can laxatives help weight loss?

I have a friend who just started taking laxatives to lose weight. I've told her over and OVER about how unhealthy and HORRIBLE it is.
How fast will she lose weight? She's already skinny and I would really hate to see her get sickly from doing this :-( I'm not exactly sure how many she's taking. She took 2 the other night... But I just don't know.

@Prella: I'm almost 30 and I've been where you were at that age. I was 5'1", 190lbs in high school. After much encouragement from my friends, I joined the basketball team and lost about 65lbs, and guess what? I STILL hated the way I looked! My weight has went up and down through the years from 160lbs to 132lbs. I've been all over the scale, and I was never happy. It wasn't until after I had my son last year where I had to realize that losing weight is a benefit to changing your life.

My point is this: figure out WHY you want to lose weight, and simply saying to yourself "I'm fat and ugly" is not an option, 'cause if that's how you feel about yourself, you have bigger problems than just weight loss! If you want to lose weight, don't diet! Make an informed decision to change your life. Once you decide that you want a different lifestyle, do things and be around people that will promote it. Join a triathlon club; teach yourself how to run for your health; get a personal trainer. By doing this, you are changing the way you think and live without even knowing it. Before you know it, you'll be fit and looking good and won't even realize it.

Right now, I'm @ 153lbs, but my doctor wants me to lose another 25lbs. I know it will come off in due time. But as long as I try my hardest (eat healthy 70%-90% of the time and exercise hard a minimum of 3 days a week) I feel good about myself. And if I fall off (which I do a lot because I come from a family of eaters) I won't make myself feel guilty. I start back with my plan immediately! Yes, it's hard, but it can be done.

Most of all, enjoy your teen years. Weather you realize it or not, your metabolism is at its best during your teen years. Take it from a woman who is trying her hardest to lose baby weight right now--embrace it and just try your best every day!

so i have used lax before, i was actually constipated. i remember after a rough night in the toilet coming down for breakfast in my tank top and my mom and sister just satring at me. i asked them what was up, why they were staring at me and my sister replies "wow... you look so good. did you lose weight?!! you must have lost weight over night. i just cant believe how good you look" well that definetly made me feel good about myself because she was right. the usual gut was not sticking out of my stomach. it was always like my stomach went out just as far as my boobs but not that day, no sir not that day.
ya that all does sound good but the truth of the matter is i havent ever done it since and yes i gained all the weight back (not intentionally believe me) gained it all back within the week.
maybe if youre safe and think that you wont fall into addiction go for it .. but i strongly recommend you dont. aparently it only works best if you are constipated. plus why would you want your body to become dependent on it finding that you cant poop unless you take some of the chocolate covered stomach eaters :-S
lol im sure that my thoughts are all scrambled up here but really its not worth it.
i may say that if you have one every 2 months ... hahah but lets be seriouse. thats almost like me promoting taking meth once in a while if you thik you wont fall into temptation and addiction.
don't do Lax dont do drugs .. lol the end. oh instead you may go to the doctor and have your sh*t pumped out through your ass. since a doctor is monitoring you it may not be so unhealthy (but it does hurt XD ) ... k thats alll

Here is an A gOOd Tip:
Morning time ( when ever you wake up) have a cup of coffe no sugar just non-fat cream
then wait 20 minutes because coffee helps you go to the bathroom very quick. Afterward
Have a pear or apple or 2 banana's and crack 3 eggs with just olive oil and a lil salt. There ```` thats breakfast.
Go for a walk for 2 whole hours outside with an ipod to keep you going. Come back for lunch have water and 1 banana and bowl of soup any kind ( no cheese or potatos or pasta or rice or bread)
then do anything you want to do. after an hour make a salad. eat it with water. have a glass of milk (you know a glass of milk a day helps decrease an inch from your waist a week). for dinner have grilled salmon with veggies or chicken or Round steak (round steak has 0% fat).
follow that for a week ill gurantee you will lose 8 pounds just in a week!! no matter what big or thin you are.

Hi,
Though it is non of your fault, I have to say that you are all in the WRONG WAY !

