You are on the right path for sure.

I would keep doing what you are doing. I studied the cholesterol guidelines in my fitness school...

Your doc recommends more medicine because he's following the AHA guidelines. you have two risk factors, overweight and LDL over the cutoff, and his little table says in that case, suggest statins. To his mind, your lifestyle accomplishments have not lowered the LDL number enough - some of us in LC land think that the LDL cutoff numbers have been fiddled to promote statins, but whatever, that's what the doc thinks, it looks like.

It's your doc's job to suggest treatment. It's your job to decide whether you want to have that treatment. I sure wouldn't!!!

LDL like yours is protective for women, and, the statin your doctor recommends has never been shown to help women, ever. Ask him to see the research where that statin helps women. Not from the drug company, but the honest to gosh research.