So, recently I was walking around Costco picking up our favorite adult vitamin chewables, when there was a sample for a different sort of health/vitamin supplement. I tried a spoonful, it tasted like lemon meringue pie! The lady read off certain ingredients it contained and some sounded random... like some fish oil (which is nasty to me but I guess some are good for you). Anyway, come to find out the type of fish oil in this "vitamin supplement" causes certain unpleasing gastrointestinal side affects if you don't eat healthy. To put it bluntly, if you eat too many fat grams this fish oil helps your body to "pass" the fat so you don't absorb it into your body; helping you lose weight. Well, without knowing this information I had an incredibly awesome dinner that night at Macaroni Grill with my husband... a meal LOADED with fat content and TONS of oils. My pasta had an oil based sauce, not to mention all the bread we had dipped in oil and vinegar, did I also mention the appetizers were huge mozzarella sticks dipped in sauce? Fat overload! SO, to my surprise the next morning while going to the bathroom I found orange colored oil spots all over inside the toilet! It freaked me out! After researching it we realized it was the nasty fish oil in that supplement I tried. Not cool.
But something else I noticed as we were reading about it, there was a tab below the search that talked about the "Alli" pills causing the same thing. Interesting. I had actually considered trying Alli because of the fact it helps you "bypass" all the fat, like cheating. But reading about how it works totally changed my mind. Apparently, you have to eat less than 13 grams of fat per meal for it to really work... and if you're already watching your fat content that much, do you even need the pill? Anyway, so you eat as little fat as possible, then take the pill after each meal, which will bypass any fat you did eat. The trick: if you eat more than your 13 grams of fat or so, or eat anything fried, the next day you will have orange spots in your toilet. Let me give you a little background that isn't so pleasant... (warning... it's pretty gross, but true!)... so without knowing what's coming, first you have some gas, pretty normal, no? Well, when the gas slips out some of the orange oil comes out as well without you noticing it, leaving your underwear a nasty mess of orange. Did I mention it's OIL? Well, after you've noticed the orange spots in the toilet, oil isn't the easiest to clean off your skin, and if you don't clean it well (baby wipes will suffice) then you're stuck with orange oil soiled undergarments.
So here is the proposition... Do you try take the pill and deal with the orange spots? And knowing the orange spots will come, will that also help you to REALLY be conscious of what you're eating? It seems to me and interesting predicament to be in... if one is willing, it will work. You'll be twice as aware of what you're eating if you realize that you don't will result in some nasty orange oil in your business.
But in my experience with just the vitamin supplement that I took... the orange oil junk... just not worth it in any situation. So that's my heads up to anyone thinking about trying new vitamins (check the label!) or anyone considering taking the Alli pills.
And that's my little "diddy" for today.
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