If this offends you, good. Maybe you would stop shoving that rubbish down your throat.

Lately on my news feed on Facebook (interesting how it always starts there) I've seen a lot of adverts for diet pills. Lose weight, without exercise and all that rubbish... It has also become apparent that some people have the  urge to share their weight loss secrets with all their friends on FB. I really hope that the person who is doing it reads this, YOU ARE NOT PROMOTING A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE AND YOU SHOULD SERIOUSLY RECONSIDER INFORMING EVERYONE ABOUT YOUR DIET PILLS USAGE, YOU MIGHT JUST BE THE REASON WHY ONE OF YOUR FRIENDS END UP SUFFERING FROM SEVERE HEALTH PROBLEMS, SINCE THAT BRAND OF DIET PILLS HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO HAVE HIGHER THAN FDA APPROVED QUANTITIES OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES THAT HAVE SEVERE SIDE EFFECTS. IT'S A WONDER THAT YOU HAVEN'T BEEN HOSPITALIZED YET!!!

Glad to have gotten that off my chest, its been bothering me for about a month.

Here is my question. If you can even think that taking and paying for a combination of substances that are in MOST cases harmful, not FDA approved that can result in DEATH, (yes, it can!) why can't you schedule an appointment with a dietitian and get a proper eating plan that is specifically formulated for you? It also annoys me when people are willing to pay so much per month for diet pills when it will cost them the SAME amount of money to go to a dietitian... And an extra bonus, if you follow a healthy eating plan, you will indeed not end up in the emergency room severely dehydrated and malnourished. 

I've read comments that some girls write about the effects that the diet pills had on them. One girl mentioned that on the first day of use she was so weak that she could not open her eyes. She was then clever enough to take it again on the second day and just mentioned that she was still weak and very dizzy. Now apparently diet pills have effects on cognitive abilities as well... Where is it ever okay to take a substance that makes you THAT ill??

Diet pills cannot give you the daily vitamins and minerals that your body requires. Good bye shiny hair and strong nails. If you can tell me that diet pills make you lose a whopping 4 kg in a week, I'm telling you now, it has a diuretic effect and you just lost water, not fat... Why not get yourself a nice pet, like a tapeworm? You will feel ill, have some health problems in the long run and lose weight. What's the difference?

Some people might question my motives here, I am in an industry that can be blamed for all these obsessive and drastic measures. Okay, so let's look at the industry. Yes the girls are skinny, SOME do have eating disorders and turn to diet pills and crash diets... 

But...(Yes, there is a but) The models who earn the most money are... The Victoria's Secret Angels.  Those girls are NOT super skinny. They have curves! (Except for Chanel Iman, she's a stick but every group has an outlier). They work out with trainers and eat healthy meals. So the next time you want to blame the industry for your urge to take diet pills, go look at the VS models first and then decide if you still have a valid point.

 Back to the point, if you lose weight quickly, you can gain it again just as easily. 

If you restrict your calorie intake and barely eat, the only thing you're doing is slowing down your metabolism, so you might be losing pounds this week, but when you eat normally, you will just gain it all again. 

 The best thing you can do is to go to a dietitian... You get to eat three HUGE meals and snack and still lose weight. It might not have immediate effects, but then again, nothing else in life is instant (except for bad coffee and dodgy noodles) so why even think that weight loss should be?