You can take alli within one hour, before or after, eating a meal. If a dose is missed completely, all of the fat in the meal will be absorbed instead of about 25 percent being eliminated if alli was taken with that meal. If this happens, remember to take alli with your next fat-containing meal. Since alli is not absorbed in your bloodstream, you don’t need to worry about maintaining certain levels of alli in your system.
Treatment effects are ONLY the result of consuming too much fat, you are doing real well if you have not experience any treatment effects. I will recommend using the nutrition logs found at myalliplan, so you can track your food intake and make sure you are not exceeding your calories for the day.
Many factors can attribute a weight plateau - Menstrual cycles, high sodium intake, medications, etc. Sometimes, even if you follow a diet plan perfectly well there are moments when your body plateaus and that is OK. Even when the scale does not show progress, you should not feel discouraged. Chances are that you are making progress in many other ways.
- You are eating healthy and that is positive
- Maybe you are feeling more energetic
- Maybe your clothes are fitting better
- Maybe your cholesterol level is lowering
If you stay the course you will continue to drop pounds. You can also help move from plateau if you increase your physical activity. You can also add resistance exercises to your routine or cut a snack or about 100 to 200 calories from your meal plan (as long as you are not going to be very hungry in between meals). Most importantly, stay on track.
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Sylvia Melendez-Klinger, MS, RD, LDN, CPT - registered dietitian