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Hey...
So I'm in the same boat as everyone else... need to lose weight. about 20 - 30 lbs.. I don't go by the scale... I go by how I look and feel. The scale has always been misleading for me - I'm one of those people who will always weigh more
ANYWAY... I did the research - all those reviews that are made to be helpful actually make it very confusing to choose! Then there are those discouraging people who say its all sales and mkting anyway... the only thing that will really work is suffering in the gym and eating plain ... nasty food. I can't! I'm from New Orleans... I EAT. And... I've worked out at the gym... but for my body type... it just makes me solid, and the slimming part is really slow. The only times I really slim down through exercise is when I run.... and thats not my favorite activity.
As I grew closer to the 30 yr mark...I notice my motabilism getting much slower... I want to be at my ideal size by 31. So like I said, I went through all the confusing reviews... some giving hope - but most discouraging... eventually what I based it on was a popularity test. I went to ebay and looked up the five top weight loss aids... of them all, it seemed Lipovarin was the hottest. So I based my final decision on that... bid on the auction that had a 3 for 1 deal... fat blocker, carb blocker, and lipovarin for 70 bucks... when it arrived at my job, I too dove right in. As soon as I took it... 3 lipovarins, 2 fat blockers, 2 carb blockers... fifteen minutes before lunch, by 20 minutes later I did feel a charge... it wasn't exactly like the jitters - which I got back when ephedra was legal (by the way I hated ephedra based products and didn't use them consistently b/c of the jittery thing) it wasn't as bad as that... it was just enough to make me have to do things though... so I got a bunch of work done that I had been putting off all week. I had a sandwhich for lunch... and by the time dinner rolled around, I wasn't hungry at all, and had to force myself to eat something just so I wouldn't get late night hunger pangs. By three days later... I noticed my stomach was a lot flatter. Five days later... my pants fit better - and some jeans I bought that should have been my size, but wasn't able to zip and button? Well... they zip and button now - still tight though... but I try them on everyday... and its getting better. I also see the difference in my body... the fat is going - its great. And it's only been 9 days. I don't know how many lbs I've lost... b/c like I said I go by how my clothes fit, how I look, and how I feel. I just hope this keeps up.
Now for the bad part? It makes me irritable.. its much easier for people to get on my nerves while I'm taking this stuff.. the only thing that helps is getting up and doing something... it's like u have to be active for a couple of hours... the irritability thing only last for like... 2 hours after I take the dosage... then it gets better. So.. my strategy is.. take it... do the part of my job that requires a lot of physical activity... then when I get over that bad hump... I do the people person stuff.
Anyway... hope this helps.
Bottom line is different things work for different people.
I dont know if the irritable thing will happen with everybody - it seems to happen to me with any motabilism booster I take... so its a compromise.