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Freckles – everywhere!

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I’ve been spending so much time in the sun over the last couple of weeks that I’m getting freckles!

I’ve been using sunscreen, so I haven’t burned or really tanned, but the freckles are coming out anyway. Darn fair skinned Irish blood. LOL

Oh well, the freckles aren’t too bad, although I know if I don’t use wrinkle creams that work to block UV as well as moisturize my skin and add sunscreens to the mix that by the end of summer my freckles will start to join together and I’ll be one big freckle.

Do you get freckles when you’ve been in the sun too? What do you do about them? Maybe I should get a skin cream that fades blemishes?

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!

I’m the advisor for my group of friends

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I think I’m the group adviser for all of my friends. They are always calling me up to ask me for advice.

They’re always asking me things like “What would you do in this situation” or asking me advice about their relationships or worse their health problems asking questions like “what are the best weight loss supplements?” and so on.

I guess I get a lot of health related questions because I’m a nurse … but the rest? I don’t know. I guess they think I’m a good listener. I think I give fairly good advice, but as you can probably guess most people don’t take the advice they get – even when they asked for it. LOL

Are you the “therapist “for your group of friends or do you have a friend that you always turn to to ask for advice?

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