Debt Dumpers 2025

[ruadisneyfan2]

I'm going to be very direct here: your wife is an AH. She's literally sabotaging EVERYTHING you keep working towards to better your life. It's literally emotional manipulation and abuse. I've been there and you'll never achieve what you're working on unless you either go to counseling together or split. Refusing to try and get financially stable? Red flag. Refusing to let you make meals because "the house will smell"? Open a window and light a candle. Using too much water because you need a shower after "sweating and smelling"? Get the eff out of here with that. Your water bill isn't going to increase THAT much by taking another shower.

I just can't handle seeing how awful you're allowing her to treat you and STRONGLY look into some kind of counseling.

Thank you for saying this in a much more polite way than I could. I just get too wound up and lose control so I won't even go there.

 

[ruadisneyfan2]

I will say, my cholesterol is still good with my 'oatmeal for breakfast' routine that I started a few years ago. Lucky for me I don't get tired of things very easily. I've been with the same man for 33 years, in the same house for 29 years and at the same job for 35 years. lol! I can handle it.

Our nurse practitioner at our dr office said dietary fiber works like little tiny sponges that suck up cholesterol from your body.

Metamucil has lots of fiber too and Amazon has a cereal (yes, I know it's processed) that's called Poop Like a Champion. It has 23 grams of fiber in a 1/3 cup serving. If you're not familiar with usual amounts of fiber, that is a huge amount. Way more than oatmeal and Metamucil combined. Don't eat a whole bowl of it though. Stick to the serving size until you know how your body responds. The chocolate flavor is nasty and I tossed the rest of the box. Cinnamon was ok but I can't find that lately so I'm stuck with plain.

So, really, it's not just oatmeal for breakfast. I'm all about fiber now.



Hershey's chocolate with almonds, for the benefit of eating the almond, is defeating the purpose. Buy a bag of almonds and a nutcracker. They also sell them already shelled. Pistachios have a lot of fiber too.

Also even if your wife eventually lets you eat seafood, shrimp is high in cholesterol so avoid that.

Good luck.

 

[barkley]

My sister opted for a double though she didn't have to and didn't have the gene but she has a lot of anxiety

the breast cancer genetic testing that has come to be is a phenominal thing. just before the testing became available my family member (by marriage) was diagnosed with breast cancer. YOUNG woman in her early 20's who after weighing all the options (available at the time) decided to do a double b/c she felt she would never wake a single morning without worry. after her surgery as her extended family learned of the diagnosis she heard a few too many times 'you made the right decision-anything you can do for your health, women in our family haven't had a good history of long lives' so she started inquiring and found that the 'old school' mindset (and I say this knowing it was still the practice when I was growing up in the 70's and 80's) of some kind of weird misplaced shame/fear of using the word cancer let alone disclosing you/someone in your family had it had likely hidden an extensive history of breast cancer in her family. digging deeper she learned of great aunts, great grandmothers and great -greats all whose deaths were never really discussed and just explained away with vague explantions like 'her body turned against her' or 'she took Ill and there was no cure' (which for many cancers there were not). she dove into some death certificates and found a definite trend.

these are the advances in research and medicine that I am very thankful for.

 

[huggybuff]

I will say, my cholesterol is still good with my 'oatmeal for breakfast' routine that I started a few years ago. Lucky for me I don't get tired of things very easily. I've been with the same man for 33 years, in the same house for 29 years and at the same job for 35 years. lol! I can handle it.

Our nurse practitioner at our dr office said dietary fiber works like little tiny sponges that suck up cholesterol from your body.

Metamucil has lots of fiber too and Amazon has a cereal (yes, I know it's processed) that's called Poop Like a Champion. It has 23 grams of fiber in a 1/3 cup serving. If you're not familiar with usual amounts of fiber, that is a huge amount. Way more than oatmeal and Metamucil combined. Don't eat a whole bowl of it though. Stick to the serving size until you know how your body responds. The chocolate flavor is nasty and I tossed the rest of the box. Cinnamon was ok but I can't find that lately so I'm stuck with plain.

So, really, it's not just oatmeal for breakfast. I'm all about fiber now.



Hershey's chocolate with almonds, for the benefit of eating the almond, is defeating the purpose. Buy a bag of almonds and a nutcracker. They also sell them already shelled. Pistachios have a lot of fiber too.

Also even if your wife eventually lets you eat seafood, shrimp is high in cholesterol so avoid that.

Good luck.

 

[firefly_ris]

Take a guess - how many bowls of your bran cereal would it take to equal the fiber content of one bowl of Colon Blow?

 

[Nettlelondon]

I agree it is money well spent. Of all the silly things in life we spend money on, the things for our health and peace of mind are well worth it. Our dental insurance only covers 2 cleanings/exams per year but by 6 months later, my teeth feel gross, despite brushing 2x/day, flossing every night and using a fluoride rinse as my last step before bed. So several years ago I started going every 4 months and pay about $120 for the 3rd visit. My teeth need to last a lifetime so it's worth it to me. Also they never really get bad so she doen't have to pick and scrape so much. I got the idea from our previous, now retired dentist, when our kids were in braces and not doing such a great job of cleaning their teeth. Sure beats having to have braces temporarily removed to fill cavities then put back on.

I always joke with my patients, "In here, size doesn't matter."
Some are like not much more than the skin I can pull on the back of my hand and others spill over both sides. It's all good. We get good pictures on everyone, and we do men too. Never feel self concious about size. All we care about is getting good quality pictures with as minimal discomfort as possible, and people getting happy news. That last part is beyond our control.

May I ask, do you have red hair? Many people with red hair are very resistant to local anesthetic and often need much more than others do with different hair colors. We didn't learn this in school but more than one of my patients with red hair have told me this. The human body is amazing.

I don't have red hair - but there is a lot of red hair in the family so I suspect I have some of the genes, just not enough to be red as it were.

 

[huggybuff]

Take a guess - how many bowls of your bran cereal would it take to equal the fiber content of one bowl of Colon Blow?

Absolutely iconic!

 

[Nettlelondon]

My sister opted for a double though she didn't have to and didn't have the gene but she has a lot of anxiety. It's a lifetime of follow up so you have to do what works for you. For my sister, it was a good decision.

I had a long discussion with the surgical team about this but it would have been much more major surgery and given previous experiences we wanted to keep that to a minimum, reconstruction would have had to have been via an implant as there was nowhere suitable to take flesh from on me and no one was really happy with that idea. But it was all done on the condition that if I changed my mind, and the anxiety ever proved too much, I could go back and have the double then.

So far it is proving manageable, but who knows what the future may bring.