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It took me 15 months to lose 80 lbs with LA Weight Loss. It's sort of funny, my wife wanted to do it and dragged me along kicking and screaming. It's been 50 weeks since reaching my goal weight and it's still off. Holidays are a bit challenging, and I'll still have a piece of pie or pizza periodically, but it's worked out great for me. I've never had a cholesterol or blood pressure problem but both are lower than they were before.
PS - when I need to eat out I always look for a Wendy's and eat their Chicken BLT salad with one packet of fat-free french dressing. That's a heck of a salad for the price and it seems to stick with me for a few hours.
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It is very hard to keep the weight off. You just have to get into a routine and stay there. If you fall off the wagon, which is easy to do during the holidays or when on vacation, you have to climb right back on. It would be great if you could take the weight off and never worry about it again but, unfortunately, that's not our lot in this life.
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Thanks, Dennis, it was hard but worth it. I went from 295 to 215, and then rose to 220 which was my original goal. I'm now trying to lose another 20, we'll see how that goes.
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You can't ignore the genetic factor. I eat 8-12 oz of meat a day and my cholesterol and blood pressure are as good as anyones. On the other hand, a very good friend of mine with no weight problem had severe heart troubles and a quadruple bypass. After that experience he began chelation, a strict vegetarian regime, exercised an hour/day, and a year after the bypass his arteries were clogged again. And he is VERY strict on his diet.
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It's been about a year, but IIRC my cholesterol was in the 117 range (whatever it was the doctor was impressed) and BP is generally in the 110/70 range.
I have no proof but for years I've been suspicious of the prevailing wisdom regarding cholesterol (hey, don't take it personal, I'm suspicious of prevailing wisdom on most topics  ). Maybe high cholesterol levels are a symptom of a deeper problem and not a primary cause for cardiovascular problems.
A couple of years ago I read an article by a researcher whose theory about cholesterol indicated similar thoughts. His theory was that cholesterol was manufactured by the body to repair damage to the walls of veins and arteries. High cholesterol levels indicate that either 1) the body is responding to genuine arterial problems that are not being healed by this mechanism, or 2) that the bodies mechanism that manufactures cholesterol went haywire. To me this theory makes more sense than the idea that cholesterol is strictly a byproduct of what one eats, but either way high cholesterol is certainly an indicator of problems.
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