u/Pikablu555

Hello, 33 year old male, 167 lbs, 5’9”, I try to workout 5 days a week. This past April I had a wellness visit and was not happy with my lipid panel. No other areas were elevated in my entire bloodwork panel other than LDL and Total Cholesterol. I stopped drinking unfiltered coffee, added psyllium husk twice a day, generally tried to avoid saturated fats etc. Admittedly I did much better on breakfast (or fasted), lunch was much improved (walnuts, apples, grapefruit etc), dinner however I still kind of ate how I ate in the past just no butter or cheese is what I mainly tried to avoid. Overall I saw quite a bit of improvement over 3 months. The question is will continuing like I have been result in more lowering? Should I feel encouraged about this recent panel? Discouraged that I didn’t hit my goal? I can definitely clean up my diet more, but I do feel pretty comfortable about being able to maintain what I did these last 3 months for the rest of my life. It was not a huge diet shock for me and feels very doable.

Also one other thing I have been super confused about. When trying to keep saturated fats under 15g, how do I calculate things that seem to have saturated fat but help lower LDL? Like salmon, pistachios, almonds, walnuts etc?

Hello, I picked this up from an old contractor for $30! I just wanted to see if anyone could help me date it? AI is giving me an insane variance in dates. My guess is the 90’s, maybe early 2000’s? I can’t determine any pattern from the codes listed. Thanks!