How to Lose Weight with Diet Patches

Diet patches are becoming more and more popular. There are a variety available to help you lose weight. They can be attached to various parts of your body and function by helping your body burn fat, stimulating your metabolism and also suppressing your appetite. Most patches can be used regularly for a number of weeks until you have reached your desired weight. Here's how natural diet patches work, so you'll understand why sticking them on your body helps you to lose weight.

Things You'll Need

• Diet patches

Instructions

1. Look at the ingredients listed on your diet patches. Most natural diet patches contain one or a combination of four ingredients. The most common is chromium. Chromium balances blood-sugar levels by regulating the function of insulin and helping with the uptake of glucose into the cells. The most popular use of chromium is as a weight-loss aid. It works by increasing lean mass while depleting fat stores.

2. Know that guarana is another popular ingredient. This substance is extracted from a caffeine-containing plant native to South America. The part of the plant used is the powdered seed. Its caffeine content ranges from 2.6 to 7 percent. It does stimulate the nervous system, but it is understood to be the least likely of all plants containing caffeine to induce anxiety.

3. Look out for bladderwrack (Fucus vesiculosus), another key ingredient. Manufacturers of diet patches claim that bladderwrack is able to burn fat because of its high iodine content. Iodine is used by the thyroid gland to make various thyroid hormones that regulate many metabolic processes related to energy use and growth.

4. Look for the ingredient garcinia cambogia, also known as brindle berry. The extract from this yellow, Indian fruit is reputed to prevent the conversion of carbohydrates into fat by inhibiting the action of the enzyme citrate lyase.

5. Keep a look out for other natural diet patches, such as those that use green tea. It is believed that green tea may help the metabolization of body fat. In this way it not only helps with weight loss, but also reduces the risk of other diseases that can ultimately lead to colon cancer.

Tips & Warnings

• The typical recommended dosage for chromium is 200 to 600 mcg (micrograms) per day.

• Diet patches do seem to show positive results, but they can be expensive. They are probably best used over a short period of time if you just want to lose a few pounds.