If you don't want to eat anything more you could try having a higher calorie drink? Something like a glass of milk would use up a few calories without it being full of sugar like coke.

that's a pretty good idea, thanks

I have one more question. Has anyone else accidentally taken two pills at once? Last night I ate dinner and I usually take the pill while I'm cooking, but I didn't remember taking it, so I took one. I got really bad "treatment effects" and it was exactly the same as what I've been eating pretty much every other night for dinner, so I think I must have taken two. It was also the first time I had ever experienced treatment effects. NOT fun, but easily avoided.

Jade, I used Alli for a long time--Rx & OTC variety. The Rx was 120 mg.--the otc is 60 mg. each. Even if you took the extra pill, I don't think it would be deemed unsafe. Sorry you had the effects. :(

Alli seems to always be debated. I had success with it and wouldn't hesitate to use it again. If you stay on plan and follow the advice of the books provided in your first packet of pills, you will have success with minimal treatment effects.

Try it your way for a week. If you are getting the results you want and are satisfied with your own way, stay the course. If you need to increase calories as Alli is stipulating, feel free too. Even with a plan like Alli, this journey takes some trial and error.

Alli has opened my mind to healthier eating and because of it I have been on a "diet" for 3 weeks, longer then I've ever been on a diet in my life! So just because of that I consider Alli a success. I have lost 4 pounds so far with hardly any hunger, and I haven't had the urge to quit one time! People can make claims that Alli does not work but if I hadn't picked it up at Walmart that day, I would be 4 pounds heavier right now.

I also used Alli last year and I went from 207lbs to 184 lbs (the smallest I've been in 3 years). Due to other circumstances I stopped taking the pills.

I started at the gym over a month ago, started monitoring my eating habits and slipped off the wagon a couple times. Now I feel more stable and have reintroduced Alli to my diet and I'm hoping that i see the same results as I have previously. I've had treatment effects a once or twice but it is definitely avoidable.

I was wondering about this drug. I work in a court so it is extremely hard to get to a bathroom when I need to. Basically it is impossible to duck out at times other than breaks. So taking this pill in the morning and at lunch is too dangerous. However I was thinking that I could take it at night and on the weekends or on a *part time* basis, ie whenever I don't plan to be in court. Anyone take Alli on a part time basis ?

I've not been taking it every meal. At the moment I'm not taking it in the evening as my dinners are not very high in fat this week (I make up a load of meals at the weekend) but take it every lunch time. As I haven't really pushed the fat limits I've never had any of the treatment effects in fact I'm still very opposite!

The target fat grams per meal is there to help you have something to aim for I think. My fat grams target was 19 per meal. If I ate 19 grams of fat or more my belly didn't really like it to much :barf: but at around 17 I felt good and didn't feel deprived. :spin: Also there's another reason for the higher fat grams with the Alli plan.

Let's say 2 people are taking Alli and both are eating about 2000 calories a day. One person eats 19 grams of fat for all 3 meals which comes out to 513 calories just from fat a day. Alli takes care or 25% of that so this person gets rid of 128 of those fat calories.

The other person eats 5 grams of fat for all 3 meals which comes out to 135 calories from fat per day. Alli takes care of 25% of that and this person loses only 34 of those calories.

Increasing your fat grams will help you to feel fuller longer, will help you not feel deprived, and help you not fall off the band wagon as much. 128 calories doesn't seem like much but Alli is there not just for that but as insurance that you won't go overboard in your eating. If you take it with each meal regardless of how low fat that meal is it will build up in your system, that's the point. That's why you need to stop Alli a couple days ahead of time before going to lets say an all you can eat krispy kreme and big mac restaraunt :joker: lol! When you go off of Alli it still comes down to calories in vs. calories out so you can still maintain with higher fat grams you just may need to tweak it a little bit. Just watch it and see what happens.

Started alli Yesterday. So far so good( No nasty side effects) whoo..

Hi...I just started last Thursday. I've been on the 1700 cal and 15-17 fat grams per meal. I've been hitting 1600-1700 and at least 15 grams per meal and try to stick to fat free/low fat items for snacks. I've actually started walking again and will start slow jogging soon. In 4 days I feel and sleep a heck of a lot better. I bought a 30 day supply so we'll see how the next 26 days go, and of course the first weigh in on Thursday.

I'm glad to see an Alli thread here and that I'm not the only one:-). Looking forward to watching it work and definitely in need of support.

Well I guess this thread is now my own for awhile:-). Almost a week on Alli and I feel great, monitoring my diet and eating great. Exercised a couple of times. I work a full and a part time retail job so I'm pretty active anyways.

My success today was my trip to Burger King. I was driving between 2 stores and I was so hungry, so I went to BK the easier stop I could make. I bought the value meal of the Veggie burger, fries and a diet coke. I checked my manual for the veggie burger and it is 260 cals and 16 grams of fat. So i enjoyed the burger, ate 3 fries and drank my Coke. I can honestly say...did I miss the Whopper with Cheese and large fries? no...

Thursday morning is my weigh day, one more day of eating better and we'll see how the first week went. But I had no side effects at all. Not even slightly.

I took alli a while back, it seemed to work and I had treatment effects if i ate too much fat for the first few weeks. Then my body adjusted to it as it rapidly does with all weight loss pills, it stopped doing anything for me