Has anyone tried Garcinia Cambogia or apple cider vinegar for weight loss

sarabowers2017
sarabowers2017 Posts: 2 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I've tried both and it seems to help but not sure for how long you need to take it or if its worth taking at all for serious weight loss
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  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    Do either help you maintain a calorie deficit? If so, then they might be helpful but they won't create weight loss on their own.
  • bpetrosky
    bpetrosky Posts: 3,911 Member
    So many have tried, all have failed.
  • cerise_noir
    cerise_noir Posts: 5,468 Member
    Agreed with all that gas been said here.
    janejellyroll wrote: »
    It's a waste of time.

    To lose weight, you just need a calorie deficit. No special ingredients or pills necessary.
    This.
    It's a waste of money, too.
  • sarabowers2017
    sarabowers2017 Posts: 2 Member
    Thanks ya'll !
  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    Happy Friday.
  • MissyCHF
    MissyCHF Posts: 337 Member
    I remember an aunt trying it way back in the 1950's - didn't work then either. :)
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    Apple cider vinegar does appear in testing to have an effect on the speed of glucose absorption which might be interesting if you are diabetic. It does nothing for weight loss.

    I have experimented with it, and according to my blood glucose meter, if it does have an effect on my glucose it's minor and not consistent.
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,364 Member
    edited October 2017
    Lots of people have tried it for weight loss. Those who succeed and attribute their success to either ACV or GC are simply cheating themselves of the opportunity to attribute their success to their own hard work.
  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,647 Member
    For serious weight loss, focus on calories, and abandon all hope of pills and potions ever helping.
  • hydechildcare
    hydechildcare Posts: 142 Member
    I like apple cider vinegar to swish around in my mouth. Kills bad breath and doesn't burn like mouth wash! I also find when I have serious heartburn that a shot of acv really helps.
  • Rick_1953
    Rick_1953 Posts: 587 Member
    Only thing that works is a calorie deficit
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    hydechildcare wrote: »
    I like apple cider vinegar to swish around in my mouth. Kills bad breath and doesn't burn like mouth wash! I also find when I have serious heartburn that a shot of acv really helps.

    Caution - this is for folks with low stomach acid. This would be horrible for people with too much stomach acid (like me).
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  • BodyByButter
    BodyByButter Posts: 563 Member
    suzannesimmons3 wrote: »
    gebeziseva wrote: »
    Remaincentered wrote: »
    I have tried Apple cider vinegar it helps with cravings. You can a tbsp to a litre of water. If you need assistance feel free to add me.

    It must be the ACV. No way it is the liter of water that entered your stomach.

    :D

    I hear if you take double it increases kidney function too.
  • stanmann571
    stanmann571 Posts: 5,727 Member
    TeaBea wrote: »
    hydechildcare wrote: »
    I like apple cider vinegar to swish around in my mouth. Kills bad breath and doesn't burn like mouth wash! I also find when I have serious heartburn that a shot of acv really helps.

    Caution - this is for folks with low stomach acid. This would be horrible for people with too much stomach acid (like me).

    It can also help folks whose heartburn is caused by a lazy sphincter.
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  • davidylin
    davidylin Posts: 228 Member
    I've heard that vinegar when consumed with other food slows the release of food into the intestines. It is currently being studied as a meaningful way for diabetics to possibly level out their post-meal blood sugar spikes. However, I've also read that this is really only effective when eating a meal with some fairly simple carbohydrates, which diabetics should probably have been avoiding in the first place.

    I doubt this process would necessarily assist in weight loss in a meaningful clinical manner across a broad population, however, it may assist diabetics with not storing as much fat or doing as much damage to themselves internally through inflammation caused by glycated red blood cells.

    If post-meal blood sugar spikes is a trigger for say, binge eating, then perhaps this may help a person in their weight loss journey indirectly. But that would be an extremely uncommon case.
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