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This is unexpected. Cholesterol levels high after losing 40lbs
Posted on 8/25/21 at 3:48 pm
Posted on 8/25/21 at 3:48 pm
I get my cholesterol checked every year as part of my insurance. I've never had high cholesterol in the 10 years I've been on this insurance. Started eating healthy and working out in December. I've lost 40lbs. I've been losing weight mostly on calorie restriction (fast until noon then eat healthy after that). Don't drink or smoke and I do eat bad foods on occasion but that's the exception not the rule. My diet has been as good as it's ever been in my life. I get about 5-6 hours of cardio a week.
I've never had a primary care doctor and I'm 45 now and probably should have had one a while ago so I called up a local primary care doc that had openings available. Had my first visit where he did a checkup and did some blood work. Called back with the results today and the results say my cholesterol was 256 with my bad cholesterol at 175 and they recommended starting cholesterol lowering medicine. Really wasn't the result I expected after 9 months of eating healthy and losing weight.
I've never had a primary care doctor and I'm 45 now and probably should have had one a while ago so I called up a local primary care doc that had openings available. Had my first visit where he did a checkup and did some blood work. Called back with the results today and the results say my cholesterol was 256 with my bad cholesterol at 175 and they recommended starting cholesterol lowering medicine. Really wasn't the result I expected after 9 months of eating healthy and losing weight.
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Posted on 8/25/21 at 4:31 pm to DeoreDX
What’s your diet look like?
Posted on 8/25/21 at 4:49 pm to FieldEngineer
Just black coffee until lunch.
Lunch is normally a salad (bagged salad with a piece of chicken and a low calorie dressing). No cheese. Or a wrap of some sort. Lots of tuna. Chicken. Or turkey.
Snacks might be a small handful of nuts. Pb and celery. Bananas. Grapes. I like those ~100 calorie Greek yogurt options with low added sugar. Stuff like that. No chips or cookies or junk food.
Dinner I mostly eat whatever I want just in moderation. Sometimes it healthy. I had fried chicken fingers at foosakalys last night. 3 fingers and fries with Buffalo sauce and a diet drink but that's an exception not the rule. Beef stew the day before. Blackened chicken night before that. I try to keep it less than 1000 calories.
Lunch is normally a salad (bagged salad with a piece of chicken and a low calorie dressing). No cheese. Or a wrap of some sort. Lots of tuna. Chicken. Or turkey.
Snacks might be a small handful of nuts. Pb and celery. Bananas. Grapes. I like those ~100 calorie Greek yogurt options with low added sugar. Stuff like that. No chips or cookies or junk food.
Dinner I mostly eat whatever I want just in moderation. Sometimes it healthy. I had fried chicken fingers at foosakalys last night. 3 fingers and fries with Buffalo sauce and a diet drink but that's an exception not the rule. Beef stew the day before. Blackened chicken night before that. I try to keep it less than 1000 calories.
Posted on 8/25/21 at 5:09 pm to DeoreDX
It could be a sign of another problem.
Posted on 8/25/21 at 5:12 pm to DeoreDX
I don't know your entire situation but don't be alarmed. Mine hovers around 220-240 and has been for 15+ years. I swim, bike, run, workout 5-7 days a week for the last 20 years. I eat healthier than the average american by far. I have to deal with this year after year and my Doctor has tried to put me on Lipitor. I just went through it again after bloodwork and he wanted me to see a cardiologist. The cardiologist actually enlightened me about the "science" and showed me everything looks great.
It's all BS IMO because it's not a one size fits all in regards to those numbers. My grandmother lived to 93 on vegan diet and still had a 275 reading. My father and sister all have high cholesterol. I can go on a long diatribe about the science behind cholesterol and how drug companies that push statin drugs have come up with this imaginary "bad" number.
Cutting out sugars can actually raise your levels. Fasting can raise level. Get that, fasting can raise levels yet they want you to fast before getting bloodwork. There is vast amount of info out there explaining it. My advice is read up or watch the plethora of videos on it and then ask your doctor questions.
It's all BS IMO because it's not a one size fits all in regards to those numbers. My grandmother lived to 93 on vegan diet and still had a 275 reading. My father and sister all have high cholesterol. I can go on a long diatribe about the science behind cholesterol and how drug companies that push statin drugs have come up with this imaginary "bad" number.
Cutting out sugars can actually raise your levels. Fasting can raise level. Get that, fasting can raise levels yet they want you to fast before getting bloodwork. There is vast amount of info out there explaining it. My advice is read up or watch the plethora of videos on it and then ask your doctor questions.
This post was edited on 8/25/21 at 5:14 pm
Posted on 8/25/21 at 6:10 pm to DeoreDX
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so I called up a local primary care doc
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they recommended starting cholesterol lowering medicine
Never go back to this doctor. Find one that's not using science from the 1980s
Posted on 8/25/21 at 6:44 pm to DeoreDX
High cholesterol count is overrated
Posted on 8/25/21 at 7:19 pm to DeoreDX
How many hours fasted where you when you had your blood drawn?
