I've used both Meridia and Phentermine. I lost weight with Phentermine and gained with Meridia.
My impression is that Meridia is more for the mind. The drug manufacture tries to address the reasons behind your eating habbits while taking the medication. For example questions relating to why do we eat the things that we do, how much, how often, when, where ect. Meridia will put you on a programed diet. You can record your meals and send it in and Meridia (the makers of it anyway) will analyze it and get back to you. They will specialize a menu specifically for you. But you will not have all the ingredients/grocery contents at your figertips. So grocery shopping gets expensive. They send you videos, which are good because they are of overweight people who look average/normal/like ourselves. It's not skinny person advertising that they used to be fat. It's overwheight folks discovering WHY.
Anyhow, Phentermine doesn't care why, that's for you to figure out on your own. It just says - stop thinking about food and shuts down your appetite. That's it.
Note: This was my experience with the two medications. It does not imply that one choice is better than the other. It is simply meant to answer your question as it related to me personally.
How's that for a disclaimer? Ha. Ha.
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