Apple Cider Vinegar and Chia Seeds
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You're putting vinegar in your coffee and cream of wheat??? That sounds awful.
There is no evidence that ACV does anything for weight loss. Chia seeds can add some fiber which can help you feel full, but their not any better than any other fiber and can be expensive.
Stop torturing yourself and buy a $15 food scale. Put your stats into MFP and get a calorie goal. Log accurately and consistently and hit that goal. You can eat whatever you want, but focusing on getting plenty of lean protein, fiber, and healthy fat can help. There are no magic ingredients. Stop ruining your food and coffee, it's not worth it!5 -
Chia seeds are tasty in a pudding with coconut milk, IMO.
ACV makes a nice salad dressing and goes well with pork and greens.
Neither does anything magical for weight loss. Chia seeds have some healthful properties (i.e., nutrients), but also lots of calories.
My own preferred addition to oats tends to be fruit (berries), although protein powder can be helpful, and a savory oatmeal with an egg and some veg is my overall favorite, if you are interested in other ideas. I'm partial to the texture of steel cut.
However, if you enjoy what you are eating, OP, that's cool. I love fish, so I think that's a great addition. Is your doctor helping you get the anemia fixed?2 -
100% what all those people up there said. At a weight less than your current weight, and 5'5", I lost around 2 pounds a week (while that was still a safe loss rate for me) at roughly 1500 calories. And I was 59 years old at the time, and hypothyroid besides. 1200, when I tried it briefly, made me fatigued and weak. No one needs that!
I, personally, love ACV. I drink a shot every day. While losing about 1/3 of my original bodyweight, I drank ACV daily for weeks at a time, and also had periods where I didn't drink any for weeks at a time. There was zero difference in my weight loss rate, whether I drank it, or not. Zero. It has no effect on weight loss, no matter how many blogs say it does.
Chia is nutritious, but has no magic, either. If you like it, eat it. If you don't, eat something nutritious you do enjoy, instead. Life is too short for food that isn't tasty, when there are so many delicious, nutritious foods we can eat.
I agree with others that sugar is not the devil: It's just a low-nutrition food, so we probably don't want to eat big bunches of it while trying to lose weight. But, if you like a dab of it in your cream of wheat, go for it.
But here's a thought: If you like the flavor of molasses, why not try sweetening your breakfast with some blackstrap molasses? It's sweet like sugar (chemically similar), but it has some nice iron in it, and I think you did mention being anemic.
In summary, I agree with others: Set a reasonable, moderate calorie goal. Eat nutritious foods you enjoy that fill you up, right up to that calorie goal. In a few weeks, when you have some real personal data you can go on, adjust your calorie goal to get your heathy loss rate dialed in more exactly, if that's needed.
You don't have to restrict any foods, unless you find them hard to resist overeating, or something like that. Just go for balanced nutrition and sensible portions that meet your calorie goal. And it isn't necessary to eat any special foods to lose weight, unless you enjoy them. The idea that there are virtuous "good" diet foods we must eat even if we think they're yucky, to sort of punish ourselves for getting fat: A myth.
Most people here who are successful discovered that the weight loss process was much more understandable and straightforward than they ever thought, and that it's the results that are magical, not the process.. I'll bet you'll discover that, too.
Best wishes!8 -
gabriellejayde wrote: »Why are you ruining your coffee???
The only thing ACV will do is make you eat less of whatever food you add it to because it's no longer delicious. It's supposed to help with heartburn and sore throats but I have found the opposite to be true.
I've lost 80 lbs this year at age 49/50. No ACV. No chia. No hard workouts. Just a calorie deficit.
Finally we hear from someone who "gets it". They used to tell us to take a spoonful of ACV before you eat cake, candy, pie for weight loss.
A lot of the time you would just decide not to eat it because you didn't want that vinegar first. When you did have the vinegar then the sweet, your mouth and throat burned so bad, the food just didn't taste right and wasn't as good as you had imagined. It really did help with weight loss. But like it's been said, weight loss just doesn't have to be that hard.
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RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »I am the same height as you but I weigh 128lbs currently. I eat a 2000 calories a day to maintain and 1700 calories a day to lose weight.
It does not have to be that hard and you don't have to eat awful food.
She who eats the most and still loses wins!
