Hi Ian, I can see that your blood sugar levels have come down but your cholesterol is high now. How are you balancing that?Hi @Aylajondy I was a slim Type 2 who thought he didn't ned to lose weight. that was the main reason I chose to go Low Carb rather than tone of those 800 calorie diets.
How skinny are you (BMI wise) and how fast is weight dropping with what you are currently eating?
I was BMI 25 at my very maximum and was losing between 1lb and 2lbs per week.
I was low carbing, but eating a lot more protein and traditional fat (fatty fish, bacon, fatty cuts of pork, lamb, eggs every day, 100gms to 200gms of cheese almost every day, unlimited nuts)..
I wasn't specifically counting calories, but I'm pretty sure I was eating quite a lot more calories on Low Carb than I was before diagnosis when I was eating that Low Fat rubbish.
I found cheese (and to a lesser extent fatty nuts like Brazils) were something I found I could eat even when I'd thought I was already 'full'. So they were invaluable for slowing and eventually stabilising my weight while still getting my HBA1C down to 37. My BMI is now 23 - so a long way from either being actually underweight, or from the weight I was in my early twenties!
Can you tell me why people over 60yrs old with higher LDL cholesterol (on average) live longer than those with low LDL cholesterol if total cholesterol or LDL cholesterol is really implicated in heart disease?Hi Ian, I can see that your blood sugar levels have come down but your cholesterol is high now. How are you balancing that?
Hi Ian, thank you for your reply. I am finding all of this a mind field. I gather I will learn as I go.Can you tell me why people over 60yrs old with higher LDL cholesterol (on average) live longer than those with low LDL cholesterol if total cholesterol or LDL cholesterol is really implicated in heart disease?
What about Triglycerides? Aren't they a decent proxy for the number of damaged Cholesterol particles - so why ignore that?
If I use one of the more advanced Cholesterol /heart Risk calculators, my risk has gone down since I went low carb because A). Triglycerides are well down (almost ideal) and B). My HDL is so much higher (though I'm no longer so sure that matters).
Higher LDL is sometimes known to happen when slim people do Low Carb or Keto. A study is being done to try to determine (once and for all) if this is at all harmful. If it is, then I will consider trying to do the balance you ask about.
I will try to find the right Statin at the right dose to balance the following while still eating lower carb:
1). Blood Glucose (since many statins are know to raise BG (Pfizer are being sued for that in the USA).
2. LDL (assuming it is found to be harmful in the context of high HDL and Low Triglycerides.
3. Co-enzyme CQ10 (which statins deplete).
4. Take vitamin D supplements to combat statin induced myopathy.
5. Take a water soluble Statin so it won't cross the blood/brain barrier- I don't want 'brain fog', Parkinson's or Alzheimer's.
Until then I remain confident that overall the positive effects of Low Carb outweigh potential negative ones until there is real evidence to the contrary.
Thank you it is very helpful and reassuringHi @Aylajondy I agree with @Goonergal that it is definitely not impossible to maintain or gain weight eating low carb/ketogenically. On diagnosis I was a horrendously skinny T2 with an Hba1c of 125.
I keep to a very low carb diet and hba1c is now 36. I have found that I feel so much healthier if I make sure that everything I eat is really nutritious, so my diet includes plenty of animal and vegetable protein, above ground vegetables, Greek yogurt, kefir, cheese, berries, seeds and nuts. I stir fry my vegetables in butter, use olive oil as a salad dressing and have a small amount of cream in my coffee. I avoid anything low fat and especially like the fatty cuts of meat.
If you are looking at avoiding weight loss you can't beat eating nuts. They are really high in calories, low in carbs and very nutritious.
My cholesterol is 4.6. Eating full fat made absolutely no difference to my cholesterol levels - although it is now highly likely that my LDL particles are now the much more healthy 'fluffy ' ones instead of the very small harmful densely concentrated particles which would have occurred as a result of my previous low fat, high carb, high sugar diet.
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