Alli Weight-Loss Aid, Orlistat 60mg Capsules, 90-Count Starter Pack | 
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Ingredients: Active Ingredients: Orlistat 60mg (Weight Loss Aid).
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Size: 90-Count Starter Pack
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MPN: 46800
Model: 46800
UPC: 353100468004
EAN: 0353100468004
ASIN: B000OWN65U
Release Date: June 13, 2007
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| • | Alli is the only FDA approved over-the- counter weight-loss aid for overweight adults | | • | Alli is more than a pill; it's an innovative weight-loss program that includes an individually tailored online plan that teaches people healthier eating habits | | • | Alli binds to gastric and pancreatic lipases blocking absorption of 25% of consumed fat | | • | Undigested fat is excreted from the body instead of being turned into fat | | • | Alli, in combination with a reduced calorie low fat diet, can help an individual lose 50% more weight than with dieting alone |
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Product Description
Time is ticking on the miracle diets, the untested, the untrue. Now you can look at weight loss differently. alli is the only FDA approved, over-the-counter weight loss product. But it s more than just a pill. It s an innovative weight loss program. The pill works by preventing your body from absorbing some of the fat you eat. And the program includes an individually tailored, online action plan to help you lose weight safely and gradually. ALLI in Action Video: [... Click Here to See a ALLI in Action Video ...]ALLI Packing Tour: [... Click Here to See a ALLI Packing Tour Video ...]Take a Tour of MyAlliPlan Video: [... Click Here to See a Tour of MyAlliPlan Video ...]MSNBC NEWS: Diet pill s icky side effects keep users honest Threat of embarrassment forces Alli users to eat healthy or else By Melissa Dahl - Health writer - MSNBC Alli is the first over-the-counter weight loss drug to get an approval from the Food and Drug Administration, but it can cause some ghastly side effects if users cheat on their diets. CBS NEWS: All About Alli, The Weight Loss Pill. (WebMD) By now, you have probably seen the commercials or read the direct mail pieces about Alli. They ask if you are ready to commit to a weight loss plan that includes Alli, the over-the-counter version of the FDA-approved fat blocker formerly known as Xenical. FDA APPROVED: The Food and Drug Administration approved the drug product orlistat 60 mg capsule (trade name alli) on February 7, 2007, for over-the-counter marketing as a weight loss aid. Alli is to be used only in conjunction with a weight loss program that includes a reduced calorie diet, a low fat diet, and an exercise program. It is approved for use in adults 18 years and older. A multivitamin should be taken every day when alli is used as part of a weight loss program. Alli works by inhibiting some of the body's absorption of dietary fat. Taken at meal times, it works by blocking the absorption of about 25% of fat in the foods you eat.
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alli is a 60mg orlistat capsule. But it's more than just a pill. It's an innovative weight loss program that works with you, not for you. alli can help you lose 50% more weight than dieting alone, but you have to do your part by changing the way you eat.
The alli program starts with your commitment to adopting healthy eating habits. It combines the only FDA approved, over-the-counter weight loss product with an individually tailored support plan to help you achieve gradual and healthy weight loss. When you take alli along with a reduced-calorie, low-fat diet, you can lose 50% more weight than dieting alone. For example, instead of losing 10 pounds with diet alone, you can lose 15 pounds with the alli program. alli is safe - it works in your digestive system, not in your heart or brain. It will not cause jitters, sleeplessness, or a racing heart. You can't just try alli - you have to commit to it. More information can be found at myalli.com, where you can also talk to alli users, registered dietitians, pharmacists, and fitness experts on the alli message board. Or talk to your doctor, pharmacist, or dietitian to help determine if you're ready.
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Typically, enzymes in your intestines break down fat from food so your body can absorb the fat. But the active ingredient in alli attaches to some of these enzymes and prevents them from digesting about a quarter of the fat you eat. Because undigested fat can't be absorbed, it passes out of your body instead of turning into calories.
The main side effect occurs when you eat a meal with too much fat while taking alli. If so much fat is blocked that your stool can't absorb it, you might have side effects. Because they are not harmful, we call them "treatment effects." These include loose or more frequent stools, an urgent need to go to the bathroom, or gas with an oily discharge. The excess fat that passes out of your body is in no way harmful. In fact, you may recognize it as something that looks like the oil on top of a pizza. Treatment effects can be lessened if you stick to reduced-calorie, low-fat meals that average 15 grams of fat per meal.
- Don't use alli if you are pregnant or breastfeeding, if you have had an organ transplant, or if you are taking cyclosporine.
- Do not take alli if you are allergic to any of the ingredients in alli capsules.
- Ask a doctor before using alli if you are taking warfarin.
- Do not take alli if you are not overweight.
- You can take up to three alli capsules per day, one with each meal containing fat.
