Here's my question... I see lots of people saying they're having a "hard time" getting "up to" the fat grams per meal. If that's true, how did you get fat in the first place? Are you being honest with yourself about how many fat grams are truly in the food you eat - including the ingredients you use to prepare it - or are you guessing? I was surprised how many were in skinless white meat chicken. I thought that would basically be a freebie, but it isn't. Help me understand...

Kathe

maryc:

I have been eating fattening food for the past two days and not experienced any treatment effects. I have been eating two cheesecakes and icecream, bacon and eggs with toast and butter and still nothing. I am beginning to feel like this is a placebo, and that it is meant to scare you from eating fattening food

 I ate low fat yesterday until dinner time.... I had 3 peices of pizza which equaled at least 25 grams of fat. I ate them on purpose to see what the "treatment effects" would be like because just knowing they could happen wasn't helping much. It may sound weird to do this to myself but I think I need to have reality hit so I don't feel like I wasted money when I could have just ate low fat/low cal on my own.

I am with ya girl, I thought my Spaghetti was going to be a good choice, I ended up with the same problem.  Nothing like being picked on by my 7 year old, who has told EVERYONE by now.  LOL! 

I just took my first pill today. I have been eating a low-fat diet and walking since Friday to prepare myself for the program. At least with Weight Watchers you have days you can let loose. With this pill, you have to rethink and plan ahead what to eat to stay on track and avoid effects. Sometimes I would love a burger,fries and milk shake. What to do when you have one of those cravings or family events?

                                                        Pam

Hello.  I kind of had that reaction.  Last night I went out to dinner and ordered crab cakes.  I was super hungry but unhappy when I saw they were deep fried.  I only ate 3 of the 6   1-1/2" sized cakes.  Everything fine until lunch today when I had a milder reaction than tamaannangela did but it also was more than enough to make me not want it to happen again.  It's one excellent way of making me more cautious about what I eat.

Jeanne

Me too. I am actually constipated. What's  up!

Pam,

I was wondering that myself.  

 Is it possible to have a weekends off type of regimen I wonder?

Laura 

Tamara, don't feel too bad---jump back on the diet.  I had a similar experience today. I went to a friend's home for lunch and an afternoon of playing Rummikub. We had chicken/turkey weiners that were grilled---they were fabulous and no sign of grease. We also had coleslaw and baked beans.  I took Alli because I knew that there was more fat than I normally eat.  Well, each time I had a finished my turn in the game I had to excuse myself and go to the restroom!!  I had loose stools---not the runs, but loose----AND you would have sworen that an orchestra was in the bathroom with me!!!  I tooted until I thought the bottom of the commode was going to be blown-out!  I would think that I was finished and have to go again-----I was running the water to try to disguise the noise-----it was soooooo loud that I know my friend will hear about it from her neighbors. This continued for about 6 hours!!!  I wouldn't be surprised if I'm not invited next time!!!!

You know what i thought that same thing but it takes a while for the fat to excret for me! I ate very poorly fathers day cause the kids, husband and I went the zoo, i had a big breakfast, a very very fatten lunch and the same for supper and i didn't have TE until tuesday morning!

Good point!  I too eat a low fat breakfast, and planned on "stretching it out" a bit.  Why should we take it if we haven't eatten any fat grams?  Trust me, that is not usually a problem, but I thought it would be an incentive to do better.  Did you here anything back from them?

I too, work out really hard at the gym and I've not had any treatments effect while working out. I take a class, and occasionally we have partners for certain exercises. Well, I have had problems with gas. So far, in a month, I have yet to let one slip out, a fart, that is, but I've held it in until I felt like a would literally blow up, cause them alli farts can be nasty! And I would literally die if I let one out in my partner's face!

But if you stick to the fat grams you're supposed to, you should be fine. I don't think it's the jumping around and straining that does it, but just the fat grams.

I have been on the program for six weeks (and lost 28 pounds).  I have only had VERY MINOR treatment effects on one or two occasions.  With that said, I have been extremely strict about staying within my 15 grams of fat per meal.  When I eat out at restaurants, I never have salad with dressing (even low-fat dressing), as you don't know exactly how much it has.  When eating out, I stick with grilled chicken and steamed vegetables, with an occasional baked potato (no butter and only 1 tsp sour cream).  I even managed vacation with no treatment effects--but had to be very conscious about what I was eating at theme parks, etc.  I have found that a grilled chicken breast sandwich (no skin on the chicken, no mayo or other sauce) usually works for me at "fast food" type restaurants.  I never have pizza, chicken nuggets, jalapeno poppers, anything fried, or anything with a lot of cheese.  This has worked for me, and it has made me appreciate my after dinner snack of fat free/sugar free frozen yogurt.  Good luck to you.

If you stay with in your fats per meal you don't have effects

Hi, I wrote this in one of the previous topics.  But, I had a TE at my dining room table, I went to stand up and it poured right out of me (was wearing a panty liner) straight onto my rose colored fabric chair.  I scrubbed and scrubbed with dawn dish liquid, nada...didn't work.  When it dried, I now have a butt shaped, TE stain on my dining room chair!