Take your vitamins pledge
Hey guys I just wanted to reach out and make sure that your taking your vitamins. If anything at least a mult-vitamin, at the very least.
many complications can occur as a result of NOT taking vitamins, stuff ranging from malnutrition, atrophy of your muscles (as your body will take nutrients from your muscles that it lacks in your diet) to blindness to death. When you start realizing that your vision is detiorating, its too late. You cant go back and make up for lost time sort of speak.
I dont preach too much on the post op diet, have your candy, cakes and soda, but please please please take your vitamins. When having GBP sugery you trade, yes trade your life of Morbid Obesity to a lifetime of taking vitamins.
I think many people get the wrong idea about the surgery, and the whole malabsorption thing. Your body does not malabsorb calories.. every calorie in counts. What your body does malabsorb is nutrients, vitamins and minerals. You cannnot, and will not ever be able to get this from your postoperative diet. No matter how much read meat and green leafy vegetables you consume.
So please, please pledge here to make a promise to me, us and yourself to take your vitamins everyday!
I swear to take my vitamins everyday! Bridget
PS if you want to read a scary story about one of our own, there is a post from Woody about his wife. Its is extremely important.
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J.Bridget Fisher aka koi-pea
2/9/04 lap 5'11"
298/170-trying to lose another 10
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