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Hello all,
i have only been on orlistat for a week but am feeling a bit disheartened with it at the moment.
i came on here and read the reviews when i first started on it and was really spurred on with peoples experiences of losing 7-8lbs in their first week.
im not sure i have lost anything, well not according to my scales at home which i am desperatley trying to avoid!!
i have been averaging about 400 calories for my lunch and 400 calories for my tea i have had fruit in between as well
thought i would put my weeks diet plan on here from last week and see if any one can give me some tips.
Tuesday
2 weetabix skimmed milk teaspoon of sugar, cup of coffee skimmed milk 1 sugar and a banana
lunch Promax diet shake (like slim fast, doctor said these were fine they contain under 2g saturated fat and 219 calories), pkt of brannigans crisps 204 calories and 1.1g sat fat
afternoon break an apple
tea Salmon fillet in butter and tarrogan sauce 202 calories and 2 slices of dry wholemeal bread 91 cal each
a two finger kit kat 107 calories.
Wednesday
same as tuesday exactly
Thursday
same breakfast
ham cucumber and small amount of light mayo on a small white barm.
apple
Same tea (fish and bread)
100g greek yogurt with hazlenuts and a spoon full of honey
friday
same breakfast
lunch was a shake crisps apple
tea sweet and sour chicken and prawn with boiled rice and 10 chips (yes i counted them hahah)
saturday didnt have breakfast for lunch i had a ham sandwich no butter white bread and a banana
tea home made curry made with quorn brown rice and a small peshwari naan.
sunday
banana
ham sandwich for dinner and same for tea
two chocolate buscuits through out the day
all mik intake has been skimmed and i have averaged about 2 litres of water every day.
i have had non of the side effects i have seen people write about and i am frequenting the toilet on average 4 times a day.
what am i doing wrong????
please someone tell me
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Suza
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My usual meals are:
breakfast - bagel with lighter than light spread (purple one), with marmite cup of coffe/tea with skimmed milk
or bowl of special k with shreddies and some raisins and nuts.
or
porridge with banana
Lunch - rivita's x 2, crisp bakes x 2 with lighter than light cheese spread or weight watchers cheese spread or tuna with apple, salad and carrot sticks
snack a jacks or low fat crisps
Or
Beans on toast or poached egg on toast
Or
Tuna sandwich with heaps of salad
caramel snack a jack or special K cereal bar or Go ahead yoghurt covered cereal bar.
Evening meal - maybe cook from scratch a low calorie meal ( I have a low cal cook book which is very handy) so use chicken or beef and cook up a casserole type meal.
The cook in sauces all seem to be low fat but if I use one of these I hold back on the potatoes.
Or
Packet of flavoured rice and bread
fresh fruit salad, low fat yoghurt, low fat cereal bar or caramel snack a jack.
in between I snack on dried fruits, prunes, apricots, cranberries or mango. or have a banana orange or apple.
How does that sound to you??
slimbyjune
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breakfast, 2 weightwatchers brown bread with lighter than light spread by flora and a small tin of beans with an egg fried with frylight only 4 sprays.
Lunch: a wholemeal pitta bread no spread with lean cooked ham and filled with salad and asda lemon dressing which is totally fat free and a piece of fruit, melon is best as it is mostly water.
Tea time: if im not in the mood to cook i have a weightwatchers ready meal with some fresh veg or if i want to cook i make meatballs and pasta.
try this
extra lean lamb.. mix it with 2 cloves of garlic and a small chopped onion.chop an orange pepper and onion put in a pan with some fry light sweat them off then add extra special passata from asda and then put the meatballs in let them cook for an hour. Cook some pasta and then plate it up..... its delicious and under your 15 gram of fat allowance. you can also use the sauce for fish or chicken.........
I hope this helps. :lol:
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notsure2
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however no one tells you what happens when u eat like a supermodel (my average is 1000 cals a day inc a glass of wine or spirit ) but im as tall as a munchcin at 5ft and 2st overweight and not sure if my only option is surgery in future, if in 3 months i havent lost a bit at least.
guessin i need to run with it a bit longer but feel heavy as hell at mo.
love to keep progress reports up, try to keep grinning thru it all.:} :? :?
sparkles
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i dont think you understand how these pills work, they automatically remove 1/3 of the fat you consume be it 3g or 15g, the reason they give 15g as a maximum per meal is that between 0-5g of automatically eliminated fat will just exit when you poo normally, more than 5g+ fat will exit in a more urgent manner which could be embarrassing - orange oil.
so for everything you consume you are only absorbing 2/3 of the fat it contains. the average, healthy, non dieting woman consumes 70g fat a day, someone like us on orlistat can consume up to 30g and only absorb up to 20 (if u stick to the guidelines) so you can see you are consuming far less than the average person with these and this is how you should be seeing the improvement.
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