Does OTC diet pill Alli live up to its name?

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I agree to comment id: 33173.

I also believe that some people here will not experience complete success. Seems they take the pill only when it’s convenient or when they can shit themselves in private!!! :S
This is the wrong way to think!

You need to seriously adjust the way you eat. This way the pill can be taken, as recommended, 3 times a day.
Oil may still appear in your stool but with a meal under 15 grams of fat, you SHOULD NOT have uncontrollable diarrhea!
If you are shitting your pants after every meal...you need to think long and hard about what you are putting in your mouth!

I've been on Alli for about 30 days now and haven't experience a single embarrasing poopy pants accident!
I've lost 2 lbs so far and have been eating better and exercising 3 days a week.
It's not only the weight loss that has me excited; it's understanding how to eat right and live healthier!

Good luck to all out there trying this and please keep my advice in mind.
If you are concerned about diarrhea after a fatty meal – don’t avoid the pill, avoid the fatty meal!!!

There are so many weightloss drugs out there I don't know which one to believe in anymore!

hey thats great you lost 6lb in 2 wks i lost 3lb on my 1st wk, in my second wk now... thats with not really been on a diet, and my exercise is work!! im happy with the alli there learnin me too eat more healhty to eat less fat etc!! as only gettin runny oily leakage down your leg other wise and need a pad constant if dont eat less fat!!!

so its a great help!! Mags x

Hello , i am a 47 year old male who has been taking alli for two weeks , ive stook to a healthy low diet for a few months and especially so with alli . I eat bran flakes . wholemeal
bread low filling's but my problem although long term and even more so with alli is constipation , i take movicol powder , senna tablets but not even alli move's me ? Any suggestions ? will adding a little more fat help maybe my diet is too low for alli too work ? Thanks

I am a 48 year old woman, 5'2", and my starting weight was 192 lbs. In early Feb. I decided I needed to do something about my weight.....for my own good, so I thought I'd try Alli. I am now down to 173! Sure, I am eating right (mostly) and exercising, but I do believe Alli has helped. I've dealt with the cause effects a little bit and it hasn't been too bad. All you have to do is just remember to not eat so much fat. It's not that difficult. I am overall pleased with Alli and would recommend it to anyone who is really ready. If you're not willing to give up the fat and calories then you aren't ready for Alli. Good luck to everyone.

LT

I'm a "middle aged" male who started Alli on February 2, 2008. I was on it for 9 weeks and lost 27 lbs - going from 193 to 166. Since then I've fluctuated from 163 to 170 - today at 168. It is a miracle drug. The bonus was the increased energy. Yes, I work out on an elliptical four or five times a week and I try not to be too stupid about what I eat. But those were pounds I'd tried to lose for 5 years.

I think the success to the program is that the "treatment effects" force you to eat right or else. It's like having a 24 hour nutritionist on staff. If you don't follow the guidelines, you might pay for it, so it's better to just follow the program. And besides, if you don't follow the guidelines, why waste money on the pill? The other reason it worked for me is, as one who loves to eat, I wasn't needing to watch calories and food intake so much, only fat grams. So as long as I ate the right things - low fat - the quantity was not as important.

I never thought I'd try a diet pill but I'm glad I did and I can't recommend it highly enough.

can you tell me about the stool problems i heard some people say to be carefull that you don't poop your pant's i cant afford for that to happen no way,so can you please explain your exp. to me, also can you share with me the gum that you have lost your 55lbs off of and congrad's on your accomplishments!!!!! please e-mail me @ plumdelicious38@yahoo.com thank's much for the warnining!!!!(yikes) (lol)

I think the major reason why people give up on alli is their misunderstanding of how the drug works. Alli is NOT a hunger suppressant. It never promises that you can eat whatever you want and control your appetite. It simply promises to block a percentage (25%) of the fat your body absorbs. Common sense would then lead one to realize that if your body is not absorbing that fat, it has to go SOMEWHERE. Whatever the body DOES NOT USE is eliminated as WASTE... hence, those of you who refuse to accept the fat that you need to cut down the fat intake dramatically will find yourselves in a very bad position eg. hovering over the toilet with oily crap running down your leg at the mall. Keep in mind as well, that will power is a major key to the success of this pill. YOU MUST be WILLING to NOT eat the FAT! Why? Alli IS NOT a hunger suppressant. YOU must control your own hunger. Will power, exercise, right choices, low fat diet and plain old common sense will allow you to be successful at using Alli without side effects of any kind.

Hi, well I tried the Alli pills and I will not continue! I found a good gum that stops me feeling hungry. It's cheap and I have lost 55Lb now, I wont go back to the Alli pills due to the toilet problems.

I loooove ALLI. There are side effects. Loosing wieght takes time, hard work, and is not easy! Some people have a problem with this but I welcome small daily challenges like unwanted visitors like oils or even solids running down my leg. Its less painfull than running on the treadmill! Some people are afraid of people thinking they smell or are dirty (due to spotting through the paints/mini skirt) but I say your gross if your FAT!

Just Being Real,
Alex

I have been taking alli for about a week now. I have noticed a significant amount of the "oily spotting" as warned by the manufacturer. I even had a embarassing incident where the accumulated oil actually built up enough for a little to run
down my leg all the way to my sock. Unfortuantly I was wearing shorts that day :-(. My domestic partner also has been unable to tolerate sex lately, the oily fluids have a tendancy to cause his condom to break in less than a minute. If I don't start seeing results soon, I will discontiue use. Its side effects are just too drastic.

No, I'm not "tooting" because I'm on Alli.

Following is another post from the old ARNA board on Yahoo, where I discussed the Acomplia results a year ago, in response to a skeptic about Lorcaserin. I think there are some much more effective diet drugs on the horizon.

"You're too pessimistic about ARNA. Everything is proceeding reasonably well, the only current delay is getting the OK from the FDA to move ahead with the APD125 phase 2. Lorcaserin is on track to start phase 3 this year, as are the two partnered programs, as is the anticoagulant program. Sanofi's rimonabant, the weight loss therapy that ought to pose the greatest competition to Lorcaserin, is held up at the FDA and my bet it's a safety issue, given all the publicity regarding Vioxx, Tysabri, and others. I think it's probably the depression signal seen in the the trials. Here's how I think about it....the THC in marijuana is a CB1 agonist, and causes euphoria (the "high") and the "munchies". Rimonabant is a CB1 antagonist and promotes less food intake (weight loss) and apparently depression in some sensitive individuals. In the recent, published study, there was a depression rate of 3% in the patients given 20 mg of rimonabant daily. I think that's too high to be acceptable, although it's possible it will eventually be marketed in the US with a black box warning. Other competition includes the companies developing PYY3-36, AMLN's Symlin + Leptin combination looks exciting in pre-clinical studies, and certainly others as well.

Regarding the current stock price, I'm not worried. The market moves up and down in the short term due to anxieties and enthusiasms of market timers and daytraders and institutions that have to show quarterly results, but long term changes are due to fundamentals and these are more predictable. .... If one were to buy and hold ARNA now, I am fairly confident it would be an excellent decision in the long term."

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