Originally Posted by Arctic Mama (Post 4749584)

What's bad? Which panels, specifically, and what were the values? The standard cholesterol recommendations are completely wonky and quite useless, especially for low carb and Paleo folks.

Peter had a great little post about this recently, and it's also a topic Mercola has a good article or three about. But basically cholesterol recommendations are extremely low for what a healthy person on a whole foods diet WITHOUT statins can generally attain. My husband, for example, has much lower cholesterol than me. But his HDL is extremely low, his triglycerides are very high, and his diet is complete crud. A diet low in saturated fat and high in sugar can actually produce better numbers by the standard recommendations than one that is far more healthful in the components but completely out of line with ADA recommendations.

My cholesterol is 'dangerously' high by the standard ratios, but the actual values, themselves, are in the IDEAL range if you disregard total cholesterol. I have very high HDL and extremely low trigs, along with an LDL profile that is very healthful, too. But at first glance the numbers are way off the normal recommendations (because they're based on a faulty premise of what actually comprises healthful serum cholesterol numbers, let alone what those numbers mean in reality).

http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.c...-at-paleo.html

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...l-numbers.aspx

Both of these are really great and not overly lengthy reads.

Originally Posted by HungryHungryHippo (Post 4749909)

Hey TripSwitch--that sucks--I'm sorry!! Not much to say, as I don't understand most of it--and I know that's your field, and you do--but, fellow New York girl--I know you've done EVERYTHING right, and hit your goal, and it sucks to have something like that happen!

Originally Posted by carpediem (Post 4749958)

I belong to another forum of women on a featherweight range who do strength training and other types of exercise. For many of them in that particular situation low carb brought some other health problems, particularly hormone related. I think low carb can be a useful strategy in some situations but if you are exercising a lot and in a low weight range it's probably not the best idea.

You can read different perspectives on the paleo diet more focused towards athletes or people on similar weight ranges as you are. I like Nate Miyaki's approach. He is 80% paleo but includes white rice to support all the anaerobic training he does. He says his diet is similar to the diet of a Japanese village. Anyway, this is just a suggestion, hope you can find something that makes you healthier and works for your goals.

Originally Posted by joefla70 (Post 4749771)

Can you switch to a lower fat paleo? Does it need to be high fat for it to work? I don't count my fat, but I try to eat low fat -- while doing low carb, and it has worked for me.

Originally Posted by JohnP (Post 4750513)

Maybe I'm missing something.

Why don't you just eat some fruit before or after you workout (or both before and after.)

Why does it have to be complicated?