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Dietrim (or other dietary supplements)

  • 17-01-2006 01:51PM
    #1
    skipn_easy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 428 ✭✭


    Hi there,

    Just wondered if any of you had past experiences of taking this kind of supplement? I'm not in the same league as most of you fitness forum users, so I'm not really interested in protein supplements, monitoring my diet every hour and that kind of thing. I'm a 22 year old female, I try to go the gym at least 3 times a week (but this is only in the last month or so), before that I was going to the gym 1-2 times a week. I don't have a particularly good diet but I don't eat chocolate/sweets and that sort of thing, mainly lots of pasta/rice/potatoes, but I have learnt to cut down on the amount I eat as I know that was one of my main problems (for being about a stone overweight).
    I saw this dietary supplement called dietrim which claims to help you maintain a healthy metabolism and encourages an optimum balance of body fat and lean muscle (supposed to be used in combination with exercise)... Looking at the ingredients it seems to contain mostly vitamins with some Conjugated Linolenic Acid, and it also claims to help people with inadequate nutritional diets (I fit into this category). What I'm wondering is has anyone used this kind of thing before, does it work, is it worth my while taking it (I figured it could do no harm, and would improve my general health)? If it is, what would be the best way to monitor the improvements (as with my current diet,exercise plan I should be losing weight/toning up anyway)?

    Any thoughts?


Comments

  • #2
    g'em
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,819 ✭✭✭✭g'em


    skipn_easy wrote:
    I'm not in the same league as most of you fitness forum users, so I'm not really interested in protein supplements, monitoring my diet every hour and that kind of thing.
    we're not that boring y'know!!!

    CLA (conjugated linoleic acid) is a naturally occuring free fatty acid found in meat and animal products, and has been linked to weight loss. The amounts needed to encourage this loss are quite large and so its impractical to get them from a natrual diet, hence they're sold as supplements. It's an antioxidant and is said to have anticarcinogenic properties. There are no reported side-effects if taken in the right dose, and as you say, it certainly won't do you any harm.

    It's not, however, a wonder drug. It's not a fat burner, won't speed your metabolism, and will not work if your diet and excercise regime aren't up to scratch. If you're only doing cardio and not weight-training you will find weight-loss harder and more difficult to maintain.

    If you eat a lot of pasta/ rice/ bread etc make sure its brown, and keep portions small. Eat lots of vegetables to fill you up. Drink water, try green tea to help speed teh metabolism, all the usual blah. And if you think tehre's a nutrient deficiency in your diet, its better to right that with foods than with synthesised drugs. There's really very little your body needs that you don't get from the right foods.

    The facts remain simple: eat less, excercise more. A small calorie deficit results in weight loss.


  • #3
    skipn_easy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 428 ✭✭skipn_easy


    we're not that boring y'know!!!

    Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that, I was more going on what I've read on various fitness forums, and friends of mine who are really seriously into their fitness, and trying to make the point that I'm not as dedicated. I'd like to be fit, and will put in the effort, but I'm not prepared to sacrifice too much of my life for it.

    Thanks for your comments, thats pretty much what I thought... its not supposed to be used as a weight loss supplement but as a body fat to lean muscle percentage improver, so I wouldn't expect to be losing weight off it.


  • #4
    g'em
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,819 ✭✭✭✭g'em


    no worries, I get it all the time from my own friends!! Are you just doing cardio or doing weights also in the gym? Trust me, weights will NOT bulk you up, girls just aren't hormonally programmed to allow that to happen, and you'll burn fat a lot more efficiently.

    And when you start to get fit, and notice all the health benefits (your skin will be clear and bright, posture will improve, energy goes up, clothes fit better) you realise that its really not a 'sacrifice' at all and you'll wonder how you ever got by without a work-out program.

    I should be a self-motivation coach :p ...


  • #5
    amazingemmet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,057 ✭✭✭amazingemmet


    g'em wrote:
    we're not that boring y'know!!!

    Yes we are, no point trying to deny it. As for the CLA mixed with some guarinine(sp?) the stuff thats in guarana it turns into a potent fat burner as the CLA helps you lose the fat and the guarine boost your metabolism or so the studies say.


  • #6
    skipn_easy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 428 ✭✭skipn_easy


    I'm doing mostly cardio but with some weights. I quite enjoy the weights part and always do some after a cardio stint.

    I've definitely noticed clothes fitting better, generally feeling better all-round and to be honest, find that I miss the gym if I don't go regularly now, which is all good.


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