One thing that everyone always does when we want to lose weight is eat less. This is one of the worst things you can do unless you are eating way over what your daily caloric intake is. This is because when your body senses that you are not taking in as much food it decides you are going to starve. This triggers the conserve fat mode and you will actually not lose weight and or may gain weight. Also one of the first things the body decides to eat first is the muscle because it is packed with protein and gives the best energy, so not only will you not lose weight you will actually lose muscle. When you lose muscle your ability to burn more calories goes down. The best thing you can do is split up your 3 meals a day to 6 small meals a day and eat every 3 hours or so and you need to drink lots of water.

When you do this you will feel full and you keep your metabolism going all day long. You should try drinking at least 1 gallon a day or close to it. Protein has proven to be one of the best things to eat to keep your feeling full and give your energy. It also feeds your muscles and that is important for those that are working out.

If you can’t work out at least try the 6 small meals a day for at least a month and I think you will see a difference. These 6 meals need to be healthy meal and when you eat protein it should be things like grilled or baked skinless chicken breast or learn turkey breast or egg whites with a little yoke (egg beaters work too). Fish is another excellent source, but I for one do not like fish. If you do like fish you need to steam, poach, or bake it so that its healthy. The other thing that you want to eat is low GI carb items and eat lots of veggies. Raw veggies are better than cooked ones and they will make you feel very full.

I read an article today from popular science By Eric Hagerman that talked about a weight loss pill. There was a miracle pill out there in trials, but got trashed due to the fact that it contributed to at least 5 suicides and caused severe depression. There are a few other pills on the market now that actually do help you to lose weight. One is available over the counter and its called Alli. Alli helps by stopping the absorption fat. There is another one that controls your appetite.

Danish researchers recently decided to take aim at the brain chemicals serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine, after noticing that an experimental treatment for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease caused patients to spontaneously lose weight. A complex network of cellular brakes and accelerators determines what, when and how much we eat. At the hub of this feedback system sits the hypothalamus, the brain’s appetite center. It coordinates input from other areas of the brain with signals from the body, including hormones produced by the stomach, pancreas and liver, for instance, that inhibit or stimulate appetite. Neurotransmitters are key governors of this system, and the drug tesofensine increases levels of all three.

The researchers compared different doses of tesofensine, licensed by the Danish company Neurosearch, against a placebo in a group of 203 obese patients. All the participants went on an exercise-restricted diet (typical in such trials), and after six months, the patients taking tesofensine had lost far more weight than the placebo group—12.6 percent versus 2 percent at the maximum dose. Even if you subtract the loss attributable to placebo (that is, diet alone), the resulting 10.6 percent is more than twice that with sibutramine, not to mention the “miracle” pill rimonabant. For the average person, that turned out to be 23 pounds. Louis Aronne, past president of the Obesity Society, who is not involved with the tesofensine trials, calls the results “very exciting.”

Like sibutramine, tesofensine increases heart rate by between five and nine beats per minute, which may or may not prove dangerous. Unlike sibutramine, however, the medium dose, which still elicited an average of 11.2 percent weight loss including the placebo effect, didn’t increase blood pressure, and that’s a key hurdle for someone with an elevated risk of heart disease. The other side effects were dry mouth, nausea, constipation, diarrhea and insomnia. On the upside, there was no increased risk of depression. Even more significant, the study authors didn’t exclude patients with a history of anxiety or depression—as Sanofi-Aventis did in the marquee rimonabant trials—making it less likely that they would uncover unexpected side effects in the general population.

Now ask yourself with all these potential side effects would you really still want to take this pill or any pill?

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