My response to Paulo’s nice little post about a new diet pill.
The pills do work a little. Very little. I used them for a while about 8 years ago with some success, but these were also the ephedrine days of the diet pill. Back then I used the now banned original Xenadrine formula. I also used diet pills as recently as 6 months ago (Lipo 6 & I think Hydroxycut, & some TV shit), but can’t really say they did anything for my fat loss. I was doing very long cardio workouts then (& 2001), and would say that had a lot more to do with it.
Note:
I no longer do long boring “cardio” sessions & am currently losing fat faster.
I think I read somewhere max metabolism boost is only like 10% (Source needed. Please comment). Most of the diet pills are just glorified caffeine, so why not just boost your coffee or caffeinated teas (unsweetened) intake for that extra edge? Plus you get all the extra bennies like AOX etc.. from the coffee/teas.
Most people will never even reach the 10% boost above, because they won’t be making the necessary lifestyle changes and dumping the glucose stores from their muscles. They’ll just eat a dose (or two. More is better right? Bad idea!) of the pills and sit back on the couch with an even bigger bag of chips, or extra scoop of ice cream because they’re “burning fat” now with their $50+ bottles of pills.
How do I know? Because I’ve been that guy, know about and admit to the denial.
Bottom line… you need to exercise to burn fat. And I don’t mean that long boring hard-to-schedule stuff! Short sessions high intensity will get the job done and have a TON of other health benefits. Try a one of Craigs TT workouts. Or if you have virtually zero time in your schedule read Body by Science.
