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I never heard of vitamins impeding weight loss, but most likely you do not need vitamins. You can use fitday and enter your eating for one week, to see if you are meeting RDA for various nutrients from just food.

Interesting…I’m following the opposite logic:  if you are restricting calories, it can be a bit harder to ensure you get at least 100% RDA for all necessary vitamins.  Taking a multivitamin is good insurance, and can’t really hurt. The above stricting IMO, of course. jP

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Looking at my weight loss performance from when I do not take the supplement, verses the weeks when I do take the supplement, I notice a dramatic reduction in the amount of weight I lose when I take the one-a-day.

Do you eat exactly the same amount of food and do exactly the same amount of exercise when you take the vitamin vs. when you don’t? Or are you thinking there is something in the vitamin that makes you eat more or move less?

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hello, I am working on loosing weight (and making good progress), and I have started taking the "one-a-day" multi-vitamin to supplement my normal low calorie diet. Looking at my weight loss performance from when I do not take the supplement, verses the weeks when I do take the supplement, I notice a dramatic reduction in the amount of weight I loose when I take the one-a-day. Could the supplement be impeding my weight loss, and does anyone have any recommendations on supplement that might not have this effect? I need the nutrients, but I also need every pound I can get. Thanks!

Vitamins don’t work as well as what they want you to believe.  With anti-oxidants in particular, getting them naturally is better.  If you take synthetic anti-oxidants, you have to take more, and it puts you closer to the DRI upper limit.  In fact, if you take even 25% of the upper limit, the anti-oxidant could start behaving like a pro-oxidant.  Vitamin C in particular causes cell damage at levels much higher than the DRI. Any eating program that puts you at risk for poor nutrition is wrong.  Stop it. If you’re not exercising start.  Exercise has a better ROI than anything you do for your health, except possibly avoiding tobacco.  Exercise enough to burn all the calories you take in, and shape your eating program around proper nutrition, not sheer calories.

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Hello, I am working on loosing weight (and making good progress), and I have started taking the "one-a-day" multi-vitamin to supplement my normal low calorie diet. Looking at my weight loss performance from when I do not take the supplement, verses the weeks when I do take the supplement, I notice a dramatic reduction in the amount of weight I loose when I take the one-a-day. Could the supplement be impeding my weight loss, and does anyone have any recommendations on supplement that might not have this effect? I need the nutrients, but I also need every pound I can get. Thanks!

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