How do Weight Loss Supplements Work?

The average weight loss supplement can help you to naturally curb your appetite, reduce your food cravings and ultimately cut your meal portions. However there are a number of different weight loss supplements available that can help you to achieve the rapid weight loss results you crave.

Fat burners, carbohydrate/fat blockers, appetite suppressants. each of these can provide you with the tools you need to implement your week weight loss plan and experience successful weight loss.

To sum them up:

Fat burners - designed to improve the functionality of your metabolism and increase fat burn, fat burners can prevent the accumulation of fat within your body and instead help you to achieve your goals of weight loss in a week.

Carbohydrate blockers - enriched in Phase 2, these carbohydrate blockers work by preventing digestive enzymes from converting starch into glucose. Too big to be absorbed, they pass naturally out of your body.

Fat blockers - built of soluble and insoluble complex fibers, fat blockers such as Proactol work by binding with up to 28% of your dietary fat intake and making them indigestible.

Appetite Suppressants - designed to naturally help you to reduce your meal portions, appetite suppressants manipulate the production of hormones within your body making your brain think you are full when you are not.

There are a number of routes you can take when implementing your week weight loss plan. To help you on your journey at Weight Loss Week we have examined all the top herbal and dietary weight loss supplements on the market to give you a firm assessment on which can be better for your body:

Bitter Oranges

Claims

Increases the number of calories burned

What you should know

• Widely known as an "ephedra substitute", but may create health problems similar to those of ephedra
• Long term effects unknown

Chitosan

Claims

Prevents absorption of dietary fat

What you should know

• Fairly safe, but unlikely to cause weight loss
• Can result in constipation, bloating and other gastrointestinal complaints
• Long-term effects unknown

Chromium

Claims

Reduces fat and builds muscles

What you should know

• Fairly safe, but unlikely to cause weight loss
• Long-term effects unknown

Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA)

Claims

Reduces body fat and appetite and builds muscles

What you should know

• Might reduce body fat and grow muscle, but is not likely to reduce total body weight
• Can result in diarrhea, indigestion and gastrointestinal problems

Country mallow (heartleaf)

Claims

Reduces appetite and increases the number of calories burned

What you should know

• Contains ephedra, which is dangerous
• Touted as unsafe and should be avoided

Ephedra

Claims

Reduces appetite

What you should know

• Can result in high blood pressure, irregularities in your heartbeat rate, sleeplessness, seizures, heart attacks, strokes and even death
• Banned from the marketplace because of safety concerns, but may still be legally sold as a tea
• Despite the ban, many ephedra products are still sold online
• Despite the ban, many ephedra products are still sold online

Green tea extracts

Claims

Increases calorie and fat metabolism as well as reduces your appetite

What you should know

• Limited evidence to support the claim
• Can cause vomiting, bloating, indigestion and diarrhea
• May contain a large amounts of caffeine

Guar gum

Claims

Blocks dietary fat absorption and increases the feeling of fullness, which leads to reduced calorie intake

What you should know

• Relatively safe, but unlikely to bring about weight loss
• Can cause diarrhea, flatulence and gastrointestinal problems
• May cause intestinal obstruction if not taken with enough water

Hoodia

Claims

Reduces appetite

What you should know

• No conclusive evidence to substantiate the weight-loss claim