I have seen messages on various forums and sites asking if The Pink Patch actually works and lots of people ridiculing it and saying all you need to do is eat less and exercise more which, as we all know, is easier said than done.

Well, I am putting myself forward as a guinea pig. I have ordered the free 6-day trial sample and will be reporting on my findings here.

A bit about me: I have struggled with my weight all my life. I like to eat. I like the feel of nice things in my mouth (no jokes please) and I like to feel full. I like eating things that are bad for me because they taste good. I'm a bad person evidently.

I have lost weight before - I dropped almost 5 stone a couple of years ago to hit 10st 4 which I was pleased with. Then I got pregnant. I had my baby last December and I put quite a lot on during my pregnancy which I have been steadily losing since then at a very satisfying rate of about 2 lbs a week. But about 4 weeks ago I hit a plateau and despite doing the same things I have been doing since December, I have been struggling to lose. The Pink Patch claims to suppress appetite and I have a tendency to get the munchies, so if it will suppress my appetite then that's a good thing.

I am HUGELY sceptical - I really don't think it will work. But I am willing to gamble £1.95 on the offchance that it will make enough of a difference to kick start my weight loss again and let me go back to losing my 2 lbs a week.

When they arrive I will be writing a little bloggy type thing every day including my weight which as of this morning was 162.5 lbs on my digital scales - that's 11 stone 8.5 lbs in English.

Good for you..I wanna know if it works for you, because I wanna try it out too.

Where do you find these patches for food control. I'd be very interested.

Do an internet search with these words: the pink patch and it will come up.

It has these ingredients:

Proprietary Formula:
Fucus Vesiculosus
Extract
5-HTP
Guarana
Zinc Pyruvate
Yerba Mate
Flaxseed Oil
Lecithin
L-Carnitine

I can't imagine that it would have a high enough concentration of any of these things in a small patch to make a real difference.

I don't know anything about it, however, when I dropped it into a search engine (along with the word reviews) I saw a couple of people complaining that the free trial put them onto an automatic payment plan that was hard to cancel. If you've already ordered it, check the fine print and find out what you have to do to stop the next shipment. If it works for you that's fine, then order more, but watch you don't spend months trying to cancel it.

To be fair, I suspect they were reviews shipped in North America, but just thought I'd mention it.

I did see that you had to cancel the agreement within 14 days of receiving the free trial, but it shouldn't be hard to cancel. It says to check the instructions that come with the free trial to find out how to cancel.

I wonder if you can just keep ordering the free trial over and over - there's probably something in place to prevent that - card number recognition or something.

They sent an email overnight saying it was 'in transit' so maybe it'll come today!!

Yay - it's here! So the test period starts today.

Day 1 - weight 161.6 lbs.

I have just put it on so no noticeable effects as such so far, apart from a slight apprehension/excitement feeling! I will report back in a few hours. My danger times tend to be evenings when I get the munchies so if I can get through tonight without feeling hungry that will be good.

Day 1

Weight 161.6 (11 st 7.6 lbs)

9.30am - put patch on

10.00am - got sudden burst of energy - did some cleaning and washing up.

10.30am - noticed touch of headache.

10.40am - took painkillers

11.00am - stomach just rumbled rather alarmingly so am having a banana.

12.45pm - I was starving for my lunch at 12.15pm but had the piano tuner in so had to wait. Was definitely ready for it - stomach growling and everything.

6.30pm - had my tea about an hour ago and, again I was very ready for it. I was so hungry while it was cooking I had a bowl of dry cheerios to keep me going. This appetite suppressor doesn't seem to have kicked in yet and I've had a headache all day. I have been reading reports that it kicks in after about a day so hopefully tomorrow should be a little better. Don't like the headache though.

9.30pm - well, I did have some snacks this evening but one big difference I noticed is that I didn't want any coffee this evening at all. I felt like I did when I was pregnant and just the thought of coffee was nauseating! I am also extremely tired, which could just be five months of broken nights catching up with me. I will probably go to bed in half an hour or so. Will post my weight tomorrow morning and see if it has gone down any.

