The Weight Loss Drug as a Supplement, not a Replacement
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If my forty plus years of being overweight, losing weight, studying weight issues, and working out weight issues with therapeutic professionals and medical experts tell me anything, they tell me that most medical professionals will discourage the use of a weight loss drug as a solitary means of reducing. In addition, they will likely discourage the use/abuse of any drugs that are used as a replacement for a balanced food plan and moderate exercise.
The weight loss drug does not work in isolation. For instance, we can go on an approved weight loss plan that includes a single capsule before every meal. But we need to eat nutritionally balanced daily meals from carefully planned, sound weekly menus, as well.
Or, we can take a daily weight loss drug that allows us to eat a lot more food than we might if we were otherwise designing our own fasting program. But we need to add movement, exercise, to the plan in order for the pill to work to its full potential.
Sure, for some of us, we can pop a pill billed as a miracle weight loss drug once a month-to lose that nagging extra pound-but what heavy, overweight, or obese people like us need is more than a 12 times a year adjustment to our water-weight gain. So we need to add to the plan healthy methods of eating and enjoyable (or at least do-able) exercise.
For as the experts will tell you, we heavy, overweight, and obese individuals do sit higher on the health risk scale: health problems for severely needful weight loss candidates range from shortness of breath, heart palpitations and headaches to high cholesterol levels and high blood sugar levels to high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, and subsequent complications that lead to death.
The wrong weight loss drug will do the same thing. So will abusing the right one. I will admit to accidentally overdosing on a popular over-the-counter diet pill when I was in my twenties. I thought the phenylalanine and caffeine combo so effective when I took one in the morning, that one day I decided three would surely be more effective. On, of course, an empty stomach. By the time my ten a.m. writing class came about I was sweating, having heart palpitations, and swaggering. And by the time I got back to my apartment, I was hot/cold/hot sweating/shivering and having dry heaves so bad that the ER doctors asked if I wasn't perhaps attempting to kill myself. With diet pills?
Exactly my point. The right weight loss drug is the one that works when you work it…as instructed by a physician. I know this because I have been extremely overweight since I was old enough to think of popcorn as a vegetable and hot dogs as the best meat on the planet. And I have taken every chance diet, pill, regime, plan, and dress style to make me look thinner-short of surgery-instead of making me healthier. I don't wish the same on you.