Many diet products that are on the market work by suppressing the appetite. I don’t know that this is not a helpful term, especially in the short term, but long term I think this is going to lead to the same place that 90% of all diets do. Weight gain.
The problem that I see with this is that while you might fool your stomach, you won’t fool the body, and when you stop taking the appetite suppressant, you will have cravings like crazy. This is the same problem with what people call the master cleanse, where you don’t eat anything for a couple of weeks, but you do consume a concoction that is supposed to fool your body into using its own fat for fuel. People come off such experiences lighter, but they also have cravings that kick in and they will soon gain it back.
It just seems like the same thing over and over again with dieting. There are things that will help, but if you rely on them long term, any tool will be the undoing of whatever weight loss goal that a person has.
You simply have to change your fundamental view and relationship with food–you have to look at it a different way and like looking at it that way. That is hard, but that is what needs to happen.