Am I A Good Candidate For Adipex?

I'm a 24 yo male. I am 5'9'' and weigh 340lbs. I also have high BP and take cozaar for it. I use to play football in high school. When I started my freshman year I weighed 220lbs so basically I have never really been small. and my senior year I played at 260-270lbs (some of the added weight was muscle), but by no means was it all. I have tried many different diets and exercise programs and usually can lose 30-40 lbs but that is it then I just stop losing the weight. I just seem to never be able to get past that mark. I really am looking for something to jump start me and get me past this point that has been my nemesis in the past and i think that adipex may be the answer. Like I said before the dieting and exercise don't scare me but when I am working hard for no results I get down on myself and give up. I recently got married and am finishing up my RN degree. my wife and I would like to start a family within the next 2 years, but before this time I would like to lose 100-120lbs and get down to 220-240. I know that 240lbs still is not small but I would be comfortable there I know i will never be small i just have a big build it runs in the family but losing 100lbs would greatly increase my health and allow me to be there for my kids.

does anyone have any input, or share their stories good or bad on this medicine.

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No, with the high blood pressure, you can't take Adipex, because it contains the active ingredient Phentermine, which is a type of stimulant and stimulants can raise your blood pressure and elevate your heart rate.

Learn more Adipex details here.

With hypertension, you are not a candidate for any stimulant class weight loss drug, which is unfortunately what most of them are.

As to the diet, what type of dieting do you do?

The reason you may hit a plateau could be due to just continuing to do the same thing.

To explain what I mean...

If you're cutting your fat intake down to say 40grams of fat a day and doing a certain amount of exercise, it's going to help to a point, but eventually your body will adjust to that and you will reach a point where you just maintain that weight loss and don't continue losing.

Thus, to keep losing, you have to shake it up a bit, by adjusting your diet again, when you hit that point and adding new things to your exercise and activity regimen.

Learn more weight loss details here.

My ex-husband has the propensity to be approximately the same size as you and he is also diabetic and his problem was always very similar. He could get so far with any diet and exercise plan, but then he'd hit a plateau and wouldn't get any further if he didn't make changes.

The thing that I've seen work for many people is to just cut their caloric intake each day, rather than doing any particular type of diet. So, instead of watching your fat, keep track of the average number of calories you take in each day for a week or so, then the following start lowering that.

If you do this, two things happen, you end up eating much healthier, because in order to fill yourself up with a lower number of calories, you have to each healthier foods. One glazed donut may have anywhere from 250 to 300 calories and by itself it's not very filling. However, one serving of raw carrots only has 35 calories, so you could actually have a couple servings of them with some good low-cal salad dressing or dip and you'd end up with much more food in your stomach and it'd be a lot healthier.

The second thing that happens is that when you cut your calories, that default of eating healthier spreads to everything else, you do end up taking in much less fat, cholesterol and sodium than if you just try to watch your fat intake on a general diet.

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