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Alli Diet Pills

Hi,

has anyone started on these diet pills, they are the ones you can get from the chemist without prescription ? I only ask as I was thinking of starting these and just wanted some advice

thanks
natasha
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  • kathybinns
    kathybinns Posts: 68 Forumite
    Yes, what is your question?
  • fluffynit
    fluffynit Posts: 11,339 Forumite
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    Hi,

    has anyone started on these diet pills, they are the ones you can get from the chemist without prescription ? I only ask as I was thinking of starting these and just wanted some advice

    thanks
    natasha

    This thread might be useful

    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1623927&highlight=alli

    :)
  • Kentmumof1
    Kentmumof1 Posts: 295 Forumite
    sorry I didn't really state the question very well !! I just wanted to know if anyone else had tried them and what they thought of them, would you recommend them or not.

    thanks for the link as well, I will have a look

    natasha
  • VfM4meplse
    VfM4meplse Posts: 34,269 Forumite
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    They will only help if you cut fat right out of your diet. Most dieters will lose weight with a little fat in their diet as it makes food more palatable. With Alli / Xenical it passes straight out of your colon, at times without warning. Expect oily anal leakage. Think of it as regression to a time when you needed to wear a nappy...

    Sensible wt loss through diet and exercise is best.
    Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!

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  • Kentmumof1
    Kentmumof1 Posts: 295 Forumite
    thanks the side effects do not sound very nice at all I must say
  • Enfieldian
    Enfieldian Posts: 2,893 Forumite
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    VfM4meplse wrote: »
    They will only help if you cut fat right out of your diet. Most dieters will lose weight with a little fat in their diet as it makes food more palatable. With Alli / Xenical it passes straight out of your colon, at times without warning. Expect oily anal leakage. Think of it as regression to a time when you needed to wear a nappy...

    Sensible wt loss through diet and exercise is best.

    Sorry but this is totally incorrect.

    Alli is supposed to stop a 1/4 of the fat in your "balanced" meals being absorbed.

    If there is no fat at all then Alli has nothing to do and will have no effect whatsoever.
  • simplepete
    simplepete Posts: 201 Forumite
    i dont reccommend it at all, having had it prescribed, I was a terrible victim of the oil leakage. Imagine how bad it is then multiply by 10. That was on an incredibly low fat diet.
  • ebaybaby
    ebaybaby Posts: 873 Forumite
    I agree with Enfieldian, these tablets work better if you have a certain amount of fat in your diet.
    Vfm4meplse have you tried them?
    I have and had a good weight loss from them too.
    If think they will be a miracle cure that means you can eat what you like and lose weight then your wrong!
    Not once did I suffer the oily stools everyone talks about, so I can only assume they were abusing them.
    Good luck OP.
  • Hi everone. Been checking site for vaious topics for ages & this is my first post. Hope it helps someone.

    As a new member Im not allowed to post links, but the item was found on the hompepage for grahamspharmacy.com

    P :)
  • BitterAndTwisted
    BitterAndTwisted Posts: 22,492 Forumite
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    As a way of keeping you on the straight-and-narrow on a low-fat diet I think they could be a good thing as the punishment for straying doesn't bear thinking about
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