Alli-The Newest Fad?

Alli a new weight loss pill in your stores now or soon will be. It promises that you can lose up to 50% more weight then with diet or exercise alone.

What it’s supposed to do is with the main ingredient, orlistat, blocks the absorption of about 1/4th of the fat you eat and blocks it from storing inside of your body. What they don’t tell you when initially trying to sell you is that you must still cut back on fats in order to use the new drug. The manufacturers say that there are serious side effects if you don’t cut back on fats. Doctors fear that people will take the drug thinking it’s a shortcut and not take the necessary cutbacks needed. What sense does it make to take this drug if you have to cut back on fats anyway?

I have never been one to take pills as a way of weight loss. Sure I’ve tried them for a couple of months and all they usually did was either make me very dizzy or nervous.

I am still convinced that a proper diet and exercise is the best way to reduce weight and feel healthier; I use diet loosely, just cut back a little. Eat your favorite foods. Why people don’t do this is because it’s too much work. After a week of aerobics and a few sit-ups they are ready to give up. When they don’t see results quick enough their regimen is over.

However if you workout 40 minutes aerobically for five days a week and eat fairly right, I can tell you from experience you can lose three pounds that week. Three pounds might not sound like a lot however over time it adds up. Three times four is twelve. That’s twelve pounds lighter you’ll be at the end of the month.

Now most of us can’t start out at forty minutes a day. Start with ten, then the following week fifteen, then twenty and so on. You may not lose twelve the first month but you will the second because you will have progressed closer to forty. When the weight loss slows after months of forty minutes it’s time to move on to fifty minutes.

Don’t forget about toning. The more toning with weights you do the more you’ll lose. Why? Because muscle burns fat at a faster rate then with no toning at all. Doesn’t it make you sick to see skinny people never gain weight? It’s because their muscle to fat ratio is higher.

So my favorites are Denise Austin, Fat Burning Blast and Kathy Smith, Weight Loss Workout. Get the cd’s and get moving. Send me some before and after pics, I will put them on here.