However, I have been struggling to put together the list of my intakes in terms of grams due to the reason that I was not able to exactly measure them.
I am still a learner, although I have been following this for quite some time.
I am a vegetarian.
I take Oatmeal in the morning once.
I dont eat unless I feel hungry.
I keep the carbs down as much as I can.
I take Virgin Coconut oil along with coffee in the morning.
I take some butter too in between.
I dont take more than one Chapathi or 2 pooris for lunch with some sabji (all home made).
I take one cup of tea with sugarless buiscuts.
I was taking too much of nuts (walnut, almonds and peanuts) not knowing they add high carbs too.
I have cut down on them in the last 2 months.
However, the problem I face is
'Frequent travels, attending some weddings where I let myself off the hook and indulge with CARBs'.
Currently I am on a visit to south India for a wedding of my niece.
These occasions (and travel) prevent me from monitoring the strict regime and carb intakes.
Hope I answered your questions.
My weight has come down by 3 kgs (now 62 kgs - I am a 66 year old with 5'6" height).
I will check my A1C when I go back to my home town after a month.
Not sure how my intakes would be in the meantime.
Thanks to every one for their guidance and support.
Excellent . But I would like to remind that lipids are not the culprits of chd/ cvd. You have to keep bs under control. But good control of lipids may help reduce the incidence of chd cvd. But frankly I would not care for my lipids unless they are alarmingly out of range . I care more for my bs.
Hello Anup, I seek your advice on this matter of cholesterol levels. I am currently disagreeing with my gp who wants to put me back on statins. Since I stopped taking atorvastatin 6 months ago, everything (except total cholesterol) has gone in the right direction (eg: HbA1c now 43, from 59, after 6 months lchf diet; liver gamma gt down to 60 from 254, etc). However, my total cholesterol is creeping up, now 6.3mmol/L, ( although other levels are remaining borderline or ideal.) Just how 'high risk' is this score of 6.3, can you tell me? Would you say that I could continue NOT taking a statin even though it looks as though my total cholesterol level is getting too high for comfort?
Just for info, these are the other levels in mmol/L: HDL 2: LDL 3.9: TRIG 0.9: chol/HDL ratio 3.2: non HDL 4.3
Many thanks Anup. You have been very kind to reply so fully. I will study your advice and talk to my gp on Friday. I feel I have more information to give him now. Especially about maybe suggesting a lower dose if he s really anxious about it! Janet.
Typically, Asians achieve similar benefits as Westerners at lower statin doses (Table 16,9,28–39 and Table 240–48). In a comparison of atorvastatin and simvastatin in dyslipidemic patients at 6 Asian centers, just 10 mg of simvastatin and 10 mg of atorvastatin over 8 weeks resulted in average LDL cholesterol reductions of 35% and 43%, respectively, and >80% of patients achieved their United States National Cholesterol Education Program LDL cholesterol goals.6 In hypercholesterolemic Japanese patients, rosuvastatin doses ranging from 1 to 40 mg achieved LDL cholesterol reductions of 36% to 66% over 6 weeks.30 In the large-scale Japanese Lipid Intervention Trial (J-LIT), an open-label study of simvastatin at an initial 5-mg dose in 51,321 hypercholesterolemic Japanese patients, the 5-mg dose, which lowered LDL cholesterol by 29% over 6 years, was deemed as effective as the 20-mg dose used in Western countries.8 A small subgroup (1.4%) labeled “hyper-responders” had a reduction in total cholesterol of >40% during 6 years of low-dose treatment.8
i have a different opinion. I stopped atorvastatin 20 mg all of a sudden and started taking lots of good fat, also going grain free 4 months back and now you see my lipid profile. I think extremely good.
Could you please elaborate little more on what you mean by "Grain Free" and how do you compensate with specific items and (if you can, in terms of calories).
Grain free means i don't take wheat and rice at all. Infreqently i take a small thepla of methi leaves made with millets. I'm on hypocarb and hypocalori diet. Take salads, vegetables, legumes, etc. Eggs once in a while. I take lots of co, evoo, ghee. Dry fruits. Fenugreek seeds, cinnamon, turmeric pickles, chironjee, almonds etc. I take khaman dhokla made mostly with chana daal + soya + urad daal + Brown rice ( not more than 20% ) and methi daana added.
The key to my diet is vegetables and good fats co, evoo, ghee etc, lots of cauli and cabbage etc
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