As most of you know (as if I don’t make it fairly obvious), I had gastric bypass surgery last November. That means my stomach is around/not much larger than the size of an egg, and I digest slowly (except for sugar — that crap seems to hit my system FAST, which triggers the nasty Dumping Syndrome). Translation: if I want to provide my body with the nutrients and protein that it needs, I need to use supplements. I would have to eat what would be, for me, several days worth of meat in order to get just one day’s worth of protein. Obviously there’s no way that’s happening, so I rely on protein powders (I usually get some chocolate flavor and mix it with milk — milk is creamier and thus better tasting than water, plus it has about 1g of protein per ounce) and the occasional (read: once a week or so) protein bar.
I also rely on vitamin supplements — densely packed multivitamins — to get the vitamins and minerals that I need. Oh, and then there are the calcium chews (or when I’m cheap and not totally feeling the overpriced-chewy-versions, tablets that Dan oh-so-nicely breaks in half for me), and the additional B12 I try to get in through multivitamins.
Summary? I need lots of supplements. I usually get them from local stores and gastric bypass oriented nutritional websites, but I recently set sights on evitamins.com. Their prices, particularly on protein supplements are decent, and they routinely offer coupon codes and other deals on their Twitter account, @evitamins. I’d definitely recommend them for nutritional supplements!
(I just noticed that I am a parentheses abuser. Sorry.)
