming supplements sold in pharmacies and health food shops has found no evidence that any of them facilitate weight loss beyond the placebo effect".
I heard this news story while I was eating breakfast, watching breakfast TV.
It was the last straw for me, my lose weight diet pills went into the bin.
I had stopped believing in them, they were hardly having any impact, certainly not helping me to get slim fast.
I decided there must be a better way, so my search to find the best way to lose weight was back on.
I started searching around for the next miracle solutions to help me lose my belly rolls and love handles.
But after looking at this product and that product and maybe even binge eating from the stress of it all! I had a light bulb moment, I admitted to myself what I had always known, that in the end there is only one choice and that is to start to eat the best food to lose weight and make that the habit of a lifetime.
As far as I know there is no food that can actually bring about weight loss, but there are foods that help to reduce energy intake.
And I do know that to lose weight you need to take in less energy than you are using in your daily activities.
And there are also high fibre foods that fill you up with less calorie intake.
None are going to make you get slim fast, but when did get slim fast ever work? In my experience it was always followed by get fat fast.
After struggling for several weeks with working out what foods are best for me to eat, that I also enjoy eating and that my fussy partner will eat, a friend of mine suggested I try the Strip That Fat programme.
I was a bit skeptical at first, it seemed like another expense that I don't need, but then I thought about how much I had spent on lose weight diet pills and it made a bit more sense.
I decided to try it and since then I have not looked back.
It has been great because it helps me to work out meals that I can cook, that I both like and that are the best food to lose weight.
Yes, sometimes I still go a bit wild, but I have started to lose weight and over a few weeks have lost a lot more than I ever lost with lose weight diet pills.
But better than that, I feel really great, energetic, happier and its different from being on any other weight reduction programme I know of.
It is not really like being on a programme at all.