Orlistat

[katiebrusby]

Hi!

So the doctor weighed me the other day and i am now 80kg so he has put me on orlistat. Ive only been on it 3 days but im unsure whether or not im going to be able to cope with it to be honest and whether the thought of taking it will kick my bum into a place where i can do it on my own!

Literally can eat nothing! yesterday a bowl of porridge had me running for the toilet!

Does anybody else have any experience with orlistat??

It will settle down, then it will only be when you've had too much fat that you will regret it. I lost over a stone using this so stick with it.

80 k is 12 stone 6 roughly

Slimming world/ww/low carb would be better than orange liquid poo surely

i tried sw last year and struggled! yea the doc said it was just over 12 n half stone but im only 5ft3.5 so that technically puts me in the obese range! i know people say you shouldnt get weighed so often but weighed myself at exactly the same time this morning 4 days later and my scales (which said 80.1kg the same morning as the doctors!) said 77.9kg

i did have my first proper mad dash to the loo this morning though even though i hadnt even eaten anything it had literally just woken me up! a good job it did though!!!

I've been on it since Jan 1st and havent had any major problems. A couple of times I've "gone" a lot but not uncontrollable. I have stopped pills a couple of days before a meal out. I stuck to healthy eating just didn't want any hidden fats to catch me out. I've lost 1 and a half stone.