The big town news paper was looking for people who are trying Alli.
Alli (pronounced AL-eye) maker GlaxoSmithKline cautions that if you eat more than the recommended amount of fat while taking the supplement – an average of 15 grams per meal – you might experience “treatment effects.”
Those can include gas with oily spotting, loose stools, more frequent stools that may be hard to control and an urgent need to go to the bathroom. Alli’s Web site (www.myalli.com) even recommends wearing dark pants and bringing a change of clothes to work at first.
But does fear of those side effects help the drug work for dieters?
Mike Utech, a 31-year-old Hamilton resident, says that’s exactly what’s helped him to lose six pounds.
“My whole life, I’ve been a stress eater,” says Utech, who wants to lose a total of 80 pounds. “If something’s going on, my instinct is to grab for food, and now I think, ‘OK, I don’t want to eat that because it’s going to come back to haunt me.’ This has been a really good motivator to keep me on the straight and narrow.”
Utech says his side effects have been minimal and never embarrassing. But that hasn’t been the case for everyone.
Source: The Enquirer – Tough to stomach