What is your strategy for remembering vitamins?
I drink a Celebrate ENS shake every morning for breakfast so it has one multi in it. I use my calcium chews as "snacks" between meals and to replace the candy I used to grab pre op. I set my other multi and my b12 next to my computer screen so in the evening when I sit down to log on here I remember to take them as they are sitting right here. I don't take iron so I don't have that to remember. My biggest things is I only take my b 12 3 times a week to keep my levels at 1045 so remembering when I took it last is the only issue. So if I'm in doubt about whether I took it the day before I take it anyway. Your body pees out what you don't need so I'd rather be safe than sorry. When I'm out shooting a wedding I start with my protein shake in the morning as always and typically take a bag with my ens, a water, and a shaker bottle in the car to have a second one, as reception food doesn't always agree with me so I get my second one in that way, I carry extra calcium chews in my camera bag and when I take out my camera I grab one, then when I put it away at the church to go to the formal location I grab another one, and repeat as I take the camera out and put it away.
I love to eat and I do not "allow" myself to eat without taking my vitamins. Before bed, it has just become routine to take my iron before I go upstairs. This works for me.
Laura in Texas
53 years old; 5'7" tall; HW: 339 (BMI=53); GW: 140 CW: 170 (BMI=27)
RNY: 09-17-08 Dr. Garth Davis
brachioplasty: 12-18-09 Dr. Wainwright; lbl/bl: 06-28-11 Dr. LoMonaco
"May your choices reflect your hopes and not your fears."
I have a Palm PDA, not a smartphone and have all my medication reminders in there. Both the Computer and the PDA beep at me to do whatever when a scheduled "appointment" time comes due. I use a PDA not a smart phone. No monthly bill. :) I am disabled (MS) and have everything from shots to doc appts on the same system. With MS, there are quite a few meds. I know I wont remember. So I got organized about reminders that bug me




