losing weight + ephedra or what's good now?

[loupgarou]

hi all, apologies if off topic.

my ideal body form isn't buff but lean tone with abs. hehe.

in anycase, I'm a short guy 162cm, current weight is 63kg. at my peak weight was 75kg, so I've lost 12kg from exercise and change of diet.

as far as my day job is concerned, its only sitting down at the keyboard.

my work regiment is mostly gym classes. I'm at the gym 5-6 days a week doing group x classes at cali, mostly bodycombat (5x a week) , pump once a week, poweryoga classes (3 times a week). I'm not doing any treadmills or crosstrainer work at the moment because its tediously boring.

as far as food intake, I only drink water, diet coke or tea/coffee without sugar.
a typical breakfast would be beef porridge from yoshinoya, lunch can be something staple like char siew wanton noodles/chicken rice, and dinner is usually ham/leancornbeef/low fat cheese and bread sandwiches/yong tau foo or beef noodle soup.

for supplements, besides gnc megamen and triflex(glucosamine etc), I take effervescent creatine post workout (although I suspect its a placebo effect or effect of carb/sugar after reading that caffeine inactivates creatine).

I also take one scoop of myoplex post workout to prevent muscle loss from aerobic activity. (lactose intolerant, so two scoops will send me to the toilet.)

I've stocked up some weight loss supplements (ephedra based) when I could still buy them from the US (animal cuts), its running out now, and I don't know what competitive alternatives there are available (ephedra based). in anycase, I'm only take these thermogenics pre workout , so I suspect maybe plain guarana/caffeine pills might do the job instead..

suggestions:
anything I'm doing wrong (as far as my aims are concerned).

supplements: where to get and what's effective?

(also anyone using phentermine? should I bother?)

[Hardcore]

You have to start lifting more and eating more, ditch the diet coke, just drink water.

Since your lactose intolerant, try ON Whey. As your taking creatine to help you out in your workout, you have to drink more water than usual, and make sure you do the loading process properly. Try to prevent from drinking coffee as it will not work well with creatine, if you really do need to drink coffee try to keep it to one a day and drink more water. As far as supplements goes, your good, having just Whey and creatine.

In regards, of your weight loss supplements, I'm a strong veliever in DIET. Weight loss is just pure diet, if you tweak your diet well, it will be the best weight loss formula ever.

Try the below link for weight loss, as this have been discussed many times before.

sgbodybuilding.proboards12.com/index.cgi?board=nutrition&action=display&thread=1108692547

Ditch your weight loss supplements which are ephedra based, as it will greatly harm your health, as weight loss industry pump up the volume by a lot as a result it causes death.

As you have suggested plain caffeine pills will do the job. I occasionally take caffeine and green tea pills to enhance the weight loss process. but try to limit your intake of caffeine as it gets addictive and dont use it too often as your body develops resistance to it

[irx]

actually ephedrine / dra is very safe. just dumb people take like 10x the max amount. that's the onyl reason they died, or people who already have high blood pressure.

[Hardcore]

yes, there are safe, but the weight loss industry increase the levels to dangerous levels for human consumption