Extreme Weight Loss

You want lose weight! And you want to lose all of it right this instant!

There's a number of options to your disposal if you are serious about extreme weight loss. I'll warn you upfront... You may not like all of them equally as much.

Oh sure, furiously burning fat can give you real quick results. But think of the downsides. You are at risk of causing yourself serious health issues.

When you shed a lot of weight all at once, you are at risk of becoming exhausted, dehydrated and malnourished. You may even end up looking like a shriveled prune

I do know of methods that will cause you to lose weight at an extremely rapid rate. But they are risky. If you choose to go through with them, you do so at your own risk.

Diets pills are not all hot air, as you may have suspected. The truth is, some of them are quite effective at melting the fat away right in front of your eyes.

But... it's not without side effects! And that's already a big 'but'.

A lot of these weight loss drugs will target your brain, which is the source of your appetite. These drugs can be addictive and if you overdo them, they can destroy you.

We are essentially talking about prescription amphetamines here. This drug is also known as 'speed'.

There are also a lot of appetite supressors to be found in nature. But we don't know as much about these as we do about our own synthetic drugs.

Below, I will give you an overview of a number of weight loss drugs available on the market today.

Phentermine

Phentermine has been around for a long time now. It got FDA approval way back in 1959. It is officially known as an appetite supressant. It acts on the neurotransmitters in the brain and you can get it on prescription.

Usually, this drug is prescribed for people that are morbidly obese and their weight is causing serious health problems for them. Once they get on the drug, their appetite becomes less. They will eat less food and lose weight.

In order for this drug to be effective, it still needs to be combined with a healthy weight loss diet and an exercise program. So it's not even a miracle solution.

Phentermine weight loss has some side effects you need to be cautious with. You can get heart palpitations and increased blood pressure. It can also cause insomnia and you can become addicted to it.

A while ago, there was a drug named Fen-Phen. This was essentially Phentermine combined with other drugs that also have a supressing effect on your appetite. Some people got heart problems because of this drug and it was taken off the market.

Orlistat

Orlistat has a different approach than Phentermine. While Phentermine targets our appetite, Orlistat tries to block fat's aborption in the digestive system. Orlistat is a relatively new prescription drug.

By blocking fat absorption, it tries to reduce the amount of calories your body absorbs from fat. It accomplishes this by rendering a fat dissolving enzyme useless. The fat is never absorbed and passes right through you.

You have to take it before meals 3 times per day. It only blocks around 35% of all the fat you eat.

I have talked to people who have experience with the drug. The results aren't too impressive. About half of the people who use it, lose only very little body weight. Once they go off the drug, it comes right back.

To make matters even worse, Orlistat can give you gas, diarrhea and incontinence of the fecal kind.

Bontril / Phendimetrazine

Bontril is another weight loss drug that is very closely related to amphetamine. It's more addictive than Phentermine, so be careful with this one!

Like Phentermine, this drug will suppress your appetite to make you eat less.

A large part of this drug, when ingested, turns into phenmetrazine. Phenmetrazine is a diet drug that is now off the market, because it was simply too addictive.

Bontril is not without risk. For this reason, it can only be gotten on a prescription. Also, the usage of it is intensely monitored.

The side effects from this drug are increased blood pressure and increased heart rate. If you stay on it long enough, it will turn you into a nervous wreck. It can literally take its toll from your nervous system. You can get tremors, anxiety and fatigue from it. Not to mention insomnia and depression.

Hoodia

Hoodia is a herb from Africa. It's been in use for multiple decades already. It was originally used to treat infection and indigestion.

Some claimed that this drug also has an appetite supressing effect. The active ingredient in Hoodia that we now know as P57, has indeed revealed itself as an appetite supressant.

While not everybody agrees that Hoodia works, there have been a few scientific studies that have proven real results.

You can get it as an extract today. It's marketed as a natural way to suppress your hunger and lose weight.

People that are on Hoodia, will lose around 3% of their body weight while on the drug.

There is some evidence that you are at risk of liver damage in the long run.

With all that talk about drugs, you'd think there are no other solutions for losing weight than pills.

That's not exactly true!

Some other options at your disposal are the following.

Gastric Bypass

Gastric bypass surgery will make your stomach smaller. You will automatically eat less food and you'll start losing weight.

This method is usually used for people who are morbidly obese and are causing serious danger to their health.

A doctor will simply staple your stomach so that it has a tinier volume until it can hold only an ounce of food.

While the surgery is very effective, it is not without risk. Because of the limited amounts of food that can be absorbed, there is a risk of malnutrition.

To counter this, you have to take lots of supplements. Whether this is an effective way of combatting malnutrition, I will leave up to you to decide.

Liposuction

We've all heard of this one. Another type of weight loss surgery that can rid you of your excess fat in a matter of minutes.

Using this method, the fat will literally disappear in an instant. This sounds fantastic, but it also makes this a very traumatic operation.

Your skin will be shaved and you will be anesthesized. A cannula is inserted through an incision in your skin and the fat is simply sucked out.

This includes capillary blood vessels and everything.

The swelling can take weeks to subside. You'll be wearing compression garments during this time.

Liposuction can sculpt your body if you have only a few excess pounds. It's not an option for the morbidly obese. The instant loss of massive amounts of fat would be too traumatizing.

There is this stubborn rumor that the liposuction results are permanent.

They are not.

If you don't take up a healthy diet and an exercise program to maintain your new body, the fat will simply return over time.