Day 2

Weight 161.6 (exactly the same)

I sent them an email cancelling the autopay yesterday and received confirmation this morning. it was actually sent last night but I went to bed early so only got it this morning.

Weight has not gone down, but at least it hasn't gone up.

I don't have a headache today so that's good - it's not worth it if you have to put up with a constant headache.

I slept very well though - from about 10.00 till 4.30 when bebe woke up and shouted at me till I came to get her.

this is definetly interesting, all in the name of science and other dieters ay hehe... hope it does somthing good soon :-)

Day 2

Weight - 161.6 (lost - 0)

9.00 - put second patch on.

12.00 - no noticeable effects so far. Had grapes for morning snack. I weighed out more than I usually have as, once I threw away the ones that had gone manky there was 150g left so I had them instead of my usual 100g. But I didn't finish them, when normally I would have gobbled them up. I only had about half, went out to Morrison's and had the rest when I came home. Had lunch - soup and bread.

I also didn't have a mid-morning coffee. If there is caffeine in this patch as someone said there was, that would explain the lack of caffeine cravings. Which is good as I like my coffee milky and that adds calories. Although I did have one at lunch time. But 3 per day (one with each meal) is better than 6 per day (one with each meal, plus mid-morning, mid-afternoon and evening).

I confess yesterday I did feel odder than I let on - a bit dizzy and sick. I didn't want the patch to be making me feel ill. But today I feel fine - just normal.

4pm - felt peckish so had 1 oz dry cheerios for reasonably healthy snack. Whole grain, you know!

5pm - had tea and cup of coffee. Still no sign of headache!!

8.45pm - not really noticing any signs of wanting to snack at the moment although it could be psychological. But the tummy isn't rumbling like it was yesterday.

11pm - and so to bed. I feel like I've done pretty well today.

Day 3

Weight 161.1 (loss of 0.5 lbs)

Looks good, but my weight has been bouncing between 160.9 and 162.5 for the last four weeks, so this is nothing unusual. If I can get it below 160.9 this week, that will be a result.

I have also come to the conclusion that the amount I have been eating recently is now my maintenance diet so I am going to have to actually reduce my calories a bit!! If I understand the way it works, the Pink Patch doesn't help you to lose weight and still eat the same stuff, it helps you to eat less by stopping the cravings - you do still actually have to eat fewer calories.

Yesterday I logged 1397 cals. Today I'm going to try to log under 1300, which should be a weight loss diet for anyone!

Day 3

Weight - 161.1

10.00am - put on Pink Patch

11.00am - tummy started to rumble on cue, so had 100g grapes for snack.

12.30pm - had nice healthy hi-protein lunch - 4 crackerbreads with scrape of of marg and nice big tub of virtually fat free cottage cheese. And cup of coffee (OK, perhaps that wasn't quite so healthy, but think of the calcium!).

2.00pm - got peckish again so had my 1 oz of dry cheerios. Didn't have any coffee though.

5pm - had tea.

6pm - had to put up with a ranting visit from my idiot next door neighbour about the noise we were making (my small daughter was practising the piano). Apparently since we moved the piano into the back room (several months ago) it has become 'unbearable'. We play the piano at all times of the day and night (usually about 3pm for me for about 30-45 minutes, and tea time for my daughter for about 15 minutes) and the other day there was someone playing scales for hours on end (that would be the piano tuner who was here for an hour and comes once a year). I ask you!

I asked what she suggested we do and apparently we should move it back into the front room. Um, no - it cost me £50 to get some nice men to come and move all the furniture round for me. I prefer it the way it is thanks.

So she stomped off in a huff when I didn't agree to instantly stop and never play the piano ever again. Hello - I'm a music teacher!!

Today's calories logged - 1304.

Here's hoping for a loss tomorrow.