Advice for skinny fat

[Kregna]

High cholesterol aint bad for you brotha. There are more important things to cure yourself of!

[CCR]

Jesus Christ. Do you consume nothing but Fruit Loops and vodka?

Only "sapphire blue martini", a combination of dry gin and sweet curaçao liqeur.

Actually I hate sugary things, and I did not eat any sweets when I was a child. Just usual eastern european food (which is high in carb and fatty meat) with lots of bread. Probably that was my way to foie gras. Of course, like everything in human existance, favorized by genetics.

[Mark Rippetoe]

You really need to modernize your thinking about fat consumption.

[CCR]

High cholesterol aint bad for you brotha.

I wish I could agree with you, but the medical community thinks the opposite (especially when it comes to high LDL and low HDL).

There are more important things to cure yourself of!

I couldn't agree more on this. God knows... :-)

[CCR]

You really need to modernize your thinking about fat consumption.

It's curious that you say this. I didn't say fat was good or bad. But, a high carb/ high fat diet (hypercaloric food) while the exercise is absent, is definitely not good.

OK, I'm not going to push it offtopic anymore and risk annoying you or the others, but I have to say that I am a bit wiser after this discussion. My plan: GOMAD for the next month, while continuing on linear progression (I promise I won't care about body fat). Then, I'll repeat the liver function blood tests and cholesterols and if things are good, I'll continue. If things GOMAD or GOBAD :-) I'll just have to find a beter diet for my liver and take my strength progress to a compromise. When doctors have no standard solutions, we just have to experience without any preconceptions, then measure the results!

[David1982]

This is what I was told recently too, after an ultrasound, that I have high cholesterol and a slightly fatty liver. She said it wasn't anything to worry about urgently and she didn't say anything about me having a 'disease'. She said they will both decrease if I lose some bodyfat, so I decided to ignore her for the moment.

[CCR]

[...] so I decided to ignore her for the moment.

I just liked the ending :-)

2 important things that I learned about the subject: 1) fatty liver requires liver friendly diet and it is not as easy to reverse as your doc said; 2) ultrasound can only grossly estimate the degree of liver fat (it actually compares the brightness of the liver to the right kidney, which is just below and has no possibility to store fat; if the liver is brighter so that the kidney appears as a dark circle, then there is fat inside).

[tdood]

It's better to be fat than skinny-fat. Big shoulders and traps make your gut and tits look smaller. Play the hand you were dealt.

[stolpsTDI]

When doctors have no standard solutions, we just have to experience without any preconceptions, then measure the results!

If my doctor told me that my liver fat is in the normal range, I would not worry about it. It's hard to solve a problem that isn't there.

[kerosene]

High cholesterol aint bad for you brotha. There are more important things to cure yourself of!

As someone who has genes for very high cholesterol and whose grandfather had 1st heart attack at a very young age and father had blood clot at in the eye at age 35 and has been on statins since I wouldn't totally disregard it as a gauge of things being off.

I fixed mine by adding bunch of good oils, dropping shitty food, eating more vegetables (and extra vitamin C) and exercising more. I do not avoid dietary cholesterol however or try to control my weight in any manner. I do believe that there is a lot of false conclusions and silly shitty regarding serum cholesterol but the correlation of high cholesterol and other issues is not totally false.

I eat eggs and all that jazz and would recommend it to anyone. But I would also recommend eating broad range of fats including fish oil or similar plant based oils and nuts etc.

For CCR - docs are what they are. My doc's recommendation for high cholesterol was one page print out from mercknet that told one to avoid all fats. Not a word about avoiding simple sugars and other crap.
Excercise eat real food that you prepare yourself. Include milk, meat veggies, eggs and even whole grains etc. We don't