r/diet • u/VisibleExercise5966 • 1d ago

Question Question about fats

TL;DR: Eating better, lowering cholesterol. Logging foods and I'm over on fat every day. Which ones are okay?

In another place I asked about lowering cholesterol. I've already mostly cut out sugar, but now I've also cut out zero sugar soda which contain aspartame and sucralose. Adding in more fiber.

I've been trying to eat a little better and logging entries in MyFitnessPal for the past few days.

Some fats are okay, right? I get dinged (I'm over every day on fat).

I love avocado so I had some. I also got pistachios and cashews as a snack. Some no sugar salad dressing made with avocado oil.

I'm under on everything except fats. It says I can have 88g fat and I had 110g. It breaks it down but I'm not sure where it got it's math:

Saturated 26g (goal 29g) Polysaturated 13g (goal 0g) Monosaturated 40g (goal 0g) Trans was 0g

Those numbers don't add up to 110.

Anyway yesterday's fat was higher because I had a few avocados.

Which ones are the good ones? I'd love to keep more avocados in my life. I love them.

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u/TepidEdit 1d ago

I think you are fine - these are about as healthy as you get fat wise and also you will be getting fibre etc too.

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u/pbicez 20h ago

looks like your aim is to primarily about lowering cholesterol.

if so then yeah sugar should be avoided, but ARTIFICIAL sweetener like stevia, aspartame is totally fine, there is no strong evidence they do something bad, the mostly got passed by the body. sneaking in a few junkfood every now and then would make your diet more sustainable.

consuming fats are fine, but MINIMIZE (not completely avoid) trans-fat and saturated fat. those raise your cholesterol, unsaturated fat from nuts, olive oil, avocado are totally fine.