A Time of Magic

Once you’ve been on an rv vacation once it’s hard to go back to a normal type of holiday afterwards.

For a family they can be pretty much ideal if you choose your spot well. America is littered with ideal spots ranging from the canyon country around Arizona to New England. Out west in general you’ll find the wide open roads of the RV advertisements but in the east you’ll find a very high concentration of RV parks reflecting the high concentration of attractions in the region in comparison to elsewhere.

The style of RV holiday that you choose can vary just as much as the locations. Some people choose an RV park and take daily excursions from that base which works really well in most spots on the east coast eg we spent three weeks in New England and were within 150 miles of Boston almost the whole time so, in principle, one central base camp with day trips would have worked well. Others use the RV as their travelling home, exploring a new spot every day which is probably best for the west coast generally though it’ll also work in the east if you change your base every couple of days.

I think though that the basic appeal of the RV holiday is that it’s your vacation and you can go where-ever you want, stay where-ever you want. You can plan your holiday in advance or just make it up as you go along or even just change your mind from day to day.

That’s a good question but there’s not really an answer to it as it depends so much on your own needs so the top 10 rated diet pills for you will be different from the top pills for someone else.

For instance, if you’re into long term weight loss then clearly something like the 72 hour diet pill isn’t going to feature highly on your list as it’s basically a laxative that clears you out and the effect is usually temporary.

Even if you’re in for the long haul though the perfect pill for you still isn’t necessarily the perfect one for someone else. What will likely feature on that top 10 list for a number of people are the big names like Lipovox, Fenphedra and Hoodia but even there it depends on your needs ie whether you’re looking for a fat burner, a fat absorber, an appetite suppressant, or whatever.

Diet pills are just plain confusing when you start looking for one as there’s no single type. So what do you get?

Firstly, there are the fat burners which sounds like what most of us would call a “diet pill”. It gets rid of the fat, so what more could you want? Well, the problem is that most of these operate by way of increasing your metabolism though the use of a stimulant (usually caffeine) and that’s not good if you’re already a bit hyper to begin with. A variant of this is the fat absorbers which basically stop your fat absorbing the fat which you eat. That also sounds close to ideal in that if you don’t absorb any fat then your body will gradually use up the fat that it has already. Snag is that the fat obviously needs to go somewhere and that can lead to diarrhea which is the major downside of this type of fat pill.

Secondly, there are diet suppressants which simply make you feel full earlier. If willpower is your problem then these can be very effective though usually they come in combination with something else.

Finally, there are the mood enhancers. These usually don’t come on their own but are there to make you feel good during the dieting. Although they aren’t diet pills as such, don’t underestimate the usefulness of feeling good whilst you’re dieting: if nothing else they help you stick at the diet longer so indirectly they will help you lose more weight.

And then there are the combinations. These are concoctions that mix together several different diet strategies in an effort to attack the problem on all fronts. The problem with these is that you can get several different categories of side-effect in one go thus, in the very worst case, you could have heart palpations from the fat burners, diarrhea from the fat absorbers yet feel good about not eating so much although you’d be pretty unlucky if that were the case.