u/Anna8675

Hi! I’m new to statins. I’ve been in ignore
mode on my cholesterol. I stay trim and exercise and don’t eat terrible, but my brother recently had a scare and I was motivated to get going on bloodwork.

255 overall. I don’t have the test results on me, but the scary part was the big and little cholesterol particles floating around. Wayyyyyy beyond average and I’m a 61 year old woman. Still way above for my age group.

My question is
Since I’m on the statin and good about taking it, can I have some ice cream 1x a week and a filet on occasion? My diet is pretty good otherwise. Martini on weekends. Gave up regular cheese. I’m kind of lost on what to eat but I’m focusing on avoid saturated fats as much as possible. I’m leaning heavy into chicken.

My best friend was engaged to be married at the end of May. Stella (age 32 ) and Mark age 31 have been together since college 8 years now. Also they were best friends in high school. They have lived together for 3 years.
Easy to say they knew each other very well.
About 2 months ago, Stella decided to pick up Marks iPad and look through it. She had been listening to some of her friends conversations about snooping and realized she never had. I told her not to as the wedding was close. Well she did and what a game changer!
In the iPad Stella found a secret photo vault in hidden area. She guessed on the passcode and it worked. Upon looking through the album, Stella found a trove of photos of all their female friends in bikinis. Each friend had an album with their name on it. There were over 20. Oddly, each album also had close ups of the various girls feet, cropped from bikini pics.
Long story short, Stella was clueless about foot fetish. The album also had feet photos of Stella’s feet taken while she was sleeping.
A little counseling and lots of tears later wedding was cancelled.
Seems that we get opinions ranging from “not that bad” to “holy moly! Future serial killer”
Welcoming thoughts and opinions. This is a true story. He literally had two sides.