Sugar-Free For 4 Weeks! How It Impacted My Cholesterol Levels

The results are in, here’s what changed…

I just completed four weeks without sugar on June 4th. The main issue for me was ice cream, I had a healthy diet otherwise, so I justified it…until I found myself addicted and consuming it, almost every night.

In order to keep myself accountable for quitting, I wrote an article at the two week mark and at the four week mark. In those articles, I wrote about how I felt and what changes I had noticed so far — the changes were so great, that it was easier to keep going.

If you haven’t read my other articles — you might want to know what my motivation was to quit sugar in the first place. Well…I had been feeling like absolute garbage. I had brain fog, I was depressed, I was getting zits, I wasn’t sleeping — just to name a few things.

So, I eventually saw a doctor to get checked out, and she ordered a bunch of labs. I was shocked to see that my LDL cholesterol was the highest I had ever seen it. It was nearly double what it was at its lowest, years before. When I looked at my analytics (I get checked out every couple of years) I noticed it had been on a steady incline.

I’m 33. I’m thin. I’m active. I eat mostly whole, natural foods, very minimal processed items, and lots of veggies. I don’t drink often, I never eat fast food and I don’t do any drugs….Why the heck was my LDL cholesterol going up so fast?