How much do you guys have to take each day?

my nut told me two tums every night

Something to check - I looked at a few chewable calcium citrate options and they don't list calories (could mean the calories are so high, they don't want to list it???). Then I found some that do list calories and they were all 35 calories per 500 mg/tablet. If I take 3/day that's 105 calories! I decided to take OTR Sleever's advice and tracked my calcium intake from the foods I'm eating and found that I get about 700 or more mg of calcium/day from food. Yogurt and the protein drinks I use (CytoSport RTD Whey Isolate) are both high in calcium. So I'm only going to take 1 calcium supplement/day as long as I'm getting the calcium from natural (and better) sources.

Do we always have to take the chewable? Or is there a point we can take the calcium in a pill form?

The BA calcium citrate chews are 20 cal each. That's 120 calories. While it makes you wonder if it is too much, I'll take them anyways because they are yummy. It does not appear to have an impact on weight loss for me. They come in caramel, strawberry and chocolate.