Orlistat/alli

As I understand it, Alli works by making a person nauseous whenever they consume unhealthy foods. If I could not stop eating frid donuts, for example, then this might be good for me. However, the better approach is to choose a healthy diet. If you make the right eating choices Alli and similar drugs would be ineffective. Treat the cure not the symptom.

Sorry, are you saying that a Doctor prescribed Alli for you?

As I understand it, Alli works by making a person nauseous whenever they consume unhealthy foods. If I could not stop eating frid donuts, for example, then this might be good for me. However, the better approach is to choose a healthy diet. If you make the right eating choices Alli and similar drugs would be ineffective. Treat the cure not the symptom.

exactly! and even after over a year of not taking it and after what it has done to my body I cant eat anything without this feeling. Toast with an apple gives me the same reaction that this drug did. I eat and 20-30 mins latter I am in tears on the toilet or puking. It has ruined my intestines for the rest of my life. It dosnt matter what I eat. May be tmi but the oily stools they describe I STILL get and I dont even take that crap anymore. Stay away from it. I agree with everyone else with throwing it in the trash!!!!!!!!

The point of Alli is to help you lose weight when you are eating healthy, for every 2 pounds that I lose - Alli helps me lose 1 more by blocking the fat that I ate. If you don't eat over the fat grams, you won't have any problems.

Only 6 months and I lost 10-15 lbs with it. So it really didnt help. The drugs basically caused my gallbladdar to shut down but not compleatly. I wasnt digesting any foods. It would work a little and then spazzam causing pains.

Give it a try it may work for you but be very careful and know that there are risks to taking it!

If you eat something like a Big Mac and take an Alli - you will poop out orange oil. Or yellow oil. Oil. And it's the worst smelling poop you've ever smelled. And if you get gassy, and you let a little toot loose, you'll likely also let some oils loose. Basically, eat very healthy while you're on it - and then you won't have to change your pants every time you've got the booty toots.

I hope that this helps you. Good luck on your weight loss journey.

I took it when it first came out. I don't remember losing any more weight than normal taking it, but you can see it working, i.e. not to be too graphic, but see the fat it blocked floating in the toilet. I really believe that years of taking pills like Alli, Hydroxycut, Metabolife, etc. and my weight going up and down helped lead to my hypothyroidism. In fact, people with thyroid disease aren't supposed to take Alli, so do you really want to take something that interferes with your thyroid, and subsequently, your metabolism. The whole point of it is to block fat, but you might do better to eliminate some of that fat from your diet in the first place. So maybe instead of the Alli being your last resort, you could try something like eating greens when you would have had a starch, eating white meat or fish instead of red meat or dark meat.
I gained 90 pounds when I became hypothyroid. NINETY. The only thing that worked for me was logging everything on this app/website and reducing my calorie intake. When I hit my first plateau last week what worked for me was zig-zagging my calorie intake (e.g. 300 over one day, 300 under the next, breaking even and so on). I also switched from synthetic thyroid (Levothyroxin) to natural thyroid (Armour) and finally got my dosage right last month. When you know you can't take a "diet" pill to help, you're forced to take a real look at your habits and change them.

Sorry there are so many rude people on here what it does is it stops a percent of fat from being absorbed. So you only take it when you consume foods with a high fat content aka pizza. It does you no good to rake it with meals that are low in fat. I have never heard of the nausea thing what it does is when you poop it expels the fat that was not digested(or consumed). It kinda looks like a mini oil slick in the potty. That is all it does.

Sorry, are you saying that a Doctor prescribed Alli for you?

Yes Dr do prescribe it because it has no side effects unless you eat a lot of fat. The Alli on the market is 1/2 the dosage of prescribed. This is the only aide the Veterans will prescribe.

I took Alli for my wedding and lost 14 lbs however I really wanted a quick fix and after I stopped taking it I ended up falling back into old eating patterns had a baby and am now working to get the weight plus some back off! For me it comes down to self control and really deciding I want it. I have read Alli is bad for your liver something to think about since a liver is hard to replace! I'm sure your a smart lady as well as your Dr and you will make the right choice for you. Nothing will ever beat doing it the natural way! Take it off slowly keep it off long term!

Why the heck would you want to block fat intake. Your brain needs fat and in all honestly is FAT. People need to research a bit more in the fact that high fat diets don't make us fatter. I am the type that refuses to accept that a prescribed medicine is in fact necessary. I think prescription drugs screw you up for eternity. Prescription drugs are in fact toxic to our bodies regardless of function. Regretfully some people have no option but to take them to live. It's not fix and the fix is something we need to strive for naturally if possible.

I personally think that modern western medicine should be the last ditch option when EVERYTHING else has failed. Me and my wife really haven't been to see a doctor in over 25 years and seem to be perfectly healthy. We rarely get sick and i can't remember the last time i had a cold .. Maybe in 2005 if memory serves me. Our bodies are of perfect design. Taking something like Alli is not natural. Taking a statin for cholesterol is not natural. Avoiding saturated fat goes against our bodies design. Eating healthy basically means if its not made by nature then don't eat it.

The sad fact is alot of folks whose metabolism has been trashed by taking prescription drugs have a near impossible feat of trying to lose excess pounds. Best of luck to the OP. A freaking Dr. suggesting Alli for weight loss is an uneducated quack.