Apple Cider Vinegar and Chia Seeds

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!

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!

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

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.

Uh no it doesn't. The body is more than capable of controlling it's pH balance on it's own. ANY shift one way or the other could mean possible illness or death, so "outside" control by food choices DON'T affect this at all. Don't believe the hype you're reading on this.

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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.