Hello there Tina, I appreciate this post is nearly 6 months old but I thought I would share my experience in the field with you and everyone.

Just to give some background, I run a website (still in construction and not live atm) about supplements in the UK and this is spawned from my love of supps and health.

I also used to work for GNC as a sales professional/buyer and have vast expierence in using these kinds of products through my own personal life :-)

The particular one you mention containing the key ingrediant is "ephedra alkaloids"
basically this is the thing that really kick starts the metabolism and helps with fat burning but there are many products known as "Thermos/Thermogenics" out there with this in. there used to be a time when you could walk in a Holland & Barrat or GNC in the UK or USA and buy actual Ephedrine products ( note the difference in the name to Ephedra) including the original "Xenadrine RFA-1" which I personally used back then and lost a lot of weight considerably so over a year along with low carb.

L-camatine is an excellent supplement - it normally gets lumped into a lot of fat burners on the market but it really is good in terms of freeing up fat in the body and supports fat loss.

I have tried so many of these products and fat burners over the years all with low carb/Atkins style lifestyle but I have found only a couple that actually compliment the chemistry in my body that works "with" low carb.. IE seeing more results then normal.

I am currently using Xenadrine Hardcore and finding that to have great effect but mainly from a fat loss and mental positivity state keeping me on track.

A few things though...

As with everything like this, keep in mind the lifestyle/eating plan is the most important thing, sups are great to help.. but these days that's all they do.

Also you may get a placebo effect in a good way from taking them, but when you run out don't lose sight of all the good work you did and probably could of done without them. its easy to still think you "need" them.. and that's coming from someone who is probably on them 10 months out of the year :-)

Be careful with ephedra alkaloids - they are standardised to make them safe these days but can still give undesired side effects if you don't drink enough water and other things too.

Great product if you get on with them.

Products I recommend (but please do some research ) are:

"Black Widow" 25mg ephedra alkaloids

VPX Sports "Redline or Meltdown" - had good results with these

Xenadrine Hardcore - on month 2 and im doing really well fat loss wise + excellent focus on them.


**please note I do not work for any of the above companies and dont work for GNC any more either (had a career change!) but please feel free to ask questions as I love talking about sups :-)

Stephen