Diet Supplements to aid weightloss

Jill_21 · October 2017

Who uses any products to aid with their weight loss journey? We all know that products are not the complete fix. Any program has to have diet and exercise. I am using plexus which is helping me with energy to actually get up and work out and also with curbing my appetite to stay away from the sweets and soda! What are you guys using?

ZoneFive · October 2017

If you get your calories and macros balanced, you won't need diet supplements. I don't.

Jill_21 · October 2017

I find it hard to keep my macros in check

Nony_Mouse · October 2017

Jill_21 wrote: »

I find it hard to keep my macros in check

So work on that and save yourself a bucket load of money in the process. We can probably help with that if you're interested.

ZoneFive · October 2017

Take a look at tweaking them. Maybe you need more protein, or maybe more carbs (veggies, fruits or whole grains). I get hungry too quickly when I don't eat enough protein, but that isn't true for everyone. What does your macro balance look like at the moment?

kshama2001 · October 2017

Jill_21 wrote: »

I find it hard to keep my macros in check

Please change your Diary Sharing settings to Public: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings

MizMareedy · October 2017

I have a very hard time with vitamins and minerals. Even with a multivitamin and biotin I fall way short on magnesium and calcium. I’m lactose intolerant so the calcium is tough for me. I am going to incorporate some avocado and spinach into my diet to help with magnesium. It’s getting to be the season where I like sweet potatoes- so if i can hold off on adding brown sugar to them that should also help. Iron is tough for me too without a vitamin. I’m not a huge fan of red meat.

CountryGirl11812 · October 2017

I use phen375 and I love it

kimny72 · October 2017

Most "weight loss" supplement success is the placebo effect. People who are spending (wasting) money on diet pills don't want to be throwing that money out the window, so they end up being more precise and motivated with diet and exercise.

Anything that works is dangerous and not available over the counter.

OP, macro issues won't keep you from losing weight, unless it makes you hungry and you end up going over calories.

PaulaWallaDingDong · October 2017

The products don't really do anything except for possibly a short-lived energy boost or appetite supression. The limited effects wear off before long. They say "with diet and exercise" but the diet and exercise are doing 100% of the work.

JeromeBarry1 · October 2017

The myfitnesspal food diary is a product and I use it to aid my weight loss.

SCoil123 · October 2017

I take supplements but not with weight loss as the goal. I have them to aid in my goal of better health. I take selenium because it helps with T3 conversion ( I have thyroid disease and it helps) I also take magnesium and CLA to aid in muscle recovery so that I can continue working out the way I like.

Cbean08 · October 2017

You can't out-supplement your lack of willpower.

Stick to your calorie deficit and you won't need anything else.

Rickster1967 · October 2017

I am taking a bunch of supplements and herbal medicines. They are not for weightloss specifically. They are mostly to do with mood elevation, testosterone production, estrogen elimination, arterial health, blood pressure reduction, blood sugar regulation...

My number one is Transdermal Magnesium supplementation. Magnesium deficiency has lots of symptoms and since starting the Mag Oil they've been reduced.

I take Mucuna Pruriens which is a source of the amino acid L-dopa which is the precursor to dopamine. Very depressed people (me) have low levels of dopamine, I find the Mucuna has really helped my mood. Dopamine is also essential for the production of testosterone and obese depressed men (me) have low T.

I'm supplementing Iodine (Lugol's Solution) which is another 'male' problem (testosterone, prostate). Alongside the iodine I have to load with a broad spectrum salt (pink Himalayan) to expel other halides(fluoride, bromide) and take some vitamins and trace minerals (B,C, selenium)

Alpha Lipoic Acid is a strong anti-oxidant and proven blood sugar regulator.

I rarely get much sun so I'm taking a strong dose of Vitamin D3. I've been a virtual lock in for 5+ years so I'm very deficient in D

Alongside that I take 5g daily of a high quality fish oil supplement called Eskimo. It's a top quality brand and of of only 3 highly recommended.

In addition, I'm taking a series of plant extracts thought to be anti-estrogenic. Luteolin (extracted from celery), apigenin (parsley), olive leaf extract and a few others.

I'm doing this because I am extremely unwell. I have Metabolic Syndrome, man boobs, Low T, depression, Fatty Liver Disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and it is going to be very hard to reverse all this by food alone. It's like a kind of nutritional therapy.

However, if you are just overweight, but otherwise well, then taking supplements to accelerate weightloss is pointless. Set your calories to achieve the weightloss you want and stick to them.