- Take a multivitamin daily while taking alli capsules to ensure adequate absorption of vitamins A, D, E, K, and beta carotene.
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Losing weight is easier with support. That's why the alli program includes an individually tailored online plan called myalliplan. myalliplan offers free individualized support and was developed by nutritional and weight management experts who understand the struggle to lose weight.
When you register with myalliplan, you receive:
- A customized online action plan.
- Personalized emails that deliver lessons about meal planning, managing hunger, dealing with setbacks, and making food and lifestyle changes to help you succeed.
- Menus and shopping lists.
- Online tools to record your progress.
- Connection to a network of other alli users.
You may have a better chance of success when you enroll in a customized, interactive support plan.
If you decide that you're ready to commit to the alli program, purchase the alli starter pack. This package contains portable reference guides to help you follow the alli program. The starter pack also includes a carrying case, called the alli Shuttle, to make it easy to take your alli capsules with you. The in-pack guides, together with myalliplan, deliver the support to help you reach your weight loss goals, and teach you how to eat healthy for a lifetime.
 With the myalliplan diet tool trial, you'll receive a 10-day access pass to interactive tools that can help you plan meals, get active, manage calories, and more. You'll also get a sneak peek at how myalliplan can provide you with guidance from experts to help you achieve healthy weight loss. | | 
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Losing weight doesn't have to be a bland, tasteless affair. With help from the alli program, you can learn how to create healthy and flavorful meals. So instead of that high-calorie, high-fat cheeseburger, try a juicy turkey burger that's loaded with flavor and low in fat.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 225 more reviews...
 Seems to work... September 5, 2007
75 out of 79 found this review helpful
Well here is a cold, honest and disgusting review of Alli.
I'm not heavy, but i've been wanting to shed off about 5 to 10 pounds for the last year now. The problem was I was just too lazy. Well I finally got my act together and started walking an hour a day and eating better. After about a week of doing this (at this time I had shaved off about 1 or 2 pounds) my slightly overweight boss told me about Alli and how he had been using it for about a week and he already felt a couple pounds lighter. My first thought was sure, if this can double the speed of my weight loss i'll do it. So I quickly went out to a local Kroger to pick up the 60 capsule starter kit. I read the info that came with it that night and started taking the pills the next morning before every meal.
The first 2 days I didn't notice any kind of side effects. I thought all the reviews I read on the web were from people who ate nothing but junk because I was eating decent and nothing happened. Well on day 3 after I had my cereal/pill combo in the morning, within minutes I felt kinda gassy and I passed it as usual. Later, when I got up, the inside of my pants felt greesey. Was I sweating? No.. something much worse. Apparently I had passed the 1/4 fat that Alli blocks. Apparently it took about 3 days to finally hit me with the side effects. Needless to say I quickly threw my clothes in the washing machine and took a shower.
The stuff sure is sneaky... I had no idea thats what was going on down there until it was too late. I'd suggest anyone who has a hard time controlling their gas to not take this pill in public as you may be in for some embarassment. As for me, I now know to hold everything until I get home. The bright side is that i've lost more weight since I started this pill and it seemingly works great other then these nasty side effects. The funny thing is that I eat mostly lean meats, wheat bread and swiss cheese since i started my diet and I still get the side effects. I can't imagine the mess if I took one after eating Pizza or cheeseburgers...
A weight-loss pill that actually works, and embarasses at the same time!
MORE THAN JUST A PILL August 2, 2007
82 out of 88 found this review helpful
Well... I almost NEVER leave reviews, but this is important! I've been on the "My Alli Plan" for 5 1/2 weeks and have lost 19 1/2 lbs. You DO have to work the program, it is not magic and not an appetite suppressant. I have lost 65-70 lbs. three times in my life, all on low carbs. Problem is; I can't live the rest of my life with limited carbs, so I have gained it back every time. The solution...with a low calorie and low fat diet, you WILL lose weight and really you can have ANYTHING you want! Just count the grams in your daily allowance.
O.K. about Alli, MORE THAT JUST A PILL, with a purchase you go online and register your product code in your pack. I registered the 90 pill starter pack and I received 90 days of online support, with EVERYTHING you need (as far as tools and information) to follow the plan. If you were to join an online weight loss plan such as Weight Watchers it would cost $65.00 FOR 3 months. So you get that free with ALLI, which is a $65.00 value in itself (which in a way, pays for the pills, mine were $60.00 + tax.). They have a meal planner, a food log, a recipe lookup, a water log, a weekly weigh-in, a calorie and fat counter, an activity log listing calories burned, an automatic tally of what you consume, a weekly plan, with guidance for the next step, and a message forum to talk with others (the buddy system). Sure there is more, but I can't name them all.
All that said, Personally I do NOT space the fat evenly between 3 meals, or limit the fat to the recommended 19 grams per meal, Sometimes I eat 40 grams of the 60 I'm allowed in a day, at 1 meal! I take the pill with the meal, and I have had NO TREATMENT EFFECTS. The only difference in the way I "go" is that I do go every morning after my 1st cup of coffee; it is softer than before, but NEVER runny or uncontrollable; and never an upset stomach or "go cramps".
I think honestly, that the online support plan & useful tools it provides, is worth MORE than the price of the pill. So even if you are one who does not like the pill, for whatever reason...you still get a value with the "My Alli Plan" website.
Furthermore...it teaches you how to follow a plan and what you can eat, and what to substitute for your cravings, that you CAN live with for life.
If you fall off, don't think it's over, get back on! Enjoy, eat healthier, and live long!
Jean
Read the instructions, use logically, it works August 3, 2007
52 out of 55 found this review helpful
Alright so check it out - everyone seems to jump right on their computer like the next day after starting these pills and write a scathing review about how the product either doesn't work or causes catastrophic "treatment effects." If you read the literature accompanying Alli, you will find out that there are certain measures you should be taking both before you start the pill and obviously throughout the time that you use the product. If you just binged on fast food and foods with high fat content and then start taking the pill the next day, bad things will probably happen. And let's be realistic, 2 or 3 days is not enough time for your body to shed drastic amounts of weight, no matter how fast we want it to go away. There are about 3500 calories in a pound, so keep that in mind and don't get discouraged.
I've been on Orlistat for the full 20 days that the starter pack allots for and I've lost 10 pounds. I weighed 208 when I started, I'm now 197. I had been dieting casually and hitting the gym hard for the previous two or three months and had lost weight (started at 236 in early May) but began to hit a plateau where I was seeing only about 2 pounds being shed every couple of weeks. So, losing about 11 pounds in such a short amount of time with roughly the same diet and exercise program has proven to me that this pill does make a difference, and about exactly what it says it does - 50% more weight.
However, you must play around with your diet.
While I was taking in about the same amount of calories (1800/day) as I was before starting Alli, I had to adjust the fat content so that I was taking in MORE fat. This is the key to losing the weight. The medicine works by blocking about a third of the fat your body absorbs from the food you eat, so if you are eating only 3 grams of fat with a reduced calorie meal (like some of the people on here eating only like lettuce and reduced fat wheat bread..crazy..) the pill won't have much of an effect, and doesn't that make sense? For example, instead of eating a plain sub with turkey and vegetables that has only about 5 or 6 grams of fat, I add cheese and low fat dressing and maybe baked chips to bring the total to about 15 grams of fat, thus making the pill more effective. However, YOU STILL HAVE TO STAY WITHIN YOUR CALORIE TARGETS FOR EACH MEAL, for me about 400 to 600. All unused calories that aren't burned off as energy will be stored in your body as fat for energy later, so try and take in what you need to sustain yourself throughout the day, using an analogy equating your stomach to a gas tank in a car being 1/4 to 3/4 full.
So, if you're willing to do some experimenting with your body (yeah, we all get the treatment effects now and then and it is best to take the advice of the other people on here and get to a bathroom no matter what) you can benefit greatly from Alli. And another thing about the treatment effects, you will be disciplined to make the right choices more often when using the pills but for those times when you can't find it in you to turn down something naughty, don't take the pill with what you're eating. The bad food will probably still catch up with you as a result of the Orlistat already in your body, but it won't be as bad. And the treatment effects really aren't the hellish nightmares that I even thought they would be when I began. Just be responsible.
Read the material, exercise, and eat the right foods at the right times. It's all the ABC's of eating healthy basically, you're just adding a catalyst that is safer than other caffeine-pumped weight loss aids that can land you in the hospital.
An honest testimonial. March 5, 2008
47 out of 50 found this review helpful
This is not going to make you look like Paris Hilton by tomorrow. If that's what you're looking for, see a psychiatrist rather than an endochrinologist!
This is not going to keep you from being hungry. There's plenty of junk on the pharmacy & "herbal supplement" store shelves for that.
What it will do, is mitigate some of the fat you eat. If you have an extremely low-fat diet, it will do nothing for you. If you have an extremely high-fat diet (i.e. an American) it will do lots.
My credentials: I've been taking doctor-prescribed Xenical for a several years now. I've recently switched to Alli, because it is the exact same chemical ingredient (Orlistat) at exactly half the dose, and is significantly cheaper.
My results: When I started, I weighed 320 lbs. I now weigh 240. Now, I can't give all that credit to Alli, because in the two years it took me to lose the 80 pounds, there were numerous other factors to consider. Mostly, changes in my medication for type 2 diabetes. But the important point is, there was no change in diet or exercise over that period. Makes it a pretty good success story in my book.
