Fat Burners Down Falls

Potential Dangers of Fat Burners

Considering the use of some fat burners to help you lose those extra few pounds? Fat burners like Xenadrine, Hydroxycut, and Stacker works great to help you lose fat - no doubt about it. But before you go out and buy some, I urge you to fully understand the potential side effects and downfalls of fat burners.

There are all types of fat burners and diet pills available on the market. Some are stimulant free while others contain various stimulants such as caffeine, guarana, yerba mate, citrus aurantium, and so on. There's a long list of such types of stimulants that's widely used in different weight loss products. However, we do have detailed information articles on most of these on our site here. If you can't find what you're looking for, simply use the search box at the top of the page.

Obviously, the stimulant based diet supplements pose more risk and danger for various side effects. It is important that you fully understand how these function and what are the possible side effects associated with it. Improper use, and lack of understanding of the potential downfalls gets many people in trouble. Some possible side effects of these stimulant based fat burners include faster heart rate, increased sweating, nausea, dizziness, shortness of breath, sleeping problems, and stomach problems, just to name a few.

A Reader's Difficult Experience With Xenadrine RFA-1 To Share With You

A reader of our site here had sent me an email, telling me his difficult experiences with Xenadrine RFA-1. I get many emails from people telling me how well Xenadrine, Hydroxycut, or other fat burners are working for them, and how the information from this website has helped them.

After reading this email, I felt the need to make it even more painfully clear that even though fat burners like Xenadrine, Hydroxycut, and Stacker work very effectively, users must really understand the potential side effects. So I'm writing this article now, and have obtained permission from the visitor to repost his email here. I will keep the name anonymous.

I read your article on Xenadrine. You're right, it does work. However there is a serious drawback that I'm dealing with currently. I'm addicted to Xenadrine and caffeine (I never even smelled a cup of coffee until after taking Xenadrine). Here's the situation.

I'm 6'3" 230. I started taking Xenadrine in November 2001. I was taking 2 tablets at 5:30am (before cardio at 6am) and 2 tablets at 2:30pm (before weights at 3pm). I combined that with a low fat diet and lost about 25lbs in 3 months. At that time I decided to stop taking Xenadrine and cycle off of it as I was instructed by the sales rep at GNC. Then the problems began.

I absolutely crashed. I couldn't get out of bed. I could hardly keep my eyes open during the day. I got irritable with my wife and kids. My memory lapsed. I didn't have enough energy to climb the stairs in my house, not to mention running a treadmill. It became a chore to lift a fork to my mouth, let alone trying to lift weights. At the same time, my appetite went through to roof. I wanted to eat everything in sight!

This is a real problem. The only way I can function is by taking 4 tabs per day. Now another situation is developing. I must be developing a tolerance to 4 tabs per day because even they are having minimal effects and I'm beginning to feel lethargic on them. I'm often tempted to increase to 6 tabs per day, but I'm afraid of having a heart attack.

What gives. I'm addicted to this garbage! How do I detox from this product. Am I unique or is this common. Please help quickly.

The best advice I could give to him is to see a doctor quickly. I'm not a doctor or a certified physician, so please keep that in mind, and please do not use the information we provide here as medical advice.

While that was from quite a while back (how time flies!), it highlights the potential dangers and down falls of stimulant based fat burners and diet supplements. Is it really worth risking your health by using a weight loss supplement? Whatever happened to good ol' exercise, physical activity, and good diet and nutrition? It's human nature to look for a quick way out, but just think how long of a period did it take to put on all that extra weight? I bet it took a lot longer than a few days, weeks, months, and even years. So it's folly to expect to undo years of physical and metabolic damage in a matter of days or weeks. The key is to really set a resolve to make small positive changes to your lifestyle and habits, that would leads to slow, but consistent weight loss.

If you ask me for one diet supplement that I would recommend, that would be CLA (conjugated linoleic acid). This is not a fat burner, and it is not a stimulant. This is a diet supplement that has been proven by hundreds of studies to help reduce body fat, increase lean body mass, and improve body composition. Because it doesn't contain stimulants, there's almost no side effects associated with using CLA. Because of all these factors, CLA is something that I highly recommend. The only issue with CLA is that it is not fast acting as you'd expect with fat burners. Most of the human studies we looked at lasted for a minimum of 12 weeks, and some lasted for as long as 6 to 12 months. Because of this, it is recommended to take CLA for longer periods, for at least 1 month and longer.

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