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As part of my job, I am in daily contact with health professional, doctors, dieticians etc... One thing has always astounded me about them is the change of persona they go through depending on the circumstances of the moment.

So when a patient sees his/her doctor, the latter adopts a position of remote authority in which he/she appears to have so much knowledge about just about everything that it would be unwise to question them on anything. And patients invariably react accordingly.

On another day, in different circumstance, a question about how to lose fat put to a doctor by another doctor for example may elicit yet a different response or persona based on the doctor to doctor relationship.

The other day, I found myself in the presence of doctors and their nurses during a dinner organized by a pharmaceutical company. As the caterers started to serve the deserts, I could not help commenting that a cheese cake was not the most nutrition food served at a doctor's table during a health related function.

Here is the advice these doctors as a whole were following for themselves:

They were all in agreement when saying that they consume moderate amounts of protein and fat, as well as being selective about the carbohydrate they eat. Protein is the most essential food that our body requires and so they ate at least 10 to 20 ounces of protein per day. They found their protein in lean red meat, fish, poultry, low-fat cheese, eggs and tofu.

They kept their carbohydrate intake to a minimum, 60 to 80 grams daily so as not to have an adverse impact on insulin levels. They found these carbohydrates in a wide variety of fruits and vegetable

They take multivitamin to ensure they get all of the nutrients they daily food might miss.

And of course, they exercise regularly, by way of high impact aerobic and resistance training, four times a week for one hour.

As a side note, I was struck that 3 of the doctors had complete different views on the amount of carbohydrate they themselves felt they needed, with one doctor saying that he had mostly carbohydrate, consisting mostly of whole grains (such as breads, pasta and rice), root vegetable (potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, turnips), beans peas and lentils and green and yellow vegetable, whilst he limited the consumption of fruits because of their high sugar content.

At the end of the conversation, I could not help asking them what they thought about Phentermine. This question had some interesting and juicy responses. A couple of doctors recalled the days of the fen-phen diets when they made quite a living prescribing the then 'ultimate' diet pill. One of them didn't even know that Phentermine was FDA approved whilst another admitted that she had taken phentermine herself as diet supplement pill in order to help lose weight and that she would gladly do it again.

So here you have it.. When it comes to diets, phentermine might be the catalyst you need in your own battle to lose weight.