[moon]

Aw, what a wonderful post. Congrats on testing the waters - now dive on in

If it's any comfort to you, you're not the only one who was a carb addict. I think you're swimming in the midst of a school of them. You might find it's actually easier to take the plunge than to play around the edges, for the very reason you discovered after your one meal: hunger abatement. That's what makes it possible. If cutting carbs hadn't cut my hunger there is no way - no way - I would have been able to stick with it. The addiction is real, it's chemical, and without getting off the sauce we can't get off the sauce.

I've faith in you - and as for public humiliation, if that's a skill that has been honed around here I've not seen it yet.

Good for you!

 

[moon]

Despite my elevated Triglyceride numbers, I've just naturally had a low-fat diet - meaning, I wasn't purposely choosing it.

The high triglycerides come from a high-carb diet, so that's not inconsistent.

 

[moon]

This cholesterol bizness remains a mystery to me, I'll admit. I keep plugging away, interested in the changes, and hoping in the end I'll make more sense of them.

My numbers aren't good, but getting better. On a low-carb/higher-fat diet the last 6 months, the best change is my HDL going from 35 to 57. My trigs have gone from 191 to 125, so my trig/hdl ratio is 2.2. Best guess is that my LDL must be the small dense kind, and hoping for more positive change in time.

But - my LDL/HDL ratio has gone from 4.4 to 3.1 and cholesterol/HDL from 6.3 to 4.5 - so the way I eat (no statins) is doing good things for my lipids albeit with a ways to go.