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Healthy living has been at the forefront for us lately as I recently had my once every 4 years annual physical. Seems that even though I seem very healthy in just about every way, my total cholesterol # made my Dr want to put me on a statin.

I'm 54 years old, 6' 0" 175# practice a moderate exercise program averaging 10,000+ steps a day, and eat what I consider to be a pretty healthy diet.

Total 258
Trigl 312
HDL 31
LDL 165

Doc thinks I'm a walking heart attack but my survey from College of Cardiology results show a 9.2% chance of cardiovascular disease in next 10 years and that lowers to a 6.2% chance if I start taking statins. **rollseyes**

We instituted a portion control diet of even healthier sorts adding in nutrition and taking out fats for last week or so. I'm down about 5# but I'm freaking HUNGRY all the time and my gut is not settled.

I should say, I'm a HUGE eater... My portions are typically larger than most of my friends that are 200#+. I've always had a HUGE appetite. Lowering my portion intake could possibly be a solution to help my liver function and get it to stop over creating cholesterol, but frankly, it sucks being hungry all the time.

Anyway, rant off...I'll try to post updates along the way.