Alli users?

I never took Alli but a friend of mine did. She had to quit after a few weeks because of the side effects, saying (and I quote), "This is no life."

This is also, like, six years ago. I didn't even know Alli was still a thing.

I used it for about 6 months and Loved It! I wish I had the money to go back on it. It helped with my weight loss and self esteem. I did not have any of the horrible side effects that people who haven't tried it talk about. I was very mindful of the amount of fat I ate at each meal and followed the directions to the tee. I can not say enough great things about this product. I am hoping that my insurance will help offset the cost, I will be talking to my doctor about this at my next appointment.

As long as you follow the program it works!

I just checked the price and its cost £149.85 for a 3 months supply. Thats a lot of money. I would use that money to buy food.
So whats the difference between sticking to the ALLi plan and the eating to a slight deficit plan (other than money spent?)

Since I did post something obnoxious and unhelpful, I'll try to make amends:

Alli might have cancer fighting properties:

http://annonc.oxfordjournals.org/content/16/8/1253.short

Background:: Orlistat (Xenical™), a US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved drug for bodyweight loss, has recently been demonstrated to exhibit antitumor properties towards prostate cancer cells by virtue of its ability to block the lipogenic activity of fatty acid synthase (FAS). FAS (oncogenic antigen-519) is up-regulated in about 50% of breast cancers, is an indicator of poor prognosis, and has recently been functionally associated with the Her2/neu (erbB-2) oncogene.

But alas, it might be implicated in other cancers:

http://www.cancerletters.info/article/S0304-3835(05)00860-8/abstract

Orlistat is an anti-obesity agent that increases the fecal fat excretion, which promotes colon carcinogenesis. Therefore, the present study was designed to verify the effects of Orlistat on the formation of rat colonic aberrant crypt foci (ACF) and cell proliferation evaluated by the PCNA method. Male Wistar rats received either a standard diet or a high fat diet (HFD), supplemented or not with Orlistat (200mg/kg chow) and two doses of the carcinogen dimethyl-hydrazine (25mg/Kg). After 30 days, Orlistat was associated to a significant increase in the number of colonic ACFs and cell proliferation in DMH-treated animals, independently of the HFD.

I used it for one month before, without doing any research. Ultimately figured out that all the studies that showed Alli users more successful than non-Alli users were based on Alli-users also using a support forum, logging/tracking their meals. The non-users did not.

Do the math. You need to restrict yourself to 15 grams of fat per meal. Let's assume that is 15 x 3, plus another 15 for snacks. (Though if the snacks are too close to the meal, and you consume too much fat - you could have messy consequences. Keep clean underwear in your purse.)

So you consume 60 grams of fat per day, Alli blocks 25% of it, so its voiding 15 grams. At 9 calories each, that is 135 calories saved per day. Or almost a month to make a 1 pound difference.

On the other hand, you could burn an extra 135 calories easily by taking a 30 minute walk. (Depending on your stats, you could burn well over 135 in 30 minutes.) And to be successful on Alli you must track your food, control your macros. But you can do that here, for free. With no messy side effects.

When you do the Alli-math, the difference is about 1 pound a month. Its the other things you do, logging your food/finding a weight loss support group or website or accountability partner/eating in a reduced range & increasing your activity that does the real work.

I just checked the price and its cost £149.85 for a 3 months supply. Thats a lot of money. I would use that money to buy food.
So whats the difference between sticking to the ALLi plan and the eating to a slight deficit plan (other than money spent?)

Have some diapers ready.

Have some diapers ready.

LOL - love this!

A woman I worked with used Alli several years ago - she followed the food guides and still had stomach cramps and oily farts. She quit after a month because she was so tired of dealing with the side effects. The upside was she continued to log her food and added in exercise and ended up losing more weight AFTER quitting the drug than she did while on it.

To be accurate she lost two lbs in the month she took Alli. The month after she stopped she lost three lbs and when she started exercising she averaged a 1 lb a week loss. We were both bank tellers and she was in the window next to me so believe me I heard all about it!

Edited to be clearer about weight loss before and after Alli

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That's a very unfair characterization. Many Alli users move their limbs about...running for the bathroom!

LOL! :laugh: