Comments on: "Somebody Making Soup?"

By: Chubby

Chubby — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:55:28 +0000

The funny thing about this drug is that you HAVE to eat right and exercise in order to lose weight. Ummmm….well you can do that for FREE!

And the free way doesn’t require diapers! ;)

But I guess for a short term, it is a deterrant to force you into some better eating habits. Unfortunately, MOST folks won’t use it that way.

By: mo pie

mo pie — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 04:38:02 +0000

Well, I am certainly not going to flame you, Beth! Let us know how it works out; I’m really curious. Good luck.

By: Beth

Beth — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 15:02:45 +0000

Alli is bad because I will have side effects if I have a whopper and large fries? Really now, because the dietician I saw said not to eat that anyhow.

Go ahead and flame me, but I’m giving Alli a try. I have had absolutely no side effects. The Alli plan is not deprivation, I get way more calories than on weight watchers and 20 grams of fat is allowed per meal for someone my size. That is not unreasonable.

It’s my choice, and I’m not anymore embarrased or ashamed of it than you are of yours not to try it.

By: La Wade

La Wade — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:50:55 +0000

Olestra chips are still on the market! But in 2003, the FDA stopped requiring manufacturers to label olestra products with the list of potential side effects.

By: v'ron

v'ron — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:01:46 +0000

.. you know what this reminds me of? REmember olestra? Remember the Lay’s potato chips bag you passed around your circle of friends, breaking into spasms of laughter as it warned (in very fine print) of “anal leakage”?

LMFAO.

By: Tara

Tara — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:23:36 +0000

Whatever happened to the old fashioned thing like watching your diet and excercising? There’s a TV ad (I haven’t seen it in a while) marketing a product called, “Excerciza” It’s pretty clever because it’s not a pill they’re marketing, but actual excercise. The catch phrase is “No pill, no potions, just results”. I used to use fat burners and all they did was make me thirsty and jittery. I can’t imagine using a fat blocker. Eccchhh. My salsa and stretch classes feel a LOT better.

By: spinsterwitch

spinsterwitch — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:11:17 +0000

La Wade – the problem with this drug, for me, is that it is just another diet, in essence. You may be able to, with the drug, starve yourself more efficiently, but you aren’t fooling your body.

When you go off the drug and attempt maintenance on your own (and I’m not sure who can afford to stay on it at the cost of the OTC), then your body will work really hard to put you back to having enough fat stores to survive the next famine you inflict on it.

And if there is a possibility of colon cancer, its seriously not a worthwhile risk.

By: MizShrew

MizShrew — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:24:06 +0000

Ahh, 15 grams does make more sense; I should have double-checked before posting. Thanks for the correction/clarification, La Wade.

That said, I still wouldn’t take the stuff and I think that around 25% of users is a pretty significant number for a side effect like that. But that’s my own “ew” factor, combined with my personal distrust of drugs like this, not a judgement of those for whom it may work.

By: La Wade

La Wade — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:55:40 +0000

Deterring people from eating fatty foods is a secondary consequence of the drug’s main action, which is to prevent the absorption of some of the calories in the fat in food that you eat. And the recommendation is that you not eat meals with more than 15 grams of fat, not 15%. That’s pretty closely in line with what most dieticians say you should be eating anyway, it’s not draconian. But if you do want to indulge, they tell you you can just skip the dose you would have taken with that meal.

By: MizShrew

MizShrew — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:16:28 +0000

Hmmm. It sounds like the main point of the pill is really to provide a deterrent to eating fatty foods, and I question the effectiveness of the approach. Sure, ideally it’s healthy to eat low-fat, but it sounds like you could eat low-fat for a week, and then treat yourself to a scoop of ice-cream and BOOM, you have a GI problem. Yuck.

Maybe I’m exagerating, and as others have said, it’s a personal choice. I just doubt that people would stay on a program like that for very long, if it never allows you to indulge without the gross side effects. (I’m basing this on the web site’s statement regarding not eating more than 15% fat, or some such, to avoid the possibility of GI problems.) I think there’s a lot of evidence to show that long-term deprivation of certain “treat” foods just leads to binging later.

Mo Pie, I had the same response to the “oil on pizza” note on the website. Eeeewwwww!