Taking nutritional supplements can have multiple benefits to any diet plan, but an extra benefit can be psychological. Just the act of taking a supplement is an extra action you do every day to help your weight loss efforts, and it is a very simple task to complete. Even if you are having a bad diet day, you are still taking small steps in the right direction that you can feel good about. It is an easy regimen to follow and maintain, which can help prop-up your diet plan with some extra structure.

It can also be a good measure of your motivation; if you find your not keeping up with such a simple plan, then it is a warning that you need to re-focus on your diet plan as a whole.

Which supplements to take will be discussed in other posts, but the most basic choice is just a good multivitamin and mineral formula. I personally use Twinlab Daily One (without iron*). Women should use the version with iron. I usually won’t buy more than the 90 tab bottle (3 month supply) so that the vitamins stay fresh.

* It is sometimes recommended that men avoid iron supplementation unless they regularly donate blood because some studies have linked excess blood iron to cardiovascular disease.

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