Hi everyone, I was diagnosed type 2 about 5 weeks ago, with high cholesterol.. and high blood pressure over a year and half ago .. I still have no idea on what I'm doing! I'm on metformin slow realise 500mg one in the morning two in the evening, and statins! The nurse changed my bp meds to lorsartan 100mg and said just stop eating sugar and wait for the Desmond training. this doesn't help me at the minute. So I've looked on the internet everyone says low sugar diet full fat can't do that because of the cholesterol.. I already don't eat dairy, or sugar and have always drank diet drinks.. so I'm guessing carbs are the issue but again low carbs high fat!! Can anyone point me in the right direction I can't be the only person who has to deal with these issues.. I have changed everything to wholemeal and have a lot small portions. I will be grateful for any suggestions. Thank you
In order to understand what to do, its important to know the components of your cholesterol. I would not care much what either HDL or LDL cholesterol is. Instead look at the triglycerides number - if it is above 1, then it is too high and it also signifies that your LDL cholesterol includes a significant proportion of the bad kind.
If you have high cholesterol the chances are that the trig number is high and the HDL number is too low giving you bad ratios.
Eating fats lowers triglycides in the blood, eating carbohydrates increases it.
Eating carbohydrates also lowers HDL
The food pyramid below describes perfectly the diet I have been following to get the results I have.
if you go on an LCHF diet, you should find that the trig number goes down
If you include saturated fats - eg butter in your diet you should find your HDL goes up.
it all seems very counter-intuitive I know, but I did exactly that and it works. you can see how well it works from my signature and from my blood results that I just posted .
if I were you, I would ditch the wheat based products as well as the sugar and also the diet drinks. Drink water, eat butter and full fat diary and real meats and follow the ketogenic principles set out in diet doctor.com and here. use the ketogenic healthy food pyramisd
Doing exactly that improved all my health markers beyond beleif.