# I got my cholesterol down 60 points in three months! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 20, 2008, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-cholesterol-down-60-points-in-three-months/453541 "2008-06-20T02:37:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-cholesterol-down-60-points-in-three-months/453541/1 "2008-06-20T02:37:57Z")
I went from a total 267/HDL 73/LDL 181 to a total 207/ HDL 65/ LDL 123 in three months, with just diet and exercise changes. How’s that for mundane and pointless? 🙂 I have been eating more fiber, less butter and cheese, and really ramped up the exercise–now that the weather’s warm I can bike now. I wasn’t thinking it would budge, since neither my mother or grandmother have had any luck controlling cholesterol by diet. ---
**Author:** ![brickbacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@brickbacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brickbacon)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-cholesterol-down-60-points-in-three-months/453541/2 "2008-06-20T14:54:06Z")
Good job. Keep going, and don’t be satisfied until you hit your goal. And tell you family they should keep at it too. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-cholesterol-down-60-points-in-three-months/453541/3 "2008-06-20T15:18:30Z")
Wow, that’s amazing. You make me almost want to try it, except for the fact that I’d rather give up the last 5 years of my life in order to eat butter and cheese. My mother has high cholesterol and she literally eats like a bird - she’s never weighed more than 120 in her life, and right now is a skinny old lady. She eats very healthily, exercises regularly, and her cholesterol won’t budge. So I’ve assumed mine is the same (it’s moderately hight). ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-cholesterol-down-60-points-in-three-months/453541/4 "2008-06-20T16:31:46Z")
Well, I didn’t _eliminate_ cheese, I just buy smaller amounts of better cheese rather than large blocks of mediocre cheese. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-cholesterol-down-60-points-in-three-months/453541/5 "2008-06-20T18:14:45Z")
Good on you! I couldn’t budge mine one point. For three months I touched not butter or eggs, severely curtailed red meat and cheese, and ate enough oats to keep a stable of racehorses happy - results, jack squat. So I had to go on Lipitor, and even with my insurance, that stuff is $25 a month. It did bring my cholesterol way down, though. ---
**Author:** ![Figaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea666f/32.png) [@Figaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Figaro)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-cholesterol-down-60-points-in-three-months/453541/6 "2008-06-20T18:37:37Z")
Odd…right before seeing this thread a co-worker stopped in to inform me that he has “the fat of three men” coursing through his veins. Apparently his total cholesterol is over 300! :eek: Good job, and I hope you have even more success! ~fig ETA: gah…mistyped the figure. It’s not 350…just 300 :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Caractacus\_Pott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@Caractacus\_Pott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caractacus_Pott)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-my-cholesterol-down-60-points-in-three-months/453541/7 "2008-06-20T18:50:19Z")
Congratulations! That’s a great accomplishment. It’s all the better because it looks like you’ll be able to stick with your regime for the long haul. Coincidentally, yesterday two doctors and a med tech had a “contest” to see who had the best cholesterol reading. Wild and crazy bunch we are!