Take my calcium

Woke up this morning, and actually took my calcium before I did anything else.

Wonder why.

If only I can keep this up, mabye I won’t end up with a broken hip when I’m a fiesty old lady.

Hmmm. Yet again I was halfway to work when I remembered that I had forgotten to take my morning calcium.

Happily I remembered to take it when I came home for lunch.

I either need to get into a morning routine where it’s hard to forget (when I wore contacts morning was easier since I kept them by my contact solution). Or I need to start carrying some with me in my bag, so when I do remember when I’m far from home there is something I can do about it.

So the original idea was ‘why yes, I will drink plenty of milk and eat lots of yogurt because it’s always better to get everything you need through your diet rather than a pill.’

But that totally didn’t work, because milk makes me gag, and I can only eat so much yogurt before I’m sick of it.

So then I tried those viactive tablets, which tasted sort of like tootsie rolls, which was okay, except the aftertaste was sort of metalic on my tongue for longer than I was happy with (though, really, how long do you want metalic tongue?)

So then I switched to Caltrate tablets (which aren’t the best solution in the world… but the best solution makes me gag, so obviously I’m having to go with the second – or is it third or fourth? – the best solution in the world…)

And I’ve been pretty good about taking a tablet each night, but that is about half of what I should be taking. And I’m not having much success with taking another tablet earlier in the day.

But since I don’t want to be one of those tiny bent old ladies down the road – and also since I’ve heard that the recommended daily calcium intake is probably going to go up, I’ve got to get into the habit of taking at least two a day.

I’m hoping if I can remember to take at least 2 a day for 21 days, I’ll have made it into a life long habit. (Or is that ‘do something for 21 days and it’s a habit for life’ a myth?)

I have to admit that I have not, in fact, regularly consumed my daily dose of calcium since about the middle of March, when I had my first wisdom tooth surgery. The chewables were too sticky for post-operation me, and then they just got too unpalatable to pick back up again. Has anyone found any calcium tablets that aren’t the size of horse-pills?

Except I forgot today. But other than that I’ve been good. The big challenge will be seeing if I bother to buy another tub when this one is empty in two months.

(half the recommended dose). But I figure I’m still getting calcium from other sources, so why subject myself (and my teeth) to those pestilential candies more often than I need to?

(Because when you are 55 your bones will have the consistency of peppermint canes!)

This time in strawberry. Maybe they won’t be as awful as the caramel ones.

Your mother has osteoporosis and a person can’t meet all her calcium needs with chocolate and cheese.

Or can she?