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Hydroxycut
Bayesian
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I bought the version without ephedrine. Is it still dangerous? Has anyone had any success with it? It came on recommendation from a friend who had success with it, but the internet reviews seem pretty negative.
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History alone should tell you enough. Go to your doctor and discuss weight loss options with him, not a company out to sell snake oils.
I would normally write it off as snake oil, but a number of people I know have taken it and swear by it. They could be referring to its more dangerous predecessor though.
Typically these weight loss drugs will do less than cutting back on a third of what you eat at each meal and go jogging for a half hour each day. Medically tricking your body into having a faster metabolism, even if it works, is not a great thing to do if you think about it, especially if you haven't consulted your doctor first.
That should be your first step before you buy/take any of these. Go meet with your doctor and discuss this in relation with your personal weight loss goals and medical history.
Yeah, but that's oversimplifying it quite a bit. There is a huge difference between caffeine and meth.
And the intended use was to drop a couple pounds for summer in addition to what I would normally do with dieting and exercise. I'm not planning any long-term sustained use.
However, what I'm reading is almost entirely negative, so I probably won't use it.
The problem with talking to people that have used it to determine if it works is that those people are assuming that the hydroxycut caused the weightloss simply because they lost weight at some point after taking it. Ignoring all the other things they're probably doing that contributed to their weight loss. Anecdotal "evidence" is the weakest evidence for a good reason. There's no control group, there's no rigid methodology, it's just a friend believing that it must have been this supplement they were taking and that it's totally awesome.
It's super oversimplifying. That's my honest advice, though. Yeah, if you really, really, really want to lose weight more rapidly than changing your diet and exercise habits could help with, you could. If you just want a little caffeine to help, drink a couple cups of coffee a day. If the supplement provides more than that, it's not a healthy dosage. You'll lose weight, but at increased risk of health complications.
To be additionally hyperbolic, I hear that feeding tubes are all the rage right now.
Yeah, I agree. I haven't really seen any hard evidence either. I wish I had held off buying it, but GNC had a 50% off sale!
That's a good indicator that it doesn't work, right there. Something that does what was advertised successfully and healthily would be the most sought after item in the Western World.
I'm willing to bet a lot/most of the issues of liver damage or whatever are due to abuse, like bro's popping hydroxycut to get shredded and then boozing it up or something.
Oh yeah, I'm not so much saying taking the caffeine itself is going to be that unhealthy, but more addressing the mindset that says, "I need a quicker way to burn off a few pounds." As opposed to changing to your lifestyle to be healthier by incorporating more exercise and eating healthier. Taking shortcuts like that makes it easy to justify not changing your lifestyle as much and then turning back to supplements ever time you want to lose a little more weight. That tends to lead to your weight swinging up and down instead of losing the fat and keeping it off long term.
Yeah, that would also be a problem since I do booze it up.
I mean I work out 4-5 times a week, but it's mainly meant to shed the extra few.
If you are working out 4-5 times a week, you shouldn't be worrying about an extra few through a supplement at all. Just keep doing what you are doing and combine it with healthy eating.
Lol that's probably your issue. try and step up the intensity of your workouts (less rest between sets, supersets, etc) for a couple weeks, see if that works. I'm a drinker too, and while I'm not averse to some chemical assistance, it's really only good for a one time bump. if you don't change your habits, you'll be back where you were.