Alli has Allies

I think the point the original poster was trying to make was the many women do not use it the way you just described. And then it become very scary. I do understand why people want to take pills/shakes/powders/ whatever to help lose weight, because it is depressing to see just how little weight you lose each week with just eating right and exercises. However I am pretty scared of using such things myself as we don't know the full effect these weight lose aides have to our bodies and the fact is that you need a lifestyle change which can only be achieved through eating healthy and exercises to keep the weight off once you hit your goal.

Dina
dynamitt ( http://dynam1tt.blogspot.com )

I recently found this site on a search for Alli menu plans. Wow, I was amazed at all of the negative blogs. I am sure many of the people do not realize that the pill goes along with a healthy diet plan. I also bet that they have not read any literature about the drug.
I have to say that I am very satisfied with the results I have had with the plan and the pill. I have lost 25 lbs in three months and I have felt great.
I have not had any of the negative side effects that I have read about. I am thinking that if you just take the pill, and don't eat healthy (fatty foods), that you will have bad side effects.
I researched the drug before I took it.
It just amazes me how much people have to say about it when I doubt that have had any experience with it. It may not be right for all people, but it was a little boost in my life.

It's fascinating to hear the real world reactions to the amazingly manipulative marketing of alli. GlaxoSmithKline's spinning of side effects into the nonsensical "treatment effects" apparently is succeeding. A side effect is an effect other than what you took the drug for -- so unless someone takes alli in order to have oily spotting, loose stools, and fecal urgency, those things are side effects, not "treatment effects."
But what's really disgusting about calling them "treatment effects" is demonstrated by some of the statements by users that people have pointed to or excerpted here -- some women are seeming to regard these side effects as almost "punishment" for "bad behavior" (e.g. I had too many tacos...)
How fascinating -- isnt alli supposed to be all about empowerment, and "if you have the will, we have the power?" Instead, it's becoming for some a reprise of women blaming themselves and accepting disgusting and potentially dangerous side effects as a kind of "punishment." Hm. The more things change, the more they remain the same.
Our organizatio , Prescripton Access Litigation ( http://www.prescriptionaccess.org ), gave alli the "With Allies like This, Who Needs Enemas?" Award ( http://prescriptionaccess.org/blog/?p=20 ), and it was precisely because of this type of marketing. Feel free to visit our blog ( http://prescriptionaccess.org/blog/?p=20 ) to read all about that award, and I'd encourage comments there on what people think of alli's marketing and how it's resonating with women who are (and aren't using it). Is it more of the same, or is it any different from the typical dieting marketing?

that she has a friend (now these are basically kids 15 and 16) that started taking alli and did actually "soil herself" while she was walking through the Walmart the other day. Obviously, my son and his friend think this is very funny, but as a mom, I find it very sad.

Contributing Editor Catherine Morgan
also at Women 4 Hope ( http://women4hope.wordpress.com/ ) and Informed Voters ( http://informedvoters.wordpress.com/ )

But this one was a particular winner. ; )

Yea, sounds like a win to me. NOT.

Sigh.

~Denise
Fast Times @ Homeschool High ( http://fasttimes.clubmom.com ) & Flamingo House Happenings ( http://www.flamingohouse.net )

But then I tend to like everything Stacy posts. :-)

~Denise
Fast Times @ Homeschool High ( http://fasttimes.clubmom.com ) & Flamingo House Happenings ( http://www.flamingohouse.net )

Alli sounds scary to me. I enjoyed Stacy's post on the matter. ( http://jurgennation.com/2007/08/08/allies-v-foes-w... )

Laurie
LaurieWrites ( http://lauriewrites.typepad.com )

to people all over America. I was eating at a restaurant last week and the waitress confided to me that it was too hard to lose weight, so she was going to try the Alli. She can't stop eating fries and hoagies - what the restaurant specialized in serving. She was *delighted* that she'd be able to eat and just "take a pill".

Losing weight is so hard - I know. The only way to be sucessful is to make a lifestyle change - not by popping a pill that makes you poo. A LOT.

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Ok, what is the point of this?

 If the stupid lady went and pigged out at Taco Cabana then took two pills--which you're not supposed to do-you can only have 3 a day and you're supposed to only take them one at a time--why does it matter? Why would you intentionally overdose on something when you know you shouldn't take any at all if you don't want to get sick??  If you overeat, you don't take the pills---simple!!  That has nothing to do with the drug.  Crazy people are no one's problem but their own.  

Like I said in my other post about this--I've been on Alli almost a week and haven't had any side effects at all.  Just don't take it if you're going to eat like a pig!!  It's very simple!