Which Bariatric Products Do You Buy, and Where Do You Buy Them?

[Alex Brecher 10,498]

You need to follow a special diet before and after surgery, and you may need Vitamin supplements. Some patients limit their special products to the bare minimum, with maybe a few Protein Shakes and powders for the pre-op and post-op liquid diets, and some Vitamins to prevent deficiencies.

Others find it easier to follow their WLS diets when they buy a few more bariatric products. You might depend on specialty products such as low-carb, high-protein oatmeal, Pasta dinners, and Snacks, for example. Or you might choose only those vitamins labeled as specially formulated for bariatric surgery patients.

Which bariatric products do you buy, and where do you buy them? Do you find them at your local grocery store? Maybe they’re at a supplement store. Online stores are definitely popular, too. How do you decide where to get your items?

[Amelie2016 116]

I purchased my first bottle of a Multivitamin at my Bariatric Surgeons office. It's "The Bariatric Advantage Advanced Multi EA". They taste like a candy Bracelet.

I also purchased the "Calcium Citrate Chewables", they taste like a tootsie rolls.

I ordered from a company called allstarhealth. When I noticed how affordable their products, especially great name brand products were I paused ...so I called them to ask why and how they could make a profit selling so low. Then I called the vendors of three of my favorite Vitamin brands and asked them if they sold directly to this company in All Star Health, California, and they said they did indeed. Then I called back and asked All Star if they sold off market or outdated Vitamins (skin care, pet care, etc) and they said no. The reason they can sell so low and still make a profit is because the turn over is huge. (I used to own my own store-front Jewelry Business, it's a Dog-Eat-Dog world out there)

So from them I ordered :

Futurebiotics Trace Minerals Advanced Colloidal (for when I'm cleared)
Vitamin Code Raw Vitamin C by Garden of Life.
When I am cleared to make my own shakes, I have the Garden of Life Green Magma, algae, spirulina, wheat grass etc. to add to my Protein mixes.
Country Life Magnesium Potassium Aspartate

I always love to read about what works for people. I have Fibromyalgia, and that is why I choose some of the options I have.

Don't even ask what's in my Vitamin Burlap Sack, which I am staying away from currently!

Edited February 22, 2016 by Amelie2016

[Margie122 845]

I get my Vitamins etc. online through Celebrate directly at their website. They are a little more expensive than buying Vitamins at the drug store, but they include the Iron and I need a chewable because I can't tolerate the Vitamin pills right now for some reason.

I buy my Protein shakes from Rite Aid (they are the GNC Lean 25) and I get my Protein Bars (Power Crunch) at Walmart. I am a Gold Member at Rite Aid and get 20% off all my purchases. Walmart so far has the best price on the Power Crunch.

[CowgirlJane 14,259]

I buy most things at costco but have mail ordered from netrition.com

Thanks for the tip on allstarhealth, good prices but being in California I hope shipping is faster than netrition. Also netrition is based in Texas so in the heat of summer you have to sometimes pay extra for packaging to keep your products from cooking while it travels by donkey. Seriously, they are really slow..

[JupiterinVirgo 846]

If it's not non-gmo I don't buy it.

[eclecticwingtips 130]

I tried to buy some things from bariatricpal but unfortunately the shipping to australia was so prohibitive at almost as much as the items i wanted to buy

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