Our popular media constantly bombards us with the same message. Get food fast. You can buy anything with a phone call and have it delivered to your doorstep in a few hours time. Make millions of dollars every year working only a couple of hours every day. Solve your relationship problems with a phone call to Dr. Phil. Lose all the extra pounds by working out 5 minutes every day. The best weight loss pills promise that you will rid of 10s of pounds in the first week and then some.

People transfer this need for a quick result to their fitness efforts. They buy a gym membership and start working out thinking that they will go from overweight to magazine model in just a couple of weeks. When they realize that it actually takes years of continuous training and proper diet to achieve such a result, they become disappointed and they give up. They turn to the next miracle pill to save the day (which it never does.)

In conclusion, people need to “get real”. Turn off your TV and stop buying the sleazy magazines. Realize that to achieve an important goal in life takes time and effort. Now get back to the gym and start lifting those dumb bells.

There are a million fat burners in the market today and many more will certainly be introduced in the years to come. Obesity is a serious problem for much of the Western world and it is not going away any time soon. In other words, there is a large market for these miracle, weight loss products that promise consumers to melt the fat away with no effort on their part.

I call bs on all those claims. The average consumer must be really stupid to think that by consuming a few fat burner pills which are essentially a high dose of caffeine will magically melt all the fat stored in his/her body while adding lean in its place. Seriously people, how naive are you to believe such claims.

And I would not have had a problem if there existed properly conducted clinical studies that proved these claims to be true. In all cases of fat burners that I have come across, only laboratory data exist as proof. By we all know that laboratory data can be easily faked especially when a private industry stands to make a lot of money from a product.

In conclusion, I will once more repeat myself even though I am starting to sound boring to my regular readers. If you want to lose weight and gain muscle, then stop eating fast food and start working out. It is really that simple.

Case in point, the new Fastin diet pills that make the same promises we have all heard about over and over again. Lose weight with no exercise using this miracle pill with its new thermogenic breakthrough formula that causes no side effects. As per usual, the pill’s effectiveness is supported by clinical trials. Not! Laboratory tested is not the same as a clinical trial and, in fact, it is probably meaningless. But people will buy this and every other diet pill that will hit the market sooner or later and still not lose weight.

I have said this over and over again and I will repeat it once more. If you want to lose weight there is only one way to do it and it involves a proper diet and exercise. Go talk to your doctor to make sure that you are healthy enough to start an exercise program. Then talk to a personal trainer who will design an exercise program tailored to your physique and goals. Also talk with a dietitian who will design a proper diet that will help you drop those extra pounds without hurting your body. This is the only healthy and sustainable (as in long-term) way to lose weight.

Get off your ass America and exercise!

Now, all I can do is feel depressed about the extra few inches added to my midsection and my inability to go up the stairs at work without losing my breath in the process. It is really time to do something about that before it is truly too later. I opened an account at fitday.com to keep track of the calories I consume and the amount of calories that I burn exercising. The site is nice because it keeps track of my stats over long periods of time along with nice goal graphs that if anything can be motivating. I also picked up a bathroom scale to measure my weight every day to make sure that I don’t lose sight of my targets but also to monitor my weekly progress.

I will be hitting the gym 5 days a week. I am busy at work and the stress is not going to go away but I will probably be better off exercising in the evening that staying at home and eating junk food. I definitely won’t be using any diet or weight loss pills. My goal is to reach my target of 165 lbs in 4 months time which means that I have to shed 1 lbs per week. A reasonably target that according to most articles that I have read is not going to compromise my health.

So, here we go!

The weight loss formula that works is simple: Calories In < calories burned = weight loss.

Yet, millions of people spend millions of dollars each year on a dietary supplements and miracle diet pills, i.e., Anoretix, that don’t work and in most cases may cause bodily harm. Just yesterday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned people against taking the diet supplement Hydroxycut because it has been found that it causes liver damage. In fact, it has even caused the death of a 19-year old in the United States. In the past, Xenadrine had also been found responsible for cause cardiovascular problems to some people who used it regularly for weight loss and energy boosting.

Why are people willing to spend money to take supplements that can cause serious harm to them when they can easily get in shape by following the simple formula I presented earlier? What is it that people in North America want everything 5 minutes ago? Stop acting like a bunch of idiots and start using your heads people. Proper eating and exercise is the only sustainable and healthy way to lose weight and get in shape.

Wake up America! There is no miracle weight loss secret. Stop reading pointless diet pill reviews and start doing the two simple things that guarantee to help you maintain a healthy weight. And yes, these two things require effort. Simply put, no pain no gain.

