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Title: Weight Loss and Maintenance
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Moderator:ASICS::LESLIE
Created:Tue Jul 10 1990
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:933
Total number of notes:9931

805.0. "Formula One/Alliance info?" by DPDMAI::POGAR (Resident Movie Critic & Costner Fan) Wed May 26 1993 20:28

    Has anyone had experience with and/or heard about a product called
    Formula One by Alliance?
    
    I've recently met someone (a distributor) who lost 12 pounds in the
    first two weeks of "the program." Her husband lost 5 pounds his first
    week. She provides sample packs of a 4-day supply so that you can try
    the product out before investing in an entire bottle.
    
    For people with high blood pressure, a stern warning apparently comes
    with the bottle, advising checking with a doctor before using, because
    it speeds up the metabolism and could affect the heart rate. 
    
    All ingredients are natural -- herbs and stuff; no caffeine; no
    phenylpropanolamine (PPL), the stuff that's in OTC diet pills. 
    
    I was really impressed by the results this lady has had and figured
    that I've tried everything, why not one more? Even though my eating
    habits have changed for the better, I still look for an easy way out.
    And I *know* I have to work at losing weight. I guess I figure
    everything's worth a shot as long as it's not harmful medically. (This
    last paragraph could start a new topic, huh?)
    
    Thanks in advance for any info.
    
    Catherine
    
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805.1there is no easier, softer wayGOLLY::CARROLLAsk me about the '93 AIDS WALKWed May 26 1993 21:4830
    Well what's the catch?
    
    Is it a nutrition shake that is supposed to take the place of meals,
    like Slimfast?  Is it something that is supposed to make you less
    hungry?  Or is something that allows you to eat everything and still
    lose?
    
    The first is fine, as long as it really does give you enough nutrition
    and you are getting enough calories that you aren't starving yourself. 
    The second is also fine, if it isn't an addictive chemical, like diet
    pills are, but I'm skeptical, and - what's to stop you from eating for
    emotional reasons, even if you aren't hungry?  The third is total
    B*!!sh!t - the only things that really allow you to do that are really
    REALLY harmful to your body (someone was once selling tape-worm larvae
    as a diet aid - no kidding.)  
    
    And regardless, you've heard it over and over, and it's time it's as
    true as the last; if you lose weight using some "miracle cure" - how
    will you keep the weight off?  When will you change your eating habits
    - after you've lost the weight, without that as a motivation?  I don't
    know about you, but for me, changing my eating habits required the
    motivation of losing weight.  I tried a dozen miracle cures, and each
    time, whether or not I lost weight, I went back to my old eating
    habits.  Every time.  Now, when I see something like this, I ask myself
    - what makes me think this will be different?
    
    Insanity means doing the same thing over and over again and expecting
    different results.
    
    D!