Hi, cholesterol. Bye, meals I knew.

[sereneone4u]

You need to make an appointment with a registered dietitian.

Best advice right here.

 

[HoHoBomb]

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[sweepthefloor]

Oh! I'm sitting here reading the charts, every single ischemic stroke patient that I have cared for has a past medical history of high cholesterol. We just call it Lipids. Patient has lipids. I will write more!

 

[Balladeer08]

I understand you're totally caught up now in charting the rest of your eating life to be lived as healthy (read: safely) as possible...

...so you may want to keep an eye out for that blue Tundra next Tuesday morning @ 0736 while you're in the crosswalk of 4th and Main.

That's tremendously funny in a couple of ways. I really like that you got the time, location, make model and color of vehicle down specifically. BTW, what do you drive? (Suspicious? Me?)

First, I am trying to avoid being totally caught up in charting and crap. I want to start out by finding some things I can/will eat without dedicating my life to food. So you kind of got that backwards.

I know the numbers are not bad. If I can change a few things to make them better, without doing a total overhaul of my life, I am going to do it. I just can't believe it is so hard to get useful information.

For example, they like fruit, but hate pies. But wouldn't apple pie or pumpkin pie be okay? Maybe not great/perfect, but okay once in a while? Those are the only two pies I eat anyhow. I can see them going on the warpath against chocolate cream pies a la mode with whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles. But just a naked slice of Mom's Apple Pie, slightly heated? With a cup of black coffee? Or a slice of pumpkin pie?

If everything in our diets is so bad, how come the population keeps growing? Shouldn't we be dying off? I don't think it is a boolean with food. It is lots of shades of gray. Being me and knowing me all my life, I doubt that I will ever get my diet into the "white" portion. But I think I can get a lighter shade of gray. It's a start.

Can you imagine how easy this would be for the doctors if they could show you a list of foods and you could check off the ones you liked? How much faster patients would get on a better diet?

 

[redheadedtxn]

That's tremendously funny in a couple of ways. I really like that you got the time, location, make model and color of vehicle down specifically. BTW, what do you drive? (Suspicious? Me?)

First, I am trying to avoid being totally caught up in charting and crap. I want to start out by finding some things I can/will eat without dedicating my life to food. So you kind of got that backwards.

I know the numbers are not bad. If I can change a few things to make them better, without doing a total overhaul of my life, I am going to do it. I just can't believe it is so hard to get useful information.

For example, they like fruit, but hate pies. But wouldn't apple pie or pumpkin pie be okay? Maybe not great/perfect, but okay once in a while? Those are the only two pies I eat anyhow. I can see them going on the warpath against chocolate cream pies a la mode with whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles. But just a naked slice of Mom's Apple Pie, slightly heated? With a cup of black coffee? Or a slice of pumpkin pie?

If everything in our diets is so bad, how come the population keeps growing? Shouldn't we be dying off? I don't think it is a boolean with food. It is lots of shades of gray. Being me and knowing me all my life, I doubt that I will ever get my diet into the "white" portion. But I think I can get a lighter shade of gray. It's a start.

Can you imagine how easy this would be for the doctors if they could show you a list of foods and you could check off the ones you liked? How much faster patients would get on a better diet?

It's REALLY very simple, dude. Eat foods in their purest forms. Don't eat boxed/frozen shit. Eat oatmeal or high fiber cereal for breakfast everyday.

 

[Balladeer08]

Oh! I'm sitting here reading the charts, every single ischemic stroke patient that I have cared for has a past medical history of high cholesterol. We just call it Lipids. Patient has lipids. I will write more!

Okay, that is something I have never heard before, kind of motivational in a scary way.

Maybe if I wrote the dietician a list of what I normally eat, they could check off which ones were reasonable and then we'd start by replacing the worst items?

Then again, they might read it and THEY would have a stroke. 8)

Hi sweep! Thanks for the input.

This has got to be the worst time of the year to start in on a diet change, btw.

