"this is my 2nd follow up on this. i started taking the medication dec 1st of 2011. when i first started this scared (because of what you hear about diet pills). the first week i will say i was in a dream like state until it leveled out. then everything became easy. choosing what i ate wanting to do more to lose weight. dec 1st i weighted 290 and dropped the first 50 in two months. well 1 year 1 month later i am proudly at 170... thats 120 pounds. and keeping it off. during this i was on the pill for two terms of 3 months. you can keep it off you just have to keep what your learned on the pill off the pill as well. hope this helps. it was a blessing to me. i had been overweight my whole life."