Weight loss: Truth about magic products

So Christmas, Years Eve and Epiphany are behind us. And since most people eat a lot and move less than usually during this period, many are now dispread to lose weight and rather as easily as it was gained. Businessmen know and that’s why these days’ media are overloaded of advertisements promoting different slimming products.  There are slimming pills, teas, dietary products and creams/gels - all with the same goal: you will lose your weight without feeling hunger, without depression of blood sugar unbalance, without any groove work out or even those which slim you without any more contribution such as regular eating habits or any workout. Salesmen do what they can to catch you, to make you believe.

The most successful trick is the free trial package. It is sent to you just for the freight price or entirely for free. The package is usually for two weeks. But the trick is that the producer informs that you will see first results after one month.

Other trick is to give your money back in case you don’t lose weight. Sounds safe? May be it sounds, but this never work; since you never can proof to the producer that you failed.  Since you don’t do any agreement where you current weight and life style habits are mentioned and agree on some improvement plan, there are no proofs about your diet to be provided to the manufacturer. The manufacturer will always get back to you that the diet failed by your own cause.

What are these magic slimming products? I have tried many of them and I will now share the results and experiences of myself and people I was talking to.

Slimming creams and gels

It can be shower gel, massage gel or body lotion. It promise you to lose 0,5-3cm off your hips and belly in one moth when you using it every morning and evening. The lotion or gel should contain substances heating up and break the fat right under the skin. Common, do you really believe that such process can break down and burn the fat? Well if you heat fat on the pan it becomes liquid and then in temperature 70 degrees Celsius it starts to shrink. But it shrinks due to water lose since water disappears to the air in steam form. The fat is there. You need a temperature lot above 300 degrees Celsius to make the fat burn and disappear. Honestly, who can believe that it could fix fat under the skin? The slimming lotions usually just repair the skin on hips and belly and make it smoother and firmer and decrease cellulite. Optically the waist and hips look slimmer and some mm and/or cellulite can be lost, but we are still in a cosmetic level, there is now fat burn happening. Although I like these products because they make the skin on the back, hips and belly really nice and smooth.  I don’t say no to slimming lotions and gels but I’m aware that they are not really slimming, just make me better other way.

Pills and teas to decrease you hunger

This is one of the most popular groups and I would say the most sold. In fact they can be successful during the first (let’s say) one month of usage. These products are usually on the base of natural fibers and pectin these substances increase its volume in the stomach and it can decrease hunger in some grade, as the person is feels constantly full. However the feelings of full stomach disappear by the time because stomach grows after some time to “make it more comfortable”.

But there is another thing going on, even the stomach is full. It is the feeling of hunger, the “Pavlov’s reflex”. It is habit to eat and of course it is a habit to eat some specific portion in some specific time. Many people, even they feel that stomach is full, push them to eat their regular portions just due to the habit. That’s very difficult to break. And honestly if you can break it, you don’t need any pills. Just break it.

Other versions of supplements decreasing hunger are so called anorectics, which do not full your stomach but they should stimulate some hormones to break the hunger feeling. There is for example extract of hoodia, which should eliminate hunger feeling completely. The most people say that the hunger disappears since the hoodia make them sick. And honestly, that’s the meaning, that’s the effect. Most of the slimming supplements decreasing hunger are actually making you sick and then you can’t eat of course. But not just eat, you’ll probably not make it to the work, you’ll not be able to smell perfume, cleaning substances or other people’s food. If you would eat you would probably throw out or get a groove diarrhea.

Carbo- and fat blockers

These substances should block the carbohydrates and fats in the food you eat to be absorbed by the metabolism. These substances somehow do their job but do not expect too much and be prepared that you will visit the restroom much more often than normally and your stomach will collect lot more gases then normally. It might help to stop gaining weight in short term but it definitely doesn’t contribute to weight loss.

The strongest of these products is Alli which is well known for causing so strong diarrhea so that adult people need to use diapers!

Magic slimming pills

The biggest lie, the biggest bluff: These products usually promise you to lose weight without any diet or work out. Some people using these slimming products believe to them so strongly that they decrease their calorie intake without thinking and awareness. Then they believe that magic pills are working. But it’s really not true. Despite these facts, magic slimming pills are the biggest business with fake products not yet touched by law.

The weight loss is the same process as weight gain. More calories more weight, less calories less weight. Decrease you daily calorie intake by eating less, eating regularly or/and work out regularly, that’s the only way to succeed with the weight loss.