Fight Meridia's Side-Effects with Diet

There are so many benefits to losing weight—adding years to your life, getting sick less, looking better—that it is worth it to take medication to help you along. Yet, once you've found a safe and effective pill, you still have to cope with the side-effects along the way to fitness. Weight-loss drugs don't just work by magic; you have to diet and exercise in order for them to be effective. You are basically taking a drug that suppresses the appetite so that you have more control over what you want to put in your body. With that in mind, you can be very selective about the foods you eat to the point that you can benefit your overall health AND fight the side-effects that come with the medicine.

Headache

One of the most common side-effects of any medication is headache. Sometimes, all day long. With weight-loss pills, it is often worse because you aren't eating enough to get all the nutrients you need to feel great. However, if you plan carefully, you can get plenty of vitamins and minerals on a low calorie diet. It just comes down to picking the right foods.

Water- and Fiber-rich Foods

• Eating lots of whole grain foods is good nutrition period, but you'll love what they can do for your headaches. Recommended are oats, brown rice, barley, and quinoa. Whole wheat is okay, but it's not as good as the others here.
• Vegetable, fruits, and berries: Pretty much anything that fits into this category is good, but because you're on a diet, you should definitely try to eat papaya, avocado, mangos, carrots, winter squash, raspberries, blueberries, collard green, turnip greens, yam, and broccoli.
• Legumes: Eat all the beans and lentils that you can.
• Seeds and Nuts: Walnuts, pumpkin seeds, and sunflower seeds are the best.

Magnesium-rich Foods

• Magnesium deficiency makes it difficult for your nerves and muscles to transmit impulses, leading to irritability and headaches. Your hormones will be inconsistent as well, which spells doom for dieters.
• Eat lots of almonds, avocados, brown rice, garlic, leafy vegetables, grapefruit, and spinach.

Potassium-rich Foods

• Potassium deficiency causes depression, nervousness, insomnia, and constipation; all of these will give you headaches.
• Eat lots of avocados, lima beans, bananas, garlic, almonds, yams, and even raisins.

Vitamin E

• This is especially important for women on their periods.
• You will avoid headaches with better circulation.
• Oatmeal, yams, flax seed, legumes, nuts, and olive oil

B Vitamins and Vitamin A

• Avocados (got the hint yet?), oatmeal, peanuts, broccoli, asparagus, bananas, spinach, nuts and seeds, mushrooms, brown rice, and whole grains.
• B Vitamins are essential for mental health.

Heart Burn

Foods to Avoid

• Stay away from chicken and beef like they're the plague.
• Orange juice, lemons, tomatoes, lemonade, grapefruit juice, and cranberry juice.
• Raw onions and french fries.
• Get rid of all dairy from you diet if you can.
• Mac&Cheese as well as spaghetti with sauce
• Alcohol, coffee, and tea are no-nos. However, you might try using the Toddy system if you can. It really reduces the acidity of coffee and tea.
• Don't use lots of salad dressing.
• Don't even think about really rich deserts and junk food.

It can be very difficult for us to control our appetites. However, with the help of Meridia, you can make good, smart deicisions for your health and wellbeing.