I take an anti-obesity drug. I've managed to lose 2 stones whilst on it and am convinced it has saved my life as I was heading for a heart attack. Not everyone who suffers from obesity overeats, it's often medical and metabolic reasons. I'm relatively fit and healthy, haven't had a day off sick in 20 years and completed the Edinburgh half-marathon.

#1 Helen, good for you girl, keep it going ;-)

#1 Helen, great to hear your fit and healthy, keep it up. To be honest I couldn't complete a half marathon and I'm 19! lol Not fat just smoke to much. Damn fags they should ban them.

#3 Skirvy, Hi mate, do yourself and your pocket a favour and give up the fags pal, believe it or not it won't kill you. I smoked for 23 years and gave them up, no patch no gimmicks just quit stone cold. It's easier than you think mate.

#4 I want to, I tried on Monday managed nearly a day then the temptation got me. I'm definatley giving it another go, hate smoking to be honest wish I never started. Cannae even play football for more than 10 minutes now without having to go in goals. Cheers Jim, I know i'll save a tonne every year.

#3 Skirvy keep trying man, I stopped 16years ago and am still chuffed with mesel.

#1- Helen- I could afford to loose 20 lbs. What's the name of the pills? Any side-effects? BTW- What is a "stone"?

#5- Skirvy- You must smoke an awful lot!! I have the same bad, expensive habit as you. I tried hypnosis, quit for 8 months, gained about 7-8 lbs., felt like crap, then mother-in-law got on my nerves-so I started again. I've been smoking for 30+ years. Gotta try to quit again.

How weird is it that artificially stimulated mating behaviour interferes with the normal eating behaviour of shrews???? How much weirder is it that that want to do that to us???

If you want to lose weight 1) cut out all extra sugar and alcohol and learn that they're poisons not treats 2) eat less wheat 3) up your fruit and veg, esp leafy veg and 4) find a way to get more active - use that body, girl.

If you want to cure "lack of libido" in women, teach men about women's bodis and get lovers talking about the hurt that's happened. Maybe, just maybe, there's a good reason.

OK, eyebrowe raising and tongue licking is pretty common in a lot of inner London streets, rump raising and tail wagging as far as I know is non existent. However, what the hell, it is all public paid research, isn't it.

#7 American, a stone is 14 pounds. Over here you may weigh 10 stone, 4 pound which is 144lbs.

Is there such a pill for men??? Not that I'm big, but there are a lot of really fat guys around who look like they need as much help as they can get!

Congrats on doing the half-marathon, Helen. I couldn't even do the ten metres. But I'm a lazy git (apparently!)

How very sex and the City ................aye if the sex ia anal and the city is Dundee............................

rump presentation and tail wagging", and in Dundonians it included "tongue flicking and eyebrow raising".

Well said #8

Pete #9: There are loads of instructional videos on tail wagging and rump raising on MTV and other music channels. Clearly these young ladies (also known as soft porn stars) have been trialling the drug.

#5 Skirvy,

Mate just think every time you want to go buy a packet of fags stick the fiver in your piggy bank instead, see if you can manage that for a year and I will bet you another fiver that you would have enough cash to go on holiday in the summer.

Will it help them to vote.

Don't shrews need to eat 5 times their own body weight every day to survive?

And I agree with no. 8 and add, to our American friend: don't swallow those pills - or some scientist chap like Professor Millar saying that men's opportunistic libido defines "normal". What a cheek - rump-wagging or otherwise.

Oh just what frustrated husbands and boyfirends need - a skinny wife and/or girlfirend who loses lots of blubber and now is insatiable in her sexual demands.

On that pill they will DEMAND "servicing" 10 times a night and drain their partners of every last gram of their manly juices and than go out looking for other partners to satiate their satiable sexual urges.

LOOK OUT MEN - the nymphomaniacs have now found a way to get it again and again and again and .... ad nauseam.

Scotsmen, better yourself for an increase in the birth rate and roving gangs of libidinous ladies propositioning you and your men friends at the drop of a knicker and bra!

Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

I am all awash with confusion and trepidation that, if I visit Scotland, I may be accosted by drunken lager-loutesses in halter tops and VERY short skits on the make.

I had thought that was the biological imperative of MEN. I see it as the end of civilisation and MANkind as we know it.

And let us not get into lesbian ladies - lipstick lezzies and bulldykes - on the make. I shudder just thinking about the decline of the social order when women can sexually act like men and be right sl**s.

#10-ScottyEdi-Thanks. Saw that before on a site, but was embarassed to ask.

The best thing about giving up smoking is lecturing smokers.

It gives you a terrific feeling of superiority

#18 - British girls may not be the skinniest on earth (yet?), but the scenario described by you of boozed-up, sex addicted women trying to prey on you during a visit to Scotland is not that far from a typical night out in a British city with a large student population. Oh well, as if it were only the students. But what the hell, I think I am going to sign up my (Asian) gf for the human trials of the pill. Not that she would have any weight to lose...

I'm still trying to figure out how they managed to get my mojo into this pill?