LolaDeeDaisy23 wrote: »

@ladipoet Was it hard to remain confident that the numbers were eventually going to go down? A coworker at work recently found out his total cholesterol is 400-something!! He said switched his regular sugar consumption to honey. I asked him if it were the same thing? The body would process honey the same as it processes regular sugar. He and another coworker argued that honey is heart healthy and lowers cholesterol. No point in arguing with people who know and who's doctor recommended honey... I didn't want to recommend eating LCHF and cause an all out war lol
What fats were you predominantly eating?

@LolaDeeDaisy23 ...I really wasn't too worried because of all the reading and research on Keto I'd done myself in the first couple of years after switching over to this WOE. In the course of doing that research, I learned A LOT about cholesterol, how it works, what it does, and the fact that it takes your body a LONG time to be able to deal with the glut of cholesterol that you are putting back into play during the weight-loss phase. My weight-loss phase lasted 22.5 months (just shy of 2 years) which seems like a long time to me/us...but the body does things on it's own time and I suspect that 22.5 months is a relatively short time for the body especially when you take into consideration the fact that I successfully eliminated 167 pounds during that time. I will admit that I was a little bit bummed out at last year's test results because I'd hoped that they would have turned out to be better than they were (wishful thinking). At that point (2016 test results) I was also a growing slightly more concerned because I had transitioned over into maintenance a couple of months prior to last year's lab work but I also didn't have a clue as to how long one needed to be in maintenance at a relatively stable weight before the cholesterol finally leveled out and returned to a more normal baseline. At that time, I decided to be patient and give myself one more year to see if everything would resolve with the next year's bloodwork and lucky for me, the extra time did the trick.

I hear ya on the sugar v. honey argument (rolling eyes). I wonder if your co-workers know enough to buy the cloudy, unfiltered / unprocessed stuff at least? I'm guessing probably not. lol

I did and still do tend to get my fats from meat (beef, turkey, pork and BACON, chicken, little bit of fish and seafood here and there), eggs, nuts, dairy (HWC, sour cream, cream cheese, cottage cheese, quark, butter, other kinds of cheeses). I did/do also use olive oil and coconut oil (and coconut milk). My favorite sources of fats still remain HWC followed by butter and BACON (have I mentioned that I love ALL THINGS BACON yet.....??!! LOLZ)