Going Vegan to Lower Cholesterol

I am a 46 year old woman and I have high cholesterol (287 total on 1/6/2010). HDL 80, which is good and LDL 197, not good. Triglycerides 52, which is good.

This is my record of experimenting with Veganism to see if it will reduce my cholesterol.

After being on Lipotor for a few years and trying a variety of other methods to reduce cholesterol like losing weight (although I'm not really fat at 150 lbs and 5'5"). I am now ready to eliminate all cholesterol from my diet, which is ALL ANIMAL PRODUCTS.

I started on FEBRUARY 22, 2010. NO MEAT OR FISH OR CHEESE OR EGGS. But I must admit I still take fat free milk in my coffee, but it only amounts to 1/4 cup day which is less than 2mg of cholesterol.

Ok, I lied about being 150 lbs. I'm currently today 154 lbs. But I think of 150lbs. as my normal weight. Although I'd like to lose 15 pounds, but would be super happy to weigh 140.

Why VEGAN and not VEGETERIAN? Simple, because the more cheese you eat the faster you will die. Eggs also are one of the most cholesterol laden things you could eat.

I bought 2 VEGAN cookbooks, The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone because she's cute and was on TV a bunch of times with food everyone said was delicious and The Mediterranean Vegan Kitchen by Donna Klein because it promised to make vegan dishes without all those strange replacement meat and cheese substitutes.

Anyhow, today is Monday March 1, 2010 and I've been VEGAN (minus that little bit of milk and a small slice of birthday cake for my son) for one week.

What does it consist of? Salads, beans, lentils, vegetables, apples, Fiber One cereal, apples, eggplant Chana Masala (luckily I love Indian food). Wine, it's a fruit right?

I have a bood test for cholesterol coming up on March 24th. I will report the results.

By the way I also take 2x 1,000mg fish oil capsules, a multi vitamin, vitamin D and 2x Cholesterol Relief by Finest Natural which by the ingredients is just soybean oil in a gelcap.