do you log supplements?

What sort of supplements? Anything with calories is accounted for

They have calories, so of course I log them

niteowl24 wrote: »

Emilia777 wrote: »

YES. I just realized my fish oil capsules are 60 calories for 3. That’s half a pound a month I could be losing if I accounted for them.

Aside from that, I don’t have much confidence that most supplements are actually absorbed that well. What are you looking for exactly?

General thoughts or opinions mostly.

Im supposed to take fish oil and calcium. Its ingrained at this point i take it with my daily medications and it really didnt occur to me to log tums.

60 calories blows lol

2 pieces of bacon is 70 calories (i dont eat bacon, but i watched my husband an entire pound of it this morning which is how i know the calories)

Haha I know right?! Mmm bacon (sorry, I’m a fan). Darn fish oil . But you know, now that I track it, I can still make stuff work within my goals, including having bacon. So it’s all good.

Anyway, fish oil is a basic one that I think is worthwhile, and can’t go wrong with calcium. I try to take a multivitamin, but I’m not too sure it does anything. Aside from that, unless you have a doctor’s recommendation, I don’t think anything else is worth it personally. And I used to take a giant fistful of supplements. Now I just try to hit my macros (protein, fat, fibre) and hope that the micros (vitamins) add up

I log my Metamucil fiber (40 calories for 2 teaspoons), but that's it. I'm (nearly) always at least 100 calories under my daily allotment anyway.

niteowl24 wrote: »

Emilia777 wrote: »

YES. I just realized my fish oil capsules are 60 calories for 3. That’s half a pound a month I could be losing if I accounted for them.

Aside from that, I don’t have much confidence that most supplements are actually absorbed that well. What are you looking for exactly?

General thoughts or opinions mostly.

Im supposed to take fish oil and calcium. Its ingrained at this point i take it with my daily medications and it really didnt occur to me to log tums.

60 calories blows lol

2 pieces of bacon is 70 calories (i dont eat bacon, but i watched my husband an entire pound of it this morning which is how i know the calories)

I've just started taking calcium tablets, which I log. Only so I can remember what I have and have not taken during the day.
But when I was researching calcium/vitD supps it said NOT to take them with other vitamins, as the calcium pushes the other supplements out of your body and doesn't allow to uptake the nutrients from whatever other supps you're taking, Or something to that affect.....
So now I make sure to take my calcium tablets 2 hours apart from anything else.

When I had my blood work done for vitamin levels, I found out that I was anemic, had very little vitamin D, & a b12 deficiency. So I take all of the above and a multi vitamin and vitamin C. I do log them, just to keep myself in check to remember.

You cannot take calcium and iron together, which is why I take the vitamin C with the iron. The vitamin C increases the iron absorption. If you were to take the calcium and iron together the iron would bind to the calcium and it would not absorb properly. So you don't want to take them together.

Also, if you take a multivitamin, you want to take it without the others. Your body can only absorb so much of certain vitamins, and if you take more than that at one time it will all be flushed out.

happyfeetrebel1 wrote: »

When I had my blood work done for vitamin levels, I found out that I was anemic, had very little vitamin D, & a b12 deficiency. So I take all of the above and a multi vitamin and vitamin C. I do log them, just to keep myself in check to remember.

You cannot take calcium and iron together, which is why I take the vitamin C with the iron. The vitamin C increases the iron absorption. If you were to take the calcium and iron together the iron would bind to the calcium and it would not absorb properly. So you don't want to take them together.

Also, if you take a multivitamin, you want to take it without the others. Your body can only absorb so much of certain vitamins, and if you take more than that at one time it will all be flushed out.

Oh bloody el, most confusing!!!

I take

fish oil
Calcium
Multi vitamin
Magnesium
grape seed extract
VitC

There's not enough hours in the day to take them all hours apart from each other..... ~sigh~

I do, when I take them. I use a gummy multi-vitamin so it has a fair few calories, and carbs. Worth it to not upset my tummy though.

I wonder how bad it really is to just neck it all at the same time. Worse than not taking it at all?

SherryTeach wrote: »

The real issue is whether any of those supplements make any difference in the end in terms of health and lifespan.

Well yeah. There's reasonable evidence for some of it. I'm doing D (and should do iron) on docs order. C I'm doing for multiple reasons. Glucosamine is there just because I'm crossing my damned fingers

christinev297 wrote: »

happyfeetrebel1 wrote: »

When I had my blood work done for vitamin levels, I found out that I was anemic, had very little vitamin D, & a b12 deficiency. So I take all of the above and a multi vitamin and vitamin C. I do log them, just to keep myself in check to remember.

You cannot take calcium and iron together, which is why I take the vitamin C with the iron. The vitamin C increases the iron absorption. If you were to take the calcium and iron together the iron would bind to the calcium and it would not absorb properly. So you don't want to take them together.

Also, if you take a multivitamin, you want to take it without the others. Your body can only absorb so much of certain vitamins, and if you take more than that at one time it will all be flushed out.

Oh bloody el, most confusing!!!

I take

fish oil
Calcium
Multi vitamin
Magnesium
grape seed extract
VitC

There's not enough hours in the day to take them all hours apart from each other..... ~sigh~

I compromise. I take most of my supplements and medications with breakfast because one med and the iron needs to be taken with food. I no longer eat yogurt or any other dairy (except my Tbl of half & half in my coffee) with breakfast because of the iron/calcium interaction.

I do take the omeprazole (prescription prilosec) sometime later in the day because acid blockers also block the absorption of several nutrients and many medications so it is best to take it by itself.

I take:
Multi
High potency iron (Dr. prescribed for chronic anemia)
D3 (SAD)
B12 (also for the anemia)
water pill
antidepressant
omeprazole

kshama2001 wrote: »

earlnabby wrote: »

I log mine but not because of the calories, I like to see my micronutrient numbers.

Do you have to have a premium membership to see micros and would this give you iron counts? I'm anemic, and would like to see this. I do take an iron supplement. That reminds me, time to get tested again.

No. Go to "Reports" and choose whatever micronutrient you want to see. If you want to actually track iron in your diary, go toe "settings" --> "diary settings" --> "Nutrients tracked" and choose iron instead of something like the default sugar.

SherryTeach wrote: »

The real issue is whether any of those supplements make any difference in the end in terms of health and lifespan.

Taking iron supplements for my anemia has made an incredible difference in my energy level and frequency of hair loss. Also, the two types of iron supplements the VA gave me did nothing for me and when I switched to a different form, I felt a difference and stopped "shedding" as much. I actually got written up at work due to making mistakes because my anemia was essentially untreated when I was taking the POS VA supplements. Until the lightbulb went off, I thought I was unable to focus because I just hated my job, lol. (I didn't hate it - I was just feeling like *kitten* from untreated anemia.)

I'm taking Iron Bisglycinate now. I've taken maybe a half dozen different types and this one works the best - no constipation and taking one per day gives me low normal iron levels, which is good, considering how much my fibroids cause me to hemorrhage at that TOM. I've doubled my iron pill since the last test and am curious to see how that changed my levels.