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Losing Weight With Orlistat

Shortly before moving to America, my wife was showing off her six-pack abs and told me that she lost a total of 40 pounds.

I asked her what her secret was, to which she smiled slyly and went into the kitchen, coming back with a bottle of fat burners which was no surprise, and a package of tablets called Orlistat.

She asked me if I wanted to try some Orlistat pills to see how effective they were and she laughed as she warned me that I would have to go to the bathroom though.

I looked up Orlistat and Web MD explains that it "works by blocking the enzyme that breaks down fats in your diet. This undigested fat then passes out of your body in your bowel movement."  ...Sounds simple enough.

I joined a Facebook group of people who take Orlistat, many of whom got it via prescription, whereas we simply ordered it off Amazon. Long live Jeff Bezos!

The people in the Facebook group were not hiding the fact that they were going to the bathroom a lot and that there was a mysterious orange fatty substance coming out of them.

Well, armed with that information I took the pills and within a matter of days, I was eight pounds lighter. Eight whole pounds. In two days. That is a lot of time in losing a lot of weight in the bathroom.

I was ecstatic, it was as though I was Ponce De Leon and I had discovered the fountain of youth at last.

It was only a week before I moved to the States, so I quit taking the tablets three days prior to my flight so as not to have any emergencies or accidents on my flight.

When I finally arrived in America I looked up Orlistat and saw that it is in the weight loss supplement, Alli. I told my sister I was considering taking Alli to aid in my weight loss journey which I started last month on June 19th. 

I did not lose 8 pounds in a couple of days on Alli, but did gain a daily routine of going to the restroom. 

It has been a month since going on Alli and taking the tablets three times daily. I have lost 20 pounds.

I also started going on daily walks and try to get to the gym 4 days out of the week.

The consistent weightloss has tapered off and I have days where I gain some weight probably due to my diet and hydrating, but I will continue to take my Orlistat supplements as part of my weight loss journey.

StepBet Review

It is early, very early. 40 minutes before my Alexa alarm goes off at 4 in the morning early, but this time of day. The time before I get up, do my daily walk and get my steps in is my favorite part of the day. 

I am usually writing or drawing at this time of the day, producing some form of content.

I live in Florida now, I should be hydrating the entire time.

I made a resolution this past spring to drop from 403 pounds to 185 lbs and am giving myself two years to do so, I wanted to do it in one year but I don't know if it is completely feasible, I've never gone on a weight loss journey before. At the get-go, I followed an Instagram trend of posting the hashtag fastingforweightloss and realized quickly how very little I enjoy fasting.

So fasting as an aid to weight loss is pretty much out the window and physical activity strenuous enough to be effective is very limited simply because I get winded from basically any form of exertion I decided walking is something I can do.

My first week of walking was catastrophic, I kept having to lay down on the side of the road and make recovery breaks. Lots of concerned drivers would pull over and ask about me. I believe I became a traffic hazard and I was also concerned about police officers potentially seeing me.

So I started walking super early in the morning to be able to hide in the dark if I had to lay down, but people just started pulling over in the dark, so for two weeks I pressed on and for the past 3 days I have been able to walk my distances without having to lay down on the sidewalk which is something I call a major breakthrough.

I joined a gym 2.7 miles away from where I am staying and started walking there every morning. I looked through as many apps as I could think of for fitness or weight loss motivation and saw StepBet but didn't download it, then I saw an ad for the app on TV and downloaded the app.

The app syncs with my smartwatch to keep track of my steps.

The StepBet app is very simple and easy to use. Navigating my way to a mission was very easy and once I had signed up and synced my smartwatch step counter to the app that was pretty much it.

All I've had to do with the SrepBet app each day is make certain I have achieved my minimum number of steps each day.

Looking For Writing Jobs

Finding a platform to write on for money, an amount of money one can live off of without having to pay a high membership fee just doesn't seem all that possible.

I have decided to try my lot in life as a s

Writer. I have several disabilities that are annoying now but could potentially really stop me from doing much later in life, so im trying to find a source of income I can generate well into my 70s.

Writing intrigues me, technical writing disinterest me but I am willing to learn the new skillset if it means I can live off of it. 

The trouble is I have very limited funds at the moment, having just moved from Germany to America and simply don't have the disposable income to join a high fee sight in the hopes that I am good enough of a writer to be hired.

Its a gamble I can't afford. In the meantime I can swing the 5 a month bucks medium charges and have joined up and submitted work to vocal media which pays $3 something per 1,000 views.

Most search results reccomend starting a blog. So I write here on blogger even though I do have a WordPress account I prefer blogspot and have applied for AdSense approval.

I have a sneaky suspicion that even if I do get approved for AdSense on this blog I still won't generate enough income to make a living off it, but who knows. Maybe I will maybe I won't. 

But I do know this i intend on being consistent with posting on this platform.

In the meantime the hunt continues as I am on a quest for a writing job.