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Sorry, may be repeating stuff but I don't have time to read all the posts. My mom talked to a pharmacist. She's always hoping for a way to lose weight so she can go from about 185 to 105 without doing anything. The pharmacist told her that yes, it will work but they strongly recommend wearing a pad as well as dark coloured pants because of how little control you will have over your ability to get to the bathroom in time. Thankfully she decided not to try it.
I'm sorry but that's a load of rubbish. If you follow the dietry advice, 'accidents' will not happen.
Alli suggests that you take an extra change of clothes everywhere you go. Alli broadcasts itself as a "fat blocker", it does block fat, however they fail to mention that Alli well.... to be blunt... it makes you **** your pants.
Think carefully about using this product before you use it...
Is losing weight worth ****ting yourself?
Alli suggests that you take an extra change of clothes everywhere you go. Alli broadcasts itself as a "fat blocker", it does block fat, however they fail to mention that Alli well.... to be blunt... it makes you **** your pants.
Think carefully about using this product before you use it...
Is losing weight worth ****ting yourself?
I'll repeat my reply above:
I'm sorry but that's a load of rubbish. If you follow the dietry advice, 'accidents' will not happen.
Alli suggests that you take an extra change of clothes everywhere you go. Alli broadcasts itself as a "fat blocker", it does block fat, however they fail to mention that Alli well.... to be blunt... it makes you **** your pants.
Think carefully about using this product before you use it...
Is losing weight worth ****ting yourself?
I've been on it for a couple of months, that never happened to me. In fact, sometimes I find I'm kinda plugged up. Strange, but true.
Like many of you, I picked up the Alli brochure when it first came out and immediatly said "NO WAY" when it described how you should take other sets of clothes with you when you go out, and to wear dark colored pants - just in case! I don't think this sounds all that healthy to me - or NORMAL!
I put an extra set of sweat pants in my truck "just in case" as the booklet recommends and I have been on the Alli Plan for 2 months not and haven't used them yet, in fact haven't even come close to using them.
I think the book recommends this just to cover their tails because SOMETIMES someone will have a bad reaction. But I really believe if you follow the plan and eat low fat like the plan requires it is far and few inbetween that people will have a bad reaction.
Incidently I have eaten well and stay full and I have lost 25 pounds so far. It is working for me.
Does Alli work for everybody? Evidently not but name one thing that works for everybody???
It works for the majority of people who follow the directions and the only way you will know if it will work for you is to try it.
The horror stories that abound on the web and on forums crack me up.
I'll bet my last dollar that 90% of them are from people who bought Alli and didn't read the books and just kept eating what they always ate (or like my sister THOUGHT she was eating low fat but was not!) and when $#^& in their pants them blame Alli and say it doesn't work.
Well if you eat 10 lbs of fat laden food and you take Alli and they says that you will drop 25% of the fat you eat done blame the plan when you drop that 25% in your pants!
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I took Xenical for a short while before my insurance stopped covering it and never had a problem. I also took Alli for awhile and again, never had a problem. Most people won't if they STICK TO THE PLAN. Most people will not have "accidents" unless they consume too much fat. If you don't want to deal with the consequences, then don't take Alli. My Da tried Xenical and was rather casual about how much fat he was actually taking in. He had problems. That's the deal. He stopped taking it. Again, you've got to stick with the low fat diet if you don't want a problem. Read labels carefully, don't assume you know the fat content of everything. If you are conscientious of what you are eating, you should be fine.
I just order a 120 pack and can not wait for it to arrive! It does help. Its not a cure all but it helps.
Just a question about fat content. Staying under a set number of fat grams is the only concern, not whether it is a good fat? I love olives and nuts which are considered healthy food items by many people, yet they are very high in fat. Should I decide to take Alli, would I have to limit my intake of both olives and nuts? I know they are high in calories, but fat is high also. Good fat, bad fat. Is there a difference with TEs?
Second, if I decide to go out for pizza one night, if I don't take a pill, will there still be a problem? I read somewhere on this board that you needed to stop taking the pills a few days before a planned high fat meal. I usually don't plan that far ahead.
Alli takes the fat out of your meal, regardless if its good fat or not. If you eat over the recommended grams of fat within a specific meal, then you risk encountering the effects.
Also from what I've read, Alli stays in the body so if you don't take a pill, then go out for a high fat content meal, the alli already in your body will react to it and again you risk encountering the effects.
Remember though that the amount of calories that alli removes from your food on a daily basis is pretty minimal. The power of alli is it is supposed to keep you 'on plan' in regards to a low fat diet.
Webweevil, I believe you do need to consider overall fat, doesn't matter whether it's good or bad. I think I remember reading something in the booklets that you'd have to remember that olives have fat, or something. You could eat olives and nuts, just in moderation!
They also warn against splurging and having a meal with a lot of fat. I think you'd want to be on Alli for awhile so your body can adjust, and then see how you feel about skipping a pill to splurge a little. I would probably recommend skipping the pills that entire day and maybe the next day if you were going to eat a lot of pizza.
I was wondering if anybody out there with IBS has tried Alli. Does it make the TE worse?
I have battled IBS all my life and I was concerned about the TE also. I have been on Alli for 2 weeks and lost about 11 pounds total. I take doxycycline for the IBS (started at 4 times a day but with my improved diet and exercise I find I only need them once a day now).
As far as TE, I have not had any. However, everytime I go there is a little orange oily film. Certainly no trouble with control or spotting or abdominal pain.
Well, I started on Alli on Friday 16th. So far, so good. I'll give it a week or two before posting an update. It seems strange that there are quite a few people that started taking Alli and posted results a week or so down the road, but hardly anybody has posted results a few months down the road. Seems odd.
The pharmacist told her that yes, it will work but they strongly recommend wearing a pad as well as dark coloured pants because of how little control you will have over your ability to get to the bathroom in time. Thankfully she decided not to try it.
