Just As I Thought
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I got an A

January 3, 2007

My test results arrived this morning, and I was shocked. Pleasantly shocked.
For the first time ever, all my numbers were in the normal range! Triglycerides down, LDL down, HDL up… incredible!
Still, I put on 5 pounds since the end of October; I may have been eating too much, but at least I wasn’t eating too much cholesterol.
I was actually smiling this morning. Scary.

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