Apple Cider Vinegar and Chia Seeds

jenniflower75

I have read a few studies that show apple cider vinegar can aid in many things including weight loss. i started yesterday but because I started later in the evening I only took two teaspoons yesterday. today I am going to do three teaspoons. I added one to my cup of coffee and will take the other two plain during the day. One at lunch one at dinner. I am also adding 1.5 teaspoons of Chia seeds to my morning cream of wheats. I do not buy the premeasured and presugared cream of wheats but instead the stuff you measure and add your own sugar to. I microwave it to cook it and in doing so first I prepare the seeds. i soak the seeds in about a cup of water for about an hour. After they soak I add that water with the seeds to my cream of wheat plus 1 tbs of sugar. i know I know sugar is the devil but that's how I eat it and the calories are not that high. I mix it all together and microwave for two minutes. The cream of wheat becomes very chunky almost looking like bad milk but I assure you it tastes just fine. I also add 1 teaspoon of vinegar. The reason it looks chunky and gross is because of the seeds. they absorb water and get a gel like cover over them leaving the cereal chunky but I assure you there is nothing wrong with it and it tastes fantastic just as I described it. This is my new routine for my diet and I'm also eating four ounces of fish once a day (dinner time) I am keeping my calories at about 1000 - 1200 a day because I am 5'4 and 200 lbs. I need my calories low if I want to lose two pounds a week. Due to being extremely anemic my doctor suggests I not exercise until it's under control because it will just exhaust me. I do some mild exercise as part of maintaining my physical therapy but that's basically half push ups a couple times a day . nothing that really burns calories or works up a sweat. I will keep you posted on how this new addition to my diet plan works out. If any one has any experience with either or both of these please share your experiences.

notreallychris

If ACV did anything for weight loss, there would be a shortage, and you'd have to pay $20 per bottle.

OP simply get yourself in a sustainable calorie deficit. Be honest and accurate with your diary. Don't keep looking for shortcuts, there are none. Good luck!

WinoGelato

All of the above. There is no magic bullet for weight loss. Adding ACV to coffee sounds terrible, and sugar is absolutely not the devil.
What you need is a calorie deficit and a sustainable plan in order to be successful.

Start by reading the stickied most helpful forum posts at the top of the getting started section. Enter your stats and rate of loss (2 lbs/week is aggressive but achievable if you have more than 75 lbs to lose) in MFP and it will provide a calorie target.
Eat a variety of foods within that calorie target focusing on those that provide nutrition, satiety, and enjoyment.
Log everything you eat as accurately and honestly as possible, ideally using a food scale.
When you exercise, log and eat back a portion of those calories.
Be patient, and adjust based on actual results. When you get within 40-50 lbs of your goal, change your rate of loss to 1 lb/week and when you get within 20-25 lbs of your goal, change to 0.5 lb/week.

Good luck.

livingleanlivingclean

I couldn't get past the point where you ruined a perfectly good cup of coffee by adding ACV..

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld

I am the same height as you but I weigh 128lbs currently. I eat a 2000 calories a day to maintain and 1700 calories a day to lose weight.

It does not have to be that hard and you don't have to eat awful food.

She who eats the most and still loses wins!

RAinWA

What if you mix the chia seeds with the ACV and get all the pointless awfulness over with all at once?

OP - try eating the calories that MFP gave you to lose weight and eat stuff you like within those calories.

nutmegoreo

Sounds like you've fallen for the flashy headline dieting myths. We've all (well, many have) been there. I won't repeat what others have said. One thing that stood out for me was the severe anemia. Is dietary changes part of your treatment plan? If part of your plan is to increase the nutritional profile of your diet 1000-1200 calories is going to be very difficult to support this. Maybe, while you're getting the anemia under control, consider a slower weight loss. 1lb/week while improving your health is better than 2lb/week while feeling like *kitten*. Is it not?

ladyreva78

Chia seed make me feel bloated and give me painful cramps.

Even if they were the miracle cure all (which they are not), I wouldn't eat them.

livingleanlivingclean

suzannesimmons3 wrote: »

livingleanlivingclean wrote: »

I couldn't get past the point where you ruined a perfectly good cup of coffee by adding ACV..

