On a strict low-carb diet, is cholesterol a problem with all the cream, meat, eggs, and other supposedly high-cholesterol foods?
The diet should not raise your cholesterol. After about three weeks on the diet, your triglycerides should drop dramatically, which will raise the HDL (unless your triglycerides are low anyway). When your triglycerides drop, your cholesterol will come down by 20 percent. If you are losing weight you should not do blood tests for cholesterol until you have lost all the weight you want, because losing weight temporarily raises cholesterol. Once you are at the weight you want, then do your blood tests and make the necessary dietary adjustments. If you want to measure the changes remember to get tested before starting a low-carb diet.
