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diet pill

Posted by Stacy on Thursday, July 24, 2008 10:24 AM

If you saw my friend walking down the street, you wouldn't point her out as being particularly overweight. Of course, she could stand to lose a few pounds here and an inch or two there, according to her. She's not as torn up about her weight as many other people I know but it still bothers her from day to day and while she doesn't totally hate her appearance, she feels as though she could do something to help it. Friends of ours have tried, rather unsuccessfully, to recommend she undergo some cosmetic liposuction surgery. She didn't quite receive that idea very well. But she wanted to do something about her excess weight not only for appearance but for health reasons as well.

So when she came to me and said she'd decided to take a diet pill, I was happy for her yet largely apprehensive. None of us, including her, knew much about the effects of diet pills, whether positive or negative. Being the friend that I am, of course, I first asked her why on earth she'd chosen to take diet pills. She told me that she'd opted for the diet pill only as a supplement to diet and exercise and that she had no intention of relying solely on the pills to help her lose weight. I asked if she'd spoken to a doctor and she said no.

I did my own research to see what diet pills were all about, since I'd never taken any myself. I didn't pay as much attention to diet pill ads as I did to actual medical websites, which all basically said the same thing: diet pills work, but they don't work miracles and they work best when use conjunction with good diet and exercise. I wondered if this was where my friend had gotten her information from because everything she had said was on the computer screen in front of me.

The website also mentioned the different types of diet pills and what each did. I found that part particularly important.

This happened a few months ago. My friend decided on a diet pill that would help suppress her appetite. She's been taking it for four months now and is loving the results. She says the appetite suppressant is helping her stick to her healthier diet, and the exercise is boosting her energy. She looks better and says she even feels better too. I guess the negative reputation of diet pills deserves to be disputed after all.