Supplements... what do you take and why?
I have decided aging gracefully is a goal... as well as health, ya know?
I currently take:
A prenatal (cause is has to be better, right? Thats what all those knocked up chicks tell me)
A vit D
Biotin
Calcium
Fish Oil
Super B Complex
Im thinking of adding Vit A,E and C...
should I? What else do you take and why?
I want skin that looks less like a map in 10 years and more like a fresh of the ATM 20 dollar bill... a lil crispy, tattered? eh maybe, a tiny bit but you can still read the **** written on it!!
Humm whatcha think... and ya that living longer thing and being healthier is kinda nice too...
Any input would make me super thrilled... and less likely to spend Friday night in bed watching reruns of The Golden Girls all night... cause well Id be at Target buying frikken vitamins instead baby!!!
SW 229 
CW 136 
Calcium Cause the doc told me to.
Saw Palmetto It's a guy thing
HA Joint Formula For my lower back and other joint aches, best stuff I have found
Colostrum It helps with IgH hormone production, improves my joint issues as well BUT thinking of suspending this one for a while, not sure since my hair and nails love the stuff.
Fish Oil
A shot of wheatgrass juice four or five times a week. Tastes like your lawn but man does it make me feel good and give me energy. It is a detoxifying and anti-inflamitory agent. Your body quickly converst the chloriphil to Hemoglobin which improves oxygen distribution to your entire body. I love/hate the stuff. Love what it does for me but HATE the taste. When I was in the hospitol, the nurse was amazed at my hemoglobin levels.
When the flu or cold is in season and someone at the house has it, I do take a teaspoon of elderberry juice (sambucus) daily, since doing this, I have avoided the flu and get only 1 cold a year. If I get a cold, I up the dose to five times a day and I can kill off the cold in 3 to 5 days.
Since surgery, I have been taking something to inhibit or convert DHT and Estrogen to testostorone. Trying to avoid the estrogen dump due to the weight loss.
Kinda nutty but all to manager a few chronic issues, some I hope will go away as the weight drops off.
Multi - Trader Joe's chewable - because I don't eat enough food to get vites/minerals the old-fashioned way.
Calcium citrate, 1500 mg per day if I can - Liquid Reviva or BA Chewables - same reason and also cause I'm old (61) LOL!
B12 - Trader Joe's sublingual - because along with the stomach went most of my Intrinsic Factor, which B-12 needs to bind with to be absorbed in the small intestine. So we need sublingual or shots.
Iron - VitaLady Tender Iron with Vitamin C - because I was feeling logy there for a while & thought it could be an iron deficiency, This may go away based on my next labs. Carbonyl iron needs an acidic environment to be absorbed well, which is why the Tender Iron comes with Vit. C.
Fish Oil - good ole Omega 3s.
D3 - 2000-3000 units a day of a gummy I found at Vitamin Shoppe, can't remember the name. I was taking this pre-op, as my PCP told me I was deficient a couple years ago. Most Americans are.
Height 5' 7" High Wt 268 / Consult Wt 246 / Surgery Wt 241 / Goal Wt 150 / Happy place 135-137 / Current Wt 143
Tracker starts at consult weight
In maintenance since December 2011.
Celebrate Calcium Citrate 500 Plus
Sublingual B12 2500mcg (daily in the pregnancy, 2-4 times per week when not knocked up)
Flax seed in baked goods, and sprinkled on salads
Nothing else.
SW 270lbs GW 150lbs CW Losing Pregancy Weight Maintenance goal W 125-130lbs
I take,
multiviatmin x2 a day
calcium citrate 1500 mg
B1 once a day
B12 once a week
These were all on my plan to be taken from 2 weeks out and have been taking them since so far no issues at all with my labs other than my B12 being a bit on the higher side
6lbs under goal weight
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http://www.obesityhelp.com/group/VSGM/discussion/
If you want the Glowing skin, the inner beauty detox... get a hold of me privately.
I am totally into all this stuff through natural foods, herbs, and supplements.
This is right up my alley and reap the benefits already. People say my skin glows
ALL THE TIME. men and women....
✿ L♦O♦V♦E ✿ & ✿ P♦E♦A♦C♦E ✿ღ ✿ & F♦R♦I♦E♦N♦D♦S ✿ ღ
"Keeping The Faith!" "Slim by Summer!"
HW: 250 - SW: 241 - CW: 154.7- GW: 140
1 month: 22 pounds (216) 2 months: 12.2 pounds (203.8) 3 months: 10.6 (193.2)
4 months: 9.7 lbs (183.5) 5 Months: 6 pounds (177.5 ) 6 Months: 12 lbs ( 165.5)
7 Months 7.1 lbs (158.4) 8 Months +1.6 pounds(159.8) 9 Months 2.7 pounds (157.1)
10 Months 8.1 lbs (149) 11 months +2 pounds ( 151) 1 YEAR!!! 2.6 pounds (148.4)
Hit "One-derland April 9th, 2011 (199.7)
"Half-Way Goal" April 25th, 2011 (194.8)
"Happyland 80`s" May 14, 2011 (189.6)
"Groovyland 70`s" June 20th 2011 (179.9)
" HippyDippyland 60's" July 16th (169.8)
" CQQL-land 50`s" August 25th ( 159.8)
"Normal BMI" 24.8 October 21st, 2011 (154.5) I am 5`6
"AWESOME-land 40's" Dec 1st 2011 (149)
"Century Club 100 Pounds" Dec 1st 2011 (149)
' ONE YEAR SURGIVERSARY!!!"
Two Year Surgiversary!!!"
✿ L♦O♦V♦E ✿ & ✿ P♦E♦A♦C♦E ✿ღ ✿ & F♦R♦I♦E♦N♦D♦S ✿ ღ
"Keeping The Faith!" "Slim by Summer!"
HW: 250 - SW: 241 - CW: 154.7- GW: 140
1 month: 22 pounds (216) 2 months: 12.2 pounds (203.8) 3 months: 10.6 (193.2)
4 months: 9.7 lbs (183.5) 5 Months: 6 pounds (177.5 ) 6 Months: 12 lbs ( 165.5)
7 Months 7.1 lbs (158.4) 8 Months +1.6 pounds(159.8) 9 Months 2.7 pounds (157.1)
10 Months 8.1 lbs (149) 11 months +2 pounds ( 151) 1 YEAR!!! 2.6 pounds (148.4)
Hit "One-derland April 9th, 2011 (199.7)
"Half-Way Goal" April 25th, 2011 (194.8)
"Happyland 80`s" May 14, 2011 (189.6)
"Groovyland 70`s" June 20th 2011 (179.9)
" HippyDippyland 60's" July 16th (169.8)
" CQQL-land 50`s" August 25th ( 159.8)
"Normal BMI" 24.8 October 21st, 2011 (154.5) I am 5`6
"AWESOME-land 40's" Dec 1st 2011 (149)
"Century Club 100 Pounds" Dec 1st 2011 (149)
' ONE YEAR SURGIVERSARY!!!"
Two Year Surgiversary!!!"
