I think the only meal of the day that is up to 15gms of fat for me is dinner, i had a 3gm of fat breakfast , skipped lunch, and just had fat free pretzels as a snack till dinner.  Will it work if i'm not eating enough fat?  Should I not take the pills with my very low fat or nonfat meals/snacks?? 

I like you have such a hard time getting to that much fat or calories either.  I have this dillusion in my head that I just cannot possibly eat that much and lose weight.  However while I have been putting along in the weight loss I have only been dropping 1 and 2 pounds, went 5 weeks without losing a pound.  There are so many posts on here of people following the exacts and have lost four and five a week. My total is up to 26 pounds and so many of the people that I started with are down 40 and 50.  I have now given in and decided to dedicate myself to the plan completely, my advice would be to do the same!!  Good Luck and keep posting to let us know what is working for you!

How I understand it if you do not eat the fat the Alli plan tells you to then your wasting your money. The Alli pill works with the fat. If there is no fat to block then the pill does nothing! I am on the plan where I need 19 grams of fat with each meal. I always try to get to 17 at least. The pill works great with the high fat amount just do not go over what they tell you too!! In 4 months I have lost 23 lbs on Alli and that is with falling off the bandwagon many many times! It can be done just follow Alli and do what they suggest!!

(228lbs in Oct)

SW: 209lbs Jan.

CW: 186lbs

GW: 140's

Thanks for the reply!  Your oct. weight is my cw :/ but its really motivating to see that you're in the 100s now!  So lets say I eat cereal for breakfast and that has 3 gms of fat, should I eat a piece of PB toast with the cereal to up the fat ammt?   

Yes, or so for me! I don't think I have EVER eaten the full 19gm of fat unless it was by accident. I have lost 40lbs on this program and I rarely stick to my 19gm of fat target. I know they say you should, but If I am not hungry or do not need the extra fat and calories..why in the heck would I intake it? I too eat a breakfast/pill and a dinner/pill sometimes during lunch I only snack and do not take my pill, and I have seen great results. Keep up the good work!

Alli works by you meeting your calorie goals and your fat gram goals - read the posts on the first page by Betty Kovacs regarding those two issues - it'll shed some light and may enlighten you :)

It's very differnt from what we've been taught in the past - it really does work eating more calories and eating your fat grams !!!!

Give it a shot .... it'll work.  If you can't get your fat grams in, add a few nuts, some peanut butter, flaxseed ... don't skimp.