First of all, I have to preface this with the statement that I am TERRIBLE at remembering to take vitamins. The most success I’ve had recently is by employing the following method:
Set a reminder on my phone to take them before I leave for work- I’m usually always home at the same time every morning
Before this I tried everything: taking in the afternoon (failed b/c I get busy & forget, this requires me to take them with me wherever I go); using a M-S pill case (failed b/c I hate this thing rattling around in my purse, and then I have to remember to refill it); taking after I get home from work (failed because I don’t always get home at the same time and on the weekend a lot of the time I’m out and about anyway, forgetting again.); taking before bed (failed b/c of upset stomach)
So morning is my “special vitamin time”. It works for me. BUT- usually what I’m doing in the morning is drinking coffee. I’ve heard that coffee can make calcium (and other vitamin?) consumption ineffective.
Should I really try to reconsider a non-coffee time vitamin-taking regimen?