The drug is phentermine. It has at least three positive effects: appetite suppressant, stimulant, and a separate "weight loss" factor. The "drug facts" includ

The drug is phentermine. It has at least three positive effects: appetite suppressant, stimulant, and a separate "weight loss" factor. The "drug facts" include a statement that after accounting for the first two, it is not understood how phentermine causes weight loss. It also has a list of side effects, one of which is that it raises blood pressure, so if someone has blood pressure issues already, this isn't something your doctor is likely to want you to take. Fortunately, I don't have that problem. A fourth effect that it seems to have is to make exercise stop being terrible, which was a whole other revelation for me separately from the one I talked about, above. I've taken stimulants before, and none of them ever made me eager to go run around and do physical activity; phentermine has. I'm not sure if they classify this under the stimulant effect, though. In January 2012, I was about 380 pounds. I'd hovered around 335 for years, and the higher figure was shocking enough to me that I immediately went to a ketogenic diet intermittent fasting, and shed about 65 pounds in six months. It then became quite difficult to continue the loss, and I stopped trying so hard. On February 9, 2015, I was 336. I started keto again and lost about 10 pounds through mid-May, which was when I finally had that meeting with my new GP, where I talked about being discouraged because keto wasn't working the way it had three years before. :) As of this morning, I'm 286.