Vitamins

It is possible to have too much of some vitamins but it's rare. If you're taking the things you listed as directed on the labels, you shouldn't have any problems. I take vitamins, too, and enter them in my food log. I just started MFP this week so I'm just getting my bearings, but it was kind of fun to scan the labels of my vitamin bottles. I even created a meal called "vitamins" and it's the first thing I enter every day. It makes me feel like I'm taking really good care of my body, PLUS I get in my first two cups of water for the day right off the bat.

I'd add Vit E, omega 3's and I hear cinnamon is great for weight loss. Sometimes you can get them combined so you don't have to take so many.

My doctor told me that our bodies flush out any extra vitamins they don't need, unless you have some kind of chemical deficiency that prevents it from doing this, but it's rare. He assured me that taking a regular daily multivitamin is really all you need.

From what I have heard and read our bodies will only use what is needed and the rest will be flushed out of our systems.

You need to be careful with the fat soluble vitamins like A and E because chronic overuse can cause them to accumulate to toxic levels in the fat stores of the body. The water solubles like C are more likely to just give you expensive urine.

YES- vitamins that are fat soluble- such as A, D and E can be toxic if taken in too high doses. Levels ABOVE the Daily Recommended Allowance are stored as fat- and can screw up your liver from what I understand.

Not just the liver. Years ago I remember reading about the case of a family that was initially suspected to have a previously unknown genetic disorder that caused the children's cranial sutures to dissolve and separate. Their skulls were literally breaking apart. It turned out to be chronic vitamin A toxicity. The mother, desperate to do something to help her kids, had been unwittingly poisoning them with ever larger doses of vitamins as they got sicker and sicker.