The doctors always seem to say overweight adds to cholesterol risk. They always tell you diet and excercise will bring choles. numbers down, but in my experience, it hasn't worked.

I'm new to this group also.

Be careful when food shopping and concentrate on low fat, low choles. items.
Read labels.

hope this helps a little bit.

That's what I've come to the conculsion to about the weight. I'm sure it has something to do with alot of different things, but I know you can also be as skinny as a pencil and still have high cholesterol, heart problems, diabetis, etc........ I do watch the foods at the store. One problem is that my son doesn't like too much of the foods I like. I love to cook, but have only myself and son to cook for. I believe I've just been grabbing the wrong stuff or too much of them. Thanks for your imput. I greatly appreciate it. Get back to you soon.
Mary Beth

The low fat diet worked for me the first time. I didn't take any medications for it. I was allowed 4 fat grams a day. Ate mostly fruit, soup, jello (Oh, how I hate jello now. lol). No junk food. My cholesterol went down and I dropped 16 pounds in 3 months. Went off the diet and gained it all back and cholesterol was almost 300. Have been having chest pains for a few months now so trying to get back on this low fat diet. I do have a hard time exercising due to medical/pain problems. Isn't taking the omego fish oil kind of bad since it's a fat? I know it's supposed to be a good fat but my doc told me not to even fry if I use olive oil.

I had just read that I should not have over 15grams of fat per meal. I have gained weight
since I have not been walking, and, I have
been eating healthy foods, plus gu ess what, also, I have been eating bad foods and too much of those foods. I was told my sugar is high -never been before and I am on Prestique
for depression and Pravachol for high cholesteol - seems like all of a sudden I have all of this going on. I guess I am reaping what I have sown..I am ashamed of me.