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07-02-2008, 01:11 AM
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| Cub Reporter Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Oklahoma
Posts: 68
Weight Statistics November 9, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 1"
Height:
217 lb Start Weight:
144 lb Current Weight:
130 lb Goal Weight:
73 lb Weight Loss:
14 lb Lb Left to Lose:
33.6405529954 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index 40.9973125504 BMI Start:
27.2055898952 BMI Current:
24.5606019887 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass |  Dreading my checkup on Thursday
I have my checkup on Thursday and I know I am in trouble.  I haven't been taking my vitamins or working out like I should. My doc isn't going to be happy with me. He is told me last time that I needed to get regular with my vitamins. I don't know how to explain it except to say I just forget to take my vitamins. I have tried different tricks to remember and they haven't worked. I know that my bloodwork will not be good. I have felt totally exhausted for the past few weeks. The good thing is I am still losing very slowly. I only need to lose 10 more pounds to be at his goal for me. The last time we talked he told me I needed to tone up my tummy muscles so I would be ready for my TT when I finished losing my weight. I am such a procrastinator...I need to be held accountable. DH just isn't the one to do it. He will just irritate me.  When I get up in the morning it is a new day...I will try to remember to take those vitamins. 
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07-02-2008, 01:15 AM
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Please, please keep up with your vitamins, some damages from deficiencies become irreversible if you neglect them, and your life is too precious to let that happen. Keep a stash in several places, wear a pill holder around your neck, whatever. You need to become religious about this. (((((HUGS)))) Good luck with your follow up visit.
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07-02-2008, 04:03 AM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Jacksonville, Florida
Posts: 4,760
Weight Statistics July 21, 2007 Start Date:
August 6, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 2"
Height:
287 lb Start Weight:
164 lb Current Weight:
140 lb Goal Weight:
123 lb Weight Loss:
24 lb Lb Left to Lose:
42.8571428571 % % Lost:
January 1, 2009 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 52.4872528616 BMI Start:
29.9927159209 BMI Current:
25.6035379813 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass    | I totally agree with Doc. One of the things that was stressed in my preop was the things that COULD happen post op without certain vitamins...hearing that someone was now wheelchair bound from not taking the vitamins MAKES me remember to take them daily. We actually had to sign a "contract" stating that we would take our vitamins DAILY! I keep my pills in a pill box at my desk and a baggy in my purse for when I dont get them all in before I leave the house.
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07-02-2008, 05:20 AM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Floyd County Virginia
Posts: 3,643
Blog Entries: 1 Weight Statistics September 19th 2007 Start Date:
September 19th 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 10"
Height:
363 lb Start Weight:
197 lb Current Weight:
170 lb Goal Weight:
166 lb Weight Loss:
27 lb Lb Left to Lose:
45.7300275482 % % Lost:
12/31/09 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 52.0793877551 BMI Start:
28.2634693878 BMI Current:
24.3897959184 BMI Goal:
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I used to have trouble when I first started taking meds daily doing the same as yourself. What I did was this.... Place them in your cabniet where you would get a glass first thing in the am for somthing to drink. You will see them and take them. Place them on your bedside table so as your getting ready for bed you will see them and take them. I take it you dont have to take any other meds? If you do get a pill box and place them in it on a weekly basis and place in in the above mentioned places to remind yourself. These all worked for me. |
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07-02-2008, 06:48 AM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: North Dakota
Posts: 2,403
Weight Statistics June 11,2007, lost 36 Lb. before surgery Start Date:
September 10, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 5"
Height:
373 lb Start Weight:
210 lb Current Weight:
180 lb Goal Weight:
163 lb Weight Loss:
30 lb Lb Left to Lose:
43.6997319035 % % Lost:
2 years Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 62.0636686391 BMI Start:
34.9420118343 BMI Current:
29.950295858 BMI Goal:
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I have two weekly pill boxes. I put my morning pills in one and in the other pill box I put in my evening pills. I have both my pill boxes right by the table where we eat and then I take my pills as needed and right there on the table to remind me.
