supplements for fat loss

If you google “supplements for fat loss” you get a bunch of science-y words along with things like fat burners, pills and all sorts of other crap. I guess a more polite word for “crap” would be nonsense. I hope you read this letter to the very end but I’m gonna give you the punchline right here in the very beginning:

There are no supplements for fat loss.  

Supplements out there telling you that you can lose fat as long as you take it and you can keep eating however and whatever you want is really just effectively burning your wallet, that’s it. There’s no magic pill you can take where your body defies the principles of energy balance, the law of thermodynamics and you can just eat whatever you want and lose fat and have a figure that makes IG models look mid.

I get it though, it gets tempting.

Businesses are good at marketing. They poke at your insecurities and make you believe in a dream that sounds like it can become a reality. Sure some of them might get you some kind of mini short term results. But one hundred percent none of them can help you get long term results and stay there.

Don’t waste your time, don’t waste your money  

Now of course the next question is usually:

“what about whey protein and supplements like multi-vitamins?”  

They too don’t help you lose fat. It’s not like the more whey protein you take the more fat you’re gonna lose. Taking more multi-vitamins doesn’t make you burn fat faster. Whey as a supplement just helps you consume more protein conveniently. Same with multivitamins, they help you keep up with some vitamins-minerals that you may have missed in your diet throughout the day. They’re not magic pills.

They just help make your life a tad more convenient.

There’s no running away from working on your diet, your lifestyle for fat loss. There’s no short cut. There’s no “simple & fast” way to do it. There’s just putting in the hard work and doing it as consistently as possible for as long as possible. There’s no lottery to win. Trying to take a shortcut really just makes the whole journey longer cos you’ll get some short term results, it’ll rebound, and you’re back to where you started but have gone through a couple of days/weeks and gone on a roller-coaster of emotions.

Stop wasting time looking for products. Spend all the time you have making adjustments to your diet, your lifestyle, your workouts. It’s a lot of trail and error to figure out what works for you, but the more time you spend on it the closer you get to something that works and in turn that’s when results start to show over time.  

Don’t fall for fat loss supplements. They don’t exist.

— Po