SHOULD I TAKE DIETING PILLS?

This is perhaps one of the most commonly-asked questions we encounter.

It is possible that, for one of several reasons, your Doctor might prescribe medication designed to help suppress or control your appetite. We are not qualified to give medical advice but typically these pills are prescribed in situations where the patient is extremely obese or suffering severe psychological effects as a result of being overweight.

In our opinion, you should never take dieting pills that you have purchased over the counter or from a private source, unless you have first consulted your medical practitioner or a specialist dieting consultant such as Adventures in Weight Loss.

There are many reasons why that is the case.

Firstly, some drugs purchased privately or over the Internet can be at best a complete waste of your money and at worst potentially dangerous if they contain harmful or banned substances. Secondly, in the vast majority of cases, being overweight is about your lifestyle choices in terms of the type of food you are eating being inappropriate for your body’s requirements.

So, in many cases dieting pills may be entirely unnecessary.

It’s important not to confuse dieting pills with dietary supplements. That latter category might include things such as essential vitamins, which our specialists might advise you to purchase and use as part of our bespoke weight loss programmes.

Any supplements we recommend you take will be entirely legal, completely safe and sourced from entirely accredited suppliers. The supplements do not work in any way to suppress your appetite.

This is though a very big subject and not something that can be covered too easily in a brief blog of this nature.

Once again, as we regularly suggest, why not give us a non-committal call to discuss this subject further as part of understanding just what we can do to help you lose weight?