With our fast pace economic growth, more and more people are putting on weight. This is not surprising given that our diets consist of more processed food that contain more fat and sugar and we are getting little or no regular exercise. Jobs that used to require physical movement are replaced with those that require only buttons to be pushed while watching television, playing video games and surfing the Internet are becoming our main past times.

Fortunately, this is balanced by people being more aware of their health. As a result, people are constantly looking out for quick and easy ways to lose weight. Marketers saw this as a great opportunity to launch weight loss products that promised a quick fix. One of such products is the weight loss patch. Sometimes they are also known as the diet patch.

Weight Loss Patch
You can say that the weight loss patch is a dream come true for people who are looking to lose weight or to go on a diet. Imagine all you need to do is to put on such a patch and you will be able to make your fats melt away.

Advertisers claimed that by using weight loss patches, you will experience lessened hunger pangs and other symptoms generally associated with weight reduction and this will help to jump-start your metabolism, dramatically increasing your body’s ability to burn fat.

Sounds interesting, isn’t it. But do these patches really work? And are they safe?

Do They Work?
Firstly, what is inside these weight loss patches? Looking at the main ingredients, you will find that they are not exactly anything special.

Some ingredients, like chromium and guarana have subtle effects and will not lead to much weight loss without accompanying changes to diet and lifestyle. Other ingredients like hydroxycitric acid and bladderwrack do not have much going for them in the way of proven results.

So, are weight loss patches worth experimenting with? To answer that question, let us examine what the FTC (Federal Trade Commission), the watch dog agency that ensures that false advertising is kept at bay, has done. Recently, the FTC launched a campaign to help consumers spot claims that almost always signal a diet rip-off.

Weighing the evidence in diet ads, the FTC warns consumers to steer clear of diet pills, patches, creams, or other products that offer quick weight loss without diet or exercise. Products that claim to block the absorption of fat, calories, or carbohydrates; or that promise that consumers can eat all they want of high-calorie foods and still lose weight are being targeted. Some advertisers had to pay claims as they were unable to provide scientifically supported evidence to support their claims.

So what is the bottom line?
The bottom line is that the only thing that is going to lose weight when you buy those magic patches is your wallet. You need to know that weight loss experts all agree on one thing- if you consume fewer calories than you burn, you will lose weight and if you consume more calories than you burn, you will gain weight. It is that simple.

We all wish for a magic pill that will make losing weight a simple and painless task. However, until the arrival of such a miracle pill, a sensible, well-balanced diet coupled with a reasonable exercise program is, always has been and always will be the surest and safest way to lose weight permanently.

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If you are one of those unlucky people that can’t eat anything you want without putting on weight. You probably are looking for ways to take off a few pounds. Many people are trying to take off weight, but to take off weight first we need to know how we gained the weight. Below you will find 3 reasons why we put on weight.

1.DIET

That’s right diet, are you surprised? Let me explain exactly what you are doing to your body when you are on a diet. Don’t try and lose weight, what you want to lose is fat, the first 5 or 10 pounds you lose could be nothing more than water. What may be worst than that is you could be losing muscle instead of fat. Your body tries to store fat, because your body is programmed that way, if you are taking in less food your body is programmed to store what little food you are taking in and hold on to the fat you have because your body senses a danger to you. Your metabolism is also slowed down so you don’t burn as may calories as you normally would. Research has been done that suggest it is impossible to lose more than 2 pounds of fat in a week, so if you are losing more than 2 pounds a week all of that is not fat.

2. PRESCRIPTION DRUGS

Experts have estimated there could be around 50 prescription drugs can cause you to gain weight. In some cases the drug itself doesn’t cause the weight gain, but in the case of an antidepressant drug, a person may start feeling so much better they begin to eat more and start to gain weight. I don’t recommend you stop taking a drug if you suspect it is causing weight gain, but you can ask your physician if the drug you are taking will cause weight gain. In most cases your physician can offer you another drug that will work just as well, but not cause the weight gain. Never stop taking any drug without talking to your physician. Here are a few prescription drugs that could possibly cause weight gain. Steroids such as prednisone, antidepressants Paxil and Zoloft, anti seizure medication Depakote, diabetes drugs like Diabeta and Diabinese, high blood pressure drugs Cardura and Inderal, Heartburn drugs like Nexium and Prevacid. There are cases where one drug causes one person to gain weight and another person may lose a few pounds using the same drug so always talk to your physician instead of deciding what you think a drug is doing. Even though many people believe the drugs I have listed here do cause weight gain, we all have different bodies and one persons body can react entirely different to a drug than the reaction another person may have.

3. STRESS

There are studies that attribute weight gain to stress, I don’t disagree with the studies, because I think I eat more when I feel stressed, but at the same time, I believe there are some people that get so stressed out they don’t feel like eating or doing anything else for that matter. One of the reasons stress causes weight gain is it may be hard to get to sleep if you are stressful. If you haven’t had enough sleep then you are going to be tired. The first thing you think of doing is increasing your energy level. To increase your energy level you begin to eat, and many times the food you chose to eat will contain a lot of sugar, because you know that will give you a quick injection of energy. I know when I am stressed out I don’t feel like doing any exercise, but when you feel stressed one of the best things you can do is exercise, it will not only help you lose weight, it will also help you to feel less stressful. It’s kind of hard to eat while you are exercising also.

I said I would give you three reasons we gain weight, I won’t go over these, but here are a few other things that contribute to weight gain. Boredom, Medical Problems, Holidays, Quitting A Habit Such As Smoking (I added 20 pounds when I did it.) and Genetics. I hope you enjoyed this article, and it will be of some help to you.

Good Luck!

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