Wow, I couldn't believe how many added carbs were in my Vitamin supplements!!

I have been keeping track of all my food intake and exercise through my fitness pal, and today I decided to add in my Vitamins just to see, and here's what I realized:

Flintstones Gummies: I take 3 a day, so that is 23 cal., 5 carbs, and 5 sugars!!

Wellesse Calcium & Vitamin D Liquid: I take 2 tablespoons a day, so that is 18 cal., and 4 carbs!

Fiber choice sugar free: I take 2 tablets daily, so that is 10 calories, and 6 carbs!!

Calories=47

Carbs=15:scared0:

I'm not too worried about the extra calories, but as far as carbs...whoa nelly!! If I take in 30 a day, that equals half of my carbs...that is crazy to me!! I've tried other vitamins and they just don't seem to go down very well. No wonder I'm not losing, I have been at a stall for over 3 weeks!!:crying: I have tried everything, lowered carbs, upped workout, upped Water intake, tried just liquids.

So what should I do??? PLEASE HELP!!

It looks like you've been doing very well. How much (if any) of your 47 pound loss was pre-surgery?

18 pounds lost pre-op, so that's 29 pounds since surgery

I think you will check one day soon and drop 2-3 lbs, your body is still adjusting to this drastic change. Are you getting all your protein in? I found if I upped my protein by body let go of the weight, also water which is still a challange. I was out walking 2 miles the other day and my legs turned to jello and I thought wth! I was dehydrated and hit the wall!!

Are you taking an Iron supplement?

The reason I ask is because Flintstones are not a complete multi. I understand they taste good, and go down well, but you aren't getting everything you need.

Yes, they are better than nothing, but you don't want to get into Vitamin deficiency, and yes it can happen to use because we eat so little. It may not happen for the first 3-9 months since certain vitamins/minerals can be stored in our body, but if we aren't eating big portions of food, especially iron enriched green leafy veggies for Vitamin A & D, you can get depleted very quickly.Therefore, we aren't getting all of the micronutrients and minerals from food because our quantities are so little.

I know some nutritionist and surgeons "ok" these types of Vitamins, and honestly, they are better than nothing, but they are not a complete multi-vitamin.

Please be careful, and talk to your nutritionist about getting on a good iron supplement before you get anemic.

Calories 10

Total Carbohydrate 3 g ** 1%*

Sugars 3 g ** **

Vitamin A 2000 IU 40% 40%

Vitamin C 30 mg 38% 50%

Vitamin D 200 IU 25% 50%

Vitamin E 20 IU 100% 67%

Vitamin B6 1 mg 71% 50%

Folic Acid 200 mcg 50% 50%

Vitamin B12 5 mcg 83% 83%

Biotin 75 mcg 25% 25%

Pantothenic Acid 5 mg 50% 50%

Iodine 40 mcg 29% 27%

Zinc 2.5 mg 16% 17%

Choline 38 mg ** **

Inositol 20 mcg **

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I got the bariatric advantage chewables after I looked at the vitamin comparison spreadsheet, that I don't remember who posted and they are not too shabby. I would recommend something other than their mint calcium losenges however, they are terrrible!

Tiff,

What kind of Iron do you suggest? I am not taking one yet, and thought I should probably add it, but I'm not sure what kind or what dosage to start with? Thanks for all your help!!

In the above thread the website/picture didn't work, I wanted to look into it, but not sure how to.

I don't have any recommendations on an Iron because my multi has iron in it. Also, be careful taking iron you can't take it around other supplements, I think it has to be staggered around your calcium citrate. It can also cause constipation.

Flintstones Vitamins – Gummies That's the link for the Flintstone gummies supplement facts. It breaks down exactly what you are and aren't getting.

Also check out this excel spreadsheet if you can, it shows you exactly what it is in adult vitamins that you're missing out on in childrens vitamins.

You don't have to sign in or log in to any program to see the excel spreadsheet.

