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LCHF diet and cholesterol

Loobles

Loobles

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I'm still waiting for my blood results but have been advised to eat a lower carb diet for now (that's it, that's all the advice I have so far). I'm intrigued by the LCHF diet as I have a lot of weight to lose, but I'm wondering what your experiences are with your cholesterol levels. I don't know what my cholesterol is yet., but it wouldn't surprise me if it was high and I don't want it to shoot up or anything.

Couldn't see a post on this, but still trying to get to grips with the site, so apologies if I'm asking boring questions :confused:
 
Nothing to apologise for. No question is daft or boring. We all have to ask them when we don't know the answer.

I can only speak from my own experience. I have been following a low carb diet with increased fats. I don't deliberately daub everything in fat, but I don't actively avoid it. My cholesterol hasn't been affected at all.
 
I take the HF part of LCHF seriously and eat a lot of fat. So far my HDL has gone up from 1.9 to 2.2 and LDL down from 4.0 to 3.3, the lowest I ever had when tested. Total down from 6.9 to 6.3 and trigs at 0.7.
 
When I was first tested in April, my total cholesterol was 5.8. In early June, it went down to 4.1.
 
James' experience is that total cholesterol remained about the same (5.1 to 5.2), but the "good" stuff went from 1.9 to 2.6 and the "bad" stuff from 3.2 to 2.4, so he now has more "good" cholesterol than "bad". His triglyceride/HDL ratio is 0.19, when less than 2 is considered good. This is all on a low carb diet (probably under 50g per day), combined with moderate fat. We neither try to eat lots of fat, nor do we avoid it. Our fats include olive oil, butter, cheese, eggs, oily fish, nuts, occasional fat from meat.
Sally
 
Thanks guys, it's reassuring to know that I'm not likely to just gain another set of problems LOL
 
4 months of LCHF, total cholesterol went down from 6.9 to 6.0 as per my sig below, HDL up, triglycerides way down. Exercise helps as well of course.
 
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