October 28
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@MadisonMolly2017 I am changing up my keto-ish diet after a year and a half because my Cholesterol numbers dramatically changed for the worse. My Doctor's nurse called yesterday and tried to scold me like a child and I pointed out all of my fats were out the roof but my ratio was still good. (I peeked at my blood work as soon as I got the email they were in on Tuesday.) Silence. "He still wants to see you." So I go Tuesday to appease them. I am just afraid he will want me to go straight on statins. So I am on day 2 of lowering my numbers. Another dietary change. We can cheer one another on.3
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@MadisonMolly2017 and @tahm42 I am with you on trying to improve cholesterol numbers--specifically LDL for me. Even though my LDL isn't at a risky state, my doctor and I have noticed it has slowly been creeping up. Some of it could be age (I'm 61) so liver isn't metabolizing as efficiently as when I was younger, but I wondered out loud to my doctor if it could be the PORK RINDS. I think it was 2017 or 2018 that DH started to eat low carb (but not Keto) to lose weight (he ended up losing 45 lbs!) and that's when pork rinds entered our house and there has been a regular supply of them in the house since then! I have to admit DH isn't the only one who has been eating the pork rinds!
Anyways, I decided to challenge myself and give up pork rinds for a year and see if that lowers my LDL any. My doctor even wrote this on my "After Visit Summary" on Wednesday:
My LDL (Bad) Cholesterol numbers (standard range is 0-99 mg/dl):
2018 - 103
2019 - 108
2020 - 111
2021 - 116
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@slimtastesbetter Mine are way high. 50 to 60 points each. In just a year and half time of a keto diet I went from good to bad. I would hope he would give me a chance to change it back to normal through diet before drugs. I take enough meds for my asthma and allergies, I don't want more. Just another issue on my plate. Hopefully that won't mess with the surgeons decision to do surgery on the mass in my abdomen.4
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@tahm42 wow, that is amazing what can happen after a year and a half on keto! Hopefully the diet changes you're making will make the numbers go down quickly. 🙏ing that the mass doesn't get any bigger.2
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October 29, 2021
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
Kitchen Closed? Yes
Did you go "nuts" with nuts today? No (25 days -free)
Over Sugar macro today? No (17 days)
Pass day 1/3 (this is for accountability to myself and my records).
Working hard to be in the Winner's Circle.... still approaching it.. 2 more days to go!2 -
I'm not chiming in to claim any expertise or really to offer any advice, just to tell my tale of cholesterol given the conversation.
In 2006 I had low HDL, very high LDL and ridiculously high triglycerides. No surprise to me given my eating habits. I did not want to go on statins. I spent the next 18 months going vegetarian and even vegan to eliminate ALL dietary cholesterol (I spent a year of that as a RAW VEGAN...YIKES...in good fun, nothing personal against any vegans or raw vegans, but understand I was doing it for the wrong reasons, for health, not ethics). My numbers did not improve all that much, in fact my HDL numbers worsened. I was advised that given my family history of high cholesterol and with my body's own propensity to regulate itself at unhealthy cholesterol levels even in the complete absence of dietary cholesterol that I should reconsider my stance on the statins, and I did. While the statins helped my numbers far more than diet ever did, it was when I lost a lot of weight using a doctor recommended low carb diet to help with pre-diabetes and after I started running in 2014 that really brought my numbers in line. I stopped taking all my meds just prior to the start of the lockdown when I was in a bad place mentally. I didn't care any more. When I decided to bring my health back in focus this year my approach was to use what worked for me previously. I went keto since the low-carb diet worked so well, and made sure to exercise! I had my blood drawn on September 22nd after 6 months in ketosis and all of my cholesterol numbers were well within the normal ranges, actually the best readings since I was first diagnosed with high cholesterol back in 2006. I also took my doctors advice about getting back on the statins because despite my numbers being acceptable right now, there is more than enough clinical evidence showing a reduction in cases of cardiac related death on statins whether they currently had bad cholesterol numbers or otherwise. So I am taking them again simply as a safeguard, same reason I take a daily low-dose aspirin.
Again, just my experience, not any sort of advice. I am but a sample of one here. But my own sample of one can say with accuracy that my doctor has rarely been wrong, while my own second guessing has been wrong more often than not.3 -
victorious55 wrote: »October 29, 2021
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? Yes
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? Yes
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes
Kitchen Closed? Yes
Did you go "nuts" with nuts today? No (25 days -free)
Over Sugar macro today? No (17 days)
Pass day 1/3 (this is for accountability to myself and my records).
Working hard to be in the Winner's Circle.... still approaching it.. 2 more days to go!
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Date: 10/28
Exercised ?: YES Couch 2 5k Week 7 Day 2 did 3 miles.
Calories ? YES
Tracked? YES
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*Follow UAC rules 👍
*Continue to maintain weight 👍
* Actively use grazing container daily👍
* Stretch as much as possible 👎
* Monitor sugars👎
* Journal write👎
* Hve me time👍
* Use complaints free braclet👍
* Keep phone usage to a minimum👍
Yes for winners circle for me @Mrs_Hoffer3 -
10/28/2021 (I think I foothills to log on here last night).
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Oct 28th
Track eats/drinks? Yes
Within calorie budget? Yes
Exercise? Treadmill 20min walk1 -
Did I exercise for at least 20 minutes? No
Did I stay within my calorie budget for the day? No
Did I keep track of everything I ate and drank? Yes2 -
✅ Exercise: weightlifting and 45 minutes of swimming
✅ Calories
✅ Tracked
2 pass days used (Oct 12, Oct 23)
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