I never got an asnwer to my question about snacks on the alli site. The moderators must not want to post questions from people who haven't registered with the product yet. If any of you are willing to help, here it is: is it ok to have a snack with under 3 grams of fat between meals or should we really stick to totally FF snacks? Or would I have to reduce the fat in breakfast and use the difference for the snack? IE 12gm at breakfast and 3 at break? The reason I ask this is because I usually have a cheese stick with an apple or some kind of stone fruit for my first break at work. The protein in the cheese usually keeps me sated til lunch and I wouldn't want to spend my morning starving because I didn't get to have th fat/protein combination. I usually eat breakfast at 4:30 and don't take my lunch til 9:30ish. Break is at 7:30ish and I wouldn't want to have too much fat too close together. I can't see breakfast ever having close to 15 gms of fat unless I had two T of PB on my bread which I love to do. /QUOTE]
At least for my plan it says snacks are 3 grams of fat.
The alli diet plan book says, "Make sure to plan snacks in your daily allotment. A good rule of thumb is to aim for a total of 200 calories and 2-6 grams of fat per day for snacks."
I think that the number of fat grams in a snack has to do with the number of calories that you are consuming/day. It said that if you are following the 1800 cal/day plan that your snacks should contain at least 2 fat grams.
CMBMOM05, I snack alot. In fact, one of my favorite snacks are peanuts and almonds, and they are very high in fat (16grams per serving). I have not any any adverse reaction from the Alli while snacking. And I'm down another pound today.
Thanks so much ladies. I wasn't looking for specifics, just a general feel and you came through. I don't want to have to worry about funky stuff once I start taking it and needed to know if I'd have to come up with a new morning snack. Worse comes to worse I can look for FF cheese sticks or something.
Time to start looking for web sites with good ideas on FF snacks that don't get boring.
My mailorder of Alli showed up yesterday so I sat down and read the literature and took my first pill. Dinner was some fish and a blueberry smoothie. So far I don't have a headache or any other things that have been mentioned in the other posts. Just popped my breakfast pill and will be having a fried egg sandwich made with EggBeaters and Miracle Whip Lite so I should be well under the 15g of fat per meal. I'm kind of scared about Monday and going to work but if I realllllly watch things, I should be OK. I think a big challenge will be the 4th of July - how can you have the 4th without hot dogs or burgers on the grill? Guess for a couple of days on either side of the holiday I won't take the pills.
I have just finished one week. I usually lose about 2-3 pound a month. I don't diet, just exercise and try to cut down on calories. I lost 2 pounds this week on allie. I did not have any negative effects. I did have lose stool one day only. I ate pretty much what I wanted just looked at fat. I made better choices because I did not what the negative side effects. I will not weigh myself again until september. I get to hung up on the scale. All and all allie has been beneficial to me.
My mailorder of Alli showed up yesterday so I sat down and read the literature and took my first pill. Dinner was some fish and a blueberry smoothie. So far I don't have a headache or any other things that have been mentioned in the other posts. Just popped my breakfast pill and will be having a fried egg sandwich made with EggBeaters and Miracle Whip Lite so I should be well under the 15g of fat per meal. I'm kind of scared about Monday and going to work but if I realllllly watch things, I should be OK. I think a big challenge will be the 4th of July - how can you have the 4th without hot dogs or burgers on the grill? Guess for a couple of days on either side of the holiday I won't take the pills.
You can have hotdogs and hamburgers on the grill. There are so many good hot dogs. Boars head lite skin hotdogs have 6 grams of fat each. Also their is alot of chicken sauages out their that taste good. Emeril and Amy's are brand that come to mind. Hamburgers can work too. Get a low fat ground beef (95%) and some ground chicken breast. Mix it. It makes a great burger. No one will know that their is turkey in it. Weight watcher sells buns but their are a lot of other brands. July 4 can be lower in fat, just by making some changes.
I started the diet on Thursday. I took the Alli 2 times on Thursday but b/c of the treatment effects I didn't take it yesterday--we were in town all down and I didn't want to chance any accidents!
There is one thing I'm totally confused about. If you take the Alli right now- does it only work for approximately 2 hours and then it's gone?? My real question is if I take Alli at lunch and then end up accidentally eating a higher fat supper but skip the Alli will there be treatment effects?? There are just certain things that the Alli message board isn't answering for me. It's not that I'm planning to cheat but for instance last night dh wanted to go to Logan's Roadhouse--Nothing on there menu looks low fat. I picked mesquite grilled chicken on rice pilaf hold the parmesan dressing with steamed brocolli-which by the way was steamed with butter and cinnamon apples. Somehow I don't think it was under 19 fat grams.
I will restart my Alli tomorrow b/c today is filled with errands and grocery shopping.
I am new to the forum and have a few questions about alli. If you eat a low fat meal, why do you even need to take the pills? And, alli is supposed to be half strength of the prescription form. Can you take 2 pills at mealtime, instead of one, to equal the prescription Xenical?
