Has anyone else seen the commercial for/ gone to the website for Alli? (www.myalli.com) It's a new FDA approved weightloss pill..anyone know anything about it? It sounds a lot like Xenical to me after reading the website (from the way that the side effects affect you...)
I've heard the side effects and they sound horrible, but they say that if you keep your fat intake down below 15g per meal, you are a lot less likely to experience them. It would definitely force me to eat healthier because I don't want to poop my pants! But...I am not going to try it until I can prove to myself that I can eat a lowfat diet for a sustained amount of time and also lose some weight. I don't expect Alli to lose the weight for me, nor exercise for me, I just want to lose more weight than if I didn't use it. If I can do those things for a month, I will go on it.
In studies, most people lost 5-10 pounds over 6 months
5-10 pounds over 6 months? If you are as overweight as they want you to be (I'm only pound over the minimum and my BMI is still 27.1) and you are doing appropriate diet and exercise, it seems like most people would lose a lot more than that without a crazy pill
Well, the way this pill works is by limiting your fat absorption - basically, it binds up about a quarter of the fat you eat and prevents it from being absorbed.... the idea being that you don't get those calories. The other side of things is that the unabsorbed fat is still there, and ends up coming out your colon in the same greasy form it came in - your bowel movements are now made up of FAT plus the usual fiber and miscellaneous unabsorbable stuff. Which means "loose stools" and "wet gas" and all sorts of other nasty activity.
If you check the "Does it work" section, there's a thread about Xenical which gives a few first-person accounts of using this drug. Somehow, explosive diarrhea and the potential of soiling myself in public isn't worth a few extra pounds!
5-10 pounds over 6 months? If you are as overweight as they want you to be (I'm only pound over the minimum and my BMI is still 27.1) and you are doing appropriate diet and exercise, it seems like most people would lose a lot more than that without a crazy pill
That's what I find funny with those pills. I once read in a French magazine (for another pill) something like "with appropriate diet and exercise and our pill, you can lose up to 10% of your weight!" Well, duh. Somehow, why am I convinced that one can obtain the same result without the pill? And in less time?
Well, from what I read on the website, it says that if you can lose 10 lbs on your own, on Alli you can lose 15 lbs instead. They say that you can lose 50% more weight than what you lose without it. That means faster weight loss and I am all for that, my friends! I am going to try it, side effects and all. If I can't deal with the side effects, well then I will go off it. Of course I will do my part of exercising and healthy eating. But I want that extra boost that they claim. It's at least worth a try.
The thing that baffles me about this OTC version of the pill is that it's the same as the prescription Xenical but half the dose - so what's to stop people from just taking double the dose (or, dangerously, more?)
Then again, the price alone is enough to make me not go for it - predicted prices are $50/60 pills to $75/120 pills... so about $.70/pill, or $2/day. So, if I take the pills and eat 1600 calories a day, 25% from fat (or 400 calories), and it blocks 25% of the fat (or 100 calories), I'm paying $2 per day to block 100 calories??? (The recommendations of the alli website say it should be paired with a low calorie, low-fat diet, with no more than 15g of fat per meal... 15g x 9 calories/gram = 135 fat calories per meal, or 400 per day.)
I think I can find a better way to spend $50 a month than to lose an extra pound or two per month!
Alli ?
