By Gartrell White Total Fitness Control There still is no magic pill for fat loss. Hard work, consistency and discipline is still the name of the game and cannot be bottled or packaged. However, taking a multivitamin might be the secret to taking you over the hump and revealing a slimmer you. In a new study of more than 85 obese women, those who took a multivitamin, while continuing to eat their normal diets, lost an average of about three and a half pounds over six months.