List all the pills you take daily

Probiotics
Multivitamin
Glutamine

I used to take 10 meds a day including meds for high blood pressure, arthritis, depression, insomnia, vitamins, fish oil, etc. After losing about 100 (still going) I am down to the following:

1 baby aspirin a day
1/4 of what I used to take for high blood pressure (doc thinks after another 20 lbs probably off it all together)
ibuprofen as needed for arthritis (used to take 2x daily zipsor)

No vitamins or any supplements.

My doctor was worried about the no vitamins or supplements so had a complete panel done including vitamin D, etc. and everything came in normal range. And my HDL is actually higher (63) since switching from fish oil pills to actually eating fish daily (salmon - wild alaska only, sardines, tuna, makeral). Rest of cholesterol numbers are all in optimal ranges too.

It is amazing what eating clean can do for the body!

Please note: This is what works for me, everybody is different!

About 4 days a week (ie when I remember), I take:
Omega 3 Fish Oil 1000mg x2
A-Z Multivitamin x 1

Every Morning:
Zyrtec 10 mg
Flonase spray
One-a-Day Women's
Probiotic
Vitamin D 2000 mg


Every Evening:
Zyrtec 10 mg
Lisinipril (blood pressure) 30 mg

As needed:
Sudafed
Mucinex
Aleve
Slow-Release Iron (2 days each month)
Fiber (if I didn't get enough from food)
Calcium (if I didn't get enough from food)

Fish oil
glucosamine and chondroitin
multivitamin
pravastatin
sometimes ibuprofen or meloxicam for joint pain
sometimes I also will take a migraine medicine.

Sorry, I know "clean" can be a loaded word. For me clean eating is nothing processed and this includes pasta, bread, canned, boxed as well as doing my best to eliminate added sugar. I eat fresh fruits (no more than one serving a day), lots of vegetables mostly green with other colors mixed in, proteins with fish first, turkey and chicken 1-2x a week and red meat (beef and pork) maybe once every week or two. I do make my own yogurt and granola to eliminate any extra sugar and my own salad dressing to help eliminate extra sodium. I do also eat nuts and seeds and beans. And on very rare occasions I will have dessert like cake or pie but I tend to stay away from that as it triggers sugar cravings.

I think for me it has been a combination 3 things for me and in this order:

1. Eating clean as I define it above
2. Exercise (weight lifting 3x a week and cardio of some sort every day).
3. Get a good nights sleep every night (I go to bed and wake up the same time every day even on weekends). I use a CPAP machine as I used to snore due to weight but will be going to have that evaluated this summer again.

I used to view losing the weight loss (and there is no argument that that is a big factor) as the goal, but now I see losing the weight as a benefit (or even side effect) of doing those three things I listed. Do I count calories yes...learning about the foods I was putting in my body and how many calories attached to those food was a big part of the learning process I went through to define my "eating clean" for me. Also I think my "eating clean" has had a direct effect on my cholesterol numbers. I realize these number can get better when losing weight but I think If I where to lose all my weight by just counting calories and consuming only sugary food (just an example) I would not be seeing these same number.

2589mg percocet
9833mg depokote
32 aspirin, baby cuz I dont want to hurt my tum tum

and crack.

I take:

Multivitamin/mineral 2x per day
Calcium 2x per day
And my Rx medicines for chronic hives

Nothing horribly exciting. LOL

Multivitamin

Too many! I should be off some in June, as I had an artery dissect last summer, so that's why I take most of it, even though I do not have high blood pressure or cholesterol. It's crazy.

Morning- aspirin will take this for life
Effient (blood thinner)
Metoprolol 25 mg
Losartan 50 mg.
Multivitamin
Vit. c

at bed-Zyrtec
Prvastatin 40 mg