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Originally Posted by Vegas69
Lance, it seems to me that your body naturally over produces cholesterol. I know some people have that tendency due to genetics. With the diet you describe, you shouldn't have high cholesterol. How consistent are you with your diet and exercise? List a typical days nutrition and what you eat when you cheat.
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Breakfast (usually about 6-7 am) = Bowl of oatmeal with a banana or blueberries mixed in and just a touch of 2% milk. Also have two cups of coffee w\teaspoon of sugar in each. Maybe once every other weekend we'll have an omelet or some other egg with a bit of bacon or sausage, but that is the exception.
Lunch (usually between noon and 1 pm)= Ham or turkey sammich on whole wheat bread, small ziplock bag of cut up veggies (celery, green peppers, red peppers, snow peas etc), an apple or a banana, sometimes a small serving of trail mix, baked chips, or almonds for variety and a bottle of water. I'll also occasionally eat leftovers from a dinner the night before for lunch to mix things up.
Dinner (typically about 6:30 pm) = Home cooked, baked mostly, protein of Pork, Wild Fish, or Chicken, a vegetable, and either rice or a baked potato with salsa. The wife will mix in a different item every now and then but almost always a health conscience alternative, she's a good cook and follows healthy eating cooking steadily. I have a 30 ounce insulated cup that I fill up with ice and either water or tea that I drink off of in the evening. Every now and then we'll grill up and split a nice steak, but that is rare, we'll also have a pizza (homemade crust with healthy type toppings) the wife will make cookies for treats, oatmeal mostly.
This diet pretty much stays in place 7 days a week. Sometimes we will go out for a nice dinner out, but usually choose a healthy meal over a fat laden type, sometimes we'll share a bottle of red wine but not often, maybe once every two weeks. I drink almost zero carbonated beverages,
I am not an "exerciser" so to speak. In nice weather we'll take the dogs on a 30-45 minute walk 2-3 nights a week and we have a 5 acre lawn that takes a certain amount of physical work to maintain curing the growing months. I consider myself "in shape" and can push a 50# spreader back and forth across the lawn spreading 750 pounds of fertilizer in a couple of hours with little trouble but I am not the type that enjoys 30-45 minutes of workouts 4-5 days a week. I'm 5'11" and weigh between 172 and 176 pounds each morning depending on how much water I've consumed and how much physical activity I've had in the previous 24 hours.
My wife is constantly on me about drinking more water, during the week before my blood test that netted the 184 on triglycerides I drank 4-5 bottles of water every day. My problem with that is...it also makes me have to piss about every half hour. It is hard for me to justify forcing all of that water down my gullet just to have to piss it all back out a half hour later. I haven't felt any different through all of the "healthy alternatives" I've tried to get my blood work better over the past 3 years. All of my other vitals have been normal or strong throughout all of this, blood pressure, EKGs, etc etc have all been fine.
BTW, for meds I take 3 a day, a 10 mg loratadine (claritan) a fish oil and a Men's multivitamin.
At this point it seems to me like it comes down to drinking a ton of water every day to cheat on the blood work test to try to get more normal results. Just about everyone in my family have been diagnosed as "pre-diabetic" yet nobody has ever become diabetic. Half of them take the statin to try to get the better number on paper, the other half don't, some exercise regularly, most do not, but almost all of us are basically in the same type of health...we get by and for the most part do not have any issues other than the number on the paper once a year or so.
I really question just how important the number on the paper is...