Cholestrol Screening Results

The results are in and they are positive overall. **Seven weeks ago I changed to the Primal Blueprint lifestyle and:

I've lost nine pounds to-date.
LDL levels improved 1.3%
Triglycerides improved 22.9%
Chol/HDL Ratio improved 17.0%
HDL improved 19.6%
Somehow Total Cholesterol spiked up 1 point, 0.4% in the wrong direction.

I am now at the "Desirable" level in three categories, one "Borderline High" and one "Very High", improvement in all but one category. And I've got a baseline for tracking.

I was going to insert a nice little chart with the relevant information from my 6/2010 screening compared to my 3/2011 screening, which number cruncher me created in a spreadsheet. But it won't translate easily here and I'm tired of fooling with it...

*I've been researching the whole Lipid Panel, a novel idea for me who prefers to think of my entire body as a solid, hard rubber ball through and through. Well, maybe one of those soggy gel balls at this stage of my life... I digress, I cannot locate the information on how rapidly cholesterol levels change except that screenings are typically done once yearly. Twice yearly for statin users - but that's to check liver function (statins can adversely affect the liver - yee gods.)

** Last August I switched over to the Atkins diet which probably impacted my recent screening.


Have your butter and eat it too. Here's to a fine Bearnaise sauce!