This has all left me quite confused, shouldI go Lchf or just stick to my diet from my GP and DESMOND course?
Ultimately only you can choose what you want to do . Many of us here have experienced similar results with LCHF That being better glucose , lower insulin , higher HDL , lower Trigs and better inflammation markers (e.g. GGT ) and weight loss.There is a lot of research on the impacts of various fats on health . And pretty much all of it has advocates in both directions.
Many commenters vociferously against saturated fats are also heavily anti - meat.
There is also often a presumption that somehow people eating LCHF will promptly suddenly eat nothing but large amounts of butter and red meat . Many people do that and are equally as convinced that that is good for their health as the vegan lobby thinks the opposite !
The point for me about LCHF and indeed any type of long term sustaibable way of eating good for health is that it involves eating good quality basic proteins coupled with good quality vegetables and good quality natural fats to cook and season.
There are people on here who focus on achieving that via a variety of methods. Usually LCHF ie higher in good fsys than before and lower in carbohydrates . But otherwise , fully carnivore , fully vegetarian and all shades in between and either with a great deal of calorie restriction ( vlcd) or fasting ( IF) or simply LCHF What they all have in common is they limit / ideally remove refined foods of any kind , particularly sugar and refined carbohydrates . By doing that they start to experience the benefits outlined above . They can also read the various information provided by the pro meat / anti meat lobbies and the pro / anti fat lobbies .
They can have their own blood tests done before and after their dietary change and based on that decide how or whether to adjust their diet further .
If for example the path you chose does result in an increase in Ldl then naturally you will focus on looking into whether for you the evidence points to that being a problem or not. For very many of us the issue is not relevant because at the same time our blood glucose and insulin improves our Ldl also goes down so we do notworry further .
The key point is to find a good quality diet that works for you in controlling your blood glucose and metabolic markers. Reading this forum will give you many ideas as to how people have achieved that. Low carb , low calorie intermittent fasting.
The one thing you have achieved by joining here is finding a place where many people will comment on what they did and how if affected them. Occasionally you will come across a diatribe strongly in favour of something - a miracle cure - a specific food stuff - you MUST be vegan / carnivore / omit dairy / remove fat entirely / etc. You will learn to recognise these type of posts. They usually appear from nowhere from a member who is usually quiet other than some particular extreme focus they often advise that whatever is not their preferred option will kill you.
You can now choose what kind of responses strike a chord with you and adjust your own diet to suit .
You can also choose whether you believe your doctor is as well versed on the nutritional issues as that you can find here and in other forums or not . In my own case my doctor clearly had no idea ( which he admitted ) as such there was no need to feel I had to follow his advice . Indeed currently in nutrition terms he is currently following mine !