Ooo lucky, I'm the same height, but I gain on 1,700 calories1 -
TrishSeren wrote: »RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »I am the same height as you but I weigh 128lbs currently. I eat a 2000 calories a day to maintain and 1700 calories a day to lose weight.
It does not have to be that hard and you don't have to eat awful food.
She who eats the most and still loses wins!
Ooo lucky, I'm the same height, but I gain on 1,700 calories
You don't have to think that you're just unlucky - you can increase your calorie expenditure (and therefore how much you can eat!!) by being more active. It does take some effort to carve out time every day in a busy life, but it's worth it for the food, and the physical and mental health benefits too.3 -
I have an ounce of ACV daily with a glass of water and an ounce of torani sugar free caramel syrup. Seems to knock the hunger down for me and tastes good
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ACV helps to keep your body's system alkaline. Many people use it for that purpose..to keep the system from being acidic, which promotes inflamation and disease. It does work for that, and it is worthwhile.33
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elisa123gal wrote: »ACV helps to keep your body's system alkaline. Many people use it for that purpose..to keep the system from being acidic, which promotes inflamation and disease. It does work for that, and it is worthwhile.
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So this is a thread where:
1. OP posts about ACV.
2. OP gets helpful tips about ACV, and it's non-benifit for weight loss.
3. The occasional random person comes in every once and a while (after the thread is almost dead) to say "it works".
4.OP never read the helpful tips in the first place, OR saw helpful tips, and didn't want to hear it, so it doesn't really matter.2 -
notreallychris wrote: »So this is a thread where:
1. OP posts about ACV.
2. OP gets helpful tips about ACV, and it's non-benifit for weight loss.
3. The occasional random person comes in every once and a while (after the thread is almost dead) to say "it works".
4.OP never read the helpful tips in the first place, OR saw helpful tips, and didn't want to hear it, so it doesn't really matter.
So, like pretty much every ACV thread.9 -
If sugar is the devil then why are hospitalized patients who have to be on IV nutrition fed dextrose? You should boycott all those hospitals.
Don't fall for click bait BS OP4 -
ACV does no such thing. I do, however, use 2 tablespoons to draw out more collagen from my beef bones when I make broth.3
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I'm continually stumped by people who think vinegar promotes an 'alkaline' environment in your body. Do you remember nothing from high school chemistry? Vinegar is an acid, acetic acid to be specific. You can't add acid to something and make it more alkaline. That's not how any of this works.7
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And the this is why we always fail! We are more willing to eat magic seeds, and drink a magic drink instead of eat less food.1
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elisa123gal wrote: »ACV helps to keep your body's system alkaline. Many people use it for that purpose..to keep the system from being acidic, which promotes inflamation and disease. It does work for that, and it is worthwhile.
https://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/DSH/coral2.html5 -
elisa123gal wrote: »ACV helps to keep your body's system alkaline. Many people use it for that purpose..to keep the system from being acidic, which promotes inflamation and disease. It does work for that, and it is worthwhile.
Um - NO! Can you imagine all day long the foods we eat, the combinations of food we eat, the beverages we drink (even water!) would change our body's system alkaline all day long.Aschindler412 wrote: »I'm continually stumped by people who think vinegar promotes an 'alkaline' environment in your body. Do you remember nothing from high school chemistry? Vinegar is an acid, acetic acid to be specific. You can't add acid to something and make it more alkaline. That's not how any of this works.
People with LOW stomach acid may take ACV (or drink lemonade with their meal....anything acidic) to help aid in digestion. ACV for those with higher than normal stomach acid (me) would find taking ACV extremely painful!
OP - you risk tooth enamel erosion with ACV.0 -
Just for the sake of argument: I think the "tooth erosion" argument depends on how you consume it. Watered down and sipped at length, maybe a concern. Tossed back with water chaser, probably not a worry.
And for some reason, no one around here talks about eroding tooth enamel from salad dressing or vinegar BBQ sauce (or when I mention putting "drinking vinegar" in my vodka/soda). Selective demonization?
Reminder: I like ACV, but I think it totally lacks magic, especially weight loss magic.1 -
I agree you need to eat more. Minimum 1200 calories. It's hard for you to be properly nourished otherwise. I hope you're also tracking your iron intake on mfp. I'm anemic too and take iron supplements but I also now eat beef and liver regularly. I noticed that if I ate too few calories that my iron intake without supplements was pitifully low hence the addition of more meat and a higher calorie allocation.0
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