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Any particular reason for the sharp increase between July20 & April 21 you can think of?

Great progress well done on your efforts so far. For celebrations, Steer clear of high carb alcohol like beer, stick to spirits, wine or champagne. Beware of mixers especially full sugar coke! Cake is a no no though I did have a very small piece of cheesecake without the base last week! So if...

Think that’s more triglycerides (non HDL cholesterol) isn’t it within processed foods? My LDL & overall cholesterol has gone up sharply so far on the LCHF diet, so I’ve reduced intake of fattier meats & things like cream & other dairy. It is though both early days in my dietary change & I maybe...

I used to get fairly high readings on my Libre just before bedtime, lowest readings were always overnight (3am - 6am). Think it maybe partly natural, liver maybe dumping one final load of glucose just before you sleep to keep the body going through the night. One way I found of reducing this is...

There’s a greater urgency if full blown T2 as 48+ on Hba1c is apparently where damaging complications due to the condition start to really take off according to the stats. However really isn’t everybody else pre diabetic pretty much? Looking at the numbers here in the west that are apparently...

Sorry yes meant non HDL, my earlier post did give that impression I agree! Also my Hba1c at end of October was 37 not 36, not sure why I had 36 in my head ...getting old I guess!

I don’t know the LDL though only the total non HDL? I could try and guesstimate the LDL but from my Oct test I guess but it would be a guess!

3 reasons: 1) Side effect risk - particularly if they push up my blood sugar, don’t think the scale of my problem is worth the risk. 2) My increase is directly the result of the new diet, it’s not a long standing or hereditary issue, for which I would see them as a more appropriate strategy. 3)...

Had my GP appointment! Went okay, she wasn’t too concerned as said overall Q Risk score remains low, she didn’t mention statins at all and didn’t think given my historic cholesterol results I had the family hyper cholesterol thingy either. She agreed it was likely the diet change but accepted my...

Agree with this although did read somewhere a while back that the pancreas in people with Pre or T2D tends to look somewhat deformed when viewed, but has been shown to return to a more normal looking state after an extended period of LCHF, so I guess repair of the pancreas structure could lead...

Thanks for this will look him up, I’m not on FB but am on Twitter and now follow him. Yes the Trig score was 1.6 end of October (after 4 weeks on LCHF) but I don’t have the figure before that point or in the latest test. The theory I guess is should now be lower than 1.6, possibly significantly...

Hi mate, @HSSS provided a link to this site and the FAQ has a neat section explaining the theory- see attached. The question is am I a lean hyper responder? The results so far suggest possibly, I’m thin, very active/fit, on a LCHF diet, have high LDL score and high HDL score, the bit of the...

Hi Resurgam, I did lose a fair bit down from 12 stone 1lb to 10 stone 5lb currently, but it’s been stable now for about 10 weeks, how long would you expect it to be for the cholesterol to start settling down?

Thanks Bluetit, it’s about 10% so that’s a pretty big difference, so on that basis I could in theory be anywhere between 36-44 .

Hi Bluetit, Hope you don’t mind a follow up question, as Brunnerial directed me to this thread after I got a surprisingly high Hba1c result yesterday of 40 (surprised as up almost 10% since Oct last year -37, despite unchanged diet & 3 separate Libre sensors between Oct & March all indicating...

Thanks for this, been reading up on stuff this afternoon and the Triglyceride reading is the missing piece of the puzzle, really need that figure as a low number there would suggest I’m a lean hyper responder, the description of which fits my profile (slim, low BMI, lots of exercise, high HDL...

Thanks, it was a BHF calculator, one thing it didn’t include was exercise (which I do a lot of), on Bulkbikers thread there was a link there to high levels of exercise leading to high LDL levels, guess body running on high levels of blood cholesterol to manage the higher exercise levels? Feeling...

Feel a bit happier now, just went on a heart health risk calculator, plugged all the figures in and came back with a heart attack/stroke risk in next 10 years of 2.8%, and average age I’d live before having one is 80, so I’m not a walking heart attack waiting to happen! Interestingly even if I...

Aren’t there some (circa 1 in 4 from memory) who are hyper responders and diet does impact cholesterol? Feels like I need to speak into a specialist in the area & get a full lipid profile to find out what’s going on.

I won’t take statins, my cholesterol has always been around 5.0 so if it’s shot up now, the root cause is fairly obvious (change of diet possibly combined with weight loss), so for me the change to make prior to a retest in say 3 months is to cut back on the eggs & dairy fats, I’ve been having...