Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Wow. These legitimately work!!! Before I get into the review itself, let me just say that these are not magic pills that will make you stop wanting to eat sugar and they only work if you have enough self discipline to take them, but I have found them to be very effective in my fight to break a sugar addiction and lose some weight! In general I eat pretty healthy and try to exercise daily, but I find that in the evenings after the kids are in bed, it's like attack of the sweet tooth and I am weak!! Any good dietitian would tell you that the worst time to binge on sugary snacks is in the hours right before bed, so obviously this is a problem for me in keeping the fatitude off my latitude. I find that if I suck on one of these right after putting my kids to bed, I won't eat sweets before I go to bed. That makes a HUGE difference for me! Here's what I like about them: FAST - Just as advertised these reach complete effectiveness for me within 60 seconds or less (I timed it)!! You don't actually have to finish sucking the entire lozenge down to nothing, you only have to suck it for 60 seconds, then you can take whatever is left out and throw it away (which is great because at that point it's pretty nasty). EFFECTIVE - This is the most important thing right? Being a scientist I love to do experiments and gather data, so I really put these to the test. I started my stopwatch after the 60 seconds and tried to eat sweet things immediately and then every 15 minutes afterward until it wore off. The first thing I tried right after spitting out the pill was a mini oreo. It was completely repulsive and I had to spit it out and rinse my mouth out. AMAZING!!! 15 minutes later I tried a piece of sweet fruit. GROSS! Spit it out. At that point I also tried a pretzel to see if savory food was affected. It didn't taste 100% normal, but pretty darn close! Sweet things continued to be nasty until about the 1 hour and 15 minute mark when I tried to suck on a sweet breath mint. It was kinda gross, but not so bad that I immediately had to spit it out. I was able to keep sucking on it though I still couldn't really appreciate the sweet taste. 15 minutes later I ate dinner (udon noodles with shrimp in a spicy sauce and a roll) and the taste of my meal was completely unaffected by the pill. Within an hour and a half I could taste sweets again. An hour and half is a long time for 60 seconds of sucking!!!! EASY - I hate swallowing pills. I have to swallow tons of them for various reasons, so I was really happy that this isn't adding yet another big capsule to swallow. They are tiny, easy to keep in a purse or pocket and easy to use! The only thing I don't like about these are the nasty taste while sucking and the after taste which lasts for about 5-10 minutes afterward. They say it starts minty then changes to strong herbal. I'd say it just jumps right to strong herbal within like 2 seconds of sucking and just gets stronger and stronger. After spitting the thing out, I had a really nasty taste in my mouth for between 5 and 10 minutes, but that did wear off and the sweet suppression stayed in tact even after the nasty taste faded. It would be nice not to have that gross after taste, but hey, they work!!! I did compare these with similar products found in stores and those were a lot cheaper but I don't know if they work as well, so I'm going to stick with these for the time being! I keep the bottle in the cabinet where most of the culprit sweets are that tempt me in the evenings to remind me to be strong and these give me the little extra help I need to avoid giving in! I also keep several in my purse in a little pill box so I can fight cravings at work or when I'm out in public. There's no shame in giving your will power a fighting chance! If you just need a little extra help to kick sugar cravings like me, these will work great! But again, they won't work if you don't have enough self discipline to take them when YOU need them! I have found that my "need" for sugar has diminished since I started taking these, though it has not gone away. I can definitely recommend! And yes, I paid full price. I hope this helps a fellow sugar addict!