Colleague in eferdine

[Xizor]

Colleague on eferdrine

One of my colleagues just came back to work after bein sick for a week and she looked really good, lost 5lb. Well after a lot of talk we got into an argument about fatloss and said that it was possible to loose 15lb of fat in a week. I was totallt not agreeing to this.. and she accidentally mentioned something about fatlos aid. At fist I thought she had gotten her hands on xenical or some other drug for obese. Not that it still would be possible to loose that much fat but got her to confess that she had been takin this crazy fatloss drug "eferdrine" (ephedrine). Which had amphetamine in it and was sheding her fat like crazy, sigh.. Had a veeery hard time explaining the difference between fat and waterloss.

After half an hour of explaining and arguing she showd me what I recognized as arsan 50mg ephedrine. She was takin 2x a day without caffeine!!
Basically what she did was take em before she took a walk or went to the gym. Shes got a crappy diet, is smoking, got irregular heatbeat, somehin wrong with the thyroidgland, insomnia, backpain .. and the list goes on.
Just recently got back to the gym and started a "diet" (read: starvation)
Is there anything I could do to help, not like she would stop taking it but anyway....

Whats safe dosage for womans anyway?

/Xizor

p.s and I was naive enough to think that guys were the ones to be stupid to buy gear before they got a gym-membership. not that ephedrine is aas but its still what i considering beginnin in the wrong end. Diet and regular training always comes first.

 

[Sassy69]

Yikes. I guess the first thing you need to tell her is that she lost 5 lbs of water weight and not fat. Then you might just shoot her an email with a couple links to information about ephedra. For example: http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/ds-ephed.html.

I guess if she's not someone relying on you for diet & fitness advice, its hard to educate her. But if you want to take the time, you should tell her she first she should educate herself about any supplement she sticks in her body. Then you might tell her that a clean, consistent diet will get her better results than any diet pill.

Its a hard one when people have to be broken of their belief in "magic pills", starvation diets & other heath myths just to get them to understand the basics. But maybe you can start by planting some seeds of doubt that what she's doing makes sense and just let her at least research it.

I'm afraid I haven't used ephedrine in a while so I can't speak to "safe" doses. If there is anyone who is still building their own ECA stack, they might know. Or check any of the thermos that still have ephedrine in them (illegal in the US now) and see what dosage those contain.

 

[*MissFit*]

I use the ECa stack.. the pills are only avail in 8mg form.. i take 4, so 32mg once a day.

As for safety i beleive the safe dosage is like 28mg.

your friends, not to bright.. I take supplements and some extras but i make sure i do my research before i put anything in my body. I don't think people think..

Would i rather work a little harder and carry this extra 5 pounds or leave a lighter corpse. Ultimately.. and i know it is not an every day thing.. taking things like epherine which obvious increase heart rate and more, can result in death, if not taken with care

 

[ashley2212]

Would i rather work a little harder and carry this extra 5 pounds or leave a lighter corpse.

I think that's one of the most intelligent things I've ever read on this board. K to that...

You must spread some Karma around before giving it to Prettylittlepest again.

Or not! Hey, I tried!

 

[sasharawkz]

Your friend is headed for serious disaster with all of those red flags!!! I know that convincing someone that what is "working" really isn't but it's important to try. It's one thing for a person in reasonable health to look for an extra boost for their workout, but it sounds like your friend would have a hard time passing a par-q to get into the gym in the first place without a doctors note. Be persistant, use the link that a previous poster wrote or find articles on your own to back up your concerns. Hopefully your friend will see that your intentions aren't sinister, but those of a caring friend. Best of luck!!

 

[jaded]

Would i rather work a little harder and carry this extra 5 pounds or leave a lighter corpse.

Great comment, PLP!

I use an ECA stack - like PLP said ephedrine is only available in 8mg tablets here. I take 3 tablets (24mg) with 200mg caffeine.

 

[Xizor]

Thanx for all the advices, I'm gonna try to convince her to stop. I knew about all the sides just not how to convince her that its now really healthy for her. Its pretty much gonna be a rebound anyway when she stops takin it, sine she's got cravings for junk all the time.. or at least used too.
Her apetite is blunted but wont stay that way after she discontinued takin it.

/Xizor

ps. its gonna be hard on me too, her ass is so damn fine now.