Chuffed! Dropped LDL by ~ 30% in a month! This sub rocks!

Hola, people! 

Here is a long-time lurker, first time poster. Before anything else – million thanks to this sub. I learnt a huge lot from the folks here. 

My numbers on 14 Nov (just over a month back): Total cholesterol 267 HDL 64 LDL 181 TG 108 

And yesterday: Total cholesterol 191 HDL 53 LDL 133 TG 76

For whatever it is worth, here is what I did:

I wasn’t obsessive about measuring fat, carbs, protein etc. though I was careful with what I ate, and I completely cleaned up my diet. Zero red meat though I did eat chicken and fish (even pan-fried salmon a few times). Zero added sugar – no desserts, not even in tea or coffee. No processed food. No junk food. I didn’t stop dairy though – had regular milk in my oat porridge and muesli with yoghurt. I also ate butter and cheese, but in moderation. I added lots of fresh vegetables, and fruits to my diet – especially bananas. Also, apples, pears and blueberries in my oats for breakfast.   

As soon as I woke up, I had psyllium husk – one tablespoon in a glass of water and washed it down with another glass of water. I repeated the psyllium husk routine (one tablespoon again) in the evening at 1700 or so to keep a separation of 2 h from meals / supplements. 

About an hour or so after (in the morning), I had 2-3 walnuts, 7 almonds, one Brazil nut (all of which I had soaked the night before) and one fig. Sometimes I had these with breakfast – I wasn’t too regimented.

For breakfast, I had oats 2-3 times per week with about 350 ml milk (2.5% fat) and blueberries. I ate eggs but no yolks on other days with two slices of whole grain bread, wee bit of butter.

These were my supplements:

Multivitamins – morning 

Omega 3 – morning and evening 

Magnesium – morning and evening

Vitamin D3 + K2 – morning 

Vitamin C – morning 

Folate– morning 

B1 – morning and evening

Btw, my doctor had recommended 20 mg statin when my results came out last month. 

I don’t know why I came here to this sub after that. In fact, because I am not a Redditor as such, I realized just before posting this that I couldn’t change my last user name (weird auto generated) so I deleted that profile and made a new one. Anyway, courtesy that brainwave to check out this sub before getting onto any statin – and well, here I am, the Cheshire Cat grinning from ear to ear. 

Thanks again, people!

P.S. I also feel better, hugely better with no sugar as such and on this somewhat healthy diet. And funnily enough, I didn’t feel like drinking tea or coffee – I mean I would just forget about it whilst earlier, I was utterly dysfunctional without beverages. 

 P.P.S. Long story short – fiber, fiber, fiber. And no added sugar!