ma hueng, cafffiene and willow bark...
do a search on "ECA STACK"
Absolutely nothing works better

There are no herbs or supplements clinically shown to be effective for long-term weight loss.

None.

Some short-term "fixes" like ma huang can be hazardous to your health.

Exercise is a great idea, as is lower calorie intake. Not easy, but proven to work.

Exercise is the best... and you have to exercise patience too... it's not a quick thing... start out VERY SLOW... people burn themselves out in their eagerness to get fit and lose weight. And being fit is WAY more important than being skinny. And if you follow the basic pyramid food chart, you should be healthy as well as dropping weight.

With all due respect, eric is just verifiably flat out wrong.

I can understand the stigma asociated with ephedra due to our nanny FDA/DEA Nazis, but if you do your research, you will find ephedra/ma heung extremely safe when one's health, activity level and dosage is considered.

Exercise and lower calorie intake...well, duuuuhhh.
Ephedra simply helps...Again...ECA stack.
I'll bore you later with the pharmacological details if interested, but ephedra is an appetite suppressant as well as a thermogenic which boosts core body temp and metabolism and when done w/ ECA stock, it does so without building a tolerance and without cannabalizing muscle tissue.

I dropped from 192 to 170 in about 3 months,stopped ephedra cold turkey...no withdraw and didnt gain it back despite reduced activity level (desk job!).
I was a worry wart about having a coronary too...until I actually learned from myself instead of parroting the fear mantras.

You can achieve this objective in two ways: consuming fewer calories and burning calories by exercising. Though people choose either of the two methods to lose fat, the fastest, the easiest and the long-term way is to combine both the methods. Eating more and exercising more is far better than starving, which lowers the metabolism, thus slowing the fat-burning process. Exercise plays a vital role in keeping your metabolism high, thus speeding up the process of burning fat.

Here is a link that might be useful: Reduce Weight Quickly Tips

Careful of the herbal diet supplements, a lot of them are diuretics (make you pee more and therefore cause only water weight loss) and can cause terrible muscle cramps.

There's really no short cuts to weight loss. Men can expect to lose at best 2 lbs a week, women 1 lb per week. Yes, you can crash off more than that in a week, but its not healthy and can't be sustained.

Um. Poster #1 joined Feb 13, Poster #2 joined Feb 14, and both posted on Feb 14. Funnily enough, they both write in rather broken English with similar syntax and language...

Y'all are too darn nice to spammers.

:D ha ha surf grrl! You know, they get more creative every day. Luckily, they generally go away after they spam once.

Heathen1, I certainly appreciate your first comment back on 30 March on this issue. Patience, exercise, being guided by the pyramid food chart - they are all so sensible.

I'm not what most people consider over-weight, however, because of a spinal injury - I have real mobility issues and they are affected by weight. Two years ago, my wife asked if she should buy me a larger size in pants. I said, "Forget the pants, just get me a bathrobe and a wheelchair!"

I'm within the lines for ideal weight according to the body mass index chart. However, as I began crowding that top number during the last 2 Winters, my ability to stand and walk were seriously impaired.

I consume a little caffeine thru the day but can't keep that going after about 5PM or I have trouble sleeping (pain+caffeine = no sleep :o(. But, I can sure keep the snacking running smoothly during those evening hours!

What I find that helps is to switch to herb teas after 5. When I think I want something to eat, I just go in the kitchen and make myself a cup of tea. Nothing special, either simple or a blend from my own garden or a commercial product.

Most of my activity takes place during the gardening season. Unfortunately, Winter turns into a time for me to sit around and get fat - - gotta do better than that! Herbs help.

Steve