I've been taking Liquid Calcium Citrate with Magnesium with Vitamin D.

Label says:

Vitamin D  500 IU

(as D3 cholecalciferol)

Calcium 600 mg

Magnesium 300 mg

I've been researching the boards and I don't see any clarification of Vitamin D3 being "dry"  --- said something about that we don't absorb oil-based Vitamin D3....   

Is the Vitamin D3 in this liquid calicium oil-based or dry-based? Am I able to absorb this Vitamin D3 at all ? Or do I need to buy a different Vitamin D3 in chewable form? 

Let me know.

Thanks.

~Diehardhusky

I am also regaining weight at 7 years op. It's so hard to get on track.

So Lisa... your reality bu**** me.  You are saying the same thing my at the time best friend said to me.  He'd try to stop drinking and it'd last a few days, or a week, but it'd always come back.  He also had a nice job that it never interfered with, except he didn't see that it was.  I worked with him in the same office and I know what his manager's said.  They didn't know at first he drank, they thought he was young, then they thought he was a just a normal batchlor, then they said why is it he's sick a lot on Mondays?  Point being there very well may be more people at your work who suspect you drink too much or know that you drink more than you'd like them to.  Also the deals your tying to make with yourself "I wonder if I can balance weight loss and still drinking".  You also said "my boyfriend is find with it and heck he drinks socially too" Also said "I never drink at home alone".  

So after reading your post and responses I wa**** by your bus.  You are saying the exact same things he was saying.  Like to a T, you both felt like it wasn't effecting your job, you needed to cut loose after a bad break up, you were enjoying life, you didn't do it at home alone, you only do it socially, you have a good boyfriend and he doesn't think it's an issue, and you both also make deal with yourself.  

Fast Forward 41/2 years:

The good friend of mine wanted to eventually date me and I said no way.  He knew why, we'd fought about his drinking before.  I didn't like that he did it, because my father was a drunk and I didn't want to see my best friend live the same way.  So he asked me if he stopped would I think about dating and I said yes.  But I mean for it to stop all together, I wasn't going to be with him if he wanted to do it 1/2 way.  So he went to the doctor and was prescribed antibuse.  That helped him be afraid to drink, and gave him the will power to stop drinking.  I was pretty leery the first 6 months because he'd say things like in the future I'd like to be able to have wine with dinner, or a beer at the beach.  I'd just look at him and wonder if he'd go back to drinking.  I'd watched him quit several times and it never stuck so I thought we'd try dating but eventually it'd stop because he'd go back to drinking.  It always seemed so important to him, kind of like what I'm reading from you.  You know your happy being thinner and at your goal weight and you know what the problem is, it's alcohol.  So a non-alacholoic would just stop drinking like they stopped eating cookies.  But girl I think you know where I'm going with this....

My now husband has been sober for 4.5 years.  He's not had a drop and his mindset totally changed once he was away from drinking about a year or so out.  He realized that drinking was a temptation that he just didn't need.  That overall it didn't add much to his life.  he too had built up such a tolerance that he'd have to have several beers to feel anything and it added a lot of weight to his belt which he didn't like.  But in his own words he said it just wasn't worth it.  This year I had to do the same thing with food I had to say cookies are not worth it.  I've not had another surgery treat since my WLS and I'm ok with that.  We've treated my food issues just like we have treated his drinking.  We added up all of the positive things sugary treats did for me and except for a few minutes of happiness or a party with people around having cake that made me smile, cookies were doing nothing but making me bigger and taking parts of my life away.  Drinking for him was doing the same thing.

Sit down and add up what drinking is really doing for you and then think about what it's taking away from you.  If you can't really come up with a lot of good things it's doing that makes you happy and promotes the healthy life you worked hard for then you you may want to take steps to eliminate it.  

Well, the holidays are rapidly approaching and this time last year I was in my pre op stage so it was easy to just say no to all of the goodies, but now, almost a year from my VSG, I am afraid it won't be as easy, so I am asking all surgery veterans and grads what are some tips and tricks to make sure I stay on tract?

Hi NewDay, 

I had my appointment with my surgeon today. He basically said that I need a revision. I will hear back sometime next week as to whether or not my insurance company will cover the procedure. At that point, there are a couple of other appointments I will have to deal with (blood work, an EKG, and there was talk of me seeing a nutritionist as well) before the surgery can be done.

If you are interested in how all of that goes (the discussion with the nutritionist... or anything else that might be helpful to you), please feel free to check my OH blog. I update weekly, so once I get more information you'll be able to find it there. If you friend me will you see when I update? Not sure how that works here.