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Old Thu, Feb-13-03, 16:36
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Plan: Bernstein Diabetes Soluti
Stats: 260/-/145 Female 5' 3"
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Progress: 63%
Location: Michigan
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I'll give you a real-life example. Me. For the first year on low carb, I didn't exercise beyond the walking I did every day in my job and daily errands.
My weight dropped 60 pounds, my blood pressure returned to normal from a beginning reading of 180/106, my blood sugars returned to normal from an average reading of 250 and my cholesterol dropped from 229 to 177. Since total cholesterol doesn't tell you much, I'll give you the breakdowns; my triglycerides dropped from over 300 to 125, my LDL went from 160 to 108 and my HDL was 45 after a year on low carb (about the same...maybe a few points higher than it was when I started). Overall, my cardiac profile was greatly improved along with all other measurements of my health status with a change in diet alone. I won't argue that exercise will also help, but my improvements can be attributed to a change in diet alone.
What was I doing for diet before low carb? The standard 1,500 calorie ADA diet.
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