Hi,

Thanks for responding to my message. First off, I'm not against low carbing...I think it is the one eating plan that makes lots of sense and I found it extremely easy to stay on it. I never craved sugar, and never felt the need to cheat. I do keep food journals, and I was doing everything by the book (my husband was on the same program and lost almost 20 pounds in the first 4 weeks and felt really strong and healthy.) I wanted to talk to others who may be experiencing a similar situation as mine (higher cholesterol) to figure out if perhaps something is metabolically not quite working in my system. I'm also interested in any other strange or weird medical phenomena they might have experienced in their lives that might be related: eg. strong reactions to certain medications, allergies, food intolerances (I can't eat pasta), blood type (I'm AB+), weight loss successes or failures, thyroid levels, etc.

I know that there are others out there like myself. Even if we only represent a tiny portion of the population...that could still mean that there are hundreds or even thousands of us out there. Collectively, we must have information that we can pool together so that we can also have an eating plan to follow. It is so disheartening time and time again to be told that this program works for almost everyone...but not you.

I am not on any medications and as far as I know I am healthy. Diabetes does run in my family, although I have tested negative, and several family members have died of massive heart attacks due to atherosclerosis (including my father who died last year and put me on this quest to get my own cholesterol down.)

I have been researching low carb eating to lower my cholesterol more than anything. You can see why my extremely high test results are making me very nervous.

Thanks again for your input. I'll keep visiting this site for all the very useful information. If you hear about anybody (your hairdresser's cousin's mailman's neighbour) who had a smiliar experience to mine, I'd love to hear about it. This is a mystery that I must solve....one way or another.