Let me tell you my experience. In the first days of this year I was in a deep depression when again there was no weight loss after my last diet and pills experience. I met my angel then in a late new year celebration party. She told me;

'Do you notice that famous people, celebreties, business man, politicians and etc. do not have any over weight problem? How do you explain this fact, do you think they have a secret, magic formula?

I answered, 'no.'

She continued, ' No you are wrong my dear, no is the wrong answer, yes they do have a magical formula and explained a lot of things that I have not thought or new before.
She described mine and people like me as chronic weight loss products consumers who just helped big medicine companies and turn in a circle, jumping fromthat diet to another pill, hoping they will be successfull, It was impossible for her. She said she was 145 - 150 pounds for years and for the last 3 years she was constant at 115 -120. She really looked attractive and beautiful though was over 45 years of age.

I will not make it long, she gave me an email address and told me to try it,which I will write down here.

I was 178 pounds at that time, at tye end of June I was 145, and now I am 130 !!!

It is all about herbal treatment from middle east and far east. I wrote to that email, though there was a queue which I had to wait for 4 months, somehow I overcomed it with paying some extra and started immediately. You receive a mixture of some endemic plants from Anatolia and middle Asia and all you have to do is, prepare a cup of tea from them once a day and drink it. Unbelievable but that is all, a cup of tea a day and loose about 30 pounds in the first 6 months and another 15 to 20 in the next 6.

Stop loosing your money instead of your pounds with following the way which big medicine barons want you to follow. This cost me $ 2,600. Seemed a little expensive when heard first but when though of the money I have spend for years for nothing, it is nothing. You gain your health, your beauty and most important your self trust. That is the way all famous people follow that lady had told me, not a secret but not public. Otherwise how would the medicine companies will earn money. I love that lady, gave my life back to me, thank you Helen, again fromhere.

Yes, the email is
He or she is an Ukraine, Turkish or Azeribeycan citizen, not sure. My name is Betty and I hope this will help all who suffer, cause I know and will never forget what it was. Happy lifes.

Betty


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Hi,

private emails are not allowed, you can contact me ifyou want.

Betty

Im so sad that you feel this way at such a young age. I can only imagine the pressure you must feel in this day and age of the half naked thin video vixens, which only promotes the horrible self-image of the average size woman. Since nothing I say will make you feel better about your average (not even large) size I can only suggest that you do what I did. I actually as corny as it sounds followed the biggest loser and went hard for 3 months straight and lost 78 pds. Now wether I can keep it off remains to be seen. I wish you luck little mama.

I'm 20 years old and I'm a stay at home wife and mom. I've never been the type to care SO much about my appearance to risk hurting my body and health. I'm actually the type of person who couldn't care less what other people think. But see that's the problem. It's not OTHER people, it's ME. I'm completely disgusted with myself. I was never super model material by ANY means. But i DID have an attractive figure before I had my two daughters. I couldn't be more disgusted with myself. I've been with my husband almost 5 years now and I don't even want him seeing me naked. That's really sad. He doesn't realize it, but he's half the reason I'm so desperate to lose weight. He and I play around alot. We throw insults back and forth at each other then laugh about it. Weird I know. But that's just how we've always been. I love goofing around with him but sometimes he goes too far and calls me a "fatass". Not only that, but he points out attractive woman in public and makes all these barbaric, sexual comments about their bodies and what he'd like to DO to them. He doesn't MEAN it of course. If I thought for one second that he DID I'd be a swinging single. He only does it to mess with me and make me jealous. Which these days isn't a hard thing to accomplish. You'd just have to know my husband to understand. He really doesn't mean any harm. He's actually very sweet, and is by far the most amazing man I've ever met. It's just that sometimes he doesn't realize that what he says really hurts. As I said, I am beyond desperate to lose weight. I have read some of the things that were said about laxitives and how badly they can hurt your body, but....I'm still going for it. I certainly don't plan to abuse them of course. But I need help. I've always had pretty good self esteem. Now I'm beginning to just hate myself. I'm no doctor, but I really believe that doing laxitives isn't such a horrible thing if one eats properly and excercises. Maybe me going through with this despite what I've read on this website makes me an id**t. I don't know. There are just some people out there who have know idea what it feels like to get out of the shower, turn towards the mirror, and hate what's looking back at you. Especially knowing that same reflection used to be something you were proud of. It's the most horrible feeling in the world.....

