tonyabuntin

My doc recommends Bariatric Advantage Vitamins, you can find them on line. It does seem pricey but the chewable flavors seem to taste good and it gives you high % of the Vitamins that you need.
I buy a sublingual B12 2500 from costco which is also on coupon this week. Under $12 for 260. In cherry flavor. Yum.
Another friend of mine who is a gastric patient takes regular vitaminD 5000 IU in those little oil or gel tablets. ( the ones that look like a bead)
In fact she buys ALL her vitamins from costco.< /p>
But she has a different doc than I.
I take a chewable multi Vitamin 2x a day (French vanilla is awesome from BA) and calcium citrate In 500 mg chewable tablets for a total of 1500 mg a day. (i switch with mint and cherry) BA has some awesome chewy chews also so occasionally I will have a caramel chew instead at 250 mg each chew.
Need to take a B complex and that is in pill or capsule form and Water soluble for easy absorption. Also from BA.
And then everyone's favorite Iron. 18-30 mg a day. I chose a passion fruit chewable at 29 mg. And also ordered a chocolate raspberry truffle chewy to switch off with.
Not all vitamins are created equal, check out Bariatric Advantage for the nutrition contents and compare to what's out there. Not much beats or meets them in % and taste. Several people have told me to never go cheap on your vitamins. You want to mAke sure you take them, so get it tasty and convenient. And stay away from the ones with extra sugars too..
Hope that helps some.
Tracy B - just waiting on my approval from insurance and then surgery anytime within the next 2-3 wks for me.. : )

Good luck! Mine is next week.

This is my first time ever eating greek yogurt and im eating the chobani low fat strawberry bannana one. I decided to switch to these because of the Protein. I just opened it up...can someone tell me ..is it suppose to have brown stuff in the bottom of it and seem kind of thick and cream cheesy? I asked one of my employees that eats really healthy and he said he thought it was fruit but im scared to eat it lol. If someone knows out there what it should look like and let me know that'd be great!
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Welcome to our forum Tony! We are here to support each other, keep focus and you'll see how great things will turn out to be! I wish you all the luck w/everything pre-op and post-op

I am so hungry that my stomach is kicking my backbone LOL!

Welcome!
You sound like a lot of us, many failed diet attempts with no lasting result. I know I tried pretty much every commercial and fad diet under the sun before I finally got banded.
I personally love my band and have had good success with it. I think the hardest part for me is learning the difference between head hunger (i.e. emotional eating, boredom, etc) and real hunger. Thankfully, thanks to the band, even if I do have a moment of weakness the damage is minimal due to the small amount I can eat anyway.
It's still work. We still have to make good food choices and make lifestyle change forever. The band is a tool, not a magic bullet. I think that's where I see people mess up most often- they get banded and continue eating crap food, then wonder why they haven't lost weight. You must do the work yourself, you can't expect the band to do it for you.
I do love mine, though. I'd do it again in a heartbeat.
Best wishes to you and much success