Reminder about calcium

poet_kelly
on 1/5/12 7:49 am - OH

Here’s what I think is easiest:

Breakfast – multi, 500 mg calcium citrate, B12, B complex (if you take that), D3 (if you take that)

Lunch – 500 mg calcium citrate (take your D3 here too if you want to spread the pills out more and have less to take with breakfast)

Dinner – multi, 500 mg calcium citrate

Bedtime – iron, vitamin C

Yes, if you have iron in your multi and you take your multi with calcium, you won’t absorb that iron.  But if you’re taking iron at bedtime, that’s OK. 

Your other option would be a schedule like this, if you do have iron in your multi and you want to absorb it:

Breakfast – multi, B12, B complex (if you take that), D3 (if you take that)

Lunch – 500 mg calcium citrate (take your D3 here too if you want to spread the pills out more and have less to take with breakfast)

Snack - 500 mg calcium citrate

Dinner – multi, iron, vitamin C

Bedtime – 500 mg calcium citrate

These schedules have you taking the vitamins recommended by the ASMBS, along with taking vitamin C with your iron because then you’ll absorb that iron better.  If you pair your vitamins up with meals, it gets easier to remember them, I think.  And it doesn’t matter if you sleep late or go to bed early or whatever, because it’s not a certain time of day you take them, it’s just whenever you eat breakfast or go to bed.

View more of my photos at ObesityHelp.com          Kelly

Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR.  If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor.  Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me.  If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her.    Check out my blog.

 

justthe3ofus
on 1/5/12 10:39 am - Northwest, IN
 The schedule helps a ton! Thanks!
Kim B.
     
HW 295/ SW 281/ CW 209.6/ GW 155
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Jdanae
on 1/7/12 1:58 pm - CA
 Hi Kelly, I have another question about the calcium....if we only absorb 600mg of calcium at a time, how far apart do you need to take the calcium? I have 1500 mg wafers now but just ordered 1000mg wafers, so should I break those in half and take them throughout the day? If so, how far apart? Or just take the whole 1000 4 times a day?

poet_kelly
on 1/7/12 2:01 pm - OH
Break them in half.  No sense taking more than you need at a time, and that way the bottle will last you twice as long.  Take them two hours apart.

View more of my photos at ObesityHelp.com          Kelly

Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR.  If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor.  Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me.  If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her.    Check out my blog.

 

Jdanae
on 1/7/12 2:44 pm - CA
 Thank you so much!!! 
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