Vitamin supplements

mnaguibm
mnaguibm Posts: 8 Member
edited November 16 in Food and Nutrition
would drinking vitamin supplements with water decrease body metabolism knowing that i spend my day as normal without extra exercise and no change in my food consumption.

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  • tiptoethruthetulips
    tiptoethruthetulips Posts: 3,371 Member
    No....
  • 999tigger
    999tigger Posts: 5,235 Member
    No, why do you think it would?
  • isulo_kura
    isulo_kura Posts: 818 Member
    Errr No
  • WVprankster
    WVprankster Posts: 430 Member
    No.
  • mnaguibm
    mnaguibm Posts: 8 Member
    999tigger wrote: »
    No, why do you think it would?

    since i started doing this i noticed that i'm gaining weight and when managed my food and did some extensive workouts that i'm used to it to bring down my weight again to normal nothing changed.
    My insights about it, i provide my body with vitamins through supplements, therefore the body gained the required energy from it so it will not burn the food i eat at the same levels and manage to store it in the form of fats and carbs resulting in gaining more weight and reducing metabolism. i'm not an expert on this subject but this is my simple approach that may be correct and may not.
  • abatonfan
    abatonfan Posts: 1,120 Member
    edited April 2015
    mnaguibm wrote: »
    999tigger wrote: »
    No, why do you think it would?

    since i started doing this i noticed that i'm gaining weight and when managed my food and did some extensive workouts that i'm used to it to bring down my weight again to normal nothing changed.
    My insights about it, i provide my body with vitamins through supplements, therefore the body gained the required energy from it so it will not burn the food i eat at the same levels and manage to store it in the form of fats and carbs resulting in gaining more weight and reducing metabolism. i'm not an expert on this subject but this is my simple approach that may be correct and may not.

    Micronutrients (vitamins, minerals, water) have no calories. It's the macronutrients (carbohydrates, fat, protein, alcohol) that do. If you're taking a vitamin supplement (assuming there's no hidden macros in it), it should not affect weight loss or metabolism.

    If there are hidden macros though, such as a fish oil supplement containing a few grams of fat or a gummy vitamin containing a few grams of carbohydrates, then that might add some calories to your daily total. It really shouldn't throw off your entire deficit though, unless you're consuming multiple of these supplements per day (logging the vitamins you consume would be an easy way to see how many calories you're consuming from them).
  • FitPhillygirl
    FitPhillygirl Posts: 7,124 Member
    Not at all.
  • beemerphile1
    beemerphile1 Posts: 1,710 Member
    edited April 2015
    Vitamins provide nutrients, they do not fuel your body. Only calories provide fuel/energy to the body.
  • mnaguibm
    mnaguibm Posts: 8 Member
    abatonfan wrote: »
    mnaguibm wrote: »
    999tigger wrote: »
    No, why do you think it would?


    Micronutrients (vitamins, minerals, water) have no calories. It's the macronutrients (carbohydrates, fat, protein, alcohol) that do. If you're taking a vitamin supplement (assuming there's no hidden macros in it), it should not affect weight loss or metabolism.

    If there are hidden macros though, such as a fish oil supplement containing a few grams of fat or a gummy vitamin containing a few grams of carbohydrates, then that might add some calories to your daily total. It really shouldn't throw off your entire deficit though, unless you're consuming multiple of these supplements per day (logging the vitamins you consume would be an easy way to see how many calories you're consuming from them).

    Thanks for your detailed reply, but would you clarify then what is the use of vitamin supplements and what happens when they enter the body?
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