A friend asked me..on another forum, what supplements I am taking.. thought I'd post them here for anyone who would like to know.

Fish Oil, 1,000 - has Omega 3's fatty acids, EPA and DHA. Helps to maintain heart and vascular health.

Nitro Explosion - Has creatine, glucuronolactone, vincamine, caffeine and keyt amino acids, including L-arginine which is an essential precursor of nitric oxide which helps maintain blood vessel tone. The formula is equipped with electrolytes that the body can lose during intense workouts. Electrolytes help to regulate body fluids and important functions, such as muscle contraction. So yeah.....it boosts workouts (taken 30 min before) and also helps speed up the recovery of your muscles

Biotin - helps promote growth and health of the hair, skin and nails.

GNC's Women's Ultra Mega ACTIVE multi-vitamin - (This is an awesome new product) - It's premium performance multivitamin formula is for active women. Energy production, electrolyte replacement, bone health and antioxident support.

MRM BCAA+G - An Amino Acid - You probably know that amino acids are the building blocks of protein. When you eat a protein food, it gets digested in the stomach and intestine into individual amino acids and short chains of amino acids that are small enough to be absorbed into the bloodstream. These amino acids have far reaching effects in the body from building and repairing tissues, to producing chemicals that enable our brains to function optimally. Essential amino acids cannot be made by the body. You must get them from complete protein foods or combinations of incomplete vegetable foods. There are 9 essential amino acids: histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, tryptophan, and valine. Your body can make non-essential amino acids by itself from vitamins and other amino acids.

EAS - Phosphagen (I dont take this anymore but will again in a few months)

Phosphagen from EAS uses carbohydrates for triggering insulin thereby transporting creatine more effectively. Apart from increased creatine delivery, Phosphagen increases cell volume and accelerates muscle gain. You should mix it well in water or juice and drink four servings for 5 days. Gradually decrease the intake to 1-2 servings in a day.

The phosphagens are energy storage compounds, also known as high energy phosphate compounds, are chiefly found in muscular tissue in animals. They allow a high energy phosphate pool to be maintained in a concentration range which, if it all were ATP, would create problems due to the ATP consuming reactions in these tissues. As muscle tissues can have sudden demands for lots of energy, these compounds can maintain a reserve of high energy phosphates that can kick in as needed, to provide the energy that could not be immediately supplied by glycolysis or oxidative phosphorylation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphagen

I drink:

Isopure - whey protein isolate (more pure and higher quality protein about 90-98% pure and less fat and lactose per serving)

Myoplex Lite - whey protein concentrate (concentrate - about 70-85% pure, the rest, fat and lactose)

Spiru-tein - soy protein - also known as a plant protein (phytoestrogens) which is a plant estrogen.

Lipo6 - Fat Loss excellerator - thermogenics

That's about it I think, lol...

Lipo 6, is that a drink or is it a pill? i am currently taking Apex Fat Burn1 and it is a HUGE pill. i'm looking for something a tad smaller but it has to work. i havent been consistent enough with the FB1 to notice anything. i am petrified that it is going to get stuck.

thanks!

Lipo6 is a medium sized liquid capsule. It goes down pretty easily, I think. Horse pills are hard to swallow so i have one of those pill crusher thingy's.

thanks for sharing. Question, do you have to cut the vitamins? Or are you able to take them whole? I think the vitamins are so large and I worry I won't be able to take them when I get the band? Thoughts?

I used to mash them up in one of those Drug Medicine bowls. Now I just take them whole. I'd suggest you mash them up till your band loosens up a bit and put them in a blender, inside of your shake. It used to work for me.