6/16/06 started taking Phentermine today, and already I can feel a difference taking place with my appetite. I no longer have hunger pains. And, I feel very energetic. I decided to try the 37.5 mg. of the white pills. I will check back in after a month or so, to let everyone know how much weight I have lost. Currently I am at 230lbs. - Kim
I have lost a total of 22 pounds since I benen taking Phentermine in January'06. Phentermine really does work - North Carolina
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The Biggest Loser: Where Are They Now?
I remember watching the first season of the show, “The Biggest Loser” and being really amazed as participants would weigh-in each week. I would really wonder how on earth could anyone lose 10-25 pounds a week. By the end of the show, the winner was crowned and his name was Ryan Benson. He had lost a staggering 122 pounds! But while the message of the show is inspiring, it is also unrealistic. The Biggest Loser achieves rapid transformations--contestants often drop more than 20 lbs. in a week--through calorie restriction, endless exercise and no small amount of dehydration that occurs behind the scenes.
Ryan - Before, After and Now
It has been seen that former “Biggest Loser” winners, including Benson who has gained back roughly 90 pounds after the show was over. He claims that as soon as the show was over, he regained “32 pounds in 5 days simply by drinking water.” This is is something that I cannot buy. A contestant on the “The Biggest Loser” show claiming this was incredible. I'd hoped that the aim of the show was to educate people. Matt Hoover, 31, a motivational speaker based in Seattle, had a 15-lb. rebound within a day of winning Season 2. Last season's runner-up, Kai Hibbard, 28, an aerobics instructor in Alaska who says she spent the night before her final weigh-in hopping in and out of a sauna for six hours, consumed only sugar-free Jell-O for several days and wolfed down asparagus, which is a natural diuretic. (I guess living on sugar-free Jello and asparagus for a few days is considered safe by the television networks.)
The show tries to prevent unhealthy behavior by making contestants keep food journals (to make sure they're not starving themselves) and threatening penalties if tests show they are too dehydrated. But like the $55 billion U.S. diet industry, The show places the bulk of its emphasis on shedding pounds rather than maintaining the loss. Would a show called The Biggest Maintainer have nearly the same zing. Contestants learn how to make healthy choices, but the exercise accounts for most of the weight loss. And it's not as hard to work out for four or more hours a day when urged on by professional trainers. It's also easier to resist high-calorie temptations when the cameras are rolling. Two and a half years after Benson's final weigh-in at 208 lbs., the new dad has slipped out of the spotlight and into old habits. "No one sees me get an apple pie in the drive-through," says Benson, whose weight now hovers at around 300 lbs.
Would you cheat on your diet, knowing that millions of people would witness it?
Kelly Mac - Before, After and Now
You are also required to excercise for 2 hours approx per day. Who has time for that? Kelly Minner, for one. The first-season runner-up dropped from 242 lbs. to 163 lbs. by the finale and now weighs 140 lbs. A school administrator in Bethlehem, Pa., Minner, 31, says she works out from one to four hours a day, six days a week. She exercises while even watching TV, but for the average person, exercising for 4 hours a day is just unrealistic.
Hoover, who has gained 53 lbs. since November 2005, sees his cardboard cutout every day in his garage. Last season's winner, Erik Chopin, 37, who owns a deli in North Babylon, N.Y., and since December has put on 22 of the 214 lbs. he lost, keeps a photo on his fridge taken when he weighed 407 lbs.
A Time magazine article points out, Benson is actually considered a success for still keeping 30 pounds off for over a year. According to the National Weight Control Registry, “only a fifth of dieters with a history of obesity sustain a loss of 10% of their body weight for a year or more.”
It all comes back to eating healthy, doesn't it? All these fad diets ... they don't help people to lose weight in any long-term, meaningful way. They don't teach us ways to eat healthy in any long-term, meaningful way. And, in fact, they hurt us.
What a shame that so many people try so hard to do the right thing the wrong way.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
The following information is intended to supplement, not substitute for, the expertise and judgment of your physician, pharmacist or other healthcare professional. It should not be construed to indicate that use of the drug is safe, appropriate, or effective for you. Consult your healthcare professional before following above advice.
Body Mass Index (BMI) is the best way to determine whether a person is overweight or underweight. Calculate your BMI and find out where you stand: 