T1DCarnivoreRunner · October 2017

Daily, I take:
-GNC Men's Whole Body VitaPak (lots of different things in addition to multi-vitamins)
-Co-Q10 (I recently stopped statins, so will probably stop after current supply runs out)
-Magnesium, calcium, zinc
-Fish oil
-Glucosamine
-L-Carnitine

As needed (generally before exercise), I take:
-Yohimbe extract*

*The reason for yohimbe is that I eat very low carb and I'm fat adapted. I'm also a type 1 diabetic and monitory my BG very closely. When I exercise, my muscles should use fat for energy rather than glucose (because I'm fat adapted). As I have started to reach lower levels of body fat, I have started to notice that I cannot seem to mobilize fat for energy when exercising (I'm going to call this 'stubborn fat' because it is there, but just will not move through lipolysis so I can actually use it) . If I eat a bunch of fat a few hours before exercise, muscles use that consumed fat, do not use glucose and my BG remains stable. If I workout fasted, then my muscles use glucose and that drives BG low. At that point, I end up treating hypoglycemia with carbs (dextrose) and not losing body fat. After several weeks of struggling with low BG pretty much every time I exercised, I read that yohimbe helps to mobilize 'stubborn fat' that doesn't seem to want to be moved into blood to be circulated to muscles for use. I've been using it for 3 weeks now (I run 3-4 times per week and lift weights 2 times each week - most workouts are done fasting, and never with carbs) and have only become hypoglycemic during 2 workouts. Otherwise, I used fat for energy during those workouts... in most cases, that was body fat because I usually work out fasting. My observation over 3 weeks is that it has been working to mobilize the remaining 'stubborn body fat.'

nexangelus · October 2017

I sometimes do extra caffeine and taurine (energy drinks) and cycle on and off creatine. Oh and on days I find it hard to hit protein with foods alone I add up to 2 scoops of whey or casein.

Upping your protein and fat may help with satiation.

sijomial · October 2017

I use a very Specialized supplement.

And add iron three times a week....

Backed up by commitment.

My advice would be to use your weight loss to help you learn the lessons needed to maintain long term at your goal weight.
Diet supplements are a very short term view.

Rickster1967 · October 2017

sijomial wrote: »

I use a very Specialized supplement.

And add iron three times a week....

Backed up by commitment.

My advice would be to use your weight loss to help you learn the lessons needed to maintain long term at your goal weight.
Diet supplements are a very short term view.

when you say 'diet supplements' are you referring only to things intended to make you lose weight faster? Or do you include nutritional dietary supplements like vitamin D and fish oils in that?

Coz for example, I'm not eating fish in my diet, so I need fish oils for good health

sijomial · October 2017

rickinnercirclebet wrote: »

sijomial wrote: »

I use a very Specialized supplement.

And add iron three times a week....

Backed up by commitment.

My advice would be to use your weight loss to help you learn the lessons needed to maintain long term at your goal weight.
Diet supplements are a very short term view.

when you say 'diet supplements' are you referring only to things intended to make you lose weight faster? Or do you include nutritional dietary supplements like vitamin D and fish oils in that?

Coz for example, I'm not eating fish in my diet, so I need fish oils for good health

@rickinnercirclebet
Referring to weight loss supplements to help diet (verb) rather than supplements to help diet (noun).

I take Vit D, fish oil and a multi vitamin for health (could regard them as an inexpensive insurance policy perhaps?) but I wouldn't take any supposed weight loss products.

I've been maintaining successfully for years and see a constant stream of people who arrive at their goal weight and are lost because they haven't thought ahead to maintenance or learned how to eat appropriately to stay at their chosen weight. Often that's the first yo in yo-yo.

capaul42 · October 2017

Only supplement i need is coffee.

MadInGlasvegas · October 2017

I dont take supplements for weightloss per se. But I take vit b and d as sort of insurance. Vit c wintertime if needed. Magnesium oil if needed. Im vegan eat more veggies than can count every day so most of that stuff takes care of itself. I like to binge eat nori and other seaweed stuffs, have a love affair with pickes and fermented food and id imagine the latter two might act as sort of weight loss supplement in that they help our gut biom do a happy dance when we eat them

EatingAndKnitting · October 2017

I take a multivitamin and vitamin d. I may not need the multi, but it helps me feel psychologically better about my diet. I am trying to improve the quality of my diet, but there are many days I run low on iron or calcium for instance. It doesn't hurt and it doesn't cost much. Usually Walgreens has them buy one get one free.

I take vitamin d because I'm deficient in it otherwise. I was so deficient in it at one point that I was taking 10,000 units a day for a few years under a doctor's supervision. I'm now only taking 1,000 or 2,000 units a days. I forget which.

Neither of these aid weightloss, and I don't belive in supplements with Weight loss. They are a waste of money.

I do also drink whey protien powder because I don't eat quite enough protien. I'm not vegan or even vegetarian, but my husband is vegetarian and so I don't cook meat at home. I don't get enough protien through food so I supplement with a scoop of powder and a cup of soy milk (because I have a soy milk maker and it's cheaper to make soy milk than by cows milk, which I don't like drinking anyway).

But that's not a weight loss supplement either. That's just to help preserve lean mass. I don't know if it's going to do much good, but it can't hurt.

dwilliamca · October 2017

There are no weight loss miracles or even metabolism boosters other than what nature planned for us. It is called healthy food and exercise. I keep my macros pretty balanced and check my micronutrients fairly regularly to make sure I'm on track. That's one of the benefits of logging everything. If something is routinely low then I'd recommend that particular nutrient supplement. I saw someone mention Vitamin D3, which is something many women are low in and can be tested for. Some women can also be low in B12/folate which can cause anemia. Otherwise save your money. In the lab we called it $100.00 pee.

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