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Ok, definitely focusing on eliminating the sugars. One note of concern, take my food intake yesterday for example. I wasn't feeling too hot in the morning so I didn't eat anything until ~1pm or so. So I only ate a total of 1,275 calories. I looked at the details and I am WAY over on sugars (89g). I think the recommended…

I did from junior year of high school (so ~17) until I graduated college (21), then quit for a while then started again when I was about 27 about 1/2 -1/3 pack a day until 2 years ago. Haven't smoked since other than 1 while in Italy on business when I learned another of my friends was leaving the company and sticking me…

Don't drink too often anymore. Not even once a week, usually. And I'm male (I must have forgotten to mention that, sorry) so it's not related to birth control pills :) Thanks for the link on hypertriglceridemia, interesting read and also could be something else causing this. The only medication I was taking was a lot of…

Thanks everyone. Definitely cutting out the sugar is a major thing I am doing. I have been eating too much candy of late (not sure why haha). I am a sucker for skittles, damn things. So no more sugar in my coffee and no more candy. I'm also trying not to eat anything processed (e.g. snack stuff). Doing carrot sticks or…