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[quote=Anonymous]Interesting thread.  I never had high cholesterol but 2 years ago had mildly high levels of bad cholesterol.  My doctor had me completely cut out eggs, red meat, whole milk cheese and such.  I never ate that much of those things, but once I cut them out I ended up relying a lot more on carbohydrates -- breakfast cereal and oatmeal for breakfast, turkey sandwiches on wheat bread, spaghetti with marinara.  I did get it down a bit, to right under where they consider high -- I feel like high is 200?? Mine got to like 198, it had been 230 or so.

My weight was a little high though still in the normal range -- 5'7 and the weight got up to 158.  That was 1.5 years after my last kid was born.  In January of this year I started really trying to lose weight and lost about 10 pounds on WW but plateaued.  In August I started the South Beach diet and reintroduced eggs, lean red meat (approx once a week), cheese (though I try to keep it to low-fat cheese) and completely cut out the carbs.  I'm down to 136 now.

Haven't had the cholesterol re-checked.  But when I used to eat this way, pre-kids, I never had high cholesterol.  So I'll be very interested to see my numbers at my next appointment.  I think a lot of doctors automatically say to cut out eggs and other foods with high cholesterol but I keep hearing anecdotal evidence -- like on this thread -- that simple carbs are actually a bigger problem than an egg at breakfast.[/quote]

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