I know how you feel about the OTC meds, especially diet pills! The thing a lot of these diet pills don't say is that they contain caffeine, which in the long run actually
hurts your chance of losing weight. Sounds crazy, but because caffeine is a diuretic, the body thinks it is becoming dehydrated and starts haning onto all the water it can (and all the toxins along with it), so diet pills aren't all what they are cracked up to be any way.
Try to do small steps at a time.
Like week 1 cut out sodas and replace them with water (this could make the biggest difference, not only in weight, but in your skin and how you feel, too!)
week 2 - cut out simple sugars - sweets, if you have to have chocolate - go for dark chocolate ot has like 1/3 of the sugar or eat fruit
week 3 - replace all white carbs with wheat carbs
things like that - if you do it slowly, you're more likely to stick with it because it's a lifestyle change instead of a "DIET".
Also, always keep in mind that you shouldn't just take something away, because you'll think of that as depriving yourself. But replace it with something better; yeah you'll still miss the old bad stuff, but not nearly as much if you have something to take the place of it.
And this is something I have learned the hard way from gastric bypass - never, NEVER eat while doing something else! You eat twice as much if you are watching a movie, typing on the computer or reading a book as you do if you are sitting down to a table concentrating on your meal. I found out the hard way- because if I overeat, I vomit and hurt BAD. And the only times I do it are when I'm eating whil typing on this thing. <img src="/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />
