I never thought the day would come that my waist will go beyond 27 inches, for about a month now it has ballooned to 31. To make matters worse, we had bought a dresser that comes with a full length mirror that showed me what 'elephant legs' were: cellulite ridden and rippled.

The Internet offers several possible options, and its the diet pills that intrigued me. Diet pills can be herbal, combining several medicinal plants and extracts mixed with some vitamins and minerals. These can be chemical too, prescribed diet medication by doctors according to your need.

Some sites have heralded Herbal Diet Pill as effective in aiding your body to physiologically stop hunger pangs. What isn't mentioned though but very obvious to label readers, the combined herbs also stimulate your body's metabolism. Effects of the chemicals found in the plants make shut down your body's need for food and give you the extra energy to keep active. Virtually, this situation does cause weight loss, you're hungry but you just can't keep still. Unfortunately, the dehydration would be the result from prolonged herbal diet pills.

Prescribed Diet Pills on the other hand may not inhibit your need for food but the combination of chemicals are potent enough to make your body metabolize faster. Some even cause body fat to be burned and expelled even without you having to lift a finger. But just as every thing done beyond moderation, these have its effects too. Chemicals used as stimulants cause several side effects that may lead to dreaded diseases and abnormal body function. A chemical diet pill enable your body to expel fat in an unlimited amount which can also be detrimental to your health since fats is needed for absorption of vital vitamins, anti-oxidants mostly and minerals.

Between the two it was difficult to choose what to get, so I read on. There was a counter that computed your Body Mass Index, which is computes how much fat you have in your body and if it is in the required amount. Typing in the data they needed to compute my own BMI, I pressed the compute button and had a 27 BMI result. According to several diet sites, this BMI is a desirable amount of fat and dos not indicate any need for dieting pills. Forlorn and still shuddering with the thought of having huge 'elephant legs', I cross out the diet pill option and continue my quest to get back in shape the safest way possible.