If you’re struggling to lose weight, then you should consider adding a few key supplements to your diet. While limiting calories and exercise is important, there are a few supplements that you can add to your daily meal plan that can help you towards your goal of losing weight. Below is a list of the most important natural supplements to consider, as well as a brief overview of what they do to help your body lose weight.

 

Green Tea

 One of the most helpful supplements to take is green tea extract. Green tea is extremely healthy, and has been linked to all sorts of positive health benefits, but for this article we are only focusing on its ability to help you lose weight. A study was conducted on mice where there were three groups. One group of mice had green tea and no exercise. The second group of mice exercised, but had no tea. The third had both exercise and tea. This third group showed the highest amount of weight change. So, make sure that you’re drinking green tea in addition to exercising. If you are having trouble drinking several cups of green tea every day, you can find green tea extract in pill form, but there is some information that suggests that the pill form is not as healthy as the real teal. So I would suggest sticking to the tea.

 

 

 

Vitamin C

 Vitamin c is important because it helps to metabolize fat. One particular study done at the University of Arizona showed how those people who had low levels of Vitamin C in their bloodstream had increased incidents of obesity.

The study took two groups of people who were obese and supplied one group with extra vitamin C supplements. The second group only got vitamin C through their normal RDA diets. Both of the groups followed a low fat diet, but the group that took supplemental Vitamin C lost more bodyfat.

 Vitamin C can cause some people to have diarrhea, but that’s most common in mega doses. If you start gradual, and don’t take too many pills, you won’t get this result. It’s not even a sign that you are sick if you do get diarrhea, it’s just your body telling you to ease up on the amount of Vitamin C. Many people who take therapeutic doses of Vitamin C actually want to hit this level. They call it flush test. It is thought to flush out toxins. Although you wouldn’t want to take so much that you are running to the bathroom everyday.

Lots of vitamin C is made in China, which has the possibility of being tainted.

Here is a good, non-gmo Vitamin C.

 

 

 

Vitamin D

 

Vitamin D might just be the super vitamin for helping you shed the pounds. It does two amazing things. First, it is responsible for the hormone Leptin which makes you feel full. So when your body has adequate Vitamin D, you are less likely to keep on eating. You will feel full.

Second, if you have enough Vitamin D in your body, the fat cells you have are less likely to want to store fat. This is because low levels of vitamin D increase two hormones: parathyroid and calcitrol. These two hormones both make the body store fat instead of burning it.

You get vitamin D through the sun and through dairy, but there is an epidemic (according to some doctors) of deficiency. This is why so many experts suggest adding vitamin D to your diet.

The tricky thing is that your body won’t absorb 100 percent, or close to it, of the Vitamin D supplements. This is why you still need to be out in the sun, as well as ingest enough dairy.

You should look for Vitamin D3…not vitamin D2.