Newbies.. Artical on Vitamins.. Must read!!!

Bariatric vitamin supplements are a must-have in your diet after gastric bypass surgery. Your stomach can hold only a very little bit of food, and you run the potential risk of vitamin and mineral deficiencies. You might be wondering why you should specifically have bariatric supplements, and here are the major reasons why.

Gastric Bypass Surgery Results In Less Food Coming In

It's really no big surprise that the gastric bypass surgery results ultimately in you eating far less food than you're accustomed to. In fact, you're eating far less than people who have never had weight problems.

The issue is that whereas they have the ability to get all the vitamins and minerals they need from food, your surgery has hampered your own ability to do so. You have to supplement your diet.

Now you may be thinking, "Okay, great. Why shouldn't I use regular over the counter vitamins after bariatric surgery?" The first problem is that most of these vitamins take up a lot of space (with fillers) for how much nutrition you get out of them. Your available stomach space is about the size of a tennis ball now, and you need to fill it wisely. You need bariatric vitamins with no additives to deliver what you need, not what you don't.

Bariatric Weight Loss Diets Mean Watching Your Calories

Even after your surgery, you can bet that you have to watch your calories in your bariatric weight loss plan. You may not have known before that regular vitamins have empty calories in them.

By and large, the stuff that they throw into vitamins to form a pretty pill or to make them taste good includes ingredients that are best to avoid. Vitamin filler can also hamper your body's ability to absorb vitamins and minerals!

Weight Loss After Gastric Bypass Surgery with Bariatric Vitamins

Overall, weight loss after gastric bypass surgery is much easier if you use bariatric vitamins instead of the run of the mill vitamins. Your process of weight loss isn't slowed down and you're better able to eat normal food.

There's one more thing that you may not have thought of: Bariatric vitamins should be more soluble than their standard counterparts.

It's pretty common knowledge in the nutritionist community that most vitamin supplements don't deliver all the vitamins that are in each pill. They may not even deliver most of them.

This is why many of them say that they provide 200 or 500 percent of your USRDA on some vitamins. They're in the pill, but there's no guarantee that much of that will be absorbed by your system. Choosing vitamins with no fillers or additives is your best bet for your best health.