My cholesterol lowering diet 35 years ago
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2014 10:06 pm
Before I knew that grains were bad for me I went on this diet after I found
out my cholesterol was 288. Two weeks after the diet my cholesterol went to
222. I had it tested a few years ago and the clinic called me to tell me to
come back to the clinic. I never did.
This is what I ate.
I boiled a whole bag of aduki bean. At the very end I added some hijiki
seaweed and oatmeal and maybe more water to help the oatmeal cook.. Ten more
minutes of cooking or whatever. I froze a lot of it in different containers.
I would plop some on a whole wheat tortilla and wrap in saran wrap and only
eat until my hunger pangs went away through-out the day. In the evening I
would saute a dark green vegetable...kale or spinach...in some ghee. I also
made some oat bran muffins without flour..just eggs and some cinnemon and a
little brown sugar. I ate those also through out the day. After three
days...I was eating about two of the whole wheat wraps...couldn't eat any more
than that. As the weeks went on sometimes I would add some sauted tofu to the
wrap or smear some miso on there. I lost 25 pounds in three months. Every
Friday and or before my menses cycle when sugar desire would peak..I would eat
a piece of cheesecake with chocolate sauce drizzled on it. The great thing
about the diet was that most of the food was pre-prepared so I only had to
cook it every two weeks.
I used the aduki beans so my blood sugar wouldn't be spiking. Hijiki for the
minerals. Protein was the combination of the oat meal and beans..a l part bean
to 1/4 oatmeal. Ghee the only oil. And the oat bran muffins were to lower
cholesterol. I heard that the oat bran would pull the cholesterol out of your
body but I also heard that it would pull a lot of good minerals out of one's
body as well. So I didn't stick with that. The weight loss lasted about a year
after I stopped.
I have this cholasma on my face from when I was pregnant...it got worse over
the years because I never put sunscreen on it...larger...and recently, in the
last six months...two little cholesterol bumps appeared near it. I don't know
if this is a good thing or not. I had them before and after a remedy they
went away. My mother had cholesterol pockets under her eyes. She had
glaucoma...after some remedies...they disappeared. So I must deduce that
remedies can influence cholesterol? At least the kind that comes out on the
surface.
out my cholesterol was 288. Two weeks after the diet my cholesterol went to
222. I had it tested a few years ago and the clinic called me to tell me to
come back to the clinic. I never did.
This is what I ate.
I boiled a whole bag of aduki bean. At the very end I added some hijiki
seaweed and oatmeal and maybe more water to help the oatmeal cook.. Ten more
minutes of cooking or whatever. I froze a lot of it in different containers.
I would plop some on a whole wheat tortilla and wrap in saran wrap and only
eat until my hunger pangs went away through-out the day. In the evening I
would saute a dark green vegetable...kale or spinach...in some ghee. I also
made some oat bran muffins without flour..just eggs and some cinnemon and a
little brown sugar. I ate those also through out the day. After three
days...I was eating about two of the whole wheat wraps...couldn't eat any more
than that. As the weeks went on sometimes I would add some sauted tofu to the
wrap or smear some miso on there. I lost 25 pounds in three months. Every
Friday and or before my menses cycle when sugar desire would peak..I would eat
a piece of cheesecake with chocolate sauce drizzled on it. The great thing
about the diet was that most of the food was pre-prepared so I only had to
cook it every two weeks.
I used the aduki beans so my blood sugar wouldn't be spiking. Hijiki for the
minerals. Protein was the combination of the oat meal and beans..a l part bean
to 1/4 oatmeal. Ghee the only oil. And the oat bran muffins were to lower
cholesterol. I heard that the oat bran would pull the cholesterol out of your
body but I also heard that it would pull a lot of good minerals out of one's
body as well. So I didn't stick with that. The weight loss lasted about a year
after I stopped.
I have this cholasma on my face from when I was pregnant...it got worse over
the years because I never put sunscreen on it...larger...and recently, in the
last six months...two little cholesterol bumps appeared near it. I don't know
if this is a good thing or not. I had them before and after a remedy they
went away. My mother had cholesterol pockets under her eyes. She had
glaucoma...after some remedies...they disappeared. So I must deduce that
remedies can influence cholesterol? At least the kind that comes out on the
surface.