My Phentermine Story

uniguy82 · 11-11-2005, 09:35 PM

Hi,

I'm a long time reader, but a first time poster. I have been using phentermine for about 6 weeks now. I got it online somewhere for about $180 for a 3 month supply. I wanted to it to get rid of a few vanity pounds. I'm about 5'9" and weighed about 175 lbs before starting phentermine. I'm 23, btw. When i graduated high school, I weighed around 160 pounds probably. By my junior year in college, I weighed around 190 lbs. I had gone from a 32" waist to a 36". That really bothered me. My sister is obese and my mother was in the past, so I was scared of getting fat. After only about 6 weeks on the drug, with no additional exercise, I have returned to my pre-college weight of 160 and 32" pants size. I feel much better about myself and people have noticed the weight loss, but I want to go further. Ideally, I would like to lose 10-15 additional pounds. I will need to start a workout regime to attain this and I plan to join a gym soon. In addition to reducing my appetite, I enjoy the energy that the drug gives me. I have noticed that I am becoming tolerant to the drug and I do not feel as much of a surge as I used to, but when I go off it for a couple days, it gives me more of a kick like before. I do not do hardly any snacking between meals anymore. Candy and sweets really doesn't interest me like before. There are some days when I only eat one meal. I eat a lot more fruit now because it is fairly low in calories and does cure the bit of hunger that I sometimes feel. As far as side effects, increased sweating seems to be the worst one. Somedays I sweat through two shirts! There have been a few times when I have taken a pill in the evening and I still have no trouble sleeping whatsoever. I always could drink a can of Pepsi an hour before bed and sleep like a baby, so that's no surprise. I realize there is a risk of dependence with this drug, but right now I could take it or leave it. Every now and then I go off it for a couple days at a time and it doesn't bother me. Should I be taking a vitamin supplement since I am eating less? I would love to hear some feedback on my comments.

Thanks!
Bret

***Ian*** · 11-12-2005, 12:35 AM

I agree that you should definitely be taking a vitamin supplement.
Try men's one-a-day or centrum, etc.

**Karin_texas** · 11-18-2005, 12:23 AM

we sound exactly alike. I do not snack at all anymore and when I do, I eat fruit. I eat once a day (if that) and I think I should be taking something else as well to help. I have gone off it about 3 or 4 times when I noticed I was getting too used to it. Then it always jump starts me again. I will continue to take it until I reach my goal weight. After that, I do not know what I will do. I would have it around forever if I could, but I know it won't be. I just like knowing that it's in there (in the kitchen) and I feel like it gives me strength to avoid being obsessed with food. I guess I am obsessed with phentermine now, lol! Anyway, it's worked for me and after spending so much money on gyms and personal trainers and seeing nothing, i do not want to give it up. Maybe I am hooked big time now, but honestly I don't care. It's getting me what I want. Food is so unimportant to me now. I don't even feel hungry anymore. I eat more because I know that after a full day of not having anything, I should want to eat. That's about the only reason I eat these days. I feel like I am walking the line, but like I said it's what is working for me. I refuse to be fat again. I refuse to live like that.

Anyway, I am glad I found your post. Hope it goes well for you.

Karin

***Ian*** · 11-18-2005, 12:27 AM

Please try to eat more than once a day. I'm sure you want to be healthy too,
and not just skinny... right?

**Karin_texas** · 11-18-2005, 12:39 AM

healthy is just a state of mind. I am healthy. I eat when I really think it's time to eat. I don't eat just becuase the clock says it's such and such time. When I get hungry, I grab a small apple or banana. As far as meals, I am not hungry in the mornnigs after I take my phentermine and I am so busy getting the three little ones fed, I don't eat. After I get them down for nap time, I eat a small snack (fruit.) At dinner, I make 4 kid plates worth of food and I eat one of them. It sounds worse than it really is. I just don't set my life around a clock or having three "meals" a day anymore. We have all been taught that you either have to eat three (HUGE) portions of food a day or 5 small meals a day. I say eat when your body says it's hungry and STOP the second (I MEAN THE SECOND) you feel full. Drink your water and you will not feel as hungry. That's all I am saying. I just changed my idea of what having "a meal" looked like. It's all mind set. It really is. I changed my lifestyle and how I look at food.

***Ian*** · 11-18-2005, 02:07 AM

Ok I definitely agree with you. That's how I eat, too. I was just worried
that you barely ate anything at all, and then that'd be really bad cause
it slows down your metabolism by a TON because your body goes into
starvation mode where it tries to store everything you eat instead of
burn those calories and use the nutrition.

**Karin_texas** · 11-18-2005, 02:17 AM

i eat, it's just really changed! If I don't get to eat before 7:00, then I just blow it off and actually have breakfast the next morning. I just eat when I really feel like it's necessary now instead of just becuause we are trained to do so at certain times of the day. It's made a huge improvement in my life. I mean I don't even work out. I just changed the way I look and interact with food now. 35 pounds later, I can say I was not doing my right by giving into the "you have to eat this much this many times a day" crap. :grin: