Food n Fitness Thread #9837483

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Originally Posted by JazmenFlowers

I meant to ask you or anyone else that frequents this thread and may know about vitamins...I tak a multi-vitamin, a Zinc pill, a fiber pill and a flaxseed oil pill. does that sound like good practice? am I taking too many, not enough?

That sounds about right to me. A multi should take care of whatever you're temporarily missing out on diet-wise. I've been taking the flaxseed oil supplement for about 6 months now, we'll see if my cholesterol went down at all when I go for my physical this September.

Originally Posted by amber

I don't do mine exactly right on time. Like I'll have my midmorning snack for breakfast, then later I'll have breakfast. Or I'll have the eggs and turkey bacon and mato juice for dinner, and a couple of my cheesy snacks in the morning. I think I eat a little more than the amount, too, but I'm not sure. I tend to snack on the peanuts a little more. Oh, and I have caffeine, attempting to cut off soon. I will see how it affects my loss in the next week or so.

Calcium has been proven helpful for weight loss, you might take extra. Um..what about your coconut oil pill?

I take more vitamins than you do. I usually have extra C, and I like CoQ10, and I like to take Glucosamine as well. But a good one for you to add would probably be an extra B vitamin a few times a week. I often take 2 multis, 1 at night, 1 in morning. I like to take Alpha Lipoic Acid, too, it's supposed to be good for your skin, especially.

I don't always have all these vitamins at once, in fact I rarely do, but I usually have 3-6 of them at a time. Vitamins are expensive, so I rotate buying some. I also like to get the food based vitamins that whole food carries.

I think you take a fine amount, but you might want to add some different ones.

Hey! I thought you didn't like bacon? And I just read/saw that men shouldn't take extra calcium because of the increased risk for kidney stones & prostate problems, so he should consider that. Why do you take glucosamine, cuz of your bad knees?

And you joke about the coconut oil pill - my friend started using it & just couldn't get used to the taste, so she rolls it up into a pill & swallows it with water.


I am steady at goal weight for the second week in a row. Drank all my weekly allowance points at the wedding Saturday though. I'm going to have to be really careful the rest of the week.