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As of today in my weight loss journey, changing to TRE (time restricted eating) essentially one meal a day (OMAD) with a small snack or two during the TRE, I've managed to lose 13.3 kilos (30 lbs) in just over two months. This one change was essential.The truly amazing part in my mind is that using this regimen, I eliminated my passage through metabolic syndrome to diabetes in only a week. My fasting blood sugar dropped from 130-150+ to 80-100 just that fast! It's now in the 70's.Insulin resistance being the primary culprit in heart attacks, not cholesterol. The lipid panel should at least come close to MOST established parameters except for total cholesterol. It's not the huge deal that's made of it.I hope you folks don't mind my posting on my health journey. Almost being dead has a profound effect on one's goals. I also dropped a heart medication, a beta blocker. It had my lipid panel in a tissy looking like a third heart attack on the horizon. This is extremely common and likely one reason why so many folks are put on statins. A DOCTOR-MADE CRISIS. Please be aware that ceasing beta blockers is a risky business and MUST be done gradually. Regardless of doing so, I've suffered bradachardia. 45 bpm and even 37 on one occasion. But as moving a limb or sitting up would stimulate a rise to 80 bpm, I was assured that my M2 & beta-1 receptors were functioning properly and had not yet been ruined by the beta blocker medication (used 445 days). In my opinion, prescriptions for betta blockers being more than a few months are malfeasance. They can ruin the heart and require the installation of a pace maker. It will be at least two more weeks of observation to assure a proper sinus rhythm and two months beyond that to normalize my lipid panel. All this for me to extend this one piece of non medical advice: Doctors are no more than paid consultants. Be your own advocate and research EVERYTHING!