No need to worry though. I'm also the type of person who knows when enough is enough. If things start to go bad, I'll quit asap.

Hi Betty,

I know who you are talking about. He uses a name enginkhan and uses a hotmail account. You are right, it ismagic. No diets and pills and loose weight and loose steady weight, you never gain again. as like you I have tried a lot of things and this man saved my life. Thanks to him. Hope everyone will overcome this thing.

Steven

i am a laxative abuser and let me tell you, you do not lose weight.. i am also a recovering bullimic and it doesnt help. i end up in excrusiating pain to the point where i faint on many occasions and end up with concussion. i cannot get off them as i dont sh*t for weeks at a time when im not on them. this is no life, trust me. Y O U D O N O T L O O S E W E I G H T ! ! ! ! ! !
but its your choice.. xoxo

Heya, iam 14 and hate my size too and it may nto be healthy but i eat well try to eat no mroe than 500 cals for three days then on the 4th eat as much as you like i lost 1 sotne and 6 bls in 3 weeks from doing it. Thoguh put it back on coz i binged everday.

Or you could try the cabbage soup diet fro 7 dyas and loose 10lbs and you can eat as much of thats as you like and there recispes for it no the internet ands drink plenty of water but not to much coz you dont want you brain to swell

Helena x

Hey Guys .. There are many type of diet pills available in the market . Many people are resorting to laxatives for fast weight loss results.
Laxatives help with weight loss and that is the fact that they help you digest your food much faster.But there some other good diet pills
available in your local drugs store and online also.


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I have had about the same problem with wanting to lose weight very quickly, and I found a website that was very helpful to me. I ended up losing about 30 lbs in two months with this diet, and all you have to do is stick to ever detail.
Good luck :-)

I'm 30 years old and since the age of 17 I have been abusing laxatives. Sure when you start using them you think you are in control of what goes in and what comes out of your body and therefore you think you have found the answer to a prayer. A few weeks will go by and you will find yourself taking 4-6 laxatives after meals and still think that you are in control and maybe on a high because you are eating a loosing weight, but as the weeks go on you will start to increase the amount of laxatives you are taking and decrease the amount of meals you consume at any one time. YOU WILL get to the point where you are living the life of a drug addict....up at the crack of dawn, buying packets upon packets of laxatives from chemists far and wide (you will get recognised and refused the purchase of laxatives by some pharmacists that get to know your face) then you will go home and eat all you can eat in one go to get the food bit over and done with and to give yourself the "push" you will require to keep taking the pills after eating. YOU WILL start to wretch at the sight of laxatives, the sound of clicking the packet open to pop the laxatives out will make you wince and the smell will be so overwhelming to you that you may even pass out! This is a very draining and emotional strain on your body and the mental torture YOU WILL put yourself through will be far worse than torture you put yourself through at the moment thinking that you need to take such drastic action to loose weight! Do not add to the problem.
YOU WILL isolate yourself if you take laxatives, you think you wont, you think you will be ok and you will even think that you will stop taking the laxatives after one more episode....you really wont, LAXATIVES will take over your life and you will become a human toilet. I ruined friendships and relationships, I became a lier, i lost jobs and i isolated myself from the world to sit in a toilet in a hotel room for years. I have no physical scars that I am aware of but the mental scars are still with me today. I sometimes take laxatives when i am feeling weak or disgusted with myself or if i have had a bad day. It isnt an answer and I wish that I could say that I wasnt addicted. Please please take the easy route and love yourself for being healthy minded. This path that I walk is an up hill struggle, very tiring and very miserable. God bless x

Im so addicted to laxatives and I cant get off them.......I feel ill every morning and Im never off the loo.I feel so ashamed and silly!!!!!
I hate being fat!!!!!!!! it makes me sick!!!!!!!!!!!!