Is Alli Even Worth It?

Alli is a fat binding diet pill that came out as a non-prescription alternative to its prescription twin Orlistat.  It’s just a slightly milder formula of the same fat binding pill that you take three times a day with meals. It is supposed to help your body pass fat through the body without digesting it.

This in turn helps you to lose weight and to help keep fat off undesirable areas of the body.  It simply passes right through your body, into your stool, which is part of the reason it has such a reputation for having embarrassing side effects.

These side effects include leakage, excessive gas and diarrhea. These symptoms get much worse the more fat you eat, so the company that makes the drug advises against consuming a lot of fat, and keeping it to a limited amount of grams (no more than 15 per meal) in order to avoid these types of problems.

However, some people have said that even though they stuck to that guideline, they still had the issues with the gas and the bloating and leakage and so forth.  There are plenty of horror stories online if you ever care to read any of the more unsavory stories of people’s experiences with Alli.

On the other hand, some people do say that Alli has helped them to lose weight. They say that it has helped them to get in the habit of reducing their dietary fat intake, and has also helped them develop the discipline they need as well as the taste to go away for high fat foods. Why? Simply because they were too embarrassed to endure the possible symptoms of eating fat!

What are some options to fat binding products like these that inevitably end up coming out the “other end”? Well, there have been some very promising studies done on green tea lately that show it may actually have a slight fat binding effect.

The study showed the mice who were fed a diet of vanilla shakes AND a green tea pill with every meal actually excreted more fat out in their stool versus the mice who were simply fed the shakes with nothing else. They also tended to maintain their weight better than the mice who did not get the green tea supplement.

The thought is that the ECGC contained in green tea actually helps to bind the fat and take it from the body better than nothing at all.