calories from vitamins

scubacat

I feel a little silly that I never paid attention to this before but I didn't realize how many calories/carbs/sugars my "gummie" vitamins were costing me. I take them as recommended and rarely forget, in part because the sweetness is the incentive.

However, I entered them into my journal for the first time and discovered that the multivitamin, fiber gummy, and calcium chewy, add up to 50 calories, 14 carbs, and 9 g of sugar. On one hand it seems like no big deal but its a good reminder they are not "free" and were values that I was inadvertently exceeding daily. It surprised me a bit so I'm probably going to cut down the vitamin intake in candy-like form.