I traditionally have a cup of (non-alcholic) egg nog on Thanksgiving, Xmas and New Years. I'll make it about half size this year. (See? I'm trying. And I don't even know if eggnog is bad, I just figure it is because I like it.)

 

[Balladeer08]

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Are those recommendations, or are you trying to kill me?

I'm trying to get an insurance policy that will pay off to the girl who fucks me to death. I asked my agent about it, he hung up on me. Small minded of him, he could sell a TON of those policies and get richer.

The reason I bring this up is because the thread is about what I can eat.

And I am only half joking when I ask if I can still eat pussy. Read meat is bad, but that pink stuff is SOOOO good!

 

[eyer]

That's tremendously funny in a couple of ways. I really like that you got the time, location, make model and color of vehicle down specifically. BTW, what do you drive? (Suspicious? Me?)

I said nothing of the "make"...

 

[Balladeer08]

I'm curious as to why cooking for yourself isn't an option.

I know me, I simply won't do it. I'll just skip the meal. I don't like food enough to go through the effort.

I've gone into StarBucks and similar places to order a large coffee. They start insisting I order it in Fretalian. I just leave. I ain't learning a new language to order a damn cup of coffee. If I don't drink one for a few days, my world will not end. I am an American, born in America, living in America, and see no reason to jump through hoops to order a large coffee. I expect to go in, say "Large coffee, please", get it and pay them. Then stand there and watch the painful process of them trying to figure out the change. That is stressful enough. If it gets beyond that, there is another coffee shop down the street. Always.

 

[Balladeer08]

I said nothing of the "make"...

Anybody making a Tundra besides Toyota?

Didn't think so.

It's like saying someone makes his living playing quarterback. You know they are talking about football. It doesn't need to be stated, it is inherent.

 

[eyer]

Anybody making a Tundra besides Toyota?

Didn't think so.

It's like saying someone makes his living playing quarterback. You know they are talking about football. It doesn't need to be stated, it is inherent.

No, it's like you saying I "got the" "make" "down specifically"...

...when I didn't say anything about Toyota - or the automobile industry - at all.

Should've just stuck to "the model"...

...'cause that's exactly - and only - what I posted, regardless of your modification.

Rejection of small, exact details like that and such unnecessary modification of your own does not portend well for someone so seemingly concerned about the mandatory nuances of dietary health...

...perhaps you should just save time and have sweepthefloor book you a bed now.

 

[thør]

Anybody making a Tundra besides Toyota?

BRP (Skidoo) make a couple of Tundra models.

 

[neci]

You need to make an appointment with a registered dietitian.

this.


take an extra five minutes in the morning, and make your own oatmeal.

mix in a ziplock bag:
old fashioned oats
chopped pecans or walnuts
a handful of dried blueberries or cranberries
flax seed (if it's not near the flour or sugar, ask someone)

add 1/2 c. oatmeal mix to 1c boiling water or milk. cook for 5 minutes.

 

[thør]

this.


take an extra five minutes in the morning and make you own oatmeal.

mix in a ziplock bag:
old fashioned oats
chopped pecans or walnuts
a handful of dried blueberries or cranberries
flax seed (if it's not near the flour or sugar, ask someone)

add 1/2 c. oatmeal mix to 1c boiling water or milk. cook for 5 minutes.

Multi grain hot mush is pretty tasty, too, IMO.

 

[neci]

Multi grain hot mush is pretty tasty, too, IMO.

i always put in brown sugar, but i figured i'd let the experts advise on that. i've been eating that late at night, when i'm hungry, but don't need sweets. it's warm and filling.

 

[thør]

i always put in brown sugar, but i figured i'd let the experts advise on that. i've been eating that late at night, when i'm hungry, but don't need sweets. it's warm and filling.

A little brown sugar for me, too. No milk.

 

[neci]

A little brown sugar for me, too. No milk.

i like a splash of milk. it adds a creaminess when cooked in.

