Hi I agree with the weight watcher being a safe way to lose weight. I have Lupus and Hughes Syndrome so had to have the WW diet OK'd by my rheumatologist and she sent me to see the dietitian.
I had gained so much weight due to illness, being stuck in a wheelchair for two years, high doses of steroid together with a lot of other weight gaining medications and to top it all I couldn't do any real exercise. The physio did try to help but because of the extremely bad fatigue I had at the time it was hard to even lift a foot up.
Once I was back on my feet, although I did have to use two walking stick, I saw a photo of myself.....yuk......I hated the way my body had grown.
I was having to wear UK size 24 clothes and weighed 15stone 11pounds.
I started WW in March 2004 and by December 2005 I achieved my loss and got to the GOLD weight of 11stone 1pound a 65lb loss.
Since then my health has been up and down and I've had to increase the amount of pral steroids I take which meant that more weight would pile on....I tried to keep to my WW diet but still put some weight back on and went up to 12stone 4lb before I decided to get my WW cookbooks out again.
I started on the NO COUNT diet and have been to the gym for 30minutes every other day.........today I weighed myself and I have lost 3lb in two weeks.
I hope to keep at it and really wouldn't recommend any pills, potions especially the laxative type. Writing in a food diary what you put into your mouth which means you can keep control of what you eat and exercising will do you far more good.
Good luck if you are starting a new WW diet.