I just want to add that I think the reason my cholesterol number was so high day before yesterday is that I have been eating too much beef the past six months. I was diagnosed T2 last April, and went very low-carb, and lost 26 pounds and my BG numbers came down.
But I also stopped having any appetite for vegetables. I did eat some salads over the summer, but later in the year I started trying cooked vegetables and just had no appetite for them. So I started eating more fish and chicken and, when I got fed up with them, beef (which I never seem to get tired of). I also started putting heavy whipping cream in my coffee, and having on average 1 or 1 1/2 cups a day.
So for the next 3 months, until my follow-up cholesterol blood work and A1C, I am not going to have any cream, and I am going to try not to eat any red meat. I will also cut back on chicken, eat more fish, more oatmeal (maybe 1 bowl a day), and more vegetables. Then I will see if that lowers my LDL cholesterol AND doesn't raise my A1C. I will keep checking BG in the morning and after meals with the increased veg, and oatmeal, and yogurt, and see if BG increases, and weight, or decreases, or stays about the same.
People recommend "eating to your meter" so I am going to see how my eating over the next 3 months registers on my BG meter and on my doctor's cholesterol meter. Then I will take things from there.