Cholesterol and BG

your triglycerides should have dropped, hopefully under 1.5 with your HDL rising and up/down on your LDL, but low trig <1 means the ldl are fluffy and not small dense



http://www.dietdoctor.com/lchf it’s a long page and a video
http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/lowcarb101/a/firstweek.htm

http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/lowcarbliving/a/Food-Cravings.htm because carbs don’t give up easy.

testing your Blood
http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/14045524.php

103 is ok for fasting "Normal: 3.9 to 5.5 mmols/l (70 to 100 mg/dl)"

Here is your pre-post prandials
Non-diabetic before eating 4.0 (72 mg/dl) to 5.9 (106 mg/dl) mmol/L under 7.8 mmol/L (140 mg/dl) after eating

Lee7 said:

when first checked chol 200, tri 94, hdl 45 ldl 146. now chol 234, tri 78, hdl 49, ldl 172. thanks

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I'll let you do the conversions Lee, but here in the UK (not sure what they would be in Thailand) they want all diabetics to aim for the following cholesterol targets:

• Your total cholesterol level should be below 4.0mmol/l.
• LDL levels should be less than 2.0mmol/l.
• HDL levels should be 1.0mmol/l or above in men and 1.2mmol/l or above in women.
• Triglyceride levels should be 1.7mmol/l or less.

your Dr should be very happy with your change of lifestyle. IMO I wouldn't drop the cheese and eggs altogether..porkfat/lard is a good fat, so is duckfat, butter, olive oil, coconut oil and peanut oil... cut all grain oil and margarine/trans fats

if I cut my carbs back,I replace them with good fats and oils, keep my protein normal range, lots of non starch veggie, beans pulses peas

use a food counter like my fitness pal to do a dietary count of carbs fats and protein, there are often some surprises

your trigs are very good...in an ideal world you would have more HDL, omega 3 from fish, nuts, flaxseed..use the healthy fats/oils...from memory this also swaps for some LDL

http://www.onlineconversion.com/cholesterol.htm
234 mg/dl = 6.05124 mmol/l cholesterol
78 mg/dl = 0.88062 mmol/l TG
49 mg/dl = 1.26714 mmol/l HDL
172 mg/dl = 4.44792 mmol/l LDL

I take a low dose statin for vascular health which also drops my total cholesterol/ldl, ...there is plenty on both sides of the argument, you need to make up your own mind

this is hard core ketogenic LCHF where the carb intake is under 50g a day