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What If I’m Not Severely Overweight?

Doctors usually prescribe weight loss medications to people who are severely overweight. Having a Body Mass Index (BMI) exceeding 30 puts someone in this category. If you are not in this category, but are overweight, should you take diet pills?

Do You Need Them?

First, find out if you need diet pills. There are many advantages to treating your overweight condition with diet pills. Admittedly, there are significant disadvantages as well. In addition to carefully weighing the advantages and disadvantages, you should try to understand how much weight you need to lose. Any weight-loss program needs to have clearly definable goals.

• First, know where you are on the BMI scale. Find out whether you are defined as ‘overweight’ or ‘obese.’
• If you are overweight or obese determine how much weight you would like to lose in order to become ‘normal.’
• Next, fix a flexible time frame in which you would like to lose this weight. Keep it realistic. For example dropping 5% of your current weight over a period of six months is safe and realistic. Slow weight loss is more likely to stay off than a rapid weight-loss plan.

Once you have drafted a plan, you are ready to take the action to implement it. If diet pills are part of this plan, you have alternatives to the drugs usually administered only to those who are severely obese.

Safe Alternatives

• Herbal pills and supplements. The best diet pills and weight-loss pills utilize natural herbal supplements. These can be purchased without a prescription in pharmacies and from online suppliers. Usually, these compounds are a collection of naturally-occurring plant products known to reduce appetite, break down fat, limit fat uptake, and other weight-minimizing properties.