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Because Diets Alone Don’t Work Very Well

Ready to hear a life-changing secret? Here it is. Diets don’t work very well. So maybe that wasn’t the most revolutionary secret you’ve heard all year. However, it’s hard to deny the statement that diets don’t work very well. Good intentions, great plans, scientific proof, and shocking before/after pictures notwithstanding, we face a perpetual problem: diets don’t accomplish the slimmed down, fit figure that we hope for.

That’s why diet pills are an excellent addition to complement a healthy diet. Although diet pills have their shortcomings, they are part of a multi-pronged approach to fighting excess weight, and winning.

Why diets don’t work.

• Because they are a short-term effort, not long-term fixes. Diets, as popularly understood, are weeklong fasting binges. They may starve away several pounds, but fail to fix core habits. Therefore, they fail.
• Because they cause depression and the yo-yo effect. Depression and the yo-yo effect go hand in hand. “Yo-yo” is what happens when a dieter loses weight, then bounces right back to his or her former overweight self. The reason? Food makes us happy. When someone is not eating, he or she is not happy. Thus, at the point of hunger (and the need to press on in the diet) binge eating kicks in, and all the weight once lost gets put right back on again. Feelings of deprivation lead into feelings of deservingness. And when you feel like you deserve something, (i.e., food) and give in, you have again failed in your dieting attempts.
• Because they rely on willpower, which is often rather weak. Diets are only effective insofar as the will is strong. Unfortunately, in a temptation-laden world full of good food aplenty, will power weakens. And before you know it, succumbing to the next succulent desert is just too easy. Willpower crumbles, and the diet fails…again.

How diet pills help.

• Diet pills help. No, they are not the panacea for all bodily weight ills, but they help. Combined with dieting chutzpah, and regular exercise, the joint forces can combine to render excess weight a thing of the past. Here’s why.
• Diet pills physically force you to eat less. When an appetite-suppressing pill kicks in, you don’t want to eat. Or, better yet, you eat just a little bit—just enough to give you energy—and feel full. Perfect. This actually forces you to put down the fork, push away the plate, and stop eating. Not because you have a superpower pill, but because your body is telling you that it has had enough.
• Diet pills physically prevent you from absorbing additional calories. The second action mechanism of diet pills is also a boon to dieting. Though you may eat fatty foods, you don’t get the fatty weight. By consigning fatty calories to oblivion, you can eat and not gain the pounds as expected.

In this way, diet pills are a great ally to dieting. They force the food stop and fend off the fat, making diets, at long last, failsafe.