You don’t need diet medication to lose weight, but diet medication can make weight loss faster and easier by
blocking your hunger (so you eat less and lose weight faster) and by reducing your sweet and starch cravings (so
you eat less and lose weight faster). Reducing your sweet and starch cravings also helps you follow a very low
carbohydrate diet without cheating, which is a good thing, because you will lose weight twice as fast on 1500
calories of protein and fat (without carbohydrate) as you will on 1500 calories of carbohydrate. The prescription
diet medications that block your hunger are phentermine, phendimetrazine, diethylpropion and benzephetamine.
The prescription medications that reduce carbohydrate cravings are topemax, zonegran and naltrexone. In
addition, prescription Librax can make you feel fuller when taken with meals, and prescription Wellbutrin can
speed weight loss by making you feel less hungry, when used in combination with other medications. Prescription
B12 nasal spray can increase your energy and can decrease self medicating with food. Finally, there are three
prescription injections, Victoza, Symlin and Byetta, that are appetite suppressants and help you lose weight by
making you dramatically less hungry.