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I have to thank so many people for writing to me, it seems my story is not so different to many others of you. I have had a lot of emails from people who had problems on the Atkins Diet, although this is a diet in the true sense of the word and not diet pills or a weight loss product, from what you have said it seems it might be worth adding to my site a page about dangerous diets so please email me with your story if you have been on a diet program that made you ill.

A few of your emails were about Phentermine diet pills and how they seem to work but in general the side effects make you stop using them, this seems to include sleeplessness, irregular bowel movements and the shakes. Although out of the 37 emails you sent me one lady called Susan said she lost 16 pounds using these diet pills and had no side effects. Phentermine is a widely sold diet pill and seems very popular like Xenical but based on the bulk of your emails I think I'll give them a miss..

I also received a lot of emails about a diet pill called Laminaria Extract from Natures Way ( www.natures-way.net ) although the comments varied in how much weight they lost, all said they worked and had no side effects. One lady called Olive said she lost over 80 pounds in 3 months, personally I would have thought it would be dangerous to lose so much weight that fast but Olive said this happened a year ago and the weight has stayed off and her blood pressure went from very high before taking the pills to normal.

After my experience I had a big downer on diet pills, maybe they just won't work for me but your comments about Laminaria Extract made me think and kept nagging away at me "give it a try" ... "what have you got to lose ?" ... "they just might work!".... so I ordered some. I actually ordered the PLUS version from Slimming Pills .com ( www.slimming-pills.com ) they are based on the original Nature's Way diet pills but have added ingredients, I don't know if they do work better but I thought I would give it the best chance to work.

My diet pills arrived 9 days ago, for 2 days I did nothing just left the pills in a draw in my kitchen, I didn't want to fail... not again and as long as they were there untried I still had hope. 7 days ago I started them .. Day 1 "nothing happened" .. day 2 ... day 3 ... day 4 .. day 5 .. day 6 .. nothing, and then this morning, day 7, I have lost 4 pounds, I am actually still stunned, I had to weigh myself 5 times to make sure I hadn't made a mistake ... So far there has been no side effects, no ill feelings, nothing.. I feel energized, strong and very excited.... For the first time in years I feel hopeful ... so lets see.

DATE: 11th February 2003

It is now 8 days since I added the above and have decided to add my progress so far. I don't want to claim these diet pills work too soon as it's still early days but things are looking good. My weight has been declining daily between 1-2 pounds. So far I have lost 12 pounds which is not far off the pound a day the makers of these diet pills claim you can lose. I'm not going to say too much yet as I've still got a way to go but so far I am very impressed and happy... Very Happy.

DATE: 28th February 2003

I thought I would wait until the end of the month before adding any further, I know many of you have asked me for an up date and I apologize for not responding. I wanted to make sure of my weightloss and if these diet pills work (or should I say work for me). When I wrote the last update above, I decided to not weigh myself until this morning.... This time I knew I was losing weight because my clothes were starting to fall off me, what I didn't know until today was how much I had lost, in the last 17 days I have lost 14 pounds, thats an incredible 26 pounds in about a month and I feel marvelous, I am energized. This is truly amazing and in a way I still disbelieve it. The packaging on these diet pills is so basic, not like your fancy expensive diet pills that don't work, they are all front, these are the opposite, they are well packaged don't get me wrong, they are ideally packaged for postal services and discretion which I suppose is the purpose of it but you wouldn't buy them if you saw them in your drug store, you'd walk past them and pick up something more fancy. Well what a mistake that would have been.

This reminds me of two sayings "Don't judge a book by it's cover" and the wise words of Anon When the world says "Give up," Hope wispers, "try one more time."

DATE: 1st April 2003

Well as promised here is my update. Firstly, I would like to thank you for your emails, I'm sorry if I haven't replied to you but I have been very busy with my job and thought I would try to include answers to your comments in my update.

