Calories in medication?

healthychanges1
healthychanges1 Posts: 110
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
Do certain pills have calories/carbs? I take a bunch of pills in a day and was wondering how many calories/carbs they would contain. I log my calcium just to see the percentage, but not my prescriptions. Should I?

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  • RuthSweetTooth
    RuthSweetTooth Posts: 461 Member
    Prescriptions generally don't have calories or nutrients. If you're taking presciption vitamins or minerals, it might be a good idea to enter them in addition to any over the counter vitamins, it will help avoid megadosing. I just to get waayy to much vitamin C until I realized I didn't need it.
  • gsmithnp
    gsmithnp Posts: 139 Member
    Any calories in medications would be VERY small amounts (as in fractions of calories), and really this whole process of logging calories in and calories out is NOT precise to that extent. Maybe that chicken breast is 0.5 ounces less than you logged, or you had to make an extra trip up and down the stairs and burnt a couple more calories than you logged. If you try to figure it all out with that degree of precision, you will make yourself crazy and burn out.
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