Finally posting after lurking for months

Welcome. My LDL bumped around week 8 too, then settled by month 4. Did your trigs move at all?

Trigs fell for me first, then HDL crawled up. LDL was the last to cooperate. Sleep was my main variable.

Sleep hit or miss here too. When I logged it daily, I noticed my fasting glucose tracked my worst nights.

Same age, similar starting numbers. Only about 4 weeks of tracking so far. Following.

I'm 9 weeks in and down 11 lbs. My LDL went up 14 points, which freaked me out until I saw this thread.

Did you change caffeine or training volume? That changed my sleep more than diet did.

The early lipid shift is common in my n=1. I lost 22 lbs over 14 weeks and my LDL ticked up at week 6 before dropping below baseline by week 12. Trigs fell first, HDL lagged. What helped me see the pattern was logging weekly instead of monthly, because monthly numbers hid the weird middle. If you have prior labs from before week 1, plot them. Also, stress and sleep can swing LDL more than people expect. It was not linear at all. That middle period looked bad on paper. Not advice, just what my spreadsheet showed.

Same lab pattern keeps showing up: LDL basically flat around week 6, then down by week 14. Trigs are usually first to budge.

Thanks for posting actual labs. Most intros are just 'hi.'

A protein bump tends to drag more saturated fat along with it. Swapped a couple of the sources around and the LDL settled back down.

Worth asking: how's the fiber? The part people forget is that psyllium tends to move LDL more than just about anything else, though ymmv.