So, what are the two things?

First, you have to measure the amount of food you eat and simply avoid overeating. Use a small kitchen scale to measure how much food you cook. Don’t eat more than the recommended number of servings every day. Talk with a certified dietitian who can tell you how many calories and what type to eat every day. Don’t starve yourself because it does not work. And don’t cut any kind of food such as fat or carbohydrates entirely out of your diet. Eat everything in moderation and you will be fine.

Second, turn off the TV and get yourself out of the couch and into your local gym. You have to exercise if you want to lose weight. It is that simple. You exercise to burn excess calories stored as fat in your body. How hard is it to understand that if you burn more calories than you eat on a daily basis you will inevitably reduce your body fat. Period. Make sure to talk a a fitness instructor and maybe a physician before starting an exercise program, especially if you haven’t had any exercise for a long time. Your heart does not like going from zero to hero overnight. Take it easy at first and increase the intensity over time as you get in better shape.

There you have it folks. The two simple things you have to do in order to lose excess weight or maintain a healthy weight. Eat a balanced diet and exercise. It is that simple!

You went out on Boxing Day and you bought a new set of exercise clothes and running shoes. It is only one more day before you start making use of them. Although you went out looking for good deals on your exercise equipment and gym membership, you didn’t stop yourself from spending money on a couple of extras that should keep you motivated while reaching your slimmer you goals in 2009.

You did not hesitate to spend a few hundred dollars for a state-of-the-art fitness watch. How could you resist when the salesperson outlined the many features of Polar watches? These new gadgets like the Polar G1 that you spent $400 on come with GPS sensors and keep track of a number of vital parameters are you exercise outdoors; you can get a record not only of the distance and speed at which you traveled but also estimates of your heart rate and calories burned. This training watch is a technological marvel.

And so, here you are. It is January 1st, 2009, and you less than 24 hours away from your first workout. Let this be the year that you go from an average, overweight couch potato to a Greed God or Goddess. Good luck to you!

Some (and by that I mean most) people will continue their search for the best diet pill which will allow them to drop all the extra pounds doing next to no exercise. People believe that the Zylene diet pill is the miracle pill obese people have been waiting for year. Wouldn’t be nice if the world worked like that?

The truth is, and I have said this many times in the past, the best and only way to lose lots of weight in a healthy and safe manner is to start exercising while controlling your diet. Talk to a physician before starting an exercise program and talk with a nutritionist for a proper diet plan that will not compromise your health. Then go to your local gym and talk with a trainer. Have him or her get you started on a good exercise and fitness program and then stick to it for the long term.

There is no shortcut to losing weight. Just like you accumulated all those extra pounds of fat over the years, it will take many months to get rid of them. Many people (including myself) have achieved their fitness goals using such a method. It has always worked without the need for taking pills several times a day. Losing weight is within your reach. Can you do it in 2009? I think you can.

One of the main similarities with amphetamines is the side-effects. Phentermine can cause increased heart rate and higher blood pressure. It should also be avoided by pregnant women (why would a pregnant woman be trying to lose weight in the first place, anyways?) or those who take certain other medications. This drug can also cause constipation, diarrhea, restlessness, and insomnia among many other things.

Personally, I don’t endorse the use of any substances for weight loss since one can easily control his/her weight with exercise and proper diet. If you desperately want to make use of Phentermine then you should at least consult with a doctor before getting started on it. It is the wise thing to do considering the serious health issues that may arise from its use.

The truth is that a magic diet pill that melts fat away does not exist. Moreover, most diet pills in the market today are practically useless. The only weight loss pills that had any effect were those with an Ephedrine, Caffeine, and Aspirin (ECA) mix. These pills were outlawed a few years ago because some people abused them and ended up dieing of heart problems.

The ECA stack is making a comeback, however, in the Ephburn 25 diet supplement from AE Labs. Each serving will provide you with 25mg of Ephedra/Ma Huang extract along with the other two ingredients Caffeine and Aspirin in the proper percentage for maximum weight loss. The Ephedrine-free supplements that were developed after the ECA ban were never anywhere near as good as the original ECA on helping people lose weight. Ephburn 25 promises to bring back the good old days.

You still have to exercise and eat properly when using this supplement. More importantly, it is a good idea not to abuse it and talk with a doctor before starting on it. In addition, only use it for a short-term weight loss program as prolonged usage can have some nasty side effects; I mean, what is the point of looking great if you are dead. Like the ancient Greeks used to say, “Everything in moderation.”