Does anyone use vitamins?

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  • loftus4827
    loftus4827 Posts: 57 Member
    You only need one if your diet is crap or you're doing ultra low cal dieting. Usually a waste of money IMO
  • MommyMeggo
    MommyMeggo Posts: 1,222 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    MommyMeggo wrote: »
    Heart_of_a_lion wrote: »
    Here's the answer that not many will tell you...

    If you're on a weight loss diet, you absolutely need to take multi vitamins. This isn't your body's natural state oh homeostasis. A good multivitamin will ensure that while you're loosing weight (which is already doing a number on your system), you're able to do so without hindering your immune system and body as a whole.

    The strength of the multi vitamin will largely depend on how extreme your diet is.

    Hope this helps.

    Why would eliminating poor nutrition choices and replacing them with healthier alternatives all of a sudden create a need for a multi-vitamin?
    Its it not possible to lose weight and eat a well balanced array of foods that meet those needs?
    I realize there are a few specific minerals/vitamins that may not be met but those are probably going to be hard to meet for most anyway?
    I dunno.
    Im interested in this theory. Can you elaborate?

    I think what he's saying is that with low calorie targets it is more difficult to meat nutritional requirements...especially the one's who just cannot somehow manage to even eat a measly 1200 calories...or are eating 1200 gross calories and then doing a crap ton of exercise and not fueling that activity.

    Thats logical and what I was looking for. :)

  • inertiastrength
    inertiastrength Posts: 2,343 Member
    I take a fish oil supplement with vit D daily because I am trying to improve the quality of my fats and I don't eat a lot of fish.
  • mjlfit83
    mjlfit83 Posts: 19 Member
    Heart_of_a_lion wrote: »
    Here's the answer that not many will tell you...
    They don't tell you because that simply isn't true.
  • JessicaMcB
    JessicaMcB Posts: 1,503 Member
    Presently I take a women's multi, 2000 IU Vit D (deficient), Zinc (deficient), fish oil, sodium (keto) and magnesium (keto).
  • pennygm72
    pennygm72 Posts: 179 Member
    Like a lot of previous posters I take a supermarket brand A to Z multivitamin plus minerals one a day. I am eating very low fat due to gallstones and was advised to do so by a dietician. I have been vit D deficient in the past ( but that was in March in the UK, hadn't seen the sun for over 3 months at that point) Recent bloods have come back and all is perfect so I will keep taking my multivitamin, it's all of £2.50 for a months supply, hardly breaking the bank.

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