Thanks
Aces 21, It was either the website or the book that stated if you forget to take your pill before you eat you can take it up to an hour or two(?) after you eat your meal.
Last night I made terrible food choices. I had too much fat for dinner and decided to skip the dinner dose of Alli. No "treatment effects" or headache so far. I actually am a little constipated??? I am not going to weigh myself and adjust my tracker for a least one week. I have noticed that my stomach area seems smaller in my jeans over the last few days. Which is weird because this is a PMS week.
Fairylights: I personally would not double the dosage to make it the prescription strength. If you want the prescription strength, maybe talk to your MD. I like to take the minimum amount of any drug I need to get the desired result. I love my doctor, but he is definitely one who likes to prescribe drugs over other types of treatments. So maybe I am a little gun shy when it comes to drugs and the like.
Now that I see how much you guys paid for your Alli at stores and how much I overpaid through the internet, it is time for me to get over my embarrassment and buy it at a store next month.
This is Day 2 for me and the alli. I've been doing Body for Life exercise plan for 2 weeks now and decided to add alli to the picture. I'll be 50 next month and need all the help I can get.
I gotta say, though, I don't feel any embarassment at all about buying it. I was just so excited to find something that seems to show real promise! Everyone at work [including moi] is fascinated to see how it works for me. And I feel even better that I've found one more thing I can be doing to get to my goal.
No real "treatment effects" except a little gas, but that I'm blaming on the dog!
After reading the posts, I see I should buy my next batch at Wal-Mart. I paid $64.04 at CVS for the 90 count.
I am on day 3. Last night my husband and I went out to dinner - a pizza place of all places - and I didn't have a pill with me. I had 3 small pieces and a good salad. No effects. I went back to a normal schedule today. I'm not following the alli diet plan, just stealing a recepie or two from the booklets. Like breakfast this morning was one medium pancake with sliced banana's and whipped cream on it. Totally satisfying. Lunch was a small steak and a medium baked potato with spray on butter. Dinner was teriaki chicken, broccoli and sweet carrots. I used very little shrimp sauce. Dessert will be a chocolate fluffy yogurt.
We went grocery shopping and there wasn't any junk food in the basket. Only good stuff. Like ground turkey, which I love. I'm going to cook some turkey burgers tomorrow. Ruby Tuesday's has a great turkey burger if anyone wants to try it.
My exercise today was painting my dinning room. Tomorrow I'll finish it off and move the kitchen table into it and cleaning. I'm going to take a walk later in the day when the sun goes down. We rent a small house, but I have my landlady's persmission to do what I want. We're going to pull up this terrible 70's shag carpet and replace it with a better carpet.
Our AC died so I did a lot of sweating. I need to buy a scale (I keep telling myself to get one) so I can keep track of my progress. I wasn't embarrassed at all to buy the pills. The clerk at CVS said she needs to buy one before they all get sold out. She said they sell a lot.
The only effect I have, is I find myself using the bathroom more often - but no mess up's - yet. Things are going good.
Well I started taking Alli on the 14th and had my official weigh in today and was down 4lbs. I think I would have lost more but we went out for chinese food last night. Let me tell you that it is hard to find stuff to eat while on Alli at a Chinese place but I did OK, not great. I had some Hot and Sour soup, 1 mini spring roll, and a dish with chicken, shrimp and vegetables. I'm pretty sure that I had over 15grams of fat and had some of the treatment effects this morning. Nothing serious, just some noticed some oil droplets in the toilet after I went to the bathroom. I think my weight loss would have been more had it not been for the chinese food last night.
So day 6 and I had my first treatment affect! I was actually kind of excited to know that it is working!
Nothing bad... I didn't feel bad... there was no cramping or upset stomach...I did NOT have an accident... just the BRIGHT ORANGE oil in the toilet. I must admit, it was kind of exciting knowing that all of that fat is not in my gut! I had a piece of cake and some hummus. I knew that it was over 15 grams so I was prepared. The affects happened about 4 hours later. That is the first abnormal thing that has happened.
I have heard some people asking about snacks. To be on the safe side, I have been choosing really low (no) fat snacks... apples... grapes...rice cakes. I have a suspicion that over time the pill will begin to accumulate in your system, so even if it has been a couple of hours since you took a pill if you had a big handful of nuts you could be in for some treatment affects. I don't know for sure, but that is my gut feeling.
Good Luck Ladies! I am actually looking forward to weighing in on Monday!!!!
My mailorder of Alli showed up yesterday so I sat down and read the literature and took my first pill. Dinner was some fish and a blueberry smoothie. So far I don't have a headache or any other things that have been mentioned in the other posts. Just popped my breakfast pill and will be having a fried egg sandwich made with EggBeaters and Miracle Whip Lite so I should be well under the 15g of fat per meal. I'm kind of scared about Monday and going to work but if I realllllly watch things, I should be OK. I think a big challenge will be the 4th of July - how can you have the 4th without hot dogs or burgers on the grill? 
Guess for a couple of days on either side of the holiday I won't take the pills.
Day 3
