Remember Hydroxycut? Well, you don't have to. It's still around.

 

Full disclosure: I have no idea who Heidi Montag is.  I guess she's some kind of "influencer?"  But who the hell isn't?  I don't care.

This stuff has been around FOREVER (at least twenty years.)  The company that developed it went bankrupt back in 2005 and the formula* and brand name was purchased by another entity which continues to make ads featuring people celebrating their weight loss with Hydroxycut.  This stuff is available in the supplement aisle of a lot of stores, dangerously close to actual medications backed up by actual clinical studies.  So even if you never see any of these commercials you might be convinced that this is a weight loss drug approved by doctors and just blonde girls in bikinis with zero credentials.

*the formula is olives, mint, and coffee.  There's a "non-stimulating" version that doesn't have any coffee.  There are no other "active ingredients" in this Basically a Placebo.  Which is the most positive thing I can say about it- at least, it doesn't seem capable of doing any harm except to your bank account.  But if you really want to lose weight, why would you waste time with this nonsense?