I have received about 200 emails relating to people who have used Laminaria Extract, out of those 200+ users who wrote to me 3 people said they had not noticed any weight loss using these diet pills, all the others ranged from losing 40 pounds in 1 month to a steady 4 pounds a week. On the whole it looks like these diet pills are about 99% effective based on your feedback, which does seem rather high and it has to be said that to lose 40 pounds in 1 month must be a mistake but I am so impressed with these pills that I will believe just about anything. Also only 1 person has said these pills made them feel a little sick, they didn't really emphasize on the issue and made small of it as they were generally happy with the weight loss the pills produced. So to sum up - A very small number of you may not get the results most people seem to get with these pills, so just be warned.

OK, last month I lost a further 21 pounds bringing my weight loss to a grand total of 47 pounds in 2 months, I was hoping to hit the 50+ pound mark but I just missed it and I have to take a little of the blame as I had 2 very excessive weekends in March, I really did over indulge on both occasions with Wine and food. Based on how this use to affect me when I did these things I would gain several pounds so all in all I did hit my target (well that's what I'm telling myself).

So, yes the pills are still working, I've just ordered some more and I feel remarkably well, and I look amazing, for the first time in 3 years I've been asked on a date, that in itself has boosted the way I feel about myself and life. I know it may sound silly but to have men find you attractive is something us girls take for granted until it's gone, we try to convince ourselves we don't care but it really hits your self confidence and does a lot of damage.

I am still about 20 pounds overweight and hoping this will be gone by the end of the month, I have a lot of excess skin on my body which needs to go so I'm starting a gym today. Even though I'm very shy I might put up a before and after picture of myself but we will see.

I don't want this page to become a day by day epic so I will do a further in the following months, in the meantime please keep your letters coming about other successful products you have tried and problem you have had, I would like to make this site in to a general reference for weight loss products and pills.

DATE: 25th June 2003

I had put off adding this final part to my story until I was sure the pills had fully worked and my weight stayed off. The last 20 pounds took a little longer to evaporate than the earlier pounds did but they did go by the second week in May. And actually since then I have lost a few more pounds so it seemed I had more to lose than I realized. So just to put that in perspective, I have lost about 70 pounds in just over 3 months. If I'd of had this fat surgically removed it would have taken me possible 12 months to recover from the operation and I would have had horrendous scars all over my body. It is true I still have some lose skin which is very slowly disappearing but that is nothing to how I now feel. I know I haven't got a body like a super model, I never did have and never will have but I feel so confident about myself. I use to think people were laughing at me, talking about my size and how they would talk to me as if I was a little stupid. After all how could someone let themselves get so big , they must be stupid, right? Well "NO" we're not stupid, we are very sensitive and intelligent people and I am such a better person than those who have never had a weight issue or been different in some way to what our magazines like to portray as the perfect person. So before you call someone for being overweight ask yourself if you understand why they are overweight, and don't automatically think it's because of greed because very few people are overweight because of that. Most of us have issues or medical problems and we have in some cases turned to food as a substitute for something that is missing or a way of punishment, so all you people who think you are perfect, just look a little deeper because the reason you think your perfect is because you only look at the pools surface, swimming inside that pool could be the most beautiful fish you've ever seen or the most ugliest and even nothing at all. So which are you? What have you got below your surface, a killer shark maybe! Or multi-colored dolphins who want to play all day.

Judge yourself before judging others.

I'm sorry if I went a little off track there but I have only just started to realize how silly I have been thinking for all those years thin people were better than me, I am now a thin person and have seen both sides of the wall they are not better people maybe just healthier and fitter but they are not better, remember that.

I would like to finish by thanking Nature's Way for helping me to change my life, I am now in a relationship with a very beautiful and loving man, who would have still wanted me before I lost weight, it was I who didn't have the confidence to find him. And thank you for reading my story, I hope it helps you in some way however small.

If you have had success with weight loss products please email me on mary@the-diet-pills.com