DS Vitamin Schedule - How do you combine Vitalady with outside sources?
Hi all! I was looking over Vitalady's site and she now is offering a DS starter package for $313. I know I've seen some posts where people are combining Costco (for example) with other sources. (Actually Vitalady's starter pack includes a Kirkland multi-vitamin.) So, I was hoping some of you might share where your purchasing your vitamins to achieve quality and cost-effectiveness. I'm not shooting down the starter pack at all, I'd just like to see what other options (and combinations) you all might be using. Thanks.
Although I highly recommend Vitalady to get yourself started, because she has the exact items that we need, (and she is sooooo helpful) I will admit that I do buy some of my vitamins from other sources. It can be very daunting navigating the vitamin world (chelated zinc vs. non-chelated? mag ox vs. mag citrate? for example) I order some things from Vitacost (I use calcium hydroxyapatite as some of my calcium source) and I buy my multis and super B from Sam's Club. I also buy Calcium Citrate from Sam's. I also use sublingual D and A and sometimes Lexor Health has sale prices and free shipping, so I'll order them from there. It just depends upon how big of an order I have going in, and what I need at that time.
Julie R - Ludington, Michigan
Duodenal Switch 08/09/06 - Dr. Paul Kemmeter, Grand Rapids, Michigan
HW: 282 - 5'4"
SW: 268
GW: 135
CW: 125
Duodenal Switch 08/09/06 - Dr. Paul Kemmeter, Grand Rapids, Michigan
HW: 282 - 5'4"
SW: 268
GW: 135
CW: 125
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on 7/10/11 12:47 pm
on 7/10/11 12:47 pm
I get my calcium citrate, multi, vitamin C, B-100 complex & B12 sublingual from Costco. I get my iron/folic acid in script form (Proferrin Forte) from CVS (for $20 a month), and I get the rest from Vitalady. I haven't been able to find the correct vite, in a high enough dose, in a DRY formulation anywhere else. Vitalady has great prices, is VERY helpful and knowledgeable, and gives SO much to the WLS community, I want to make sure I do my part to support her continued service to us.
I'm pretty much right along with everyone else. I buy approximately 2-4 pills from Vitalady, then the rest I find online or in stores around my area.
So thankful for my DS! 1/20/2012 - SW 290/CW 155 - 1 year to lose, 1.5 years and counting maintaining!
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I buy almost everything from vitacost.com. They have what I need at good prices. The couple of vits I can't get on there (K2 and D-50,000IU) I buy from Amazon.
Amanda in ID
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