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07-02-2008, 07:27 AM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Davenport, IA
Posts: 1,710
Weight Statistics 12/28/06 Start Date:
May 14, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 5"
Height:
253 lb Start Weight:
191 lb Current Weight:
150 lb Goal Weight:
62 lb Weight Loss:
41 lb Lb Left to Lose:
24.5059288538 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index 42.0968047337 BMI Start:
31.780591716 BMI Current:
24.9585798817 BMI Goal:
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I keep mine in the medicine cabinet so when I brush my teeth in the morning and evening they are right there. Honestly it is just a habit now. They say do something 21 days in a row and it becomes a habit. Maybe put a checklist where you will see it and then you will know at a glance you haven't taken the vitamins.
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07-02-2008, 08:36 AM
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| WLS Mentor  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Northern VA
Posts: 1,127
Weight Statistics 02/07/2008 Start Date:
02/07/2008 Surgery Date:
5' 7"
Height:
310 lb Start Weight:
181 lb Current Weight:
160 lb Goal Weight:
129 lb Weight Loss:
21 lb Lb Left to Lose:
41.6129032258 % % Lost:
Summer 09' Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 48.5475607039 BMI Start:
28.3455112497 BMI Current:
25.0568055246 BMI Goal:
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I have some at my desk...by my bed...in my purse...and in my car!! I am horrible about remembering like clock work but I remember all of them through out the day because I have them every where! When I see them I take whatever I am due for. Please, please take your vits!
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07-02-2008, 08:39 AM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: May 2007 Location: minnesota
Posts: 5,331
Weight Statistics july 21, 2007 Start Date:
august 17, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 6"
Height:
339 lb Start Weight:
177 lb Current Weight:
160 lb Goal Weight:
162 lb Weight Loss:
17 lb Lb Left to Lose:
47.7876106195 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index 54.7100550964 BMI Start:
28.5654269972 BMI Current:
25.8218549128 BMI Goal:
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i was gonna say the same thing as spikey, you brush ur teeth every day so keep them by your toothbrush!! mine are by my computer so when i come on here every morning i take them, good luck at your appt
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07-02-2008, 08:55 AM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: North West, NJ
Posts: 1,918
Weight Statistics 1/14/2008 Surgery Date:
5' 10"
Height:
330 lb Start Weight:
240 lb Current Weight:
180 lb Goal Weight:
90 lb Weight Loss:
60 lb Lb Left to Lose:
27.2727272727 % % Lost:
Summer 09 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 47.3448979592 BMI Start:
34.4326530612 BMI Current:
25.8244897959 BMI Goal:
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I work from home so I have them on the counter, after every meal I take one, Breakfast - calcium, Lunch - calcium, snack - B12, Dinner - multi It's automatic now, but in order to become automatic I think you have to have a set routine first, then keep at it, like Jeanne said, 21 days makes/breaks a habit. So try to think...what would be your best shot at making it work...medicine cabinet, pill box, they sell alarm pill boxes on line...what would be your best approach? Then go from there. Good luck!
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07-02-2008, 09:23 AM
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| WLS Mentor  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: No. Los Angeles County, CA
Posts: 1,371
Weight Statistics 4.29.08 RNY Surgery Date:
5' 8"
Height:
301 lb Start Weight:
203 lb Current Weight:
170 lb Goal Weight:
98 lb Weight Loss:
33 lb Lb Left to Lose:
32.5581395349 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index 45.7618944637 BMI Start:
30.8626730104 BMI Current:
25.8455882353 BMI Goal:
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I keep pills in every nook and cranny in my house and work. I can't NOT see a bottle or baggy with sups of some sort staring at me. I keep a variety and take what I need. I hate to scare you but I know of people who have permanently damaged themselves by not taking their supplements. Damaged, as in they may eventually DIE from the deficiencies and it is NOT REVERSIBLE by taking more sups now. That thought scares me "straight". I had this surgery so I wouldn't die, for heaven's sake. At my preop "signing ceremony", along with all the other forms, I signed a waiver that, if I did not take the sups, I would not hold surgeon responsible for any illness from nutritional deficiencies from not taking sups. My two cents...your mileage may vary.
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