Eewww!

[Unisaw]

Check out the warnings for users of this over-the-counter weight loss product:

What are treatment effects?
alli" works by preventing the absorption of some of the fat you eat. The fat passes out of your body, so you may have bowel changes, known as treatment effects. You may get:

gas with oily spotting
loose stools
more frequent stools that may be hard to control
What to expect
The excess fat that passes out of your body is not harmful. In fact, you may recognize it as something that looks like the oil on top of a pizza. Eating a low-fat diet lowers the chance of these bowel changes. Limit fat intake in your meals to an average of 15 grams.

Learn more about following a reduced-calorie, low-fat diet.

Learning how to manage treatment effects is an important part of being successful with alli. Here's how to take control:

Start trimming fat from your diet now, even before you begin taking alli. Then pick a day to begin taking alli, such as a weekend day so you can stay close to home if you experience a treatment effect. Make the timing work for you. If you're getting ready to travel or attend a social event, hold off on starting with alli until the event is over
While no one likes experiencing treatment effects, they might help you think twice about eating questionable fat content. If you think of it like that, alli can act like a security guard for your late-night cravings
You can't "save fat grams" from lunch and "spend them" at dinner. Spread your daily fat gram allowance of 15 grams on average per meal over the whole day
You may feel an urgent need to go to the bathroom. Until you have a sense of any treatment effects, it's probably a smart idea to wear dark pants, and bring a change of clothes with you to work
You may not usually get gassy, but it's a possibility when you take alli. The bathroom is really the best place to go when that happens
You can use a food journal to recognize what foods can lead to treatment effects. For example, writing down what you eat may help you learn that marinara sauce is a better option than Alfredo sauce

[Gewehr98]

Remember when potato chips with Olestra were first marketed?

One of the warnings on the label was that the consumer may experience "anal leakage".   

[RadioFreeSeaLab]

Since you mentioned Olestra, I have to post a link to this post on Craigslist.  It's not safe for anyone to read, ever.  You have been duly warned.

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/lax/182862349.html

[Jamisjockey]

Remember when potato chips with Olestra were first marketed?

One of the warnings on the label was that the consumer may experience "anal leakage".   

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I think Porn Stars experience that same problem.....

[brimic]

gas with oily spotting
loose stools
more frequent stools that may be hard to control
What to expect
The excess fat that passes out of your body is not harmful. In fact, you may recognize it as something that looks like the oil on top of a pizza. Eating a low-fat diet lowers the chance of these bowel changes. Limit fat intake in your meals to an average of 15 grams.

You may feel an urgent need to go to the bathroom.

I drank a rwelver of MGD at the Brewer game last night. The same warnings should be put on beer packages.

[StopTheGrays]

Alli must be used in every take out food item I get in Milwaukee. 

I drank a rwelver of MGD at the Brewer game last night. The same warnings should be put on beer packages.

1. It must have been Pabst because Miller would never do that.
2. If you bought 12 beers at the game you must be rich. Please adopt me or at least put me in your will. 

[brimic]

I drank them in the parking lot before the game, along with a few brats covered with jalopena mustard.
I can't afford a dozen beers at the game.

[Paddy]

I drank a rwelver of MGD at the Brewer game last night. The same warnings should be put on beer packages.

 

Booyah!  Even I can't do that.

[DJJ]

So, it's "take this diet pill and eat a lowfat diet." Miraculous.

Why not just eat the lowfat diet?

I mean, don't they have an alcoholism drug that makes you violently ill if you drink while taking it? Isn't this kind of the same thing?

[roo_ster]

Since you mentioned Olestra, I have to post a link to this post on Craigslist.  It's not safe for anyone to read, ever.  You have been duly warned.

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/lax/182862349.html

I dang near passed out, I was gasping & guffawing so hard. 

[CAnnoneer]

It is not an urban myth. I had a chemist colleague who knew exactly what the Pringles contained and got regular "episodes", but still could not stop himself from gorging on them.

[doczinn]

The bathroom is really the best place to go when that happens

Gee, thanks for the tip.

[Marnoot]

http://www.thewvsr.com/alli.htm

Also loosely related: http://www.thewvsr.com/ryans.htm

[Paddy]

http://www.thewvsr.com/alli.htm

Also loosely related: http://www.thewvsr.com/ryans.htm

You're not really a man until you can puke and *expletive deleted*it at the same time.  It's an unparalleled  spiritual, epiphanic experience.

[K Frame]

I thought every college student could do that.

Hell, it was an elective where I went. The advanced study course was puking and crapping at the same time while continuing to drink heavily.

[AJ Dual]

Honestly, I think someone ought to do a study of Alli vs. just drinking a glass of water and a teaspoon of Metamucil/Psyllium husk with each meal, and taking a calcium pill twice daily at the two biggest meals.

The fiber reduces loiter time in the GI tract, leaving more unabsorbed fat in the stool. With the added benefit of er& good texture as opposed to "the grease from hell". And they also absorb excess bile, which the body would otherwise convert to cholesterol when it re-absorbs it lower in the intestines. Calcium also bonds with fat in the GI tract and lets some of it pass through.

I wonder how they'd compare.

Unfortunately calcium pills are pretty darn cheap. No patent on them.

[Bogie]

Too many folks think that there is some sorta "magic" weight loss formula, and that they just haven't found the right one yet.
 
I'll tell y'all what is EVIL.
 
Sugar Free Reeses Cups.

They taste great. Just like the real thing. They're flavored with one of the sugar alcohols. Maltitol, lactitol, something like that. It isn't metabolized.
 
And it can have a "laxative" effect.
 
Three of the minibombs cause life to become very interesting in the short term.
 
And I saw a display of Large Bags of them at a...

Truck Stop.
 
I can just imagine some trucker, or someone who pulled in on a long run, buying a bag... And eating a half a dozen or so over the next few miles.

[Brad Johnson]

Sugar Free Reeses Cups.

Most of the time sugar-free chocolates are sweetened with maltitol, which is an effective laxative.  It is surpassed in effectiveness, however, by the sorbitol used to sweeten most sugar-free hard candies.

I learned both the hard way the first Christmas at my (now ex) in-laws.  My FIL was a long-time diabetic and people would give him boxes of sugar-free stuff thinking they were doing him a favor.  I dug into several boxes one day before he and the MIL got home to warn me.

Brad