Dieting advice needed re LipoBind

j-josie

Hi there,
I have been getting nowhere with trying to lose some weight. I lost a stone last year (then put it on again) so feel I can do it, once I have properly put my mind to it...but food is a definite emotional crutch for me (plus I just really, really like chocolate )

Anyway, the point of this thread is that I have just bought some Lipobind dieting tablets, as I thought it just might give me the kick start I need. I have taken 2 tablets after my main meal but was wondering, do I have to take them after breakfast and lunch too? Breakfast will be healthy -shredded wheat or rice krispies, lunch will be sandwich (dry bread, wafer thin ham, tomato) and probably Special K bar or similar.
The leaflet didn't give that much detail, and I'm wondering if you only use it after main meals which are probably the ones containing most fat?
In true MSE style, hoping to make the one pack of tablets, last a long time:)

And if anyone has had any experience of using LipoBind, I'd love to hear how you did

escortg3

Hi,

I got this from the boots website.

How to Use

Take immediately after a meal with liquid.
To gain maximum benefits, the following dosage is recommended:

• To lose weight, take 2 to 3 tablets after each main meal - increase to 3 to 4 tablets if taking a high fat meal
• To prevent further weight gain after reaching your target weight and to maintain general well-being take 2 tablets after each main meal. Increase to 3 tablets if taking a high fat meal
• To maintain existing body weight and achieve an improved general well-being take 1 to 2 tablets after each main meal. Increase to 2 to 3 tablets if taking a high fat meal

It looks to me like you only take after your one main meal a day

Brighton_belle

Hi OP, just need to add, that rice crispies are not 'healthy': They are made with added sugar and high fructose corn syrup, a real nasty:

Rice Krispies contains the following ingredients: rice, sugar, salt, malt flavoring, high fructose corn syrup, iron, ascorbic acid, or vitamin C, alpha tocopherol acetate, or vitamin E, niacinamide, vitamin A palmitate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, or vitamin B6, riboflavin, or vitamin B2, thiamin hydrochloride, or vitamin B1, folic acid, vitamin D and vitamin B12. To maintain quality, the preservative butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, has been added.

I also don't think most breakfast cereals are very filling. Scrambled egg on wholemeal toast would be much more nutrious and keep you fuller longer with the protein in it.
I don't know about the k bars but they sound like highly over processed manufatured food so not healthy at all I imagine.

A dry bread sandwich doesn't sound very appetising and you are likely to feel deprived very quickly and then gorge on other stuff to compensate, unless it is super fresh lush wholemeal or granary bread. You'd be better off making a large salad with lots of leaves, small raw veg and pieces of cold chicken breast cooked the day before. Much more variety of nutricious food in that and getting more of your minimum of 5 a day in.

Do feel free to join us of the Lose weight thread on the 'I wanna do it' board. We are very nice and offer support and there are members who will really get the 'food as emotional crutch' thing so will understand.

j-josie

Oh thanks, never been on the 'I wanna do it' board before.
I always have dry bread as the thought of biting into a layer of fat (be it marge or butter) quite turns my stomach. And i know from experience that if I don't have a sandwich for lunch, I don't feel I've lunched at all!
Will pop over to the I wanna board for a browse :-)

Darlyd

Have you every tried Lipotrim/Cambridge/Lighterlife/exante before? All the same diets But Exante is the cheapest and in my opinion the safest as it has 200 more calories than the other's. I lost 6 stone on it few years ago, had a baby and am back on Exante now.

You go into ketosis which stops your feeling of hunger and helps you shed the pounds. You can also add a low carb meal to it. Or if you like your food Atkins? I don't like tablets personally, I would never ever take them. I have such a severe problem with food these diets are the only ones that help me change my habits, even when I maintained for nearly a year then got pregnant.

j-josie

Is LighterLife the one where you have food delivered to you and it's just liquid stuff?
I want to eat the same food as I feed my husband and son. To be honest I think we eat fairly healthily so if I just upped the exercising and stopped the snacking between meals, then I would lose weight. It's the snacking (chocolate & biscuits) that puts the weight on me, but I find it really hard to stop.
I thought if could just lose a few Lbs with the help of LipoBind (while trying not to snack too of course) then it would give me the impetus to carry on.
I have started this thread up again on the Lose Weight thread of the I wanna board so please join me there, if you like ! (I didn't know how to move a thread...)

rumdiddlyum

i went on cambridge and weighed about 15 stone i got to goal weight followed the book on how to come off the shakes eating really healthy exercising like mad and i have put more on than i weighed in the first place when i went to docs they told me that basically my metabolism has slowed down to nothing i have loads of trouble and am on lots of tablets for numerous things connected to this and when i was coming off it my hair started falling out please please just follow a normal diet it will come off you dont need extremes like that it is not natural

j-josie

Oh rumdiddlyum, that's sounds very scary!
I have only dieted a few times and have always gone down the route of more exercise, less snacks (can't say no snacks as I would not stick to a regime as strict as that!)
I guess the weight loss becomes more difficult as you get older and that is why I'm struggling now..I will try the LipoBind and that's the only aid I will use, I promise. Am actually a bit nervous about that, and feel a bit as if I'm 'cheating' somehow.
All the best to you. Thanks for your words of warning.