My first blog...Vitamin B12...can it be used for weight loss???

Today I decided to begin blogging.  A work associate told me I should blog about our customers and the funny (and sometimes scary) stuff they do.  I decided that I would write about things that matter to me.  Right now, at forty years old, I am searching for answers to medical issues to find out what approach I should take as I begin my journey into the unknown female destination of menopause....will I take estrogen, what about bio-identical hormones, how can I eat better, why do I keep gaining weight? 
STOP, right there...this problem has been plaguing me for about five years.  Seven years ago I weighed a lot less than I do now..about forty pounds less and exercise and diet really haven't helped me.  I guess I should be honest.  I really hate dieting and exercising.  A year ago I decided that I would run in my first 5K four days after my 40th birthday.  I begin training and actually enjoyed it.  But then I was slapped in the face and sadly developed the beginning of a stress fracture in my right foot.  After about four months the fracture was all healed and I was released to run again. I started at the beginning and was trying to get ready for my running debut a few months later, but my foot kept hurting and swelling which made me have to accept the hard truth...I am NOT going to be a runner.  I decided to try something else.  I have always loved "playing" tennis (I guess I should actually say "hit the tennis ball in the hopes of getting it over the net") and a couple of months ago I began taking lessons.  I quickly fell madly in love with this game and at forty years old I was very proud with how well I was moving on the court.  After about 6 lessons I was ready to join a group of ladies who competed and my coach seemed to think I was pretty good (or at least he kind of implied that I was!!!)  Then, on September 16 as we began my lesson, I heard and felt a pop in my right calf muscle.  The pain was intense and well, the look on Coach Nate's face told me I wouldn't be playing anymore tennis for awhile.  I made it to the car (with a little help) and managed to drive home and make it inside to the sofa.  I grabbed my laptop and quickly googled (my favorite verb) "calf muscle pop" and was not encouraged with what I read.  I decided to do what I could do with the internet suggestions to treat myself so I began elevating and icing the muscle but within an hour I knew that I better contact the ortho doc who treated me for my stress fracture because I knew they would be closing early on Friday (the next day) and I didn't want to go the whole weekend in such pain.  Thankfully they managed to squeeze me in and my fear of a muscle tear was relieved when I was told that I had a muscle strain and that it would take six weeks to heal.  It appeared that my muscle kind of "stretched" a bit and scar tissue would have to fill the area that was injured.  I was thrilled that it wasn't a tear but knew it wasn't going to be easy as the PA asked what we were going to "do about work?"  and told me they would be giving me a lift to put in my shoe to relieve some of the work the muscle was required to do while walking.  So now four weeks later, I am walking better and the pain is minimal but I still cannot play any tennis.  I have been released to ride a stationary bike!!! LOL

So what does this have to do with B12 and weight loss you might ask if I haven't bored you to tears yet???  A few weeks ago a customer walked up to my pharmacy counter and wanted to know what the difference was between two bottles of vitamin B12?  I took a look at the bottles and explained to him that the only differences were the strength and one of them was a sublingual tablet (meaning you dissolve the tablet under the tongue like patients who experience chest pain do with Nitroglycerin.)  He went on to tell me about one of his friends who had lost twenty pounds by taking B12 (but I do not remember if he took oral B12 or injectable B12) and he really would like to lose some weight so he wanted to try it.  I told him that I had heard of B12 helping people lose weight and actually knew someone who went to a diet clinic and B12 injections was part of her treatment.  As a pharmacist of 16 years, I couldn't tell you why this should work but I did recall a pharmacist that I worked with a few years ago tell me that a friend of his took B12 and lost "a lot of weight" and well, my interest in the B12 connection and weight loss began.  I bought me a bottle of those sublingual tablets since I knew that anything under the tongue didn't have to compete in the stomach or fight for it's life amongst the acid swimming around in the gut and decided, hey, why not give it a try, the only thing I have to lose is weight!!!  That was 13 days ago and so far I am down a little over 3 pounds.  That may not seem like much to most people, but to me it is incredible.  Last year I began an exercise program that swore it would have me slim in less than two months and I KILLED myself for over 5 weeks and didn't lose not one pound.  THAT was very disappointing.
The other reason this three pounds is so important to me is because during these 13 days I have eaten HORRIBLY.  I have baked three pound cakes in the last 3 weeks (working to perfect my cake creation in order to enter it into the state fair) and well, I did eat quite a bit of those cakes.  I also went to the state fair and consumed WAY too many calories two days ago and had a family get together with my husband's family yesterday and those aunts can cook some good country food and desserts!!!  But today, I was down another 0.4 pound.  The only change I have made (other than eating more than usual) is taking those B12 tablets.
I now am very curious about what the experts say about B12 and weight loss?  I will begin googling again to see what they know and will continue taking those little tablets that could!!!
Stay tuned.....