So you didnt get to the point she was adding it to porridge.. .why???

Oh.... Vomit. And that's how it's good for weight loss.

gabriellejayde

Why are you ruining your coffee???
The only thing ACV will do is make you eat less of whatever food you add it to because it's no longer delicious. It's supposed to help with heartburn and sore throats but I have found the opposite to be true.
I've lost 80 lbs this year at age 49/50. No ACV. No chia. No hard workouts. Just a calorie deficit.

VintageFeline

I have to concur with the point about eating too little particularly when trying to get a deficiency under control.

It doesn't make sense that "I have to eat 1000 calories to lose 2lbs a week". I could have eaten 1500 and lost 2lbs per week when I was 200lbs (I didn't because I wanted to make sure it was sustainable, slower losses were fine with me).

Dump the ACV and chia. ACV in coffee and porridge, I can't even.

malibu927

gabriellejayde wrote: »

Why are you ruining your coffee???
The only thing ACV will do is make you eat less of whatever food you add it to because it's no longer delicious. It's supposed to help with heartburn and sore throats but I have found the opposite to be true.
I've lost 80 lbs this year at age 49/50. No ACV. No chia. No hard workouts. Just a calorie deficit.

I wouldn't say that about ACV. Several people rave about using it on pork or in salad dressing.

mmapags

OP, you are searching for the secret to weight loss. So here it is. Eat less calories than you burn. Not ACV, not chia seeds, not keto, not IF, not cleanses or any of the other marketing woo things out there.

Real simple (but not always easy) Eat less calories than you burn.

There. Is. No. Secret. To. Weight. Loss.

Lounmoun

If you have to drop below 1200 calories a day to lose 2 lbs a week that says your goal is unsustainably agressive. I would set your goal for 1 lb a week instead. You need to be able to sustain this for a long time if you are planning to lose say 50 lbs and maintain. I am your height and started at 179 lb sedentary 40 year old woman with 1340 calories to lose 1 lb a week.

Weight loss is based on calories. Apple cider vinegar or chia seeds are only going to help with weight loss if they keep you from consuming more calories. It is not necessary to consume either of those things. If you love vinegar coffee and stuff fine but you don't have to have it to lose weight.

Sugar is not the devil. I don't have a huge sweet tooth but I had several normal peanut butter blossom cookies yesterday and I am still down 1.5 lbs from last week. Nothing bad happens to me if I consume moderate amounts of sugar.
Moderation is generally better to practice IME than deciding foods are evil. If you have an allergy or medical condition that requires you to avoid consuming something then do so.

ninerbuff

I put ACV on cucumbers and some ground pepper. Great snack! But it does NOTHING for weight loss. OP don't fall for all the hype you're hearing on social media or fitness magazines. The reality is if you need to lose weight, you just need to consume less than you burn and have a MODERATE calorie deficit. And if you're anemic, you SHOULD be attending to that before anything else. You could be likely anemic for UNDEREATING.

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GottaBurnEmAll

mmapags wrote: »

OP, you are searching for the secret to weight loss. So here it is. Eat less calories than you burn. Not ACV, not chia seeds, not keto, not IF, not cleanses or any of the other marketing woo things out there.

Real simple (but not always easy) Eat less calories than you burn.

There. Is. No. Secret. To. Weight. Loss.

This, OP. So much this.

Please stop ruining your breakfast by stirring things in it that don't belong there.

Also, if you're sedentary, trying to lose 2 pounds a week on a low calorie diet is a recipe to lose muscle mass.

Re-set your expectations to a slower, more sustainable loss so that you can eat adequate protein. Dieters should have more than what is recommended to preserve lean mass while dieting. There is a study to support this statement floating around somewhere, but I don't feel like looking it up right now, sorry. Anyway, the recommended amount is .6 - .8 grams per pound of ideal body weight. I doubt you're getting that on your current intake.

Heather4448

You didn’t read any studies showing ACV aids in weight loss because they don’t exist. Weight loss comes down to eating fewer calories than you burn. That’s all there is to it.