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writes:Help please!My husband of 6 years has recently been diagnosed with high cholestrol. And I mean very high. He had chest pains one night and turned out he was getting angina pain. And he is at high risk of a heart attack. He is only 41y old. It was such a shock. He is so young!So now a strick diet has been implemented by the dr.The kids and I are also abiding by this diet in order to support him. Abd since this is likely to be genetic, they will do well learning how to eat low fat.I do take them out now and then to have ice cream or burgers or pizza. But only when husband is working or away. It has been so hard for us to fit in with his strict low fat diet! But I figured it would only be good for the boys to learn healthy eating at young age. But I find it hard not to have crisps or any nice food in the house. I have had to relearn how to cook low fat foods and desserts etc. But all in a good cause right?I do sneak to the bakery and have a custard danish ever so often myself though. We had our children late, so they are still very young. And I really dont want them to grow up without a father! Problem is, he has a hard time to stick to this diet, and he comes home smelling of tortillas or chips or something fried. I have tried yelling at him, 'how could you? We are making an effort to keep to the diet and YOU for whom it is crucial, eat what you want'. I have tried begging him to eat better. I have tried telling him that he would not see his children grow up, never mind grandchildren. I have tried crying and telling him how much I will miss having him not around when he is dead.I have joked with him about getting a sexy younger husband if he dies! But no avail. I make low fat alternatives of fish (bread crumbs and baked) and chips (first boiled then grilled with low fat spray) and loads of vinegar and salt. But he wants the real thing.Omelets with one yolk and three egg whites, but he wants cheese. He sometimes comes home late from work, and turns out he went to a friend and had pork chops on the barbeque there!I have gotten this friend (imagine guy with big belly and overweight who likes his alcohol, smoking and high fat foods) alone and begged him to stop feeding me hubby. Explaining that he could die from this. And the little sh@t told me to chil, and live hard, die yound and have a good looking body nonsense. Can you flipping believe that?! He doesn't sound like friend at all. He is on the Lipitor as well. Only thing is he doesnt have genetic problem.What can I do to help my husband.Thanks for your input
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reader, Jazzmen  +, writes (21 December 2015):
My husband is also eating himself to death. He has been eating 3 loaves of bread a week. H e eats 3 meals and in between meals makes a triple decker nutella(chocolate) sandwich along with any other thing he can find. The doctor has warned him. He is so slowed down now because of his weight I am afraid he is going to lose his job. They depend on his speed and agility to get the job done. I am afraid I will hear a humongous thud on the floor from another room and it will be him from a heart attack. He will do nothing to change it. The doctor gave him diet pills to block the fat and said it should take off 20 pounds and he gained even more weight taking them. I am terrified of what is going to happen to him. I have told the doctor but he doesn't do anything either. My advice to you is to pray and trust God. I have made good meals but he makes a triple decker sandwich afterward. It is out of my hands and in God's.
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reader, anonymous, writes (11 July 2008): I kinda know what your going through, I'm 14 and my dad, who's in his late 30s, had a heart attack because of his weight a few months ago, he's trying now though. You should stick with what you're doing, keep the house in the healthy eating reigeme (sp?) and having the support from the family. Now, the reasonable way is to talk to him again, make him understand that what's going on affects more than one person, if that doesn't work, make him take a pact lucnch or something to work, with no money on him so he can't go out afterwards or anything like that, it may seem a bit extreme, but hopefully it will work, and he will see how serious you are about this.
Good luck, hope this helped.
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