Alli

If you like randomly crapping your pants, go ahead and take it.

But really the best way to do this is the old fashioned way: with patience and hard work. If you're on a plateau, take a look at your calories in/calories out. You should be eating atleast half of your exercise calories and you should not be eating below 1200 calories. Also your body could become used to your exercise routine, so try changing it up completely for a while to get your metabolism going again. That usualy helps me.

Hi!!

I tried Alli right after it became available without a prescription. I was exercising but I wasn't using MFP then. I was on the good old standby, WW. It literally did nothing for me because I was on a low fat diet. Because it used to remove fat from your diet and that is what causes the gas and diarrhea. My doctor said that I should just keep on going without the Alli.

It would be lovely to have a wonder pill, but I gave up waiting for that. This program in conjunction with my gym seems to be doing the trick.

I was prescribed this stuff when I was in my teens, this was before it was available without prescription. At the time I was on a vegetarian phase and wasn't getting much fat anyway so doc took me off it. I was prescribed it again a couple of years ago...wow...

The diarhea I can cope with, it's just loose fatty stools after all. The gas I can cope with. The yellow fatty smears in the pants I can kind of deal with because I just pop a pad in there.

However, farting in the middle of town and leaking the smelly (very smelly, with this!) brown stuff was the end of it for me!

I used it for awhile myself. If you pay attention to the amount of fat your eating you won't have any problems. If you don't then it can lead to loose stools. Some of these people make it sound like you'll crap yourself but I have never had that happen. Yes I did a I need to go to the bathroom feeling but other than that no gas and no problems. I would say try to borrow some before you buy it because of the cost but I only took it at dinner time.

I *did* watch my fat intake and yes, I did still have problems. So it can in fact happen that you watch your fat and still have the sudden bits of crapping that come on with literally no warning.