Low calcium? What am I doing wrong?

[Einy]

I have been entering my meals into Fitday and I am consistently getting low Calcium and Magnesium in my diet.

I take 3 capsules of NSI Low Carb Dieters Multi-Vitamin evrey day, but I guess it may not have enough calcium for my diet. (250mg, 25%).

Magnesium is not bad at all, usually falls from 90% to 95% of the RDA value. Calcium so is around 48-54%.

Do I need to take another calcium capsules for that matter? Shall I increase my dairy intake? I am still at my OWL rung1 and I just don’t want to be a supplement hog here. Anybody experienced such in the past or so?

[not2late]

Re: Low calcium? What am I doing wrong?

Here's a link to calcium rich foods.

http://www.algaecal.com/calcium-foods.html

For someone in Rung 1, you have alot of calcium containing food choices according to that list since you are adding 5 net carbs of any Induction veggie to your Induction menu.

[Einy]

Re: Low calcium? What am I doing wrong?

Thanks Meg for the link. I guess Sardines and Salmon would be the best for me at this stage. Broccoli is not my favorite vegie at all and I would need about 6 cups to get the calcium I am missing ..

Thanks again Meg, I will add these today to my diet and see how it is going to work.

[D14965]

Re: Low calcium? What am I doing wrong?

I also take a calcium supplement along with my multi vitamin. Calcium helps your body metaboilise fat too!

[Chicklady]

Re: Low calcium? What am I doing wrong?

Dried basil, thyme, cinnamon, etc all have a good dose of calcium, most costing you only 1 gram of carb (and adding a good shot of fiber to boot), so spice it up a little

[Einy]

Re: Low calcium? What am I doing wrong?

Thanks checklady for the tip.

Dana, I would go for calcium supplements, it is just I checked it in the store and found punch of weired stuff in the ingredients I couldn't even understand... So, I thought I might be better off.