Flintstone gummies aren't on there, but there is a Flintstone complete on there. Just click the big spreadsheet icon, and it'll open into an excel document.

VitsComparison.xlsx - Windows Live

I think MidwestGirl and Thinoneday both take a high quality iron supplement, you may want to shoot them a message and see what they are taking. If you can swallow pills, I would look at the Twinlab multi as it is a more complete multi and with 2 capsules you would get all of your iron and all the other vitamins/minerals that as an adult your body needs.

Once my GNC solotron chewables which is the last Vitamin listed on the chart are gone, I'm switching to the Twinlab multi.

I will order it from Buy Discount Vitamins, Supplements, Low Carb and More at www.Vitacost.com along with my next order of my Omega 3s, flax seed and calcium citrate. Vitamins/supplements, and even Protein powders are available at deep discounted rates on Buy Discount Vitamins, Supplements, Low Carb and More at www.Vitacost.com

Ok, this may only apply to normal stomached people and not sleeved because of not getting in things through food as much as it's needed. BUT, my chiropractor, who is all about vitamins, told my husband the other day to always choose a multi without iron because it has been shown to cause heart problems when supplemented. He said only if you are anemic or a baby should a person ever take something with iron in it. SO, I'm assuming with all of you saying how important iron supplementation is, when you are sleeved that reasoning doesn't apply because with the small amounts of food that can be eaten, there's no way to have too much iron between the vitamins and the little bit of food? Hope that makes sense, lol.

Interesting!! I'm so confused!!

Ok, this may only apply to normal stomached people and not sleeved because of not getting in things through food as much as it's needed. BUT, my chiropractor, who is all about vitamins, told my husband the other day to always choose a multi without iron because it has been shown to cause heart problems when supplemented. He said only if you are anemic or a baby should a person ever take something with iron in it. SO, I'm assuming with all of you saying how important iron supplementation is, when you are sleeved that reasoning doesn't apply because with the small amounts of food that can be eaten, there's no way to have too much iron between the vitamins and the little bit of food? Hope that makes sense, lol.

It makes sense. Since we can not consume decent portions of high iron foods, we need to supplement with iron. Even with my band, I had to take a multi with iron because you can't consume enough iron-rich foods for our bodies to not get low in iron.

When I made the stupid mistake of switching to an adult gummy a few months back, 2-3 weeks into taking them, I was lethargic, fatigued with little activity, and I couldn't figure out why. I thought it was my calories, nopers was tracking was doing good. Decided to read the label of that adult gummy again, and it had zero iron. VOILA, I switched back to my other multi and low and behold within a couple of weeks I felt so much better.

Interesting!! I'm so confused!!

I'll PM you my phone number if that will help. You can call me at your convenience and we can chat.

Sometimes it's tough explaining things over the net.

Seriously, don't hesitate to call me.

Tiff- what's the total carb count on your daily vitamin intake? Is it high like angels or it lower? And when you said you were keeping under 30g during the honeymoon phase you counted the carbs in the vitamins correct?

So iron non sleeved is bad in a supplement, iron when sleeved is GOOOOOD!!! LOL

Angel, I'm sorry I confused ya or made you wonder. I'm in the research/consult phase and I'm just trying to get my head wrapped around how everything is so different between non sleeved and sleeved. So, when I read something and it makes me think of a question, I just blurt it out right then and there without starting a new topic for it. Didn't mean to hijack your topic there

No worries kkandrod, I didn't see it that way at all!! I like to see people throw in all of their questions or concerns! That's what this place is for in my opinion, for all of us to help each other out in any way that we can...good luck on your journey!!

Tiff- what's the total carb count on your daily vitamin intake? Is it high like angels or it lower? And when you said you were keeping under 30g during the honeymoon phase you counted the carbs in the vitamins correct?

3grams of carbs per chewable, and yes I counted them in my carb count daily. Any carb I ingested was counting in my 30grams per day.