 

[thør]

i like a splash of milk. it adds a creaminess when cooked in.

Lots of raisins.....

 

[neci]

Lots of raisins.....

raisins are good.

i love my nuts. little bursts of goodness mixed in. i mix those with the brown sugar.

 

[thør]

raisins are good.

i love my nuts. little bursts of goodness mixed in. i mix those with the brown sugar.

Dried cranberries cooked with the mush......Yumm

 

[warrior queen]

I have the opposite problem - my cholesterol levels are way too low.
The doc keeps on at me about how not having enough is just as damaging, if not more so as the body needs a certain amount of cholesterol to function properly.
No matter what tho, I can't bring myself to eat any kind of fatty foods.
My diet consists almost entirely of unprocessed foods, with some extra lean meat and a load of grains/pulses. I don't eat any sugar or salt, nor do I eat any simple carbs of any kind. And no milk.
He's got me on some oil-based capsules to introduce good cholesterol back into my system.

 

[thør]

I have the opposite problem - my cholesterol levels are way too low.
The doc keeps on at me about how not having enough is just as damaging, if not more so as the body needs a certain amount of cholesterol to function properly.
No matter what tho, I can't bring myself to eat any kind of fatty foods.
My diet consists almost entirely of unprocessed foods, with some extra lean meat and a load of grains/pulses. I don't eat any sugar or salt, nor do I eat any simple carbs of any kind. And no milk.
He's got me on some oil-based capsules to introduce good cholesterol back into my system.

You need to mate with Norwegians who have the dreaded high-C gene. Perhaps moderation can be bred.

 

[Balladeer08]

...perhaps you should just save time and have sweepthefloor book you a bed now.

All she has to do is name the hotel, I'll whip out the credit card. 8)

 

[Balladeer08]

I have the opposite problem - my cholesterol levels are way too low.
The doc keeps on at me about how not having enough is just as damaging, if not more so as the body needs a certain amount of cholesterol to function properly.
No matter what tho, I can't bring myself to eat any kind of fatty foods.
My diet consists almost entirely of unprocessed foods, with some extra lean meat and a load of grains/pulses. I don't eat any sugar or salt, nor do I eat any simple carbs of any kind. And no milk.
He's got me on some oil-based capsules to introduce good cholesterol back into my system.

Pretty much the same problem in one way: you are going to eat what you like to eat, and not eat things you don't like. And i suspect everyone else is like that to one degree or another. No one is going to eat something they thing tastes horrible, no matter how many people claim it is good for them.

For me, sushi and tofu are just never going to happen, for example.

For you, eating at Fatburgers, it sounds like.

And I still think, for both of us, that there are some things we already eat that we could emphasize and eat more of to improve the numbers. If only we could beat the answers out of the doctors.

You can't just say "No fast food places". That's b.s. Some of them are serving "apple spears" in place of french fries. Are apples from Burger King different than apples from the supermarket? I doubt it.

There are things on the menu that will work. At least some will work better than others. Which ones are they?

This is like saying you need to be a master mechanic to drive a car. While I'm sure it would not hurt, it is not necessary.

It would be so much more "consumer friendly" to point out the better choices from the options that exist. I'd be on board already, and doing better than I have been. Instead of eating pretty much the same way while I try to figure it out.

I'm going to have Thanksgiving dinner now. Turkey, the white meat. Gravy, stuffing, mashed potatoes, corn, biscuits, cranberry sauce. And a slice of pumpkin pie. Milk and coffee. Why? Because it is what I normally eat on Thanksgiving, and I was given no alternatives. No useful information from the Dr. I'm sure he'll just bitch about it later. And I'll ignore him. Respect is earned.

 

[eyer]

All she has to do is name the hotel, I'll whip out the credit card. 8)

Obviously, you've misread me again: I posted "sweepthefloor"...

...not "redheadedtexan".

But, be advised:

Ever the pro, she demands "cash up front".