Point 1) All of the other diet drugs fall into a couple of categories. One of which is the "appetite suppressant" group. Means nothing to me, because I'm never fighting my appetite. I eat well (and, according to two diabetic dieticians, appropriately) so I seldom get so hungry I have to binge. I understand the phenomenon, (on the rare occasion I miss two meals in a row, I'm ready to main-line Sugar Pops) and feel truly sorry for those who experience constant hunger, but Alli won't help that.
The second group are the "Metabolism Stimulants". You want to take "uppers" to lose weight? You deserve everything that happens to you. It's not for me. And Alli won't help you with that, either.
The point is THEY ARE ALL DRUGS, by definition. They enter the bloodstream and work on some chemical or organ in some way. Problem is, you expose every cell in your body to every one of them. Side-effect galore.
Alli is not a drug. It never leaves your gastro-intestinal tract. Pie-hole to Hershey highway, no destructive stops along the way. The so-called side-effects are identical to the effects of particular foods. Sure, they are real, and maybe you can't live with them, but it's nothing compared to the potential damage from the other drugs & herbs.
So the point is that this food additive stands alone as a non-drug alternative to weight loss. If you're like me and are plagued by half the side-effects listed of about every drug on the shelf, then this (and insulin) won't hurt you.
Point 2) This will mitigate a high-fat diet to some degree. Literally can't live without some bacon in the morning? Some animal must die for you have eaten well? Think of butter as a beverage? Well, stage one is "don't eat like that". Once you determined that your quality of life is more important than the advice of the putz from stage one, move on to stage two. Alli's whole deal is to simply bind with the fat you've eaten and pass it through. So with no change in your diet, you'll be eating less fat. Period. It's tough to imagine a scenario where reducing the fat in your diet isn't a good thing. (Fat soluble poisons collected in your system? You're already Paris Hilton? Macrobiotic? O.K., then move on. Everyone else, line up.)
Point 3) As I said before, the side-effects do exist. With practice and good sphincter muscle control, you will be able to skywrite. Six-hour staff meetings are a thing of the past. In the worst cases, keep a spare pair of BVD's handy. (That one's right from the manufacturer. Believe them.)
Basically, if you've ever had a bowl of my chili, you'll be fine. If your fastidious about your "number two" habits, you might want to give it a miss. Oh, and don't miss a day. I believe the ballistic equivalent would be called a "sabot". I won't go into further detail here. Just trust me.
So, to summarize:
It won't help you with your appetite.
It won't affect your metabolism.
It will remove some amount of fat from your diet.
It will give you the green apple quick step.
It will help with diabetes. (Lowered my average blood sugar by 50 points!)
It will take time to lose weight. (But hey, I should be the "Jarod" of Alli. It does work.)
It will lighten your wallet.
5lbs/one week, no treatment effects at all + no work-out "yet" June 29, 2007
35 out of 39 found this review helpful
After reading so many negative reviews, I decided to share my experience of Alli. I am currently a graduate student in medical school and my research mainly focus on metabolic disorder (especially diabetes) and heart diseases. I'm 28 yo and sitting my fat butt in front of the computer more than 12 hours a day. I decided to start with Alli because my BMI suggested a higher risk for heart disease and I also suffer from high cholesterol together with high LDL while my HDL is too low to help me get rid of the high risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. My weight was 139lbs when I started Alli last Friday. I've been following the 1200 calories meal plan but I don't have time to work out at all. I weighted myself this morning totally out of guilty feeling about what I ate yesterday - I had pizza for lunch during a meeting and four pieces crispy fried chicken together with a huge corn on the cob from KFC for dinner (wait a minute, I actually also had some string cheese as night snacks...). And my weight this morning is actually less than 134lb. After all those fried chicken, this morning is actually the very first time I observed those oil drops floating in the toilet and I've never experienced any bloating stomach or smelly gas problem at all. However, I do find that Alli helped cure my appetite and keep me energized all the time. If it's true that Alli contains only one active content as the enzyme blocker, then probably the Alli meal plan helped a lot to keep me full and energized all the time. I started Alli at the last day of my period and I think the hormone cycle also helped me to lose these four lbs in the past few days. I'm going to keep the diet and use Alli to see if I can lose another 5-6 lbs before my next period comes then I will stop Alli to see if I can stay those weights off. And hopefully I will be able to find some time to work out, which may help shed off more lbs by working with Alli and its mean plan. I strongly suggest every Alli user to get on the website and register your Alli as to get some inspiration and meal plans from GSK. Alli provides users with weekly weight-in check, motivation and plans, which actually help me a lot (tho I'm also wondering if they are using those weekly survey as a way to collect a large-scale and "free" clinical data for Alli). My conclusion about Alli - please stick with the low fat diet and don't forget to eat a centrum every night before you go to bed. Vit B complexes actually help to boost part of your metabolism while other lipid-soluble vitamins from Centrum help to replenish the nutrients that may be lost with those undigested oil in the presence of Alli.
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