Hydroxycut?

Stay away from diet supplements. You are correct, they will harm your health. There is no fast easy weight loss method. I lost 100 lbs, and have kept it off for 5 years now. The first 50 came off easy. Each additional 10 lbs was exponentially harder to get off, because my body did not want to let go of it. The last 10 lbs took 6 months of starving myself to get off. Then I gained it back. Fast. I'm cool with that, tho. Sure, I'd like to be a faster runner with 10 lbs less, but my body just doesn't want to be 10 lbs less. And there are lots of bigger chicks that pass me in the run, so I know I can get faster at the weight I am at now.

I have to constantly work at maintaining, by counting calories consumed, and balancing that with calories burned. If I stop doing that, I gain weight back. Fast. It sucks! It's worth the effort tho! Check out my logs...you'll see my daily calorie equation. (scroll down past this weekend...i had some really long workouts that let me eat alot, normally, I do not eat THAT much!).

I use calories burned + rmr as my weight maintenance level. On my rest days, I do eat a little more than my rmr. But otherwise, this equation just happens to work for me. Most people would add 300 to that number. I just have a wonderfully efficient metabolism. I used to think it was a curse, but now I think it helps me in endurance sports. I have never bonked.


Edited by keyone 2009-08-16 5:15 PM

I have tried hydroxy and zenerdrene, I do not think either is worth the risk they are not like supper drugs by any means.  I second the calorie counting and monitoring lost 50 lbs since Jan by doing just that.  I too will gain it right back if i don't count and keep track.  Right now i am trying to recover from ACL surgery so the diet is really important.

It's simple math,  calories in and calories out.  I would track how many calories you take in for 2 weeks as well as how many calories you burn, and then adjust from the results.

I would experiment with your protien intake,add more protien and reduce your carbohydrates. Try to stay consistant with your calorie intake and switch gatorade out for water or nuuan during workout less than 1-hour.

Even before the warnings about the main ingredient in hydroxycut, the data was pretty underwhelming.

now their formula and most of the others are either caffeine or guarana root - both in such large doses not a good idea