Alli Fat Blocker Diet Pills

I tried Alli for several months a couple of years ago, and got some… interesting results – though not the results I was looking for. For those easily offended, it might be a good idea to skip the next couple of paragraphs. It’s going to get a little gross, and a lot personal. When I started Alli, I looked forever for reviews of the treatment effects people experienced, and I hardly ever found an honest account of it. So here goes, in the interest of complete honesty.

Alli is known for its famous “treatment effects,” or, as the Alli company website so politely describes it, “bowel related changes.” This, for many people, can mean anything from greasy flatulence to outright loss of control and a resulting oily sludge in the underwear. Alli actually recommends that users carry an extra change of clothing around while on the pill. Other users have compared it to being in a constant state of feeling like they had just eaten a giant plate of skyline with extra cheese and hot sauce – subconsciously you WILL be noticing the nearest restrooms, just in case.

Thankfully, I didn’t experience any oil explosions or anything of that nature. I am pretty sure the first time that happened it would have signaled the end of my Alli diet attempts. Greasy, uncontrollable diarrhea may not be a deal breaker for some people, but I am fairly confident that I will never be quite that desperate to lose weight. I did, however, notice oil droplets in the toilet. It looked kind of like someone had tilted an extremely greasy pizza over the toilet until everything dripped into the bowl. It was even orange like pizza grease, on some occasions. Green, if there was olive oil involved. Very interesting, in a yuck-don’t-ever-tell-me-that-again sort of way. I tried my best to look at it in a positive light – at least the visible evidence was proof that the drug was actually blocking fat from being absorbed.

Possibly what interested me even more than that was when I started noticing some extra hair on my hairbrush and in the shower every morning. Alli was pretty much the only thing I had changed recently, so I immediately stopped taking it, worried that if I chanced it I would be trading a little bit of weight loss for a bald spot. I would rather be a chubby girl than a chubby bald girl under the threat of spontaneous grease expulsions.

I did not see hair loss as one of the listed potential risks of Alli, but I asked my doctor and he said it was very possible that Alli was the culprit. I don’t have any proof that it was indeed the problem, but the hair loss seemed to stop after I discontinued the pills. I didn’t really lose weight with Alli, either, but I don’t blame Alli for that. At the time I was taking this, I was at the height of my depression and I tended to console myself with food. My food staples included boxed macaroni and cheese, pizza rolls, and Oreos. I didn’t really put forth my best effort at following the diet plan, instead choosing to put all my faith in Alli’s magical fat blocking powers. Even the makers of the pills don’t claim that it will help you lose weight without you trying – they plainly tell you up front that Alli will improve your weight loss results when combined with diet and exercise – things that were barely in my vocabulary back then.

Keep in mind, this was my personal experience using Alli. I know plenty of people have had lots of success with it, at the very least because it’s not cheap and gives them motivation to try and eat right, both to make the cost worth it and to avoid the oil volcanoes. Plus, Alli carries a lot of appeal for people looking for a safe, FDA-approved weight loss pill. Since hair loss was not mentioned on the list of possible risks, I am figuring it is probably a very rare reaction. My final verdict on this one is that it does produce visible evidence that it is working, therefore it must do what it claims to do. Alli is not for me, but it is worth a try for someone with a sense of adventure and a high embarrassment threshold.

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