Anyone used/using Alli pills?
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Stock up....
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Nope, I don't eat the excessive fats that Alli "binds".
Clean up your diet and you don't need them. All they do is make you poop orange oil.0 -
Stock up....
Hahaha!0 -
I used them for 3 months when they first came out... Seriously, the paranoia they created just isnt wirth it ...0
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Yeah, the work... because you live in fear of "anal leakage" due to eating any fat... And BTW "anal leakage" is also known as "****ting your pants."
No joke. Don't use it. Just cut back on fat and calories and do some exercise. It's a lot of hard work. but it's better than ****ting yourself as a grown adult!0 -
I also think gimmick. If you don't want the nasty side effects then you need to use willpower to stay away from foods with fat over a certain percentage. And if you can find the willpower to do that, then you can find the willpower to eat healthy stuff which will make you lose weight.0
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I tried years ago, I was miserable, desperate and didn't believe I could lose weight any other way. I had no faith in myself and had never persevered with anything. I didn't persevere with the tablets either. Didn't lose alot, maybe 5 pounds in just over a month, and it wasn't weight that stayed off, because I hadn't changed the way I thought about nutrition for the long term. As soon as I went back to how I ate before I regained, plus some.I thought they would be a quick fix for my holiday, which isn't how I want to spend my life, yo-yoing. They also made me feel a bit weird. I also started to abuse them and used taking them as a way of still eating bad foods - I thought I could enjoy the junk, then just wait at home, near a toilet, for them to leave my system! Completely mad, I admit it.
Now I focus on not cutting out any food groups, portion control and creating a calorie deficit through exercise, because these I can maintain. It's all about positive mindset and sticking with something I think.
I was also prescribed Xenical by my doctor in the past. They were even worse, much stronger! I am ashamed that I tried them.
Not saying "don't do it", just offering my experience of them and why I wouldn't take them again.0 -
I actually had a Co worker who did alli. She had GREAT results. Once she figured out what would cause her to have the leakage that was pointed out, which meant a high fat content, she knew to stop eating those foods which helped her change her eating habits over an extended period of time. It's not pleasant but a good tool to help you change your bad eating habits. It did take a while but she lost about 50 pounds and kept it off for quite some time.
Unfortunately it really isn't that simple for everyone.
In my case,at the time I tried this, I had a very low fat diet - no added oils, no dairy other than skimmed milk in my tea and a very occasional fat free yoghurt, just pretty much vegetables and quorn, which is very low fat. And I *still* had the horrendous side effects. It's incredibly unpleasant. (I don't eat this way anymore, before anyone comments... )
The stuff that does leak out is *any* oil you eat. It's yellow, stenching oil. It gets everywhere, stains everything, and stinks. It's hard to flush. It's *awful*.
In addition, it boosted my weightloss by maybe a quarter of a pound a week, if that. Hardly worth it for the suffering. I can do as well, much more comfortably, by eating sensibly.0 -
Yuck! Thanks everyone... Definitely won't be trying those.! I was only considering it because I ate way too much this weekend and was kind of freaking out. But tomorrow is another day!0
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Girl, you don't need some crazy-*kitten* pills. Nobody does, because they're stupid, but you CERTAINLY don't need to hurry to lose weight.
more like crazy *kitten*-pills, amirite?0 -
Girl, you don't need some crazy-*kitten* pills. Nobody does, because they're stupid, but you CERTAINLY don't need to hurry to lose weight.
more like crazy *kitten*-pills, amirite?
hahaha yeah! Don't know what I was thinking! Just have to stick to my gym regime!0 -
Gives a whole new meaning to the term party pooper.
Tee hee :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:0 -
Why would anyone willingly experience anal leakage? No way!
Yeaaaaahhhh... if you want to worry every time you have to fart that you are going to leak yellow oil out of your butt, then go for it. You will need to wear a pad for your *kitten*, get new undies, and worry a lot. And- it doesn't just happen when you pass gas. It happens with no warning.
You don't even *feel* it either, because it is exactly body temp. It is terrifying.
Warm stinky oil, leaking out of your butt at any given moment.
I would rather starve.0 -
This is the absolute truth... Nastiest thing ever... Horrifying0
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Taken from
http://thewvsr.com/alli.htm
Undigested fat cannot be absorbed and passes through the body naturally. The excess fat is not harmful. In fact, you may recognize it in the toilet as something that looks like the oil on top of a pizza.
Here the drug makers are trying to soothe the nerves of the skeptical fatty, by speaking their language. Pizza is something fatties understand, and a big part of the reason they’re interested in Alli to begin with. Pizza is good, pizza is reassuring… even when it’s flowing from your *kitten* like molten lava.
