not weigh more than 50 kg, and you have clearly gained weight. You need to work on yourself." I didn’t do anything extra, because of which they get better: after I stopped taking the pills, I didn’t overeat, I didn’t allow myself food from fast foods. But there is nothing to argue: there really was excess weight.

It was obvious that something had to be done. I I signed up for a fitness club, went swimming, tried different diets.

Because of the pills, some changes took place in the body, and I could not manage to win this unequal battle with the damned kilograms ...

They seem to stick to me tightly. In addition, a new problem appeared - the face began to swell! It was impossible to drink even a glass of water at night: in this case, in the morning I would wake up swollen and terribly ugly.

Now I remember this only as a terrible dream, but then it seemed to me that I would live forever in this hell. I не знала, что предпринять. And then I began to figure out what is the reason for the negative impact of diet pills on my body. To be honest, I was horrified.

It turns out that in many countries, thanks to the efforts of state committees on medicines, drugs that drown out the feeling of hunger are massively banned.

At the end of the 20th century, a drug for the treatment of obesity, which provokes acquired heart defects and pulmonary hypertension, was withdrawn from sale in the United States. We have included it in the list of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, the circulation of which is prohibited. In the UK, two drugs that can cause cardiovascular problems, depression, insomnia, mood swings and even mental disorders have been taken off the market due to serious side effects. Simultaneously with the ban on sales, more than two dozen anti-obesity drugs ready for clinical trials were put on the shelf by manufacturers.

In the United States, as in Russia, such tablets can be bought by prescription in pharmacies and freely on the Internet.

The sites do not write that the sibutramine contained in the drug negatively affects the functioning of the cardiovascular system and increases the risk of heart attack and stroke. It is advertised as a magic pill that will "lose" you without dieting or exercising.

However, gullible customers are largely to blame for the current situation. By shifting all the responsibility for our weight loss to pills - and there are a lot of drugs based on sibutramine - we are trying to deny human nature itself.

Of course, you want to believe in a miracle that will instantly solve your problem, but this is unlikely to happen. In addition, no one bothers us to carefully study the instructions, where the manufacturer honestly writes about all possible side effects. No one interferes with visiting a doctor before taking miraculous pills belonging to the group of anorectics.

Some evidence suggests that sibutramine in high concentrations (significantly exceeding the permissible) is contained in the same pills that I drank at the start of my television career. The manufacturer describes the composition of the drug as natural: supposedly it contains crushed leaves of the Indian lotus, seeds and roots of other plants that improve well-being and metabolism, tonic cola and guarana fruits.

Maybe this is cunning, or maybe I once stumbled upon a fake that contains components different from the original composition. Now it is difficult to judge, but the fact remains: you need to be extremely careful with pills. Losing weight with their help feel dry mouth, pain in the heart, increased pressure. The smell from a mouth worsens. Given all this, medication for excess weight should be resorted to only if you are already desperate to lose weight in traditional ways. In this case, a doctor's consultation is required.

It's important to understand that many appetite regulators contain psychotropic substances that suppress hunger by acting on the satiety center in the brain. Such drugs affect the psyche and mood, unnaturally stimulate the tone of the body. One of the side effects is a depressed, up to depressive state.

Tablets reduce appetite due to the main component - it is an antagonist of endocannabinoid receptors. That is, in fact, the drug is hemp (cannabis) on the contrary: a person does not want to eat, and he is in a bad mood. They wrote that while taking the drug, there were even several suicides. Not surprisingly, in the United States, such pills are prohibited - the board of the American Food and Drug Association (FDA) has given recommendations.

You yourself understand that the result depends on many factors, including the strength of your appetite, diet and the amount of physical activity.

In some cases, such pills can be recommended for emergency weight loss. Then the duration of the drug should not exceed two weeks. To secure your sleep at this time, you can take the medicine only in the morning, as well as an exception from caffeine-containing foods - coffee, tea, chocolate. But remember that, as a rule, after stopping the intake, the lost kilograms return. So the body gets everything that it did not receive when the appetite was artificially suppressed. After all, in the process of forcibly reducing the feeling of hunger, the intake of everything that the body was used to was sharply limited.

The consequences of a sharp change in the mental status of a person who resorted to such a medicine should not be underestimated. Unfortunately, science has not yet fully studied the human body, its reactions and instincts. Scientists are identifying more and more new appetite control mechanisms and, at the same time, the consequences of their use. That is why one cannot be completely sure of the safety of the effects of anorectics on appetite, especially in the long term.

The safest are "hunger suppressors" made from herbal ingredients and fortified with vitamins. If on the package or in the instructions in the “Composition” column, birch buds and leaves, burdock root, garcinia cambogia fruits, coconut poria, ascorbic acid and other vitamins and herbs are listed, the drug will most likely not bring harm.

If you run into a fake or an unscrupulous manufacturer that interferes with herbs with chemistry, then no one will compensate for the damage caused to health

However, there is no guarantee that capsules with powder from leaves and roots of plants will be effective.

In addition to appetite suppressing pills, there are a lot of drugs on the market that block the absorption of fats and carbohydrates. It is also easier to lose weight on such drugs for people who are not able to consciously limit themselves in too nutritious and very tasty foods. However, such treatment of obesity has the same disadvantages as editorial diets that exclude certain groups of nutrients from the diet.

There is a fairly popular remedy, the principle of which is to prevent the body from absorbing all the fats that come with food, and therefore fat-soluble vitamins, for example, A, D and E. The drug also contains microcellulose, which is obtained from processed cotton. In some ways, it is close in properties to fiber, in particular, it creates the illusion of satiety, swelling in the stomach, and removes toxins.

However, microcellulose collects on itself and removes from the body as harmful substances, and useful - and vitamins, and microelements. Pure microcellulose gives good weight loss, but women who use it begin to develop anemia due to theft of the body. My female acquaintances who took this drug noted that it did not have the most favorable effect on the stool: I had to run to the toilet more often and endure bloating. Widely advertised calorie blockers that interfere with the absorption of carbohydrates also have similar side effects to varying degrees.

Another broad category of drugs that promote weight loss are the so-called fat burners. Of course, they do not burn nutrients in the literal sense of the word, but to some extent activate the metabolism and accelerate the breakdown of dietary fats. You need to be aware that most of these pills will only work effectively (!) In combination with diet and exercise.

One of the strongest fat burners is the aggressive triiodothyronine, which is produced in the body by the thyroid gland. Preparations with this substance, which speeds up the metabolism, are even used by bodybuilders who actively shed excess weight before competitions. It helps athletes to strengthen muscle relief, but also loads the heart with additional work.

Once again, I emphasize: the regulars of forums about weight loss do not have the proper qualifications to give out advice. Be sure to consult your doctors!

Although if you look at the figures of bodybuilders between competitions, you can understand how quickly the lost weight returns.

It is worth remembering that the techniques and tricks used in professional sports are completely unsuitable for ordinary people: too different lifestyles and challenging tasks.

Many nutritionists recommend losing weight to take drugs with bromelain. This substance is found in pineapples and papaya, however, in tropical fruits, the concentration of the substance is not very high, so it makes no sense to eat them even in kilograms. Drinking a few liters of pineapple juice a day also seems ineffective to me, so it is much easier and more convenient to take the herbal extract in medicinal form.

Bromelain is a catalyst for metabolic processes, improves protein absorption and blood quality indicators, reduces tissue swelling and even has anti-inflammatory effect. It also has the property of positively affecting the pH, that is, the level of acidity, of the stomach and small intestine. If you and your doctor