Ah, but the question should be - what was it like when you had progressive heart disease, and what is it now?
Before (and I am not checking my medical records - going from memory) it was something like total chol=240, LDL 150, HDL=15, triglycerides 420, homocysteine and c-reactive not recalled but quite bad. Note the PROFOUNDLY BAD ratio of LDL to HDL.
Nowadays it's more like total=150, LDL=70, HDL=30, triglycerides 200+, homcysteine 5.8, c-reactive I don't recall. LDL/HDL rations within human limits. (:-) Triglycerides still too high.
I'm not so worried about the triglycerides, being that I am on a vegetarian diet and that I am not the least bit insulin resistant. If I control my sugar intake, the triglycerides lower appropriately. But, then again, if I lower my sugar intake, I am always disturbingly hungry and eating huge volumes.
(I realize I'm food-geeking) My total calorie intake hovers between 2400 and 2600 calories per day - if it goes much lower I can lose weight as fast as a pound a day. That's quite a high metabolism.
If you take out fats and meats (as I have) and then remove sugars, you have reduced my calorie density to very low levels - and I have to eat between 4 and 5 vegetarian meals per day, plus snacks, to get the calories in. I found that unworkable.
I eat like a bird - 2-3 times by body weight in food, every day. (:-)
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Before (and I am not checking my medical records - going from memory) it was something like total chol=240, LDL 150, HDL=15, triglycerides 420, homocysteine and c-reactive not recalled but quite bad. Note the PROFOUNDLY BAD ratio of LDL to HDL.
Nowadays it's more like total=150, LDL=70, HDL=30, triglycerides 200+,
homcysteine 5.8, c-reactive I don't recall. LDL/HDL rations within human limits. (:-) Triglycerides still too high.
I'm not so worried about the triglycerides, being that I am on a vegetarian diet and that I am not the least bit insulin resistant. If I control my sugar intake, the triglycerides lower appropriately. But, then again, if I lower my sugar intake, I am always disturbingly hungry and eating huge volumes.
(I realize I'm food-geeking) My total calorie intake hovers between 2400 and 2600 calories per day - if it goes much lower I can lose weight as fast as a pound a day. That's quite a high metabolism.
If you take out fats and meats (as I have) and then remove sugars, you have reduced my calorie density to very low levels - and I have to eat between 4 and 5 vegetarian meals per day, plus snacks, to get the calories in. I found that unworkable.
I eat like a bird - 2-3 times by body weight in food, every day. (:-)