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Adderall the new pep pill

I was just reading an article about the Adderall pill in Details magazine on the weekend. Adderall is an ADHD drug that is being prescribed instead of Ritalin to try to dull the effects of ADHD. The article however showed another darker side to using the drug.

What is an Adderall Pill?

An Adderall pill is a combination of amphetamine and dextroamphetamine and there are four reasons that it is used for patients with ADHD:

  • Improve a patient’s attention span.
  • Increase his ability to follow directions.
  • Decrease distractibility among children ages three and older.
  • Decrease impulsivity, stubbornness and aggression.

These are good reasons to take an Adderall pill if it is warranted but more and more professionals are now taking this drug to work more hours and have a better concentration span. The effects are really profound and people have the ability to work a really great 16 or 18 hour day where ususally they could not be very productive after 10 or 12 hours. On the outside it may seem to be a good idea to take Adderall to increase productivity as many people get overloaded with work and have no way to keep up with greater and greater workloads. One of the reasons that this is becoming the drug of choice is that you can get a prescription for this and therefore no have to worry about failing a company drug test.

Side Effects of Adderall Pills

Adderall the new pep pill

Adderall Pill

All good right? But there are some real and dangerous side effects of a simple Adderall pill.

The Adderall pill, because of its composition is very addictive and because of its results it’s the reason that people may want to use it makes it psychologically addictive as well as physically addictive. The more that you use and like the effect of Adderall the more you would like to use it. There are some other very serious side effects such as Heart palpitations, tachycardia (racing heart), elevation of blood pressure. There have also been reports of heart disease associated with chronic amphetamine use. One bizarre but quite possible side effect is psychotic episodes. Mostly however the shakiness and paranoia that are associated with amphetamines are irritating and uncomfortable to the user.

One interesting side effect of an Adderall pill which is kind of like the story of the limitless pill, is the lack of real objectivity. In the article that I read there was great evidence that people that use Adderall think they are doing outstanding work but afterwards realize that maybe it was not quite so great.

This is an issue that we will see more and more of over the next year or two as the popularity of Adderall becomes more and more ingrained in our society. We have seen many of these drugs before and they become very popular as this one has until a few people drop dead at work which forces people to become a little more objective about the danger of Adderall pill.

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Running into a new year

Up here in Calgary the weather has been nice although only a little cold over the last couple weeks. I have been on holidays so have not really been on my bike getting exercise and instead have been trying to get workouts in and cardio done indoors. I am sure I will be kicking myself in a couple of weeks but the change of pace has been nice.

Work for me starts up again on Tuesday and I should be able to ride my bike to and from work which I believe is the exercise that has really made the difference in my life over the last year.

Now that we are into the new year everyone’s new years resolutions will kick in today. The gyms will be busy with lots of people signing up, talk at work will be about healthy eating and exercise and the will that things have changed for good but come the end of January most of the talkers will have become silent as the excitement of health, exercise, muscle soreness, and loss will have disappeared and forgotten.

The next few weeks will be critically important for you and the basis to me for continuing after things have lost their excitement is to not lose the excitement in the first place. Do the following and see if it changes your life for the better.

Drink lots of water every day and watch yourself lose a few pounds in the next week.

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Creating a fitness mindset

I could not have put this better. I found an article that really digs into what kind of mindset you need to improve your fitness. This will make the difference between doing and not doing, between eating well or eating bad. I have to warn you that some of the things in this article go against what I have said in the past, especially as far as goal setting goes but Paul definitely has an opinion so it is good to listen to anyway. Here it is:

I met her at a networking group early one morning. Lacy (name changed for privacy reasons) was in her 40s and had a lot going for her. She was intelligent, well spoken, and confident in her ability to run her own Law Firm as an attorney. Lacy was able to enjoy many things in life that others whom believed themselves to ‘less fortunate’ did not think they could enjoy. However, there was one big issue Lacy struggles with. It is an issue that you may recognize in another person, or even in yourself. Body image and fitness.

It was no secret that Lacy was a woman of large bone structure; something genetic that she has absolutely no control over whatsoever. It was also no secret that Lacy tried just about every trick and diet in the book to lose and get into shape. In fact, Lacy was bold enough to announce to the entire networking group of over 30 people her ambitions to fit into a sexy lingerie outfit for her husband and feel like a word I better not mention in this article (but I’m sure you have a good imagination).

Being a fitness professional myself, Lacy and myself were bound to be a magical match made in fitness and diet bliss, or one may have thought. After all, my track record is very good, and over the years I have been able to guide many people into discovering how to stay fit, so helping Lacy make this discovery would come naturally right?

Actually not. I worked with Lacy for a couple of months and after that Lacy decided the low carb diet she was insistent on sticking to was not working, and she was going to go off on her own program again. Think this is uncommon? Think again, Lacy was doing what many people do when it comes to health and fitness.
As previously mentioned I have helped many people discover how they can live the fitness lifestyle. However, there is another side to the story. There have been more people that I have crossed paths with in a professional manor that have not been able to maintain the fitness lifestyle. For years I wondered how and why this happens. What causes a person to invest so much time, thought, and effort into the idea of getting into shape only to succumb to disappointment and end up exactly opposite of where they wanted to be?

I eventually discovered it’s all in the mind. Lacy was the way she was because of the way she thought about fitness and nutrition in relation to herself. In her career Lacy obviously demonstrated the characteristics of successful thinking. In her idea of diet and fitness Lacy demonstrated the opposite.

You may be wondering how does one swing the thinking pendulum from fitness failure to fitness success and make it stay to fitness success?