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It's amazing what a little education can do. I've been doing some research and tracking my food and it's actually really easy for me to cut cholesterol in my diet. I've been eating meat at only dinner usually, because that's what my husband and two teenage sons will eat, and that one meal involving meat doesn't come close to overdoing the cholesterol.

According to what I've seen, I should have 200mg or less of dietary cholesterol per day if I want to lower mine. I've been averaging less than 100. I've also been eating less calories, not because I'm really trying, but I'm practically a vegetarian now, lol, and I don't even eat butter, eggs or cheese anymore, so maybe I'll slim down too.

Also, it turns out the things I should be eating are things that I like, so this is easier than I expected. The only thing that is a little tough is that everyone else I hang out with is doing low carb, high protein now, and I'm basically the opposite :-)

I've been good about getting to the gym because it feels good and I'm a much nicer mom when I can sweat out the stress. No alcohol on weekdays, and when I do drink, it's red wine or whiskey, because beer bloat is not my friend.

In all, I've made some fairly major changes to my diet in the last 2 weeks. Now it's about maintenance and making this my lifestyle, not a diet. So far, the keys to keeping me on track are easy shakes in the morning and taking the time to wash and prep all the produce I buy on Sundays. So far, so good.

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1537 kcal

Vet: 64,22g | Eiwit: 93,23g | Kolhy: 165,89g. Ontbijt: Bananas, Orgain Organic Protein Plant Based Protein Powder Sweet Vanilla Bean, Good Grains Whole Flax Seed, Oats, Silk Vanilla Almond Creamer, Silk Light Vanilla Soymilk. Lunch: Honey Smoked Fish Co Honey Smoked Salmon, Walnuts, Mushrooms, Sabra Classic Hummus, Gala Apples, Spinach, Simple Truth Orange Miso Dressing. Diner: Cooked Broccoli (Fat Added in Cooking), Salmon. Snacks/Andere: Blue Diamond Almond Nut-Thins - Pecan Nut & Rice Cracker Snacks, Clementines. meer...

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Sounds like you are doing some good work. I recommend reading current research articles especially within the last few years. Dietary cholesterol as been debunked as a cause of increased cholesterol in humans. It was just an assumption, one that has been shown to be incorrect. Keep up the diet, gym work and watching the alcohol.

05 feb 18 door lid: t_ann19

I haven't thought much about cholesterol but it is a problem in my family and it must be genetic. I'm definitely going to read about it tomorrow. My mother was underweight most of her life and needed medication for it and high blood pressure. I always had a mini trampoline and that was my stress relief!

06 feb 18 door lid: Charlotte_15

t_ann19, yes I have read that dietary cholesterol doesn't have much effect on total cholesterol in the body, but even if it helps a little bit and keeps me off of a lifetime of pills at barely 40 years old, I'll do it.

06 feb 18 door lid: pennym1

Pennym1: for the first time in my life my lab tests showed high total cholesterol and high LDL. Put me in kind of a panic mode. I know people on this site say eating foods with cholesterol doesn't give you high cholesterol. But I'm guessing they don't have high cholesterol. Once you know it's higher than it should be it makes sense to find out what foods are high in cholesterol and avoid them. Like you, I try to stay under 200mg of cholesterol a day and it isn't hard. I eat foods with good fat, like avocados and nuts and usually have only one meal with some kind of meat in it to get enough protein. I asked my doctor what could have made my cholesterol get high in just 3 months (while losing weight) and he asked if I had been eating shrimp which is high in cholesterol. I hadn't been eating shrimp but had been eating lots of eggs. Good luck with what you are doing. I'll know in June when I get new lab results if reducing/eliminating foods that are high in cholesterol has done any good.

06 feb 18 door lid: Fritzy 22

omega 3 fats (fish oil) are supposed to reduce cholesterol and truglycerides. You can take them in supplement form too, if you can't get them via food. Also garlilc, onions are supposed to lower LDL while oilve oil increases the good cholesterol HDL. https://youtu.be/uhbjQYy9hDo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhbjQYy9hDo

06 feb 18 door lid: wantprebabysize


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