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<blockquote data-quote="Grateful" data-source="post: 2204384" data-attributes="member: 438800"><p>My memory may be defective, but I think that when I was living in America my doctor noticed a high cholesterol number and merely shrugged his shoulders.</p><p></p><p>Anyway today is the day that I start the new regime.</p><p></p><p>--Alcohol. Biggest change (not really related to getting lower cholesterol) is to stop drinking beer at home, and switch to having a couple of glasses of red wine with dinner. The restriction does not apply when going to the pub or socializing outside the home.</p><p></p><p>--Food. I am changing my breakfast: for the past two years it was bacon and eggs. Will switch to something that has fiber. This morning, yogurt and half a banana, but eventually this will be supplemented with low-carb home-made muesli. For lunch, a green salad (as usual) but instead of adding chicken chunks, it will be a small quantity of tuna, which allegedly helps with lowering cholesterol. For dinner, my wife and I share the cooking (alternate days, with both of us cooking low-carb meals). On my nights I will now do more non-meat meals.</p><p></p><p>--Losing weight and exercise. I have put on 9 kilos since moving to the UK nearly two years ago. I am not considered overweight when you look at BMI, but that is a flawed measure at best, and my body weight is now not much less than it was at the time of my T2 diagnosis three years ago. I will try to make sure to go out for a vigorous walk, including good uphill sections (easy to find around here), for at least one hour every day. I will also try to take other breaks from my home-based desk job during the day: even just walking around the village for 15 minutes every few hours.</p><p></p><p>I am rather assuming that after all of the above, my general health will improve. It will be interesting to see whether it budges the cholesterol needle one whit. I will know three months from now, when they check it again.</p><p></p><p>My main goal in all this, as I approach late middle age, is to delay become "medicalised" with all sorts of daily drugs that I might not really need.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grateful, post: 2204384, member: 438800"] My memory may be defective, but I think that when I was living in America my doctor noticed a high cholesterol number and merely shrugged his shoulders. Anyway today is the day that I start the new regime. --Alcohol. Biggest change (not really related to getting lower cholesterol) is to stop drinking beer at home, and switch to having a couple of glasses of red wine with dinner. The restriction does not apply when going to the pub or socializing outside the home. --Food. I am changing my breakfast: for the past two years it was bacon and eggs. Will switch to something that has fiber. This morning, yogurt and half a banana, but eventually this will be supplemented with low-carb home-made muesli. For lunch, a green salad (as usual) but instead of adding chicken chunks, it will be a small quantity of tuna, which allegedly helps with lowering cholesterol. For dinner, my wife and I share the cooking (alternate days, with both of us cooking low-carb meals). On my nights I will now do more non-meat meals. --Losing weight and exercise. I have put on 9 kilos since moving to the UK nearly two years ago. I am not considered overweight when you look at BMI, but that is a flawed measure at best, and my body weight is now not much less than it was at the time of my T2 diagnosis three years ago. I will try to make sure to go out for a vigorous walk, including good uphill sections (easy to find around here), for at least one hour every day. I will also try to take other breaks from my home-based desk job during the day: even just walking around the village for 15 minutes every few hours. I am rather assuming that after all of the above, my general health will improve. It will be interesting to see whether it budges the cholesterol needle one whit. I will know three months from now, when they check it again. My main goal in all this, as I approach late middle age, is to delay become "medicalised" with all sorts of daily drugs that I might not really need. [/QUOTE]
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