[Jan B]

It's a balancing act, and sadly the "truth" is very hard to find! There are many opinions instead of one simple truth!

It's not that hard actually . . . . . if you give up bread, starches and cereals & of course sweets. Eat lots of greens: spinach, green beans, collard/turnip/etc. greens, asparagus. Pick your fruits carefully and don't eat too much at a time.
And you can eat all the turkey, fish you want, then add whatever other meats and cheeses without adding hardly any carbs at all.

For me, I went from avoiding fat to avoiding carbs as much as possible and I lost 7 lbs. I eat mostly lean meat. I traded oatmeal for omelets and that made a huge difference in my morning numbers, which took me much better into the day. Then I frequently have a giant spinach salad for lunch.

I remember my biology teacher talking about the incredible egg. There is some cholesterol lowering ingredient in the white that partly cancels out the cholesterol in the yellow. I think eggs have gotten a bad rap/rep. I eat a lot of them. I also eat quite a bit of peanut butter, which I used to avoid because of the fat. I truly have learned eating fat doesn't make you fat.