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Around Christmas, when I saw my doctor, she was Displeased with the state of my cholesterol - which, to be fair, had gone up since the last time I'd seen her from Hm, that's a little on the high side to Yeah, that's a level we actually don't like. :-P She gave me three months to get it under control on my own but if I couldn't or it wouldn't (sometimes it's got a mind of its own, one knows), she'd prescribe something for it.
Anyway, since then, I've been trying to eat differently in a cholesterol-lowering way - it turns out dietary cholesterol is fleeting, so how the diet is supposed to affect the blood cholesterol isn't totally clear, which is why people often struggle to manage it themselves if the hand they're dealt is a high-cholesterol hand; I might just be unlucky - and exercise a lot more, which is good that I got in the habit of hitting the elliptical every day before the plague forced me indoors and took away my almost-daily walk to and from the train.
So since the end of December, as it happens, I've lost about 30 pounds. I had to buy new jeans, because I could step in and out of the old ones without unfastening them and when I cinched them with a belt they bunched around my waist and hips like a paper bag. I haven't bought any other new clothes, as I'm aiming for maybe having to fill gaps in the wardrobe every two sizes rather than every size (that is: wearing something one size too big I can probably live with, but two sizes too big starts to look sloppier than I want to). But I'm beginning to feel like my underwear might be too big. :-/ And I can't tell you how interested right now in a whole new underwear drawer I am not.
Anyway, since then, I've been trying to eat differently in a cholesterol-lowering way - it turns out dietary cholesterol is fleeting, so how the diet is supposed to affect the blood cholesterol isn't totally clear, which is why people often struggle to manage it themselves if the hand they're dealt is a high-cholesterol hand; I might just be unlucky - and exercise a lot more, which is good that I got in the habit of hitting the elliptical every day before the plague forced me indoors and took away my almost-daily walk to and from the train.
So since the end of December, as it happens, I've lost about 30 pounds. I had to buy new jeans, because I could step in and out of the old ones without unfastening them and when I cinched them with a belt they bunched around my waist and hips like a paper bag. I haven't bought any other new clothes, as I'm aiming for maybe having to fill gaps in the wardrobe every two sizes rather than every size (that is: wearing something one size too big I can probably live with, but two sizes too big starts to look sloppier than I want to). But I'm beginning to feel like my underwear might be too big. :-/ And I can't tell you how interested right now in a whole new underwear drawer I am not.