What Do Xenical Tablets Do?

If you haven’t had butter, margarine, low-fat spreads, mayonnaise, cakes, biscuits, pastries, quiches, egg custard, cheese, cream, fats and oils, olive oil, lard, dripping, suet and all the things that make food nice to eat, relax. You may have them now. However, you can have this food to a limit. By not including more than 30% of fats in your daily meals and taking Xenical tablets, you can easily lose weight.

What do Xenical tablets do?

Xenical tablet is a fat absorbing medications. When you have your meals, the fat from food is either converted into energy or stored for later. Xenical tablets absorb around 30% of the fat that you eat and take it right out of your body via your bowels so that your body has to store less fat. With a low fat diet and Xenical tablets, your body converts the fat stores into energy and you lose weight.

More about Xenical tablets

The active ingredient in Xenical tablets is orlistat. Roche manufactures the revolutionary Xenical tablets. Each Xenical tablet is a little green capsule and is usually prescribed in 28-day doses. You should normally take three Xenical tablets a day, one with each meal.

However, there is no need to take Xenical tablets if there is no fat in your meal or you skip your meal. You should take Xenical tablet with your meal, or up to an hour before or after you have eaten.

Which tests are to be taken before and during treatment with Xenical?

• BMI




• Blood Pressure




• Blood Tests




• Weight




• Waist measurement

These tests ensure that you can take Xenical tablets and after you begin your treatment with these tablets, you should carry on these tests periodically. This ensures that you are losing weight and there is a positive effect of weight loss on your body and system.

How will Xenical tablets help me?

In order to get the best results from Xenical tablets, follow a low-fat diet. Xenical tablets indirectly encourage you to change your eating habits because if you do not follow dieting instructions and indulge in overeating (taking high-fat content meals) you suffer from humiliating bowel problems.

You should eat foods with no more than 3g of fat per 100g and no more than 30-40g of fat per day, with around 10-12g fat per meal, spread out evenly throughout the day. If you take Xenical tablet, do not take a diet where more than 30% of your daily diet is fat.

Research has proven that Xenical tablets and balanced diet is twice more effective in losing weight than dieting alone. Majority people also maintain the weight that they lose with Xenical tablets.

Unlike some other slimming tablets, Xenical tablets do not alter your metabolism or brain chemistry and hence has no lasting side effects.

Do I need to take multivitamins with Xenical tablets?

Xenical tablets affect the vitamins and minerals that your body needs, including vitamins A, D, E, K, and beta-carotene, so it is important to take a supplement for these. You should take your vitamin in the evening as it cannot be taken with Xenical as this could stop the absorption of the vitamin.