I was just about to unsubscribe this thread since it appears nothing will sway OP's belief in magic pills. But I gotta respond to this before I do.

I had a MI in '08, so started loosing weight. I didn't completely eliminate all the bad stuff and had another in'12. It is really hard since my wife prefers processed crap to healthy. She started stocking Halloween candy in late September, and will have to by more in time for the trick or treaters. We have a weekend breakfast ritual at a local mom'n pop diner. I have two eggs (my weekly allowance of eggs) fruit and wheat toast. the other six days a week breakfast is 1 oz peanut butter on wheat bread. For her it is pancakes, don't spare the butter and suryp, or, sometimes and biscuits and gravy and always includes bacon or sausage. It is the only day a week she eats breakfast.

I have lost 90 lb. She went to Weight Watchers for two weeks and quit. Now she is talking about gastric bypass. I sent her a link to a website that details how she will have to eat after it, and it sounds surprisingly like what I am eating (or trying to with some success) now, and trying to get her to eat, with no success at all. She eats two servings of vegetables a week, and only because of me.

I have a cousin who had the surgery almost twenty years ago. She has been wheelchair bound for the last ten due to obesity.

Magic pills are not the way to go.