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High Cholesterol? Oh no!

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Grrr I just found out that I might have high cholesterol. I hope not! Believe me, I’m going to eat very low fat food for a week before my next blood test. LOL

Anyway … since I found out that my last blood work was a little off I’ve been reading up on how to lower high cholesterol … reading about increasing fibre in my diet, reading a lipofuze reviews and so on.

I’m actually getting a headache with all the reading I’ve been doing!

I’m hoping that my next blood work will come back normal because I really can’t afford to add any new medications to the ones I’m already taking. It’s just too expensive already.

Any other ideas as to how I can get my cholesterol down?

Weight loss plateau

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One of my friends desperately wants to lose some weight. She’s been trying since the beginning of the year and she’s made some good progress through diet and exercise but I think she’s hit a plateau.

I just got off the phone with her and she sounds so depressed. She shouldn’t be … she’s lost about 20 pounds and she looks great! Now she’s searching the internet for other diet or quick weight loss ideas. One of the things she told me she read was a 7-dfbx review as well as some other diet reviews like the supposed Jennifer Aniston diet of eating 14 baby food jars and one regular meal a day (which she denies).

I’m actually a little worried about my friend. She’s been doing really well and now that the weight has stopped coming off she’s getting depressed and perhaps desperate. I told her to just keep working at it and that last bit of stubborn weight will start to come off.

What do you think?

A little advice

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My father in law is going in for one of those lovely colonoscopies later in the week. Since I’m the “Queen of Colonoscopies” his term, not mine (seeing as I have Crohn’s and get this darn tests sometimes more than once a year!) he called me a little while ago to ask some questions.

I told him that the colon cleanser is the worst part of the test and luckily he can do that in the privacy of his own home. Once he’s cleaned out he just has to make it through the night on an empty stomach and get to the hospital for his test. These days most doctors sedate or put their patients to sleep for a colonoscopy so the test part is fairly easy.

I told him to call his doctors office to find out if he’ll be getting sedation or put to sleep. I’ve done a few tests without sedation of any kind and believe me … it’s best if you’re asleep.

He felt a lot better after talking to me about the test. I have no idea how he made it to 81 without having had this test before, but he did!

What do you get an 81 year old for Father’s day?

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It seems like almost every week this month we have a birthday or a party of some sort to attend. I was just talking about my friends upcoming birthday in my last post and now I’ve just realized that Father’s day is coming up soon too!

Man, this month could be expensive!

My parents are gone, unfortunately … but my husbands are still around. My husbands father is 81. Hmmm What do you get an 81 year old for Father’s day?

Lucky for me I came across this father’s day gift guide 2010 and I think it might help give me some ideas. It might help you too if you’re as stumped as I am.

At this point I have no idea what we’ll get for my Father in Law. He’s really into genealogy and any thing Ireland … so maybe something along those lines.

Have you come up with any cool ideas for Father’s Day? Care to pass a suggestion along?

Trying to find a special gift for a friend

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I have to find the perfect gift for one of my friends. She’s turning 30 this month and I want to get her something special.

The problem is that I have no idea where to start. She’s a bit of a fashion hound so I thought I might get her a designer purse … but that’s probably out of my price range.

She also really likes horses. She rides regularly, so I thought that perhaps getting her horse tack might make an ideal present. I know it would be a little unusual, but it’s the best idea I have right now and I think she’d love it.

Any idea for a fashion loving horse affectionado?

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