multivitamin - impede weight loss

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Mike Ekholm - 28 Aug 2005 14:21 GMT

Hello,

I am working on loosing weight (and making good progress), and I have started
taking the "one-a-day" multi-vitamin to supplement my normal low calorie
diet.

Looking at my weight loss performance from when I do not take the
supplement, verses the weeks when I do take the supplement, I notice
a dramatic reduction in the amount of weight I loose when I take the
one-a-day.

Could the supplement be impeding my weight loss, and does anyone have
any recommendations on supplement that might not have this effect?

I need the nutrients, but I also need every pound I can get.

Thanks!

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Patricia Heil - 29 Aug 2005 02:16 GMT

> Hello,
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> Thanks!

Vitamins don't work as well as what they want you to believe. With
anti-oxidants in particular, getting them naturally is better. If you take
synthetic anti-oxidants, you have to take more, and it puts you closer to
the DRI upper limit. In fact, if you take even 25% of the upper limit, the
anti-oxidant could start behaving like a pro-oxidant. Vitamin C in
particular causes cell damage at levels much higher than the DRI.

Any eating program that puts you at risk for poor nutrition is wrong. Stop
it.

If you're not exercising start. Exercise has a better ROI than anything you
do for your health, except possibly avoiding tobacco. Exercise enough to
burn all the calories you take in, and shape your eating program around
proper nutrition, not sheer calories.

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Ignoramus5361 - 29 Aug 2005 02:32 GMT

> Hello,
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> I need the nutrients, but I also need every pound I can get.

I never heard of vitamins impeding weight loss, but most likely you do
not need vitamins. You can use fitday and enter your eating for one
week, to see if you are meeting RDA for various nutrients from just
food.

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jP - 29 Aug 2005 16:43 GMT

> I never heard of vitamins impeding weight loss, but most likely you do
> not need vitamins. You can use fitday and enter your eating for one
> week, to see if you are meeting RDA for various nutrients from just
> food.

Interesting...I'm following the opposite logic: if you are restricting
calories, it can be a bit harder to ensure you get at least 100% RDA for
all necessary vitamins. Taking a multivitamin is good insurance, and
can't really hurt.

The above stricting IMO, of course.

jP

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Ignoramus23186 - 30 Aug 2005 05:34 GMT

>> I never heard of vitamins impeding weight loss, but most likely you do
>> not need vitamins. You can use fitday and enter your eating for one
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> all necessary vitamins. Taking a multivitamin is good insurance, and
> can't really hurt.

It would be interesting to see if you do in fact need vitamins. Fitday
does all analysis of the food that you enter, so it is quite easy to do.

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AT - 29 Aug 2005 19:46 GMT

> Looking at my weight loss performance from when I do not take the
> supplement, verses the weeks when I do take the supplement, I notice
> a dramatic reduction in the amount of weight I lose when I take the
> one-a-day.

Do you eat exactly the same amount of food and do exactly the same
amount of exercise when you take the vitamin vs. when you don't? Or
are you thinking there is something in the vitamin that makes you eat
more or move less?

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