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It's official - in 5 months on 5:2, I've been able to bring my cholesterol from 'nearly needing medication' levels to 'nearly normal'. And several doctors told me it was usually not possible to control with diet.

Total cholesterol has dropped from 6.3 to 5.7, and my ratio has gone from 7.9 to 5.7 (<5.5 is normal)!! My 'good' cholesterol is up a bit, and 'bad' cholesterol is down a bit, and my GP is amazed and pleased! He was asking me in more detail what 5:2 entailed just now ...

My weight loss has really plateaued at 5 kg, hasn't changed really for a few months ... but I have a lot of complex health problems which might be contributing to this. So that's been rather disappointing. It may just take me much much longer to reach my weight goals.

But this improvement in cholesterol — while still having butter on feast days — makes it all worthwhile.

Good news with the cholesterol! Hubby has just had his retested so hopefully will see an improvement in his as well!

Oooh, let me know how he goes!

Good to hear and the butter is interesting. Must go and make up a fresh batch
Keep us posted

That's really good news - you must be pleased! Hope it continues and it proves that 5 2 does affect people's health for the better!

Well done, that's really encouraging!

Well done that is brilliant, my cholesterol LDL has been 5.9 with statins for years but having been on this WOE for 6 months my LDL was 4.4 and HDL 2.6 and Trig 1.7 so to me this WOE really does work

Oooh I do love me some nice butter

I was nice to be able to astonish my GP!!

Basically, my total cholesterol dropped, my 'good' HDL went up a bit, my 'bad' LDL went down by a LOT, and my triglycerides were about the same.

Got hubby's results, from 6.9 (almost on medication!) to 5.9 (nearly normal - no further action!) we were both quite impressed!

Got hubby's results, from 6.9 (almost on medication!) to 5.9 (nearly normal - no further action!) we were both quite impressed!

That's fabulous!! It works!!