Q: Are Fat Burners helpful for weight loss or are they just wasted money? And if i do buy them what is the best routine to use them?

A: See my response in http://www.mikesfitness.com/content/diet-pills . Nothing much has changed since 2005 when I answered that question. Some of the more dangerous substances used fat burners have been banned, but the remaining ones continue to be advertised as miracle drugs. Plain coffee and black tea will give you most of the same fat-burning benefits (without all the dangerous side-effects) but overwhelmingly your success in losing fat will be determined by your diet and exercise, not by drugs.

If you have been eating well and exercising for years and need a little bit of help to get that last bit of fat off, then it might be worth it to try fat burners. For everybody else they are a potentially dangerous waste of money that will divert focus from where it needs to be: on eating better and exercising.