Thanks so much for the advice.  I have to attend a function tonight at my favorite restaurant in the world and I was going to chance skipping a pill to enjoy my favorite dish.  Now that I've read your post, I will order a lowfat selection.  I'll make sure to carry my food guide with me.

oh my God!!! what a experience you had!

thanks for share it with all of us and i'll try to keep my fat grams at the limit, I just had oily experience once a day after eating fried chicken at KFC and i'll do it again, after start this program i realize how many fat i've eaten before, and i like to eat healthy.

Good Luck!

What have you found out about light beer? I have been on the medication for two weeks now and I am planning my first night out with my girlfriends (which will include some light beer consumption) should I skip my pill???

I've lost 15 pounds in about 4 weeks and I NEVER feel hungry.  I start the day with a bowl of flavored oatmeal cereal, lunch is either a portion controlled frozen meal and yogart or I've learned that I can have a fast food cheese burger and a salad with ff dressing, dinner is either fish, chicken or lean beef and veggies and a potato or rice.........my new snack is a glass of orange juice a and/or ff yogart or a piece of fruit instead of ice cream..........I had only one episode of side effect when I attmpted to eat my usualy 3 slices of pizza at a local restaurant on a Saturday night.....I learned quickly not to do that.  I also have been moving more; doing more house work in the evening instead of waiting to do it all in one day on the weekend is one simple thing I've added to my routine including walking 30minutes 3-5 times per week.

 I am seeing the weight come off even if others aren't yet able to see it.....and I am not starving.:)

Well I started taking Alli today. Scared to death I would have an accident. But so far all's well in the BM department. I am sticking to the plan...and hoping my Dr. will be proud in a few months when I get my cholesterol checked. Good luck to all and to me.

Hi!,  I am eating usually less than 30g of fat a day and staying under 1200 calories most days.  My question is:  I was told, by Alli, that I should eat about 1800 calories a day and 45gr of fat daily.  I have been on Alli for 16 days and have only lost 5 lbs.  Do I need to eat more to loose more quickly??  I have not cheated either.  Thought I would loose more quickly than this. :(

Nancy

THANKS FOR THE INFO ON THE SIDE EFFECTS. THIS WILL REALLY HELP I JUST STARTED LAST FRIDAY.

PATSY

Thanks for sharing... I have only been on alli for a few days and I have not had any accidents. But I feel pretty sure that after reading your post I will try even harder to stay under my fat target. I have tried many, many other products so your previous success gives me hope..

I'm having the same problem. I read the questions but can't find seem find the replys. Where are they?  HELP!    Mary F

LindaDeGraw:

 I had the TE as a result of a snack (piece of cake) I ate between meals, so I immediately stopped the pills for the day afterward to give my body a chance to adjust.  I continued to have TE for the entire next day!  Now I'm afraid to go back on the pill even though I ate well yesterday.  Think I'll give my body one more day to adjust to low fat eating before I take another pill.

 

No offense to anybody on here, really, because I am in the same boat as everyone else, but didn't you read all the information that comes with your alli?  It can stay in your system for up to 48 hours, so if you eat something high in fat and don't take a pill at that time, but took one a few hours ago, you're probably going to have TEs. 

Here's what I did: about a week and a half after starting alli, I had a wedding to go to,  I knew that the food was all going to be catered and there probably wasn't going to be a lot of good food choices.  I stopped taking the alli 48 hrs. before I was going to eat there, and then started the alli again 48 hours later.  I had no treatment effects.  I did gain 2 pounds that weekend, but then lost that and another pound that week.  Hopefully this helps people, and stops spreading the myth that you can just not take the alli for 1 meal and have no effects.

The other thing that I wanted to point out is that if you go above your 30% fat per meal, you can also get TEs.  The one time that I had an "icky" moment, I was within my calories and my fat grams, but at about 32% fat.  It wasn't too bad (and luckily I was at home) but definitely something I wouldn't want to repeat.  And so far, I haven't had any other treatment effects, and am down 10 lbs. in 4 weeks.  (yay!)

So everybody keep at it, good luck to you all!