Thank you. Interesting articles. I am there myself at 52, last period was in October last year. Before this, it was on/off for a few months, lasting a day or 2. Cholesterol was always in the good, but higher range.

I always worked out (for the past 3 years I train about 6 days out of 7 and it is not light training), generally ate well - but too much of sweets/desserts. hihi Rarely red meat. I'm no steak person. Ground beef in spaghetti sauce but that is about it. Rarely a burger. I'm not into much fish (white non smelly one is fine but other than that, I just can't get it down the throat!), but lots of chicken white.

I only cut the "sugar" and no good fat and it seems to work as I did lose some 12 pounds since March. My cholesterol numbers did not go down drastically though. I checked the last result with the one of March (so 3 months ago) and it has improved. But no dreaming in colour that I can't go back to "dessert" and junk food or I'll be right back to square one. The good thing is that my apo-lipo B is right in the middle range. This is the test the doctor wanted done. It is an extra and not done automatically with the standard cholesterol check. More expensive to our plan (we are covered under this) and still something fairly new here as testing. Our genetic is bad on that side so she said it would be good to know. Those results to her would be more important than the total cholesterol. It'd give her an idea if our arteries are blocked, or carriers are at work. Ideally, you want the result number as down as possible. So being mid-range is normal, but I still would like to see it lower. It would means less chances of getting particles traveling and sticking to arteries. (wow... this is getting too technical I think). hihi

I'll keep working at this and go back late next spring to see how we did for that past year. It will probably be a life battle for hubby and I. The silence disease as they call it. Hoping by then to have another 10 pounds down. In no hurry to get there. Slowly but surely and still enjoy life instead of cutting down and then crashing into any food.

But I'm glad the doctor took the time to call us and meet us about it. Raised the flag even if we all hate getting news that something is wrong with the blood panel. We are lucky enough to have the time/tools to change our habits. Some will never see it coming, or take the steps to improve. I want to grow old...and active and healthy. If possible! At least it's my goal.