melair

Ugh! I hate these things…it’s been over a week and I still can’t take more than 1 pill at a time. I’m supposed to be taking 3 pills 3x a day. Are you freaking kidding me? This was me, on the morning I attempted taking two at a time before breakfast:

Anyway- I read a lot of reviews about a lot of pills and ended up with Xenadrine.  I do know that it said not to take them if you have sensitivity to caffeine, and I do have some slight sensitivity, but still drink 2 caffeine drinks a day.  Most reviews I read said that people who drink 1 cup of coffee a day had no issues, so I figured I should be fine.  They were helping to curb my appetite the first week.  The day I had two I actually kept dry heaving, so certainly didn’t have an appetite.

BUT they don’t give you real energy.  They actually pretty much give me ADD.  So, I’m mostly just pacing around the house, unable to concentrate on any one thing long enough to get anything done.  Including exercise.  In fact, I was exercising more before I started taking them.

I can take 1 pill 3x a day and actual am starting to feel “normal” when I do.  The problem is that while I feel “good” or “normal” now, I still feel hungry.  Oh, and did I mention that through all of this torture I haven’t lost a freakin’ pound?  In fact, I weighed myself before I left the house and I had gained two.  Nice.

I know I sound like a big whiny sissy.  People lose weight every day with good old fashioned diet and exercise.  I already exercise 5-6 days a week.  As for the diet…it’s too hard.  And I’m not talking about the being hungry.  It’s almost counter intuitive really.  I eat healthy foods, I just obviously eat too much of those foods.  So, if I start “counting calories” then I will lose weight, but counting calories makes me more obsessed with food than I currently am.  Yes, it is possible.  I am always looking for low fat recipes that give me more bang for my buck.  Spending so much time making sure I have all my snacks measured out and planned in advance so that I don’t go hungry for a second then end up eating a half a block of cheese because I didn’t “prepare” my snack and am now trembling and sick feeling because my blood sugar is plummeting.  I spend hours a week reading nutritional information and trying to calculate the fat calorie ratios.  And I end up eating more processed food when I diet because it all has the nutritional information printed as opposed to stopping what I’m doing to Google the nutritional information for a hand full of nuts and raisins.  AND I don’t have energy to exercise when I diet.  Ugh!  I’ll stop now.  I’m making myself depressed.

So, in summary.  Next stop: liposuction.