Diet pills?

[UndertheCedartree]

Has anyone sucessfully lost weight using diet pills? What ones did you use and what doseage?

Please look up Team RH on Facebook- 1000 calories is way too low and unsustainable

@PurpleDaisies - I am in hospital during the week. I know my portion size isn't off as I had anorexia and obsessed about things like portion size - I know all the recommended portions off by heart. The metformin is for weight loss - I'm not diabetic.

This is hardly an enigma, is it?
Let's be blunt - you eat a terrible diet full of sugary crap, and hardly do any exercise. It's not surprising you're overweight.

Happily, because the issue is so obvious, it's also easy to know what to do about it. Eating a healthy balanced diet and doing some proper exercise every day will have an impact, and quickly. You don't need diet pills...!

@helpmeratty - thank you

The weight loss injection works but is very expensive. I know afew people who have lost a fair bit with it....BUT, it cost from £75 a week and I dont know what happens when you stop injecting yourself.
My GP recommended it, and it's well known to really help.

Maybe the diet pills are keeping your weight stable but you need to really cut down to lose weight.

Don't get me wrong OP, I have been really overweight forever and have only just reached my ideal weight, and used to blame the steroids I was taking when in reality it was also the huge underestimation of calories and eating the wrong type of food. For example a hot cross bun is at least 160 but every tablespoon of butter adds 100. A weetabix is 68. Even milk in drinks and on cereal really adds up.

If I add up the day you have mentioned, the very minimum I calculate is 1713. But you will need to eat a lot fewer calories than that to lose weight - you need a deficit of 3500 to lose even a pound.

@Runningonempty84 - if I don't need diet pills I wonder why a professional has prescribed them? They don't do it for fun! I have stopped gaining weight and started losing - so seems they are helping.

Rather than telling me I have a terrible diet - it would help me more if you tell me what to change. For example I have porridge for breakfast - what would be better? Salad or jacket potato for lunch - what would be better?

As stated I do exercise most days - what would count as proper exercise?

@Cider4Caro - I've never heard of that. Wonder what's in it.

@Gemma2019 - I agree that is probably the case - the pills have stopped me gaining and while I've lost a little weight I need to do more to really shift the weight. I worked out I need to eat about 1500kcal to lose weight. So I'm not doing too bad at 1700kcal, really? Of course that was only one day. However I have be losing a bit of weight so obviously not massively over eating. What would you suggest I eat instead of all the 'junk food' as you said? But is porridge, salads, jacket potatoes, stir fries and omlettes really junk food? I'm happy to be corrected if you can explain why and what I should eat instead?

You might find the the support you get from Slimming World or Weight Watchers might really help.
I have used the calorie counting app My Fitness Pal and had great success. I wanted to lose 3 stone and set myself a 1200 cal daily diet. I cut out all added sugars (still ate fruit) and I stopped eating all white carbs like white pasta, potatoes and switched to sweet potatoes and wholemeal pasta (small amounts).
I took me 9 months to lose the weight and I felt and looked awesome!!!!!!

You can do it!

You’re an in patient at hospital during the week? How much control over what you’re eating do you get?

Oh forgot to add-
When you give up sugar you take up good fats such as avocados, feta, olive oil etc

99.9% of ready meals or basically anything in a supermarket contains sugar so I would recommend avoiding it and try and make your own healthier versions.

My meals became much more protein heavy. Protein also fills you up!

@whattodo2019 - thank you - really helpful. I am looking at joining an NHS weight loss group where you get weight loss support and do some exercise.

Orlistat and metformin are often prescribed together as an anti-obesity combination. Drugs are often used ‘off licence’ by doctors, it’s nothing new or unusual.

@UndertheCedartree, you sound quite sensible and resilient, I hope you can gloss over some of the nastier posts on here. Lots of people are judging for the sake of it. You say you are ‘in hospital during the week’ is that as staff or as a a patient?

I think you know that porridge, salads and jacket potatoes aren't the main issue. It's the sugary snacks on top of your healthy meals that are adding hundreds of calories.

And you didn't say you exercise most days (unless I missed a post?) - I thought you said you walk 40 mins most days and go to the gym a couple of times a week? I'd recommend getting into running, starting with c25k.

@PurpleDaisies - For breakfast I can have porridge, cereal (special k, shreddies, cornflakes, weetabix) or toast with butter, jam/honey. There is a main meal (meat option and veggie) for lunch and dinner but you can also have a jacket potato with cheese, beans or tuna or a salad with cheese, egg or ham. There is yogurt and fruit available at lunchtime and a fruit salad, jelly or yogurt and berries at dinnertime. There are sandwiches or toast available for snacks in the evening. Of course we can buy snacks to eat, as well. At the weekend I cook for myself and children but are a little constrained by fussy DD.

OP, I've sent you a PM.

@whattodo2019 - luckily avocado is something both my DC like as well as myself! I am going to try and think of some more healthy meals I can make from scratch (need to be cheap) that fussy DD will eat too!

@TwinsTrollsAndHunz - thank you for your kind words - really means a lot! I'm a patient. And thanks for the info about the medications.

no worries

During the week your food choices are already pretty regimented and limited. It seems you are making the best choices from a not so wonderful set of menu options. Most of the cereals on offer are very sugar heavy, as is the jam/honey option.

@Runningonempty84 - I said most days I have something like popcorn (under 100kcal), weetabix (under 100kcal) or a chocolate bar (250kcal) - so generally not really 100s of calories. You said my diet was full of sugary crap - yet admit most of it is fine. If it was so easy tbh I wouldn't have gained the weight in the first place. I said I walk 40 min 4x per week, gym x2 per week and a sports session x1 per week so yes, I exercise most days. It might not be your type of exercise but it is excercise nonetheless. The NHS highly reccomendeds walking as a good form of exercise if that's what you're sneering at. Hyperbole really doesn't help. I'm not able to do C-5K currently but definitely something I'm interested in for the future.

I think, given the restricted and unusual nature of your life during the week, it is quite difficult for MNers to give you advice on the subject. Your situation is very specific and an upside of it is that you have access to healthcare and wellbeing professionals who are knowledgable and able to tailor advice to your needs and your situation, rather than giving generic diet and exercise advice which is pretty much what you’ll get here (fine but not suitable for you at this point in your journey really).

@TwinsTrollsAndHunz - yeah - it is a bit limited. I usually have porridge but sometimes shreddies or weetabix. All the tips have really given me a boost to try and get on top of the weight - I was starting to lose hope tbh.

Although, there is a dietician trying to get an appointment is a nightmare! Thank you for everyones advice - it really has helped for my weekends and I can adapt it for during the week!

Best of luck

The NHS highly reccomendeds walking as a good form of exercise if that's what you're sneering at. Hyperbole really doesn't help

I'm certainly not sneering, and it's not hyperbole either. Yes, walking is good, but it's not intensive enough exercise to help you lose weight - particularly not in such small quantities. I'm sorry if that's tough to hear.

I also maintain that you're eating a lot of sugary crap if you're having a 250cal chocolate bar most days. A daily bar of chocolate doesn't constitute most people's idea of a healthy weight-loss diet. Again, sorry if that's hard to hear. The obvious answer would be to cut out the chocolate and move more.