My Vitamins

 Weird bit of info!

 

So you know how you always hear about pre-natal vitamins upsetting your stomach and ways around it? I’ve actually found a vitamin that settles my stomach! Can you believe it? It’s not a pre-natal, but I’ve been using it in addition to my PN vitamin. The Celebrate ENS in citrus splash is amazing, kinda taste like tang, but most important I can drink it to alleviate my queasiness, and I’m getting in a multi with calcium all in one drink. I’m a fan J and I wanted to share. It’s a bariatric vitamin that I’ve taken off and on for the past 2 years. I highly recommend it whether you have had WLS or not (it just lasts longer if you only need 1 a day).

Since we’re on the subject of vitamins, let me share with you all my intake:

For a multi I use 2 tablets of the Wegman’s Natural Pre Natal Multi (dosage is 4 tablets). It uses both calcium citrate AND ferrous fumarate (this iron is found in the celebrate line multi-complete, so I know it absorbed in my surgically altered body.

For my other Multi-vitamin I use the ENS as mentioned, it’s a multi with 500mg of calcium plus 4gm of fiber and comes in 3 flavors:

 Great stuff. All flavors are tasty, I keep a variety on hand because too much of one thing will make me sick. I need variety in my life.

For calcium I use a combination of Celebrate, BariatricAdvantage, and Costco. The first two have chewies that are awesome, kinda like flavored tootsie rolls (Celebrate) or starburst (BariatricAdvantage). The Costco ones are tablets.

    

 For vitamin D I use either NOW Chewable or Twinlab D-Dots (I use 5000 IU doses to keep my level normal)

 

For B-12 I found a combo with folic acid, we know how important that is. 1000mcg B-12 with 100mc folic acid

 

For Iron I have a couple options, the top two are mega cheap (ferrous fumarate again) but they don’t contain vitamin C. The second two are more expensive and are combined with other goodness, but they get the job done and have higher amounts of iron.