Hi Bhakkd, let me explain a bit about the type of food I eat. I must tell you that I’m from Spain and my diet is 100% Mediterranean.
I also had the same problem: high cholesterol, high triglycerides, and high LDL.
Breakfast: coffee with milk, wholemeal toast with a drizzle of olive oil, and kefir.
Lunches: vegetables with boiled potatoes 3 times a week, either chard, broccoli, or green beans. Although sometimes I also have them in the evening.
Meats: turkey, chicken, and pork, always grilled and generally once a week, although I usually have chicken and turkey twice.
With meals, I always have a good green salad with tomato, asparagus, fresh cheese, and nuts.
I eat nuts every day, raw walnuts and almonds, approximately what fits in the palm of your hand.
Fish: Also 3 times a week or more, always baked or grilled. Usually oily or white fish, or salmon.
Legumes: Also 3 times a week, lentils, chickpeas, or beans.
Desserts: seasonal fruit, whatever is in season: bananas, pears, apples, oranges, pomegranates, plums… but yes, fruit every day.
Dinners: Sometimes vegetables, a plain omelette, and accompanied by a natural yoghurt for dessert without added sugar.
All salads, vegetables, lunches, and dinners are dressed with virgin olive oil.
If I get hungry mid-morning, I usually eat a piece of fruit.
It’s a Mediterranean maintenance diet (because it’s sustainable over time).
It’s precisely why my cholesterol, triglycerides, and LDL have gone down.
It’s not a miracle diet; it’s regularity + quality + years.
Basically, I’m not on a diet; this is just how I eat.
