No weight loss to report this week. Instead I have some musings on vitamins, supplements, and other stuff.
This post is a little late, but I have a good excuse. I decided to take a little time for myself over the weekend. I spent most of Saturday taking my friend’s four-year-old daughter to the butterfly exhibit at our local gardens. On Sunday DH and I went to church and then to a new brewery in town. It was a good weekend.
I found myself reading about detoxes (you can’t pick up a magazine nowadays without reading about the “detoxing spring vegetables.”) Also looking forward to an appointment that I have tomorrow at a Natural Healing Center. I bought a Seize the Deal coupon and am going mostly for the hour-long massage for only $30. It also includes a weight loss consultation, and from the reviews it looks like they’ll try to sell me lots of herbal supplements. Oh well, at least I’ll get the massage.
I’m not sure I believe that herbal supplements can really help me lose weight. I’ve taken Herbalife over the past year or so but the results weren’t so dramatic that I was like “yes! This is definitely working!” When I saw a nutritionist a few years ago, her advice was to take B12 and eat as many vegetables as possible to as to get the nutrition from food not pills.
I’ve felt a bit in need of a cleanse lately though (probably all the fast food). So I hope to figure out a way to get back into eating clean pronto. As for vitamins, I was asked by Collective Bias to try the Vitamin Finder at Meijer. You can read about it here:
Or take it yourself here: http://www.meijer.com/content/content.jsp?pageName=vitamin_finder
It basically told me to take a multivitamin and Co Q-10. I already take a multivitamin with B12 so I decided to get the Co Q-10 and see if that makes any difference.
I’ll keep you posted on what the “natural” place tells me tomorrow!
What, if any, vitamins or supplements do you take?
Disclosure: This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper insights study for Collective Bias. All opinions are my own.
I have never tried any pills or vitamins to loose weight. I am planning on upping my amount of exercise and go back to counting my calories a little, but that is usually as far as I will go. I just hope I can get my friends with me to do the exercising. Looking forward to seeing how the vitamins are going for you.
I am an avid believer in vitamins and supplements to help one achieve optimal health. But nutrition plays a big role as well. Nothing can replace the nourishment we get from organic, raw food. However, one cannot obtain the recommended dosage of vitamins and minerals from the food they ingest, so it is essential to incorporate vitamins and supplements in one’s diet.
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Did I “hear” the words “new brewery”? I’m all ears on this topic — which one did you try?
We hit Michigan Beer Cellar in Sparta over the weekend during magazine-delivering rounds (kind of new, not quite a year old yet). We both enjoyed our brews, and think this would be a nice stopping-off point on a trip Up North, since it’s north of the GR locations and still a ways to go before the nearest UpNorth micros.
A few weeks back we went to Brewery Vivant with friends on Saturday evening. Good brews, tasty food that skews “country French,” and a very long wait. Beer helps to pass the time, but “queueing-up space” for a wait at the first-come-first-serve communal tables and benches is pretty cramped. (I’m not a good stand-around-and-mingle-with-a-glas-of-beer person! It begins to get a tiny bit claustro for me, LOL) Verdict was that beer and food are pretty well worth the wait, but would probably consider a return visit on a weeknight, at least until they shake out some of the space problems…
Actually, it was Brewery Vivant that we went to! We had just come from Gaia’s where we’d had brunch. So on an early Sunday afternoon it was really quiet, so we could focus on the beer. We were stuffed from our cuban eggs so we just split a vanilla pots de creme with hazelnut mousse . . . oh my goodness! The beer was OK. Nothing super spectacular but very drinkable.
We know the owner of Michigan Beer Cellar and I love going there. It’s the kind of atmosphere we hope to have in our brewery someday. By the way, loved the new issue of Food for Thought!