Have you tried Alli?

:flowerforyou: i havent tried it but the nurse that i work with says it woks. What it does is helps u expel(if u know what i mean:frown: ) if u eat to much fatty foods... so if u eat alot of foods with alot of fat content u will have diareaha..thats what im told.. that and her husband tried it except he was on the medication that is just like it perscribed by a doctor and he alot of leakage from his rectum!!!! sorry thats what she tells us girls at work,, he ruined many of clothes.. but i was gonna take the chance so if any of u have tried it please tell all.....:laugh:

i have irritable bowel syndrome with constipation i wonder if it would do me some good??
mayb i will try it..
thanks

Yes! And you will not only get diarrhea if you eat just a little more fat than what you should, but it will stain your pants with this foul smelling orange fatty stuff. I ruined my favorite shorts with that stuff. I don't recommend it.

i completely understand where you're coming from. last year i joined la weight loss (now pure weight loss) and lost 30 pounds. I was so limited to the amount of food that I could eat it was ridiculous. I eventually strayed away and gained the weight back (slowly since I lost it in a healthy way). I have recently started WW and it is the best! I don't feel hungry and I can eat whatever I want as long as stay within my daily points allowance. The points system forces me to make healthier choices. I've tried a number of diets, and this is the one that works (for me).

I haven't tried it, and I don't condone it either. I understand why the FDA approved it, but from a health standpoint, it makes very little sense.
The reason we gain fat is NOT because we eat it. It's because we either eat too many calories (of any variety), and/or we eat simple sugars that cause large increases in insulin, which is sort of like a 'bus' that picks up nutrients and shuttles them into our muscle and fat. Eat a meal high in simple carbohydrate/sugar and fat (like junk food) and you're really setting yourself up for fat gain, especially if you've already eaten too much for the day.
So when I look at a product like Alli, which blocks absorption of a nutrient as important as fat without even discriminating between trans and polyunsaturated, I believe that it's pointing people in the wrong direction. Fat is used for MANY more things than storage. Go on a very low fat diet and you'll find that your skin is itchy and dry, your hair is brittle, and your immune response isn't as good as it should be. There's no reason to 'block' fat.
For good fat loss (and good health in general), keep an eye on your simple carbohydrates and sugar to keep your insulin levels lower and steady. Eating a meal low in fat but high in sugar is totally fine if you're on Alli, but it's the opposite of what you should be doing. Fat doesn't make you fat, and anywhere from 20-30% of your daily calories is recommended and very healthy.

I tried it...but I never really saw any results because I was following a low fat diet. Maybe use it if you are going to be eating out for a special occassion or something where you know you're going to be having a high fat/cal meal. I wouldn't rely on it for much else. But that is just my personal opinion.

probably can't get it in canada because they don't let the drug companies and the fda use the general population as unwitting guinea pigs. It never fails that within a few years of the fda approving such "miracle" drugs that they find out over longer periods of time than the trials lasted they start finding disturbing health risks. Doesn't anyone remember Phen-fen? Or how about the wonderful OLESTRA that they were adding to bags of fried food, like chips and people were having horrible bowel problems with it, not to mention the wonderful orange poo that apparently came with it.

YOU MUST EAT RIGHT AND EXERCISE TO LOOSE WEIGHT, GET OVER THE MIRACLES AND GO DO WHAT YOU NEED TO DO!

If that sounds mean...oh well, I will live!

THANK YOU!!!! If there was a miracle drug, we would all be thin

My whole thinking on any diet pill is that it may show short term results, but the only way to have long term results is to make life changes. Change the way you eat, drink and exercise, and you will see results that last.

yeah...and don't do it...bad things happen... In fact, I have almost a whole bottle that you can have...

Don't do it. It's extremely harmful to your body. My IBS is pretty bad, even though I am only 17 years old and very athletic. I take an Align in the morning, a multi-vitamin, and two Digestive Advantage-IBS pills every day. You just have to find the right mix of things that work for you. Also, look at helpforibs.com. Heather(the author of the site) saved my life; my IBS would have gotten progressively worse if it wasn't for her. Hope this helps!