Sensa - 'Sprinkle Diet' on the News

The idea of this product sounds ridiculous to me! "Intensifying" the flavor would just leave me wanting more...

What will they come up with next

Plain, that was great . . . you said it all. What a hoot :0)

By the way, medical trials typically have a group following the treatment and a control group utilizing a placebo treatment as well. When people believe something will work for them, it is usual and expected for some behavioral changes to occur. So if I am in the control/placebo group for the sensa sprinkles product, and I think that it should be working for me and I am excited for the change and know I am supposed to feel more full . . . why shouldn't this work if I am actively engaged in thinking about what I am putting in my mouth instead of mindless munching. I may very well lose weight from mindful eating which has nothing to do with the sprinkles.

I am done with diets . . . in the end I only ended up heavier after losing and eventually regaining a little extra than I started with. It is so liberating to have my band work for me and making healthful decisions.

All I can say is thank you, thank you, thank you to my wonderful Lap Band. I have found that good old fashioned exercise, eating organic whole foods and enjoying how my tool is working for me is beating any fad diet. It also makes watching the latest weight loss miracle breakthrough advertisements/articles/etc much more entertaining.

Make no mistake. I completely agree with you and you have every right to be paranoid of a lot of stuff they put in this crap. My point was that PROVIDING that these chemicals actually are harmless, this is just a seemingly useless fad diet and if on this fad diet, it motivates someone to drop a ton of weight, good for them.

It is obvious no one has bothered to even take 3 min to google info on the dr. before slamming him. Actually the institute he runs is legit and has 70 researchers and is very well known in Chicago. Now I have no idea if the sprinkles are a gimmick or can possibly work. I did order them and they do NOT change the taste of food and there are no chemicals they are flavors which we all ingest every day. Obviously you are all about the lap band on this board and I totally get that and am even considering it myself but figured I have been fat for years so why not hold off a couple of months and see if this works or doesn't work. I'm not pro or con his product but I just find it irritating that people write things that they haven't even taken 5 min to learn about. Anyone who has 1/2 a brain knows sense of smell can affect alot of things so while I don't necessarily think this is the end all be all I do try to be open minded. I figure I have 60 days to get my money back if I don't see any results so I don't really see what I have to lose. My other option is lap band which I have seriously considered but would sure love another route other then surgery but if that is what I end up needing so be it. If not, then even greater. All I am trying to say is do a little research before just writing things you know nothing about. This does not change the flavor of your food to taste like dirt. Also, if by doing it you just automatically reduce what you eat because you think it should work then the placebo group and the group actually using Sensa would have been much closer in weight lose. Sensa users lost over 30 lbs while the placebo group lost around 2 lbs. If this came from some nameless dr. no one has ever heard of then yes I would be VERY skeptical but a well known dr. with a good reputation has an awful lot to use if this is just a gimmick. This is just my take on it and I know most of you disagree which is cool and I might just be one of you in a few months as well. I'll be the first one to say if it doesn't work. I don't mind admitting mistakes and moving on from them.

Hi Izzabella,

Please don't amuse! I actually looked in to this before I made the post.
The only really way to lose weight is with a lifestyle change - eating healthy and exercising even if you have weight loss surgery.

I don't want a quick fix.

The Sprinkle Diet does nothing to help you understand why you are overweight and why you overeat. It’s not a cure for depression, low self-esteem, a lack of nutritional understanding, emotional eating, a sedentary lifestyle, or unhealthy habits. It’s a possible short term fix without any long term health benefits.

I only rely on medical journals. Sensa is not listed in any approved medical journals.

Medical doctors are business people too - they are trying to make a quick buck out of the billion dollar weight loss industry.

If you’re into a lifestyle of whole, clean foods then you sure wouldn’t want to use The Sprinkle Diet because it definitely isn’t natural! What currently approved for use in food products and isn’t healthy? Crystalline fructose, high fructose corn syrup, Splenda, natural flavors, MSG, and plain old table sugar. None of them are healthy for you, they don’t help you lose weight, and they mess with the chemical balance in your body.

Yeah, I might sound tough, but when it comes right down to it you deserve to do everything you can to provide a healthy, top-notch energy-filled life for yourself. Start treating yourself like you would treat someone that you love with all your heart and soul and give up the hunt once and for all for the magic pill, the quick fix - those quick fixes add up to a lifetime of continual searching and it’s just not worth it.

Here’s to your health - not only in body, but also in mind and spirit.

Okay, do me a quick favor and find me a link to the study. Find out what kind of study it was, how long it was taken over, and how big the sample was.

Please don't take this as me trying to make you look like an idiot because I'm sure you're not. You have to learn, though, that there are a lot things that you need to know before giving something like this a benefit of the doubt. If you do some research on the laws of supplements, you'll find that they can pretty much label their products however they would like and advertise them in much the same manner. The FDA has a very long, tedious, and trying process to get things approved in, so for a supplement to take the initiative to do that, it is easier to be trusted.

Make sense? Fantastic. Have a good night.

"there are no chemicals, they are flavors which we all ingest every day"

And how may I ask, do they replicate these flavors??? Maybe, possibly, with chemicals. Its the only way. Think about it.

Playing the devil's advocate, TECHNICALLY everything is chemically based. However, it plagues me because how would they ACCURATELY enhance flavors......YARG

I love (loathe) these type of debates. As someone who was a regular for years on the weight watchers message board, you were hardly allowed to speak of any *diet* or pill w/o the same tired arguements, "why would you do that, ww really works and it teaches you to eat right and you get support, etc."

Make the mistake of asking "should I take Alli while on WW" and you get a bunch of sarcastic shitting your pants jokes and how it "doesn't teach you to eat right".

Ask about Lap Band over there and you get the "why would you have surgery when you can just follow the plan and lose just as much. Besides, my brothers uncle's 3rd wife-in-law died after getting a piece of sushi stuck in his band!" Ugh.

Sure, the sprinkles diet is a fad, it's silly, whatever. But doesn't everyone have to make their own mistakes? I know I've made mine..cabbage soup, metabolife, alli, etc. Even Weight Watchers, about 15 times. Yes, I know how to eat, I just don't do it.

I expect the band to be my tool and I'm confident I'll do great, but I don't expect it to be a pychological wonder that gives me insight into why I overeat. I just do. For me, I eat emotionally. I know that, and for whatever reason I can't seem to control it, so I want help. I don't feel the lap band gives me that knowledge, it helps me overcome it. So I guess my point is, everyone has to travel down the road of failed diets and some of us will land at weight watchers, some of us with sprinkles, and some of us with the band. If it works in the long run, then good for you, and if it doesn't, you move on to the next big thing.