Alli is a non prescription form of an FDA approved diet pill. It uses a smaller amount of one prescription ingredient, and they claim it will help you to change your lifestyle by helping you to eliminate more fats from your diet. They focus on the healthy change, and frankly it keeps you honest according to reports. However, other diets have used the idea of using little fat or no fat, and it’s a bad idea to cut out an entire food group, especially when that food group has some good components.

Price: $22.95/20 day supply

Ingredients and Mechanism of Action:

The only ingredient in Alli is orlistat.

Orlistat is actually not really a weight loss ingredient. Yes, it causes fat blocking, and as a result, if you are not following a no fat diet, the results are not particularly dangerous, unless you consider the dangers to your social life. Excessive gas and pooping your pants is generally speaking not actually a good thing. But unfortunately, they found that with Alli, patients actually lost less weight than they should have in about a year’s time, just 5-10% of their body weight, which is definitely not the 2 pounds you would lose per week if you were on a healthy diet and exercise plan. It does reduce cholesterol apparently, but that’s what happens mostly when you go on a no fat diet. The biggest problem is that it actually cuts out the good fats you also need to successfully lose weight.

Overall Impression of Alli

For the embarrassing side effects alone, we would not recommend using Alli. It does not produce results, and it really doesn’t help you to achieve greater benefits. Alli is one that we wouldn’t recommend as it actually seems to actively slow down your weight loss process, which could be explained by the complete absence of good fats that are actually necessary to weight loss and the fact that as we have found with other no fat diets, people can’t actually sustain those kinds of practices.