Kickas.org Forums Treatments, Drugs and Alternatives NSD and diet-related; Cholesterol levels forcing me off NSD

thanks Sue, after breakfast im going to take the dog for a walk around the block. dog is very happy to come with me too

thanks Seb, i take it that as about 30 or 40 ml. cheers mate. P.S. mighty fine effort from the all whites in there first world cup game!! you must be proud. Im embarrassed for my country by the socceroos preformance V germany.

Hey Jet,
What a bummer, eh?
In echoing some of the points that Sue has made, my doctor here was telling me to do over 30min sustained exercise 2 - 3 times a week to get the body into fat burning mode. She had high cholesterol and this is what she herself did to get it down. Ease into the exercise though, won't you, if you haven't been doing much. Don’t won’t to stir up any irritable joints...

She also recommended rather than frying stuff that poaching or grilling was a better option. While I do have fried bacon and eggs a couple of times during the week, for brekkie it is normally a white fish fillet or a couple of eggs and spinach poached in bone broth. I do add olive oil to this.

I am sure I have some links re coconut oil, will try and hunt them down. It is good stuff.

Looks like you've made good progress with your weight and waist measurements already though, so yay! Just a thought, but you might want to look at Fitday as a tool to monitor diet changes, symptoms, weight and exercise.

Hopefully you can make changes that won’t take you too far from being no starch, and that reintroducing stuff doesn’t give you too much grief.

Hi Darryn

Do a search in your area for frozen food wholesalers. I did and two wholesalers were willing to sell me frozen food that is normally for retailers. My salmon costs $20 per kilogram (I have 200g per day) and I buy it in 6kg batches. It is better salmon than my local fishmongers...no bones or skin and tastes great. I also eat 2 omega eggs every breakfast with coconut cream. They are expensive but I think they are worth it.

Hang in there mate. The switch from meat to fish is more expensive but it will work wonders I am sure of it.

Good luck

Keith

i am sad to see your food list jet.

Anyway - regarding cholesterol - removing animal fats from my diet not helped at all. It seems to me that there are different ways we can generate it.

Also - read some older posts here in this forum, there were posted articles links that kind of attachek this theory as being obsolite.
I don;t know if they are true, but for sure it will make you feel better when reading them

Hey Darryn
Just typed a long reply and lost it! Grrrr!

So sorry to hear about your cholesterol problems.
I know if I was told that I had to come off the NSD I would be very shaken.
You are so dedicated to the diet too and it has made a big difference to you. Nightmare...

If I have no eggs (and I know you must not have too many), I make grilled bacon with grilled tomato and mushroom drizzled with olive oil with a small handful of either roquette or baby spinach leaves.

I looked up the top 5 foods to lower cholesterol (some of these are different or in addition to what others have posted).

1. Apples (one study showed that eating 3 apples a day for 3 months can lower cholesterol by 20 points). Maybe an apple fast could kickstart your lowering cholerterol diet? Just a thought... I have never done it myself or anything.

2. Spinach and other leafy green veg (can prevent a build up of cholesterol in blood)

3. Oats and other high fiber foods (prunes and pears might be a lower starch option)

4. Orange rind (something in the pigment of the rind has cholesterol lowering actions)

5. Green Tea (can be beneficial - drink one cup daily)

So hope this is of some help to you, hon.
Sending so many good wishes you way.
Tink

Hi Kurumi, That Fitday website looks pretty cool, and anything for free is a bonus. the wife and i are heading to the city today, i can visit the fish market so im taking the esky to bring back a heap of seafood. I also like the idea of the bone broth - its something i have never tried but it makes sense to consume all the goodies from the animal bones. thanks for the great ideas.

Hi Kieth, $20 bucks a kg is a great price for salmon, most supermarket meats cost more than that a kg. Ive got the omega eggs, im not sure if im going to eat the yolks? Thanks for your great ideas,
Darryn

Hi Alinus, i have read some of the old post re cholesterol and your right, i dont feel as bad about my high level after the read. I hope heavily reducing animal flesh for a while might help me, if this doesnt work im open to a plan B...if there is one. regards
darryn

Well there isn't any point to gettin the more expensive omega eggs if you don't eat the yolks... since you're already replacing bacon with seafood as staple, then a moderate amount of the omega eggs w/yolks should be just fine.