I had my 3 month doctor’s visit recently and got my lab results back. It’s a mixed but generally positive outlook. My 6 months of hard work have paid off, I’m now off of all prescription medications and my bloodsugars have been basically ‘human normal’ for 6 months now. Amazing what hard work, persistance, careful dieting and lots of exercise can do for you. I’m really pleased. That’s the good news. The bad news is, my cholestoral levels have crept back up. Basically I’ve had to eat more fats to replace the carbohydrates I no longer eat. This has led to borderline/just above the borderline cholestoral in basically all of the categories. My doctor thinks I should now go back onto prescription meds to control the cholestoral. I don’t want to have to do that, so for the next three months I’m going to try drinking a glass of red wine with dinner and see if that manages to cut the cholestoral down to an acceptable level – since the bloodsugars are looking good I can afford to experiment with alchohol. If it doesn’t I think I am hosed and will have to go back onto meds. I need to do some research though and figure out exactly how bad my levels are, comparatively. Also since my bloodsugars are now normal, it may be possible that I could start eating more carbs and reduce the fat intake, it’s a question of which is worse for me in the long haul – slightly elevated blood sugars or slightly elevated cholestoral. I don’t know which is worse at this point, though I suspect the answer is the fats are worse.