Good Cholesterol/Bad Cholesterol
Ok, confession time. Here are my numbers, fresh from the doctor’s office.
180
136
40
Hmmm. I won’t keep you in suspense. The 180 is my overall cholesterol, apparently. The 136 is the “bad” cholesterol. The 40 is the “good” cholesterol. That always seems unfair to the bad cholesterol to me. Like what did he ever do except have freckles, attitude and be crappy in high school sports prompting his dad to scream at him, “You’re weak. Your intensity is for sh#$!” And the good cholesterol just pretends to be nice, and puts puffy stickers on your trapper keeper but she’s really liable to steal your boyfriend behind your back in a couple of years and talk about how awful it must be for you to have to wear homespun to school.
So, I turned my health over to my husband. He’s going to help my cholesterol by choking me to death. He’s given me his vitamin regimen. I’ve decided to just do what he says because he continually loses weight on a diet of beer and vegetables.
This is what he makes me take.
How many weight watcher’s points is in selenium do you think? What IS selenium? It makes me gag and I hate it but I do it for him out of love. All I know is that when I’m done w/ my daily pills, I’m totally full. So maybe that’s helping. 
I think it’s really cool that you got a pill box that’s labeled like that one is. Where’d you get it … I want one! Hey, at least it’s real minerals and stuff, not those herbal supplement thingies that all taste like you’re eating parsley flakes and dried grass from the mower. Want some tree bark? I actually know where to get it in a capsule!
My gentleman friend forces me to take vegetarian multivitamins… he also only cooks vegetarian; due to the fact that he is the only one who cooks he also forces me to be vegetarian. Veg multivitamins taste like selenium sounds… like piss.
Ugh. I hate the selenium. Even if I plug my nose. I swear I can still smell it through my mouth.
i think you just need to give it a silly name and ritual. like call the pill Selenium Dion and sing “My Heart Will Go On” and then take it.
Yeah, that would make me puke too
Selenium Dion. Aw yeah, and then I can yell at it and say I hate you beeyotch. See how you like me now. And then swallow it into my belleh so she shuts up. Yeah.
Ooooh, also…Kiki’s going on vacation in a few weeks and I think she’s totally scared about what I might post when she’s gone. {maniacal giggle}
I’ll have to monitor the goings on at these here crazytown blog from my remote Sangria Fuel location.
and that reminds me 43 days until i have to show parts of my body in a resort environment.. or risk being like that mmmm mmmm mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm then there was this girl who wouldn’t put the shorts on even though she was in Florida… it was big hit
Greta, I looked up Selenium and it’s used mainly in photo cells or car batteries (I can’t remember which)so, yes, he IS trying to kill you! RUN,RUN FAST! It had some more definitions, but I had to get this message to you so I didn’t read all the rest of the blah, blah, blah. Bless you, Child.
Kiki … that’s odd, in your graphic you don’t look like a Crash Test Dummy …
I’ve got a great cholesterol specific one–Oil of Evening Primrose. Since my mom had her first heart attack at 40 this is a subject near and dear to my 44 year old heart.
Also, when looking at cholesterol, look at your good to bad cholesterol ratio. It’s more meaningful than just the numbers.
Don’t even look at the WW points for fish oil…you’ll never take em’ again! Just kidding I don’t know what they are but I never considered supplements adding to the points but I think they do!
I’m so glad someone understood that comment Luna!
And noble pig.. I never even THOUGHT of WW points for supplements. I better check it but YIKES that could be bad. By the way noble pig’s site is gorgeous y’all. I just checked it.. very talented with the camera.
“Like what did he ever do except have freckles, attitude and be crappy in high school sports prompting his dad to scream at him, “You’re weak. Your intensity is for shit!”
Ha! The Breakfast Club, right?
I know I should take a multivitamin. Occasionally I even remember to do so. But I have no idea what selenium is.
I have been queasy all day. There were earthworms under my morning paper. This made any kind of supplement off limits today. Sigh.
OMG MPM. That’ve put me off food for the day. Crap…I want earthworms under my paper!
MPM and her earthworms! I happened to be on the phone
with her when she discovered said earthworms. I love her
but she is most definitely an earthworm wimp! (Take
a moment to visit my website tomorrow for a blow by blow
recreation of our “earthworm” discussion.)
Must admit I take no supplements. Look at my face and
you’ll be able figure that out without even asking me.
(sigh)
MentalP pointed me here and I’m glad she did! I’m
enjoying your site a immensely!
Welcome anniebb. I shall wonder over shortly (er…’cuz I’m only 5′ 3″)
They talk about selenium a lot on Forensic Files. That’s not a good sign.
Earthworms are cool. They eat paper.
I would eat a live worm for $100.
Wow…your husband is tyring to kill you and is covering it up to LOOK like he’s trying to make you healthier?! Sneaky bastard, that one. I’d sleep with on eye open if I were you!