[Buttons840]

Are you me? I recently had 194 LDL-C. I panicked and switched to a plant based diet. About 10 days in I paid for another lab test -- my LDL-C dropped 60 points in 10 days. I've returned to eating some lean meat, but I've learned my lesson about saturated fat.

8 grams is very low. Do you count everything? Do you count nuts? Do you count oatmeal? Do you count potatoes? I was aiming for 5g of saturated fat while only tracking high fat items, but once I logged everything using a diet app I found I got a lot of saturated fat from things like oatmeal. When I really track everything 13g is my current limit, and it's much more reasonable and matches the ADA recommendations.

[sam2426679]

For the first month, I religiously counted/tracked everything and was regularly below that 8g target.

While I no longer methodically track the data, I remain fastidious with what I eat. For example, "Mush" brand oatmeal is very tasty imo, and it only contains 0.5-1.0g for the flavors that I eat. Like you, I've also added more plant-based foods to my diet. I'm a big fan of "Credo" brand queso, which has 0g due to using cashews as the dairy-substitute.