I'm going to start off with thoughts and replying to some things in your post:
- Welcome back to things; I hope that you will have great results.
- Forskolin XT is the same Forskolin as in the product you mentioned, which is the patented Forslean 95% from Sabinsa.
- Reduce XT is the same as it was back when you used it and liked it and is a great product for helping reduce cortisol and lose body-fat. https://seriousnutritionsolutions.com/product/reduce-xt-90-caps/
- If I remember correctly, Shift is/was a GDA - if you're looking for a good GDA for fat loss, Glycophase is excellent.
- You mentioned not knowing how much the market has changed - it has changed a lot - in both good ways and bad.
- Bad - advertising dominates more now than ever so its hard to decipher really good products from really good marketing; and the increased cost of advertising has led many brands to try to reduce product costs to compensate for an increased advertising budget which doesn't allow for as much room for active ingredients.
- Good - there are some really great fat loss ingredients that are available now that weren't available back then - things like MitoBurn and Sinetrol that have great clinical studies on them.
I was in a really bad accident in Feb. of 2022 and wasn't able to walk for quite awhile and really let myself go between the combination of not being able to do much of anything and also the depression. When I started cleaning my diet up in Feb. of 2023, I still wasn't able to workout yet bc of my injuries and my diet was better but not super clean, but I used the following stack to lose a little over 40 lbs. from Feb. 13th to June.
I'm very strategic about supplements and when/why I add fat loss products because I try to target the different fat loss angles.
Stimulant Free:
- Lean Edge - targets fat loss from many different angles and if I were only going to take 1 product, it would be this.
- Thermo Scorch - contains 1,000 mg. MitoBurn and 900 mg. Sinetrol, two of the most popular and most well-researched stimulant free fat loss ingredients on the market.
- LipoVantage - contains 1,000 mg. MitoBurn and some other ingredients that really help tremendously with appetite control. Most people would choose either Thermo Scorch or LipoVantage - I used Thermo Scorch in the morning and LipoVantage at night because I struggle with waking up at night and screwing up my diet by eating terrible when I'm half asleep and LipoVantage works incredibly well for this.
- Reduce XT - cortisol control and works great for me.
- GlucoVantage XT or GlycoPhase - when I first started, GlycoPhase was out of stock so I had started with GlucoVantage XT at 2 to 3 caps per day. When GlycoPhase came back in stock, I changed to GlycoPhase but still take 1 capsule of GlucoVantage XT per day along with it.
Stimulant Products:
- Lipo Elite - is the most comprehensive stimulant fat loss product available in terms of clinically researched ingredients that have been shown to burn fat and increase metabolism from a variety of angles - MitoBurn, Cocoabuterol, CaloriBurn, GBB, Synephrine, and more.
- Thermagize XT - for people that prefer a really high energy 1 capsule per dose product.
- Note: I used both at different phases to compare them for myself.
Note: I also used Forskolin XT and TTA-500 for the first portion as well.
I don't think that everyone needs to use as many things as I did - I had let myself go to the point where my mental health was really suffering and I needed to lose weight fast for both my physical and mental health.
Here is the way I would suggest it for a normal person and I'm listing in order of what I consider priority, so I would tell someone to stop wherever the cutoff point for their budget allows:
- Lean Edge - because it targets fat loss from the most angles in one product.
- ThermoScorch &/or LipoVantage - most people would pick one or the other, but you could do both.
- Lipo Elite - for one looking for a stimulant option - great clean energy and clinically researched fat loss ingredients
- Reduce XT - for cortisol control
- GlycoPhase or GlucoVantage XT - the way I would simplify this is if going low carb, I would go with GlucoVantage XT, but if going with moderate carb (which I do), I would go with GlycoPhase.
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I hope that this information helps you or others reading.
