Apple Cider Vinegar and Chia Seeds
jenniflower75
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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.
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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!18 -
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.
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I couldn't get past the point where you ruined a perfectly good cup of coffee by adding ACV..48
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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!25 -
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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.7 -
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?12
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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.4 -
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.9 -
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.9 -
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.5 -
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.4 -
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.15 -
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.7 -
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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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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.5 -
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.2
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You're putting vinegar in your coffee and cream of wheat??? That sounds awful.
There is no evidence that ACV does anything for weight loss. Chia seeds can add some fiber which can help you feel full, but their not any better than any other fiber and can be expensive.
Stop torturing yourself and buy a $15 food scale. Put your stats into MFP and get a calorie goal. Log accurately and consistently and hit that goal. You can eat whatever you want, but focusing on getting plenty of lean protein, fiber, and healthy fat can help. There are no magic ingredients. Stop ruining your food and coffee, it's not worth it!5 -
Chia seeds are tasty in a pudding with coconut milk, IMO.
ACV makes a nice salad dressing and goes well with pork and greens.
Neither does anything magical for weight loss. Chia seeds have some healthful properties (i.e., nutrients), but also lots of calories.
My own preferred addition to oats tends to be fruit (berries), although protein powder can be helpful, and a savory oatmeal with an egg and some veg is my overall favorite, if you are interested in other ideas. I'm partial to the texture of steel cut.
However, if you enjoy what you are eating, OP, that's cool. I love fish, so I think that's a great addition. Is your doctor helping you get the anemia fixed?2 -
100% what all those people up there said. At a weight less than your current weight, and 5'5", I lost around 2 pounds a week (while that was still a safe loss rate for me) at roughly 1500 calories. And I was 59 years old at the time, and hypothyroid besides. 1200, when I tried it briefly, made me fatigued and weak. No one needs that!
I, personally, love ACV. I drink a shot every day. While losing about 1/3 of my original bodyweight, I drank ACV daily for weeks at a time, and also had periods where I didn't drink any for weeks at a time. There was zero difference in my weight loss rate, whether I drank it, or not. Zero. It has no effect on weight loss, no matter how many blogs say it does.
Chia is nutritious, but has no magic, either. If you like it, eat it. If you don't, eat something nutritious you do enjoy, instead. Life is too short for food that isn't tasty, when there are so many delicious, nutritious foods we can eat.
I agree with others that sugar is not the devil: It's just a low-nutrition food, so we probably don't want to eat big bunches of it while trying to lose weight. But, if you like a dab of it in your cream of wheat, go for it.
But here's a thought: If you like the flavor of molasses, why not try sweetening your breakfast with some blackstrap molasses? It's sweet like sugar (chemically similar), but it has some nice iron in it, and I think you did mention being anemic.
In summary, I agree with others: Set a reasonable, moderate calorie goal. Eat nutritious foods you enjoy that fill you up, right up to that calorie goal. In a few weeks, when you have some real personal data you can go on, adjust your calorie goal to get your heathy loss rate dialed in more exactly, if that's needed.
You don't have to restrict any foods, unless you find them hard to resist overeating, or something like that. Just go for balanced nutrition and sensible portions that meet your calorie goal. And it isn't necessary to eat any special foods to lose weight, unless you enjoy them. The idea that there are virtuous "good" diet foods we must eat even if we think they're yucky, to sort of punish ourselves for getting fat: A myth.
Most people here who are successful discovered that the weight loss process was much more understandable and straightforward than they ever thought, and that it's the results that are magical, not the process.. I'll bet you'll discover that, too.
Best wishes!8 -
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.
Finally we hear from someone who "gets it". They used to tell us to take a spoonful of ACV before you eat cake, candy, pie for weight loss.
A lot of the time you would just decide not to eat it because you didn't want that vinegar first. When you did have the vinegar then the sweet, your mouth and throat burned so bad, the food just didn't taste right and wasn't as good as you had imagined. It really did help with weight loss. But like it's been said, weight loss just doesn't have to be that hard.
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RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »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!
Ooo lucky, I'm the same height, but I gain on 1,700 calories
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TrishSeren wrote: »RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »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!
Ooo lucky, I'm the same height, but I gain on 1,700 calories
You don't have to think that you're just unlucky - you can increase your calorie expenditure (and therefore how much you can eat!!) by being more active. It does take some effort to carve out time every day in a busy life, but it's worth it for the food, and the physical and mental health benefits too.3 -
I have an ounce of ACV daily with a glass of water and an ounce of torani sugar free caramel syrup. Seems to knock the hunger down for me and tastes good
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ACV helps to keep your body's system alkaline. Many people use it for that purpose..to keep the system from being acidic, which promotes inflamation and disease. It does work for that, and it is worthwhile.33
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Uh no it doesn't. The body is more than capable of controlling it's pH balance on it's own. ANY shift one way or the other could mean possible illness or death, so "outside" control by food choices DON'T affect this at all. Don't believe the hype you're reading on this.elisa123gal wrote: »ACV helps to keep your body's system alkaline. Many people use it for that purpose..to keep the system from being acidic, which promotes inflamation and disease. It does work for that, and it is worthwhile.
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So this is a thread where:
1. OP posts about ACV.
2. OP gets helpful tips about ACV, and it's non-benifit for weight loss.
3. The occasional random person comes in every once and a while (after the thread is almost dead) to say "it works".
4.OP never read the helpful tips in the first place, OR saw helpful tips, and didn't want to hear it, so it doesn't really matter.2
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