BlatentBunny
Full Member
Since there doesn't seem to be a lot out there about people like me on the Orlistat Journey I thought I'd start a little diary, hopefully it'll highlight the good and the bad points, help people with the what to avoid question and be a reference for me to keep me on track (or direct me back to the track should I stray!) BE WARNED as Orlistat is a fat inhibitor this diary will tell of my bowel movements and any problems I have in that area, I won't be graphic, but I will be detailed. (Old nurses don't die, we just talk pooh!)
Well I'm 24 hours in, I'm pretty strict about my fat and calorie intake each day, I tend to write down what I've eaten and the two totals so I can look back and decide if I can have a treat at the weekend. (My treats are generally material rather than food based.)
I haven't noticed any physical side effects, my bowels have opened and nothing seemed unusual. I have been kind of dreading each gurgle in my tummy, wondering if 'this' is 'it', I've made provision, spare pants and micro light trousers as well as baby wipes and deodorant in a small tote on my daughters pram, her changing bag and mine side by side
as well as knowing every public toilet on my daily route, so I'm set.
I've restricting my fat intake to between 15g and 25g a day and basing each meal on the Scottish Slimmers diet. I'm not a snack attack fanatic, but I do like evening munchies, I've replaced most things in the cupboard with low, or lower fat than previously and have signed up to the local gym and aqua aerobics.
So here I sit. Waiting and wondering, I've never been and yo-yo dieter, while I've been over weight for over 20 years I've only ever seriously dieted once in 1998 and lost 4st 7lb in a year with Scottish Slimmers, but babies and work took over and the weight came back, as fit as I was it didn't bother me until last year when I tore my cruciate ligament, realising my weight would mean surgery was dangerous shocked me, I knew I was fat, but I thought fit balanced it out. Wrong! So since then I've gained more weight (you see the logic of the vicious circle right?) and have developed plantar fasciitis, so the weight must go!
We're off on holiday to Switzerland in September so hopefully they'll see less of me on the side of a mountain!
Bunny x
Well I'm 24 hours in, I'm pretty strict about my fat and calorie intake each day, I tend to write down what I've eaten and the two totals so I can look back and decide if I can have a treat at the weekend. (My treats are generally material rather than food based.)
I haven't noticed any physical side effects, my bowels have opened and nothing seemed unusual. I have been kind of dreading each gurgle in my tummy, wondering if 'this' is 'it', I've made provision, spare pants and micro light trousers as well as baby wipes and deodorant in a small tote on my daughters pram, her changing bag and mine side by side
as well as knowing every public toilet on my daily route, so I'm set.I've restricting my fat intake to between 15g and 25g a day and basing each meal on the Scottish Slimmers diet. I'm not a snack attack fanatic, but I do like evening munchies, I've replaced most things in the cupboard with low, or lower fat than previously and have signed up to the local gym and aqua aerobics.
So here I sit. Waiting and wondering, I've never been and yo-yo dieter, while I've been over weight for over 20 years I've only ever seriously dieted once in 1998 and lost 4st 7lb in a year with Scottish Slimmers, but babies and work took over and the weight came back, as fit as I was it didn't bother me until last year when I tore my cruciate ligament, realising my weight would mean surgery was dangerous shocked me, I knew I was fat, but I thought fit balanced it out. Wrong! So since then I've gained more weight (you see the logic of the vicious circle right?) and have developed plantar fasciitis, so the weight must go!
We're off on holiday to Switzerland in September so hopefully they'll see less of me on the side of a mountain!
Bunny x
