I'd say about 2 weeks- my thighs and stomach got tighter pretty quick.

I'll try to dig up a pic and post it....I know the Husband took a couple for me back then.
Lately I've been doing cardio and moderate heavy lifting but have been worn out, my job is a stressful mess and I just want to go home and sleep- I think a good caffeine pill may be the kick in the ass I need to get motivated again....

Hey Mattie, how are you doin? Just to bump up the thread a bit and like one poster asked, I'm curious where you buy it ('cause you got me interested in using it again). Is it the pure form or the herbal form ? I know you can get the pills in convenience stores and such (I always felt kinda dirty buying them there, for some reason).

hey there! im doing well, still liking the stack. im due for a tom any freakin day now, so its hard to say if im much smaller, because i dont know about you girls, but get friggin BLOATED during my tom. makes me so mad! but scott says he can totally tell a difference. ive upped the dose a bit, right now i have 16 E and 200 C twice a day (once when i get up and one 4.5 hours later) and then 16 more E 4.5 hours after that. ( i dont do any caffeine on the 3rd dose, id be up all night!)

i LOVE the appetite suppressive quality of these...as i mentioned before, that was my big problem: i didnt have any trouble eating low carb, but i would have like, 2750 calories a day. ugh. as it turns out, when your this close to goal, that just doesnt fly. so now i get about 1300-1700, somewhere in there. im perfectly comfortable with that amount

im not sure where he got it, i keep forgetting to ask him...ill write myself a note hes at work now or i would call him. and i think its the pure form, ephedrine hcl (i think the other is ephedrine sulfite, or something?)

ive also been carb cycling in addition to this, it going very well...

Love the EC stack, I've always been a fan.

Like others have said here, it does work ... and you must be very rigid with how long you take it, and also with the "weaning off"/stepping down process.

When used as a tool to help give that extra kick to blast off a few stubborn pounds, I put it at the top of my list.

Wow! TrainerDan!
I remember you from some time back!

hey i'm new here, but i took the ec stack for about three weeks and am off it now, although i have to say it was cheaper and more effective than any commercial thermogenic or stimulant. I took that with an ecgc concentrate, megadoses of fish oil, and as a synergistic combo - it's great. if anyone here still isn't taking fish oil, i would definitely recommend it just as much as the ec stack(from what i know, they work via different methods so they're perfect to use together).

hey all, thought id ressurrect this ec thread.

i am nearing the end of a 12 week cycle on ephedrine + caffeine. overall, i liked this alot. it got me over a plateau, along with the carb cycling that i started at the same time.

i am now "weening" off of this, my dose got up to 3/1 +3/1 +2, now i am doing 2/.5 + 2/.5 + 2, and ill go down from there.

ill post some pics soon, i have alot of before and afters on my phone, just need to email them to myself....

I use an ECA stack, I do 3 weeks on, 1 week off. It helps.

thought id ressurect this thread because i was curious...for those of you who took this stack, how many mg of ephedrine were you taking per day? im especially curious about you girls...

thanks...

Mattie, the recommended dosage is 20g of ephedrine, 200g of caffeine, up to 3x a day - max. It's suggested that if you aren't a regular user of the EC stack that you start at half dosage, once a day and build up to the full dosage slowly.

ok, so im not that far off. our ephedrine pills are 8 mg, and ive been taking 3 of those 3 times a day, thus equalling 72 mg. might be a bit much then. on the weekends, i probably only get 48 mg per day.

i havent been taking the caffeine with them, but maybe drinking a cup of coffee instead...the 200 mg caffeine pills are just too much for me, they make me feel horrible. i wonder how effective the ephedrine is with out the caffeine?

thanks for your reply!

I'd use your judgement on the caffeine. If 200mg is too much, then try 1/2 a pill or a cup of coffee (estimating 100mg per cup).

The ephedrine won't lose all effectiveness without the caffeine, but they are supposed to be better in that 10:1 ratio.

I've also heard of people taking 1/2 doses more often. So if 200mg of caffeine is too much for you, try taking 8mg of E & 100 mg of C five or six times a day instead.

I never tried taking the 20 mg more than once a day (this was Ripped Fuel - oh how I miss thee). Couldn't imagine how hyperactive that would have made me! Well more power to you guys that can!

Also wanted to add how I'm impressed no-one's jumped to chastise the OP. I supported ephedrine once on another LC message board years ago and even with all the cautions I gave I still got flamed.

val, thats intersting, i might try that! seems like that would be constant fat burning too, as i understand ephedrine has a half life of only about 4 hours....?

i like mice, i know, right? i will say tho, i do get chastised a hell of a lot by my friends, co workers, etc. i always tell them the same thing: read up on it like i did, and then make judgements. try to educate yourselves! grrr.