First thing I did was go on a super-low-fat diet. For three months, I was really really conscientious about everything that went into my mouth. I made separate meals for myself and my family. I turned down every bit of junk food that appeared at work. After three months of this, I went back to the doc confident that I would see results. My cholesterol had gone down...by three points. It was down to 235 from 238. I almost cried. The only good thing was that my bad cholesterol had gone down and the good had gone up and my triglycerides had gone down drastically.
Next I tried the plant sterols, using Cholest-Off. After six weeks (the time it says it takes to see results), my cholesterol was 236, up a point.
I added exercise, doing aerobics twice a week. No change.
After all this frustration, I was almost ready to give in to the doc's attempt to start me on meds, but then a friend told me that Revival Soy had lowered her cholesterol. I decided to give that a try.
I had a cholesterol test on November 2, then I started on the Revival that day. It said to give it three months for results. So on February 2 (yes, I am obsessive/compulsive, why do you ask?
), I went back for another test. I got the results yesterday:Triglycerides went from 115 to 63
Cholesterol went from 248 to 229
HDL (good cholesterol) went from 46 to 54
LDL (bad cholesterol) went from 179 to 162
Not a drastic result, but still a positive one! An actual improvement for the first time!
So despite studies that had me doubting the effectiveness of soy protein, my own personal results show that it did have a positive effect on my lipid profile.
Just wanted to share with everyone!