Five years "normal"

[Eddy Edson]

So I had my annual review today. Nicely boring: HbA1c 5.3% / 35, about where it always is. Non-HDL-C at super-low 1.1 mmol/l, ditto. BP at 105/65, ditto. BMI 20 and waist-to-height 0.44, ditto+ditto.

All down to losing weight and keeping it off, while eating lots and lots of wholegrains and lots and lots of fruit and hardly any saturated fat.

I am the poster boi for the standard guidelines tho they should probably use somebody with nicer hair and maybe not so scrawny for the actual poster.

 

[Inka]

Well done @Eddy Edson 😎

 

[Barrowman]

Excellent results, congratulations and keep doing what you're doing....

 

[Sharron1]

So I had my annual review today. Nicely boring: HbA1c 5.3% / 35, about where it always is. Non-HDL-C at super-low 1.1 mmol/l, ditto. BP at 105/65, ditto. BMI 20 and waist-to-height 0.44, ditto+ditto.

All down to losing weight and keeping it off, while eating lots and lots of wholegrains and lots and lots of fruit and hardly any saturated fat.

I am the poster boi for the standard guidelines tho they should probably use somebody with nicer hair and maybe not so scrawny for the actual poster.

Congrats.You must be delighted.
I have one question.How do you manage the reduction in saturated fats apart from the obvious ones? Everytime I look at a label there are saturated fads I realise these are different from other fats . It is a minefield for me or am I over thinking the matter? I try and keep them below the recommended 20grms per day, i usually have 12-15 grms.

 

[nonethewiser]

Well done Eddy, here's to next 5 years with same results.

 

[Eddy Edson]

Congrats.You must be delighted.
I have one question.How do you manage the reduction in saturated fats apart from the obvious ones? Everytime I look at a label there are saturated fads I realise these are different from other fats . It is a minefield for me or am I over thinking the matter? I try and keep them below the recommended 20grms per day, i usually have 12-15 grms.

So that's about how many I have. Pretty much in line with the hardcore American Heart Association rec for "no more than 5% - 6% of calories", given that I eat about 2,500 kcal/day and 1g fat = 9 kcal approx.