I think it's good to be skeptical of miracle claims for supplements, babs. As I increase my carbs, I plan on doing so in the form of dark-fleshed high-carb veggies--winter squash, yams, and beets and other likely high-nutrient foods...if I ever hit goal weight, I will cut back to a multi-vitamin per day. Our body doesn't "obviously need" grains or sugar, of course. They are, in fact, anti-nutrients, not nutrients.

However, something about my body got me/kept me fat--and it wasn't eating more than my thin counterparts or exercising less. So on the off-chance one of these claims about chromium pic or whatever is true, and one will give me some metabolic boost/cure to my condition of metabolic obesity, I take--

With the first meal at home:

multi-vit/mineral
chromium pic
calcium-magnesium
CoQ10

45 minutes Before weightlifting:

1 gram l-carnatine

If-I-remember-pills (hey, at least I'm honest!):

acidopholus 30 minutes after breakfasts I eat at home

in evening, evening primrose and extra elemental magnesium (i get PMS migraines and am always trying some darned thing or other to prevent them--these two supplements are my current experiment)