Vitamin D Deficiency & Weight Loss

meretarv

Hello everyone!

I was really diagnosed as severely vitamin D deficient. I've been prescribed to a vitamin D2 regimen for the next month and will then have my blood levels retested. The main reason I requested having blood work done is because I have been feeling very weak and tired. Now that I have read a bit about vitamin D deficiencies, I see that there is a link with an inability to lose weight or difficulty losing weight. I do feel that my weight loss is going very slooowly and am just crossing my fingers that this vitamin D will explain not only my tiredness but also my struggle in losing weight. I will say, though, that whether the vitamin D helps or not, I will continue to work hard to get down the weight I wish to be. I'm not just banking on the vitamin D to help, otherwise I'll give up; no way!

Have any of you dealt with vitamin D deficiencies in the past? Did you find that it was making it more difficult for you to lose weight? If you started taking vitamin D after being diagnosed as deficient, did you find that you began losing weight at a more reasonable pace?

Please let me know your thoughts! I'd really appreciate it! :-)

Thanks!

lvtruu1

D3 is superior to D2 and is absorbed by your body more easily. You may want to ask you doctor about it.

musicalboats

Hey, I was also recently told I was Vitamin D deficient... not terribly low but a little low. I was told to take supplements as well. I didn't know of a correlation between weight loss and lack of this vitamin. My weight loss is very very slow, but that may be because I am not pushing it as hard as I could I though. I am usually very tired, so I had gone in to have my thyroid tested (which is when they did the other tests as well.) I have heard that your thyroid impacts your weight loss, and can cause fatigue, so you might want to get that checked out if you haven't already....

meretarv

It's not my thyroid, everything came back fine on that test. Good thinking though, I definitely thought it would be my thyroid.

nancycaregiver

My vitamin D is low but it did not effect my weight loss. The weight fell off at first but I was pretty big. Now that I am about 20 pounds to goal it is going very slowly but I don't think it has anything to do with my vitamin D. I took 10,000 units once a week for 3 months and now take 2000 units a day. I am tired a lot but that seems a little better now that I am exercising. Just started working out a month ago.

NuggetLovesEdie

I was recently at my doc's for annual health visit.

I asked about whether it would be worth it to test my vitamin D level. She laughed and said no because this time of year where I live, its likely that everyone has low vitamin D. She suggested supplementing 1000 to 2000 iu of D3 per day for me.

Not sure how quickly its supposed to give response, but I seem to be feeling the winter funk slowly leaving already (after a couple of days).

ETA: It seems that people living in northern latitudes (above 37° latitude, specifically) don't get enough sun this time of year to make our own vitamin D supply. http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/time-for-more-vitamin-d.htm

GomesDavid

If I were to pick out a vitamin D supplement, I would lean toward one with D3, but it may not matter that much - after all, D2 has been used for many years.

smantha32

I'm taking D3 right now. Not for weight loss though, but to help me make it through cold season without catching other people's crud.

vanguardfitness

http://www.charlespoliquin.com/Blog/tabid/130/EntryId/1004/Tip-292-Take-Vitamin-D-To-Lose-Belly-Fat.aspx

vanguardfitness

and...

http://www.charlespoliquin.com/Blog/tabid/130/EntryId/410/25-Excellent-Reasons-to-Take-Vitamin-D.aspx

issyfit

I have a "D-minder" app for my iPad which tells you, based on where you live, when you can get proper sun exposure to absorb vitamin D. I am in Wa. State and right now it says my next opportunity is in 96 days, so I take supplements in the winter. I recommend the app, it's very useful for about 8 months for me.