[metmom]

I did begin a pretty strict low-carb diet to lose weight. Amazingly, my joint problems all but disappeared along with my flab. I don’t know what was my joint problem or if what worked for me would help you. But it’s a thought.

I've had to cut wheat out of my diet because of allergies and am eating oats now.

The weight is falling off, my BP is down, and my cholesterol dropped like a rock to the point where the dr is not ragging on me about statins.

[Cold Heat]

I recently cut out the statins...I was using Zocor for about ten years. I can't say the stuff was doing a damn thing, yet they kept on prescribing it like "everyone should take it" in spite of the fact my numbers were not coming down that much. After they raised the dose to 80mgs, they still saw little change and they still prescribed it. I began getting some muscle pain in places I had never had it before, and they still prescribed it.

I fired the doctor and the clinic, but the VA has a nasty habit of ignoring things so I just left and started going to a local Dr.

Government medical care! Everyone should have it....right???

I picked up a lot of weight this winter as is normal for me. I will try the oats thing, but I tend to put brown sugar and molasses on the stuff...Maybe I should just cut back to one meal per day which seems to work for me, but I can only do it during the summer months. Cold weather makes me eat like a starving wolf.