Best Vitamins or suppliments?

Yose31
Yose31 Posts: 3
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I began using MFP about 10 days ago. It's going well tracking my food and exercise. My goal is to lose 100 pounds, I am going to meet with my trainer Wednesday and take my weight for the first time since I started. I have eliminated a lot of carbs, sugars, and fats from diet replacing with vegatables, nuts and lean meats. I have never really used vitamins before and don't really know the best way to select what might be most beneficial. Dioes anyone have any suggestions or can you recommend a website or the likes to guide me in the right direction.

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  • fitmom1029
    fitmom1029 Posts: 7
    Chromium P. and Probiotics are two I NEVER go without-and fish oil. :wink:
  • BernadetteChurch
    BernadetteChurch Posts: 2,210 Member
    A healthy diet like you're now eating should provide you with all the nutrients you need. I wouldn't take anything unless you've been diagnosed with any sort of deficiency.
  • KombuchaCat
    KombuchaCat Posts: 834 Member
    I like Rainbow Light Women's One a day. It's an organic brand that has probiotics, green foods and some women's health related herbs. I would agree with the one poster that a healthy diet may make a vitamin unecessary, however I don't think it hurts to have the extra insurance :D
  • jacksonpt
    jacksonpt Posts: 10,413 Member
    here ya go -

    http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/muscle-gain/supplements-part-1.html
  • patfriendly
    patfriendly Posts: 263 Member
    I use Nutrilite DoubleX. Its one of the best supplements out there. I like it because Nutrilite has the widest range of supplements. I take it with Omega 3 and Concetrated fruits and vegetable. You can read about independent supplement review and ranking at http://www.multivitaminguide.org/
  • stillnot2late
    stillnot2late Posts: 385 Member
    If you want to get some good advice on starting a supplemental program, go to Dr. Weil's site and answer the questionnaire. he is expensive with his products but they are good quality. Of all the things he recommended, I cut it into one third of what he recommended. I do a good vitamin mineral complex, and xtra calcium and magnesium. Fish oil for my joint pain. every other day I take arthritis supplement glucosamine. These are based on my personal assessment - and when I slack off for about a week I don't fare so well. I don't get enough nutrition the way I eat, even when I think I am eating healthy. Those people who can get enough just from their diets, I commend them, with high respect.

    I'm not suggesting you buy from Dr. Weil (Wiel?). I don't, I just did his questionnaire to see what he suggested!
  • stillnot2late
    stillnot2late Posts: 385 Member
    I use Nutrilite DoubleX. Its one of the best supplements out there. I like it because Nutrilite has the widest range of supplements. I take it with Omega 3 and Concetrated fruits and vegetable. You can read about independent supplement review and ranking at http://www.multivitaminguide.org/

    this sound pretty interesting, gotta check it out. especially the concentrated fruits
  • MonaRaeHill
    MonaRaeHill Posts: 145 Member
    Hello.

    As it turns out, it's best to avoid vitamins with magnesium stearate used as the capsule coating. (It's a coating that manufacturers use, to make the vitamins go through the machinery, easier). It's actually chalk, which will block the immune receptors in your stomach (of which the human body has a lot of, since your stomach is your next defense system, after your skin and lungs).

    I found out the hard way that this is not really a good thing to introduce to my very compromised digestive system. Most vitamins that use this, are a waste of money, because the immune system doesn't really recognize the MS, and works to get rid of it (instead of digesting it). I only found one brand of vitamins that does not contain magnesium stearate or the other stearate (was it calcium?......pulling a brain blank, here). Anyway, that was pure encapsulations, which you have to purchase, direct from either a chiropractor, or from your Naturopath. That was the case when I discovered them, but I see there's a chiropractor in florida, selling them online, now.

    I can't remember his name, now, but any web search will likely turn him up. I've also seen them on VitaminShoppe and Vitacost, but for some reason, those places don't carry full lines of product, so it's pretty hit and miss. If you're like me, you like to only pay one shipping cost, thank you very much. :(

    I haven't ordered any, in awhile, because even they can't be trusted to combine them in the right way. (You should never mix magnesium, with calcium, for instance, as the body only has key-receptors for one or the other, not both). I've seen pure encapsulations mixing them, so now, I only buy the iodine and enzymes from them and the vitamin c and b, from Garden of life, which makes a raw version, free of all the gook in the others.

    anyway, I could go on and on, but that should get you started. Good luck and keep the faith.
  • Yose31
    Yose31 Posts: 3
    Thanks for the vitamin advise. I think I'm making good choices with my food but I am thinking about seeing a nutritionist to find out. I have osteoarthritis and I am sure taking off excess weight and improving my overall nutrition will help with alleviating some of the pain. I've also started going to the gym and taking fitness classes 4-5 times a week, and doing yoga and walking on the days I don't go to the gym. Also I'm trying to figure out the best way I can utilize MFP for support and advise. I'm super into it right now but I don't want to lose interest and stop trying, which I have done in the past. This time I am really trying to make a lifestyle change instead of dieting, which for me, doesn't seem to work.

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