I take NOTHING with multi ingredients for the same reason I got rid of ink jet printers with one multi-color ink cartridge and then had to toss out a perfectly good cartridge when I ran out of red. The first time you get your labs drawn at 3 months, you will have to adjust your vites. (It's not what you consume but what you ABSORB.) So what happens if you need less A and more D? Just get DRY (not in oil) individual vitamins. Skip all this multi-ingredient stuff. And forget about bariatric vites. You do not need chewables. Don't bother with the transdermal patches -- they don;t work. (I found it impossible in the beginning to swallow giant calcium pills as my baby sleeve was very tender and used a pill crusher and mixed in yogurt. Now I swallow 3 at a time along with a couple of smaller pills.)
And in addition to sugar, your Optisource Vitamin & Mineral Supplement has soybean oil in it -- we don't absorb 60% of oil soooo you're losing some vitamins right there.
Start with Vitalady's protocol. I've attached it for you. After that, let your lab results guide your regimen.
Oh, I take vites twice a day like Munchkin. (Three times if you count Nexium. I take my PPI when I first wake and then eat nothing and take no vites for an hour.) I did switch to Proferrin iron (expensive at $50 a month) because it says you can take it with calcium and I just couldn't tolerate having to think about if I was taking iron an hour before or three hours after yada yada. So a fistful of vites an hour after the PPI and another fistful sometime after dinner but before 9 so everything moves along before I lay down for bed. (Damn reflux. Had it before DS.)
1. Vitalady's protocol
2. Buy individual vites in DRY form
3. Take them twice a day
4. Adjust dosages based on twice a year lab work
Don;t overthink all this. It will drive you crazy.
(EDITED AS I UPLOADED THE WRONG FILE. "PROGRAMDRNY_ERNY_BPDDS" IS CORRECT)