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What diet pill works very quickly with just daily running exercise?

I want to start running and eating healthier to lose weight.But i also want to use a diet pill to get max results and to speed up the process significantly. So what do y'all suggest as an effective diet pill?

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1. I'd be careful when it comes to taking diet pills. A lot of them have large doses of caffeine, which you should beware of while running. Read labels and do your research. Nothing is a substitute for a balance diet and exercise program. Lift weights to increase your lean body mass (which burns more calories) a few days a week to round out your exercise plan. Drink lots of water. And get plenty of sleep. Studies show being sleep deprived can increase cravings and lead to weight gain.
2. Diet pills are counterproductive to running. The caffine will jack with your metabolism and you will not be refueling properly. Make a choice -- are you an athlete or a dieter? There are no olympic athletes taking dexatrim..... The math is simple. For every 3700 calorie deficit you create, you will lose 1 lb of fat. That's it. SO if you continue to eat the way you eat today -- and you start running 3 miles a day -- you lose a pound every 10 days AND you get faster. The faster you run, the better your endurance, the more calories you burn, the more weight you lose. By modestly increasing your distance by 10% per week, you'll be running 6 miles in no time... 6 miles a day is a pound every 5 days permanently GONE. If you do not refuel adequately you will not be able to effectively work out daily. Vegetables and fruit will accelerate your digestive system and you will drop 'waste' weight which is usually a free 2-4 lbs. (Eat as much fruit and veggies as you want). Nothing from a box, and avoid fried foods. Lots of water. Dexatrim or other diet tabs will slow your digestive system down and put you into a 'starvation' mode where your body will hoard everything once you stop taking it. Drugs are for losers-- start thinking like an athlete; stop thinking like a dieter.
3. Why is everyone bashing caffeine? At every day levels (a couple of cups of coffee), caffeine has primarily positive effects. Studies show caffeine at moderate levels increases both physical and mental capacity. Coffee is full of antioxidants. Most studies show that dehydration is minimal (and most runners are WAY overhydrated anyway). The only real negative is the need to pee frequently, and that stops after an hour or so - caffeine has a half life of 4 hours in your system, so its effects continue long after the bathroom trips stop. The only effective diet pill that goes with what you're doing is time. You're planning to make the necessary changes, you just have to be patient and let them do what they're intended to do. There's no way to "speed up the process", and fast weight loss certainly isn't safe. Ever notice how diet pills tend to have the fine print of "with diet and exercise" attached? The reason people lose weight on diet pills (besides the placebo effect) has nothing to do with the pills, if they're dieting and exercising they don't need the pills to lose weight. If a product were marketed that said "Practice knitting for one hour every day, and take this pill that has been extensively researched by people on our payroll, and within 6 months you'll be significantly better at knitting sweaters!", would you think that sounded like a ridiculous scam? Yet it's no different than diet pill marketing. If you want to take a supplement to speed up your weight loss, how about green tea? It won't help any more than those pills, but at least there's no danger later on of negative side effects (read: ephedra).
4. Here's a few tips that work for me: I spend a long time in front of a computer screen. Often I just stare at the monitor for up to 15 seconds while a page load or a document gets printed or whatever it is that the computer is doing. When this is happening I lift my hands up over my head and then bring them down. I keep on doing this until the computer has finished whatever it is doing and it requires some input.,. from me. I do similar exercises like getting up from the chair and sitting down again. I sometimes might be standing up and might type a few sentences while standing. Combine this with drinking only water and I am doing something to lose weight. It is not much but doing it all the time it does help in losing weight. I might swap this sometimes. I might decide that I will not do the arm exercise for a week but that week I will get off the lift two floor below and walk up the last two floors. So long as when I go to bed at night I can say that that day I have done something extra to burn some weight, I am happy.