I also do IF and had bloodwork while 18 hrs fasted. Results where terrible. A1C was elevated so the re-test the next week. Only 10 hrs fasted and the results were more normal.
That said my cholesterol is normally high
I also do IF and had bloodwork while 18 hrs fasted. Results where terrible. A1C was elevated so the re-test the next week. Only 10 hrs fasted and the results were more normal.
That said my cholesterol is normally high
Posted on 8/25/21 at 9:58 pm to DeoreDX
Are you taking anything supplement-wise?
My total cholesterol has been sub 150 most of my adult life, but one time it was around 200. They wanted to recheck bloodwork 4-5 weeks later for another issue so I dialed back some stuff and everything was back to normal.
My total cholesterol has been sub 150 most of my adult life, but one time it was around 200. They wanted to recheck bloodwork 4-5 weeks later for another issue so I dialed back some stuff and everything was back to normal.
This post was edited on 8/25/21 at 10:00 pm
Posted on 8/25/21 at 10:23 pm to DeoreDX
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Just black coffee until lunch.
Lunch is normally a salad (bagged salad with a piece of chicken and a low calorie dressing). No cheese. Or a wrap of some sort. Lots of tuna. Chicken. Or turkey.
Snacks might be a small handful of nuts. Pb and celery. Bananas. Grapes. I like those ~100 calorie Greek yogurt options with low added sugar. Stuff like that. No chips or cookies or junk food.
Dinner I mostly eat whatever I want just in moderation. Sometimes it healthy. I had fried chicken fingers at foosakalys last night. 3 fingers and fries with Buffalo sauce and a diet drink but that's an exception not the rule. Beef stew the day before. Blackened chicken night before that. I try to keep it less than 1000 calories.
Are you me? Literally what I've been doing for 4 months. Lost 35-40 pounds in that timeframe
Posted on 8/26/21 at 7:54 am to DeoreDX
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Called back with the results today and the results say my cholesterol was 256 with my bad cholesterol at 175 and they recommended starting cholesterol lowering medicine
1) Total cholesterol really doesn't mean anything.
2) LDL isn't necessarily "BAD" cholesterol.
Often, cholesterol will go up during/after weight loss, because your cholesterol is doing its job! That's why it's in your blood. Cholesterol are just transports. It's moving the junk out.
3) Get a new doctor. If he shows you the food pyramid, RUN AWAY from this person.
4) What were your triglycerides and blood glucose?
Last, Congrats on the weight loss
This post was edited on 8/26/21 at 8:04 am
Posted on 8/26/21 at 8:42 am to DeoreDX
Well often enough it's just genetics you know.
Posted on 8/26/21 at 11:43 am to DeoreDX
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Lots of tuna. Chicken. Or turkey.
Cholesterol repairs stuff in your body and gives your brain power. If you have higher* cholesterol than you should it just means something is being repaired. As another person said, triglycerides are more important to watch.
If you are eating a dressing all the time you are probably hurting yourself. I would bet its first or second ingredient is canola, sunflower, or soybean oil. Those are often high in omega 6. I'd just switch to an olive oil and vinegar combo unless you can find an actual healthy salad dressing. Also tuna is pretty questionable to eat more than once or twice a week. It is better to switch to small fish like sardines. They are way higher in omega 3 and they don't have the toxic build up that bigger fish like tuna have.
Posted on 8/26/21 at 12:08 pm to zatetic
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If you are eating a dressing all the time you are probably hurting yourself. I would bet its first or second ingredient is canola, sunflower, or soybean oil. Those are often high in omega 6.
Here is what I normally use.
LINK
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Also tuna is pretty questionable to eat more than once or twice a week.
When I say "A lot of tuna' It's normally 1-2 times a week for lunch only.
Posted on 8/27/21 at 12:39 am to DeoreDX
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bad cholesterol
No such thing
Posted on 8/27/21 at 6:50 am to DeoreDX
Get an LDL-P test and determine if you actually have concerning numbers.
Otherwise, sounds like you are on a good path, stay the course and make minor improvements
Otherwise, sounds like you are on a good path, stay the course and make minor improvements
Posted on 8/28/21 at 1:37 pm to DeoreDX
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Here is what I normally use.
Sorry about getting back to you so late but here is a video to judge whether you think it is healthy enough or not. I mean it isn't as bad as a dressing normally is but it's your call whether it is good. Often whether something is good or not has to be taken in consideration to everything else...
Why Did We All Get Sick? The Nutritional Transition & How Seed Oils Drove It - Tucker Goodrich AHS21
As far as people saying LDL is bad. Apparently they are correct, but only in so far as the LDL has become oxidized (?). This happens in relation to high omega 6 levels, otherwise LDL has no correlation to anything negative at all.
Posted on 8/30/21 at 1:36 pm to zatetic
quote:Isn't that most Americans?
This happens in relation to high omega 6 levels,
Posted on 8/30/21 at 2:04 pm to northshorebamaman
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Isn't that most Americans?
Yes, but it used to not be, as the video I linked shows.
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