Multi vitamin

I'm pretty curious about this too! I was told in high school by my gym teacher that taking a daily vitamin is the absolute best thing you can do for your body. She actually said, "if you care at all about your body, the best thing you can do is take a multi-vitamin. If you're going to do one thing and you decide to eat like crap and never exercise, at least take a vitamin and you'll be doing yourself some good!" She said getting one multivitamin is the best for you, and to avoid the multi-pill packs.

I recently bought a "women's active metabolism" multivitamin but I haven't been taking them religiously enough to tell if they're helping. I keep telling myself that I will get into the routine, so hopefully I can stop putting it off lol.

general health DOES aid in weight loss! never hurts to take one. It could be all in my head but I feel like it gives me more energy. I take One A Day Women's to keep my boobies healthy. There's also One A Day Women's Active Metabolism, but it doesn't look that much different from the regular women's vitamin to be honest

Absolutely excellent the only supplements I recommend that I don't believe to be total scams from supplement companies are; multivitamins, fish oil, and protein powders. Anything outside of those 3 are questionable at best. Multivitamins so long as you're using a good one will give you tons of micronutrients you may not be taking in otherwise.

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I think taking multi-vitamins make a huge difference in how you feel and weight loss. I have been taking them for the past 17 years, never missed a day. The reason I think vitamins are good for weight loss is because when your body is lacking nutrients and vitamins your metabolism has to slow down to find those vitamins and nutrients. So what you don't get in your diet you can get them in multi-vitamins... but don't get one a day or centrium, there is basically nothing in those vitamins. Waste of money. THere are a lot of good ones out there, Animal Pak, Mega ultra women (Energy and MEtabolism) from GNC, and Vitamin worls has some....

Anyone have thoughts of taking a daily multi vitamin? Good or bad? Does it help any in weight loss or just in general health?

I take a prenatal vitamin daily. Not pregnant but anemic and it has some extra iron in it. I think when you are exercising and eating right, you are probably depleting your body of some much needed electrolyes and vitamins, I think as long as you are staying close to the daily allowance, you should be fine. It is always best to have that cholesterol checked and basic metabolic profile, that will tell you your numbers and where you may be deficient. Yearly physicals are a great thing, especially if you have a family history of any type of heart disease or diabetes.

I am a really strange eater and I feel like I'm not getting all the nutrients I need. I don't eat many veggies, though I do eat fruit. I eat a lot of meat and starches. I'm working on it, but I'm in a really stressful point in school and anything to boost me up is a great help!

I'm not saying don't take a multi-vit supplement if you feel you aren't getting a balance with your diet, but I think there might be better ways to tackle the stress.

I took multivits & supplements for years and I can't honestly say they gave me more energy or made me feel better. In fact, when I stopped taking them, more to the point, I didn't feel any worse. I just noticed how much I'd saved not buying them (and that was one of the reasons why I stopped).

But if you really want to tackle your stress levels, have you thought about trying a yoga class perhaps? Or even a nice warm, relaxing bath with a few scented candles and some relaxing music? :flowerforyou:

I just started taking mine a couple of days ago. When I started working out, I was hungry ALL. DAY. LONG. The multivit helps me with my cravings. The con is that my particularly one (GNC ultra mega active) happens to be too potent for me. I started getting really lethargic and had dry eyes. There has to be at least 1 or more vitamin that I'm overdosing on, because I had to taper the dosage down to 1 pill instead of the recommended 2, and boy, do I feel the difference. I'm going to try the one without the caffeine (GNC ultra mega), when I'm done with this bottle.

I'd really recommend trying a small bottle of a particular multivit first and see how it works for your body. There were a lot of great reviews for mine, but I didn't experience the same results.