"Lisa" <name_at_place_dot_whatever> wrote in message
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"Ignoramus6625" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Maybe eating less red meat and dairy and more chicken, fish and nuts
would improve your cholesterol numbers, even though it is not obvious
whether those numbers would result in some actual health improvements.
Looking at what I've been eating (and drinking), there is cream I can cut.
I'll have one black first thing in the morning, then 2 with a T. cream
during the day. Funny, I never put anything in my coffee before lc, I got
to thinking, why should I now? And it's becomming a "habit", and I feel
if
Quoted message said:it's something I *have* to have, I shouldn't have it. I'm replacing the
bottled salad dressings
with olive oil, vinegar and herbs. I think I will use that for my
veggies instead of the usual pat of butter, also. The other "red flag" I
can remove is the steak-um roll -up I'll have a few days a week. I got to
thinking about the hardened grease on my counter top grill after cooking
up
Quoted message said:a serving...yuck. I'll use sliced chicken or turkey instead. And there
is
Quoted message said:always fish.
This sounds good. I would be interested to hear about your improvements,
if any, over the next few months.
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There are things I can tweak, and it gives me an opportunity to eat even
better than I have been. This could be a challenge, one I need.
Challenges
Quoted message said:are a good thing.
Your overall numbers don't seem too bad. Trigs are good, and TC/HDL ratio
is 3.89. Not that bad, and if you have no other risk factors, like family
history, diabetes, smoking, it's even better. Total Cholesterol is over 200,
but not way out of line.
For me, I would much rather bring my cholesterol numbers down through
diet and exercise, rather than drugs. Most doctors probably would have the
opinion to nip a slight increase in the bud by prescribing drugs early. They
may not see too many people bring their levels down. Since only a very few
are successful at keeping the weight off, they probably only see numbers
that continue to get worse by age and weight increase. Understandable from
that point of view.
My own cholesterol numbers have improved by eating low carb and
exercising. It was also suggested to me that I should consider cholesterol
lowering drugs in the past. The advise to me in the mean time was to eat low
fat and high carb. I had done that for a good many years without results. I
was astounded by both reading and experience that lowering carb consumption
actually works to lower cholesterol.
I have no medical training (other than basic life support), so what I say
shouldn't be taken as advice.
Tom
210/180/180
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There are more questions here, than there are answers.
Quoted message said:Good luck, keep us posted.
Thanks, Ig, it's great to be able to bounce things off others. Yep, it
will
Quoted message said:be interesting to see in 3-6 months. Between this and
working out 3-4 times a week, maybe I'll actually break this up and down
weight plateau and drop some bf along the way.
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Lisa
208/154/145-150
High weight in 2004: 228
Low-carb since June 2004
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