The website mentions seeing the undigested fat in a toilet, but that’s clearly a best case scenario. You might also see it on the tops of your shoes, across the hood of a car, or way up the shower curtain, near the loops.
The fat passes out of your body, so you may have bowel changes, known as treatment effects.
Bowel changes. Notice how they phrase that? It means stuff will be happening the likes of which you could never have imagined. It’ll be like a daily Dean Koontz novel inside your underwear.
You may get:
gas with oily spotting
You’ll be farting Wesson oil straight through your Dockers…
loose stools
and having violent chipped beef explosions...
more frequent stools that may be hard to control
all the time, with a sphincter that can no longer be counted as a friend.
Eating a low-fat diet lowers the chance of these bowel changes. Limit fat intake in your meals to an average of 15 grams.
The McDonald’s Big Mac has 34 grams of fat, and the Burger King Whopper has 40. Eat either of these while taking Alli, and you’ll very likely be transformed into a diarrhea cannon.
Learning how to manage treatment effects is an important part of being successful with alli. Here's how to take control:
Start trimming fat from your diet now, even before you begin taking alli. Then pick a day to begin taking alli, such as a weekend day so you can stay close to home if you experience a treatment effect. Make the timing work for you. If you're getting ready to travel or attend a social event, hold off on starting with alli until the event is over
Blowing liquid feces down a row of bridesmaids, for instance, could be viewed negatively in certain circles. Further, an unexpected bout of the power-squirts while riding “The Bullet” at the county fair might not ingratiate you with your friends. Or anyone on the fairway. Or the folks in the parking lot walking to their cars.
While no one likes experiencing treatment effects, they might help you think twice about eating questionable fat content. If you think of it like that, alli can act like a security guard for your late-night cravings
You see, when you think about it, ****ting yourself is actually a positive.
You can't "save fat grams" from lunch and "spend them" at dinner. Spread your daily fat gram allowance of 15 grams on average per meal over the whole day
Cheating can lead to embarrassment, tears, and the introduction of a frantically constructed toilet paper crack-wedge in the bathroom of an Applebee's. It’s simply not worth it.
You may feel an urgent need to go to the bathroom. Until you have a sense of any treatment effects, it's probably a smart idea to wear dark pants, and bring a change of clothes with you to work
Until you get the hang of it, you should probably take along a rolling suitcase full of brown clothes everywhere you go, while taking Alli. Luckily, however, turd-colored clothing is in this season; turd is the new vomit.
If co-workers ask about it, there is no shame in telling the truth. You might be surprised how understanding folks can be if you simply say, “I dress like this to conceal the poop that's constantly soaking through the seat of my pants.”
You may not usually get gassy, but it's a possibility when you take alli. The bathroom is really the best place to go when that happens
Showboating is not recommended.
You can use a food journal to recognize what foods can lead to treatment effects. For example, writing down what you eat may help you learn that marinara sauce is a better option than Alfredo sauce
In addition to a handcart full of extra pants designed to camouflage your anal leakage, it might also be a good idea to carry a schematic and information wheel, so you don't repeat past mistakes and have a treatment effect halfway up your back.
I hope this information has proven to be valuable.0 -
They don't work. You leak orange liquid out of your *kitten*.0
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I tried them a couple of years ago and they just made me bloated/have water retention. Might be effective for other people though0
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Ugh, I used them for a week or two. I think I lost about 3lbs. The side effects are horrible!
Sorry for the gross images but if I went to the toilet it would pour out and it was orange. I had bleach by the toilet to get rid of the oily orange stuff that it left inside the loo. If I were to fart my knickers were wet with the orange stuff again. I had to wear a period pad and some toilet roll inbetween my cheeks just to stop it looking like I've sat in a puddle of oil.
I seriously do not recommend Alli. I hated every second of it.0 -
I actually had a Co worker who did alli. She had GREAT results. Once she figured out what would cause her to have the leakage that was pointed out, which meant a high fat content, she knew to stop eating those foods which helped her change her eating habits over an extended period of time. It's not pleasant but a good tool to help you change your bad eating habits. It did take a while but she lost about 50 pounds and kept it off for quite some time.
It's like paying someone to slap you every time you eat too much fat.0 -
I actually had a Co worker who did alli. She had GREAT results. Once she figured out what would cause her to have the leakage that was pointed out, which meant a high fat content, she knew to stop eating those foods which helped her change her eating habits over an extended period of time. It's not pleasant but a good tool to help you change your bad eating habits. It did take a while but she lost about 50 pounds and kept it off for quite some time.
It's like paying someone to slap you every time you eat too much fat.
^ I think I would MUCH prefer a slap in the face.0
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