lowering cholesterol

Eat almonds and avoid eggs. Of course, exercise helps the most. I recently started working out 4-5 days a week and have lowered mine several points, after the doc said mine was high about a year ago.

Good luck!

The best things you can do is to incorporate 30 minutes of activity each day, even if it is just a walk until you build some strength, and to transition to ONLY eating "clean" and healthy food. Make sure to only eat "healthy" fats such as olive or flax oil, nuts, natural peanut butter and avacado for example.
Give up all prepared and processed foods at once, they are absolute poison to your body!

My cholesterol was a little high 6 months ago. I went to the health food store and bought some Kolic Cholesterol control - they are a garlic supplement (nothing harmful or nasty). I do walk everyday 30/40 minutes - and I am lazy as well - but find I miss it if I don't do it. My blood tests were 2 weeks ago and it had come down considerably, in fact I don't need another test for 12 months. I think the combination of these two things really helped.

Not only changing your diet but Fish Oil as well. Per my Dr I take 2 - Omega 3 Fish Oil SoftGels everyday. 1 with lunch & 1 with dinner. I wil be curious come June for my annual appt to see what kind of a difference its made.:bigsmile:

I'm in the same boat. Trying to lose weight and lower cholesterol. I did some research on lone and the Name Dr. Janet Brill kept coming up. You can google her. Her book, Cholesterol Down, is great. After reading all of the user reviews on Amazon.com for the book, I decided to try it. Her basic premise is that to lower cholesterol without drugs, you should eat 9 foods every day and walk. (Some of them are the suggestions you've seen here, but there are more you might not have thought of. ). I won't have my next test until Easter week, but if you're interested, I can let you know how I did.

Good Luck!

What can you do. Well, some of high cholesterol is genetics, and you can't do much about that. Some is diet and lifestyle. To deal with that you need to:

Control What You Eat--Cholesterol is a result of various things, but a big part of it is eating too many calories. Dietary cholesterol (from say eggs) may or may not have an effect on blood cholesterol, but eating a clean healthy diet that is very high in fiber (think veggies, beans, whole grains) and lower in fat (notice I did not say extremely low in fat) will help a lot. Focus on veggies, fruit, whole grains, beans and lean meats. Keep your calories down as well. If you need to lose weight that will be the major component of losing weight as well. High fiber is particularly important, much higher in fact than MFP suggests. I would shoot for at least 28 grams per day minimum. Work up to that gradually.

Get Moving--Exercise has a positive effect on cholesterol. You said you don't like exercise, and if you are extremely overweight (in the obese categories of BMI) that would be no surprise. However, whether you like it or not, you need to get up and moving. Starting with walking at least 30 minutes every day would be good, but eventually your body will adapt to that and walking will not do much for you fitness wise then you will need to find something more intense. If you are like many people they find as they lose weight getting active is much easier, and they want to do it more. Find something you like. Exercise DVDs are a great way to increase intensity of exercise. You will also eventually want to incorporate some Interval training and strength training (or the two together) to increase you fat lose, and they will help with other health markers like cholesterol as well.

When I found out I was borderline high I read a bunch on the internet and several sources say eat oatmeal. I've been eating 1oz of oatmeal every morning since then. I also started walking 20 minutes a day, adding 5 minutes each week. I'm at 40 minutes a day now. I get retested in 2 months.
If you'd like to friend me I'll be happy to let you know if it worked.