DH has VERY High Cholesterol...

[jingleboob 5]

Is anyone following a cholesterol and trigliceride lowering diet? After too long, finally got the DH into the Dr for a check up... we knew he had high cholesterol, his dad's had 2 heart attacks, so we wanted to get it under control. They started him on Lipitor and had us go to nutrition counseling about his diet...

His overall cholesterol was 255... very high. His good was only 28, low. and triglicerides were over 700... the high end of the chart ended at 500 so he's in serious trouble. They couldn't calculate his bad cholesterol numbers because of how high the triglicerides are.

So we've got to be super serious about a diet for him that will bring those numbers down.

This is actually a good thing... and I do feel a little guilty about feeling this way. I had my surgery in August, and haven't had the greatest success... I know I haven't been eating right, I know my willpower to say no to candy or ice cream or pizza when it's in front of me is very weak. He hasn't been the greatest help in that area... he didn't "get" that. He still ordered pizza, got mcdonalds, brought home ice cream and candy and brownies... and I enjoyed what I could. But now that he can't do those things anymore he's miserable, and I'm thinking "Finally, we can get rid of the junk we shouldn't eat!!!". So I'm hoping this is good for BOTH of us...

Anyway, If you're on a diet for cholesterol or triglicerides please let me know some tips... any favorite books, cookbooks, or recipes? He's in a major shock having NEVER been on a "diet" in his life, he's obsessed with food like he's never been because he can't have most of it. So I want to be able to make a few things that are satisfying for him so he doesn't feel so deprived. I understand how that feels, and I know that if you can find a thing or two that you love on the "diet" it makes it easier to say no to the bad...

But we're going 100% into this for his health... I want him around another 50 years at least, and I want to be there too.

[reverie 49]

Maybe the following will help:

http://my.clevelandclinic.org/heart/prevention/nutrition/triglycerides.aspx

http://www.all-about-lowering-cholesterol.com/diet-to-lower-triglycerides.html

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art48761.asp