Alli / Xenical, Does It Work? (Please Only Answer If You Have Actually Taken It)
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My cousin took it. Had pizza for lunch one day and pooped herself while driving down the interstate. Pulled over and got busted by a group of kids pooping in an alley way because there were no public toilets close.
Seems it works by making you restrict calories by making you too scared to eat fat and punishing you if you do.15 -
Wow. This stuff sounds like my worst nightmare.11
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It made me really pay attention to the amount of fat I was eating. The globs of fat in the toilet were ..troubling. I did lose weight due to more careful eating but when I stopped the drug I stopped paying as close attention over time, gsined it all back plus more.2
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What most people don't know about Alli or Xenical is that it DOESN'T discriminate about what fat is being absorbed. So even ESSENTIAL fat is absorbed and discarded. Which means you need to take a fat supplement to ensure that you are getting in your essential fats.
Whether you want to hear it or not OP, that's up to you. The information here is for people who may not post on the forums, yet read the threads.
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My mother took this and quit after one week because of the anal leakage. I felt so sorry for her because she had high hopes.3
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I've never taken Alli, BUT, I do have a real world story to share.
I used to work at a furniture store... about 3 years ago. We once had a a female customer come into the store. Well, she had to make a break for the bathroom quite suddenly. After some time the salesperson who had been working with her complained (I was in customer service) that the lady never came back and that he'd wasted time with her. A handful of minutes passed and I went to the bathroom. What I saw I can never ever unsee.
Without going into too much gruesome detail, there was orange poo everywhere. The lady's clothes were in the trash, soiled. The lady was in one of the stalls hysterically crying. I left and told the manager about it. She went to help out the lady and basically gave her a sheet from one of the floor model beds to cover herself so she could leave the bathroom. The manager later told us the lady said she was taking Alli and she'd basically exploded everywhere. She apologized over and over. I felt bad for the lady. How embarassing and humiliating for her that must have been. Then the other customer service girl I worked with volunteered to clean the bathroom (we didn't have a cleaning service at the time, it was a brand new store). I didn't envy her position. It was the single most grossest thing I've ever seen (and I have 2 kids...so...).
So yeah... word of caution there....
Oh my dear god. Whhhoooaaaa :noway: That poor woman!3 -
I've never taken Alli, BUT, I do have a real world story to share.
I used to work at a furniture store... about 3 years ago. We once had a a female customer come into the store. Well, she had to make a break for the bathroom quite suddenly. After some time the salesperson who had been working with her complained (I was in customer service) that the lady never came back and that he'd wasted time with her. A handful of minutes passed and I went to the bathroom. What I saw I can never ever unsee.
Without going into too much gruesome detail, there was orange poo everywhere. The lady's clothes were in the trash, soiled. The lady was in one of the stalls hysterically crying. I left and told the manager about it. She went to help out the lady and basically gave her a sheet from one of the floor model beds to cover herself so she could leave the bathroom. The manager later told us the lady said she was taking Alli and she'd basically exploded everywhere. She apologized over and over. I felt bad for the lady. How embarassing and humiliating for her that must have been. Then the other customer service girl I worked with volunteered to clean the bathroom (we didn't have a cleaning service at the time, it was a brand new store). I didn't envy her position. It was the single most grossest thing I've ever seen (and I have 2 kids...so...).
So yeah... word of caution there....
All I can say is WOW!1 -
I tried it. Insurance didn't cover it so I paid $100 for one month. I didn't even finish the month. While my disaster wasn't nearly as bad as the poor woman in the furniture store, it was awful for me. The loose, orange, oily stools were bad enough, but even when not passing gas there was some leakage smeared in my underwear. One day at work I had an issue that had me wishing I had a change of clothes... I had to go home to shower and change (and I wore a pad back there for a couple of days). That was the last day I took it!8
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wowzers!!! @kkenseth
andWhat most people don't know about Alli or Xenical is that it DOESN'T discriminate about what fat is being absorbed. So even ESSENTIAL fat is absorbed and discarded. Which means you need to take a fat supplement to ensure that you are getting in your essential fats.
Whether you want to hear it or not OP, that's up to you. The information here is for people who may not post on the forums, yet read the threads.
excellent point and goes to show that you don't have to actually have taken something to know about it.6 -
[/quote]What most people don't know about Alli or Xenical is that it DOESN'T discriminate about what fat is being absorbed. So even ESSENTIAL fat is absorbed and discarded. Which means you need to take a fat supplement to ensure that you are getting in your essential fats.
Whether you want to hear it or not OP, that's up to you. The information here is for people who may not post on the forums, yet read the threads.
A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
^^^This, this and this...
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A few years ago, I took Alli for about a month or so. I don't recall nightmare issues with the side effects but I was paranoid about keeping the fat in my diet to the recommended amount. I did lose weight but most of that was most likely from the diet change. I, of course, quit taking it and gained the weight back because my diet went back to what it was before.2
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Op, nothing can replace hard work. There's no magic pill or quick fix. If you want something, you must work for it. If these pills and gimmicks really worked, then we would all be thin. But instead, were on here counting calories . Cico. Eat less, move more. No quick fixes7
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thorsmom01 wrote: »Op, nothing can replace hard work. There's no magic pill or quick fix. If you want something, you must work for it. If these pills and gimmicks really worked, then we would all be thin. But instead, were on here counting calories . Cico. Eat less, move more. No quick fixes
And not wearing adult diapers!! yes!!4 -
queenliz99 wrote: »thorsmom01 wrote: »Op, nothing can replace hard work. There's no magic pill or quick fix. If you want something, you must work for it. If these pills and gimmicks really worked, then we would all be thin. But instead, were on here counting calories . Cico. Eat less, move more. No quick fixes
And not wearing adult diapers!! yes!!
Or ending up having to get store employees wrap you up in a sheet to help you out to your car while they clean up a literal shiit bomb.11 -
PikaKnight wrote: »queenliz99 wrote: »thorsmom01 wrote: »Op, nothing can replace hard work. There's no magic pill or quick fix. If you want something, you must work for it. If these pills and gimmicks really worked, then we would all be thin. But instead, were on here counting calories . Cico. Eat less, move more. No quick fixes
And not wearing adult diapers!! yes!!
Or ending up having to get store employees wrap you up in a sheet to help you out to your car while they clean up a literal shiit bomb.
Yeah, literally, it was the stuff nightmares are made from. You can't unsee that crap. (pun intended)7 -
PikaKnight wrote: »queenliz99 wrote: »thorsmom01 wrote: »Op, nothing can replace hard work. There's no magic pill or quick fix. If you want something, you must work for it. If these pills and gimmicks really worked, then we would all be thin. But instead, were on here counting calories . Cico. Eat less, move more. No quick fixes
And not wearing adult diapers!! yes!!
Or ending up having to get store employees wrap you up in a sheet to help you out to your car while they clean up a literal shiit bomb.
Yeah, literally, it was the stuff nightmares are made from. You can't unsee that crap. (pun intended)
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