hihi!
Well diet pills is not a new fad. They've been around for ages circuling as various products. Basically they are all various combinations of stimulants. All the "new innovative ingredients" are just a newly synthesized version of an old ingredient. Think of cosmetics as a analogy - how many products claim to be innovated but are mearly a new mix of old ingredients? Or one adds 1/1000 of vitamin K and it is marketed as "vitamin enritched".
My point here is that yes they are stimulants, which work short term by jacking you up. Does not matter if it is a chinese herb or starbux, it does the same thing. It increses blood pressure and heart rate, and can make you very irritable. You also form a physical dependence within days and when you stop you crash and sleep and are 100X more hungry than you can imagine.
I took diet pill for a little bit but I can't because I have ADD and have to take a stimulant medicine anyway and NO it does not affect my appetite because I've been on it since I was 17. (too bad eh?)
Fact is the meds help but usually stop working after 2 weeks to 30 days, then you are ravenous. I think it is better to go through the two week stomach shrinking-so-I-starving period and once your stomach has shrunk you will feel satisfied on less food.
Remember americans eat OBNOXIOUS portions! I mean me and my sister took my daughter to dairy queen today and while the 13 year old girls in front of us walked away with LARGE blizzards, my sister and I couldn't even finish a SMALL blizzard together!! We through almost 1/2 of it away. While my daughter never finished her "kiddie cone". It is mentality.
Instead of Supersize - Miniaturize!!