As for making your own dietary supplements: SOUP! Soup retains most of the vitamins in the water, and if you do it in a pressure cooker even more of them are made available to you, because some vitamins are locked up very well in the fiberous cells of plants. Tomatos, for instance, are a lot better for yu cooked than raw.

Pork soups are very high in B vitamins, especially thiamine. Veggie soups pretty much have everything else… add some slow release startches like barley or brown rice and you have about the healthiest food on the planet…

It is also cheap, and low-cal.

Nothing works, besides dedication and intelligence towards the subject of losing weight.

First, depending on how much weight you need to lose, your diet is the first concern. You can’t eat 10,000 calories a day and expect the weight to come off, even if you are exercising a lot. Which brings us to the next thing. Duh, Exercising…

This is a must especially if you need to a lot of weight. Get at least 30 mins of some good hardcore exercising. Do some cardio, in the long run, it’s good for the heart.

However, I find the most hardest part of losing weight/keeping it off, in my diet. It’s so hard to keep your fingers out of the cookie jar or those chocolate goodies. I’ve found a great addition to help any one out, it’s a natural weight loss supplement called Proactol. Now don’t get all crazy on me and say diet pills don’t work. That is true, but not in this case. This one isn’t meant to burn pounds while you sit on the couch. It’s an appetite suppressant, along with being a fat binder. I saved money on the pills at theweightlossplace dot com along with getting some good info. It basically makes those fingers not go towards the cookie jar. For me it’s the best pill I’ve tried and I’ve tried cupboards full. Now this doesn’t mean you have to follow my foot steps but I’ve successfully lost roughly 70 pounds and keeping it off til this day.

Well good luck and remember what I said, Dedicate.

I really hate to rain on your parade, but I doubt the product you purchased is authentic and because of that, I doubt it will do anything for you. The largest hoodia capsule currently available contains only 750mg of authentic hoodia gordonii. You don’t say what brand you purchased or if that 1,200mg is in one capsule or two capsules, but either way, it’s probably not authentic.

The majority of the hoodia diet pills on the market today are fake. One expert says the number of fake hoodia supplements could be as high as 80%! Only a small handful of companies are making authentic hoodia gordonii diet pills.

I’ve provided a link below to an article that outlines the 13 things to look for when you buy hoodia. Look over the criteria and compare it to the product you purchased. You’ll be able to determine if the product you bought contains authentic hoodia gordonii or not.

As for your other question regardin, does hoodia work, it depends what you mean. All it does is suppress appetite. Despite the marketing hype, it does not burn fat or magically melt the weight away. It simply tricks the brain into thinking you are full. The idea is that if you feel full, you’ll eat less. Thus, you’ll lose weight.

So…does hoodia work to suppress appetite? For some people it does and for others it doesn’t. Everyone responds differently to it. To give it a fair shot, however, you need to be taking a real hoodia gordonii diet pill and you need to be taking enough of it for at least 2 weeks as it can take that long to “kick in.”

P.S. I noticed someone else replied to your question and recommended Desert Burn and Hoodoba. Those are two companies that actually make authentic hoodia gordonii. They are also the only two companies that produce a 750mg hoodia gordonii capsule – the largest available. If you’re interested in learning more about them, I’ve provided a link below to full reviews of them.

Best of luck to you.

Travis

Check out the above website for some information. I have used the brand Desert Burn for the past 5 days and I have definitely noticed a reduction in my appetite with zero side effects.

PS – Because the herb is not regulated by the FDA, about 90% of the brands on the market are fake or are not what they represent. After a lot of research, I believe you can trust either Desert Burn or Hoodoba.

I do not recommend this diet. Even though it may be effective, you cut out fruits and vegetables, and increase your saturated fat intake.

It may be a quick fix for weight loss, but not so much for overall health.

My sister uses it and has lost a lot of weight. I’m thinking of getting some myself.
Good luck to you!

Your body can detox while you eat quality nutritious food. There is no need to starve your body of the nutrients it needs.

If you want to loose weight there is no substitute for simple diet and EXERCISE!

Please keep in mind that I am no doctor here and I’m only providing this answer based on the research I’ve done on hoodia the past year.

For starters, your friend was smart to stop taking hoodia immediately because we don’t know what the effects are on unborn children. That’s why it’s strongly advised that all pregnant and nursing women avoid hoodia supplements and any diet supplement of any kind.

Having said that, so long as your friend was taking authentic hoodia gordonii with no other ingredients in the product, I doubt there has been any harm done to the baby. Hoodia gordonii contains a molecule that tricks the brain into thinking you are full. The idea behind hoodia supplements is that if you feel full, you’ll eat less. Thus, you’ll lose weight.

So hoodia gordonii isn’t a stimulant or anything “dangerous” like that to your friend or her baby. I suspect the concern with hoodia diet pills is that if the mother feels full and eats less, so will the baby. After all, what the mom eats and drinks, so does the baby. If mom isn’t eating and drinking, neither is the baby.

As you know, babies need lots of food and water to grow and be healthy. You don’t want to deprive them of their necessary food and water. That’s why hoodia isn’t a good thing to be taking when you are pregnant. Mom needs to eat – and needs to eat alot because she’s eating for two;)

Once the baby is born, then tell your friend she can work on shedding any unwanted “baby fat” and at that time can consider hoodia gordonii. Until then, eat normally and keep the hoodia supplements on the shelf for now.

Best of luck to her.

Travis

http://www.worldweightlossfoundation.com/fastest-way-to-lose-weight.html

deeper cleansing involves abstaining from solid food and drinking only fresh organic juice(you would need your own juicer for this). remember: 1 glass of fruit for every 2 glasses of veggie juice.

the deepest would be fasting from all calories. you would eat nothing and drink only water. 1 cup of purified for every 3 cups of distilled.

if you cleanse in this order i would do the natural food diet for 3-4 weeks. then juice cleanse for 3-4 days. return to your natural food diet for another 6 weeks. then water fast for 3-4 days.

if you do this you will feel awesome, lose weight, and look the best you ever have.

if you’re serious you can email me with any questions and i will try to help you out