Trying to decide

[nwhiker]

Normally I am not a vitamin person. As in, I haven't taken a vitamin in... probably almost two decades. I'm not sure they're really necessary and since I do live in the PNW, a vitamin D supplement might make sense, but I've never chased down a study that made the benefit crystal clear and I'm always mistrustful of bandwagons.

But.

I'm on a pretty low calorie diet.

And I'm wondering if I should take a multivitamin for the duration, because I am most certainly not getting enough of some vitamins and minerals via diet at this point.

But OMG, finding out if vitamin supplementation while in a weight loss phase is useful or not is... like looking for the proverbial needles in a haystack. Because so fucking many scammers promote their scammy 'take this supplement for weight loss' bs all over the place, I haven't really been able to find any solid data.

I'll try again tomorrow. Blah.

Comments

[camelsamba]

is there any reason NOT to take one? I mean, there's a possible benefit (if you aren't getting enough of something), but would it hurt? Get Nature Made or some name brand like that at Target or Costco and skip the scammers. (I take Nature Made Vitamin D, relatively low dose, recommended many years ago by a doctor before the pendulum swung back to wherever it is now. But even at that point, she was citing evidence and not telling me to take some kind of megadose, so I went with it.)

Unrelated to vitamins, I while back I reported on a price increase in white whole wheat pastry flour at my local bulk food store. Happy to report the price went back down to 99 cents a pound! (i noticed other items in the flour section where they had crossed out and lowered prices; i wonder if their supplier lowered prices?)

[nwhiker]

Vitamin D, to be honest, is just pure orneriness on my part, I suspect, because of the megadoses. But yeah. The multivitamin... one of the reasons I was happy to jump on the 'marginal benefit at most' bandwagon is because the horsepills make me nauseous, and I hate that, bad memories of prenatal vitamins, ya know? I know there are gummies, the kids took them for a while and I've seen adult versions, but that was kinda like, what I have to be bribed with candy to take my vitamins? I'd rather a better piece of hard candy thata gummy, LOL. I should check the aisles at the store one of these days to see what's there at this point.

Good to know about the pastry flour! That's interesting that it wasn't the only flour that was affected, you do have to wonder. I'm still paying stupid amounts for my breakfast yogurts, and what's worse, they seem to be moving towards whole milk versions of them, I hope they leave a few flavors of low fat! It's skyr. It's supposed to be non-fat. A small bit of fat, I can deal but whole milk? Ew. I don't like the mouth-feel of high fat dairy, except butter, and this is weird, some brands of brie I can no longer eat, they make me shudder, others are fine. WTF, self?

[siamese1]

I get the adult gummy vitamins. The regular pills made me nauseous, but the gummies don't. I take a gummy multivitamin, gummy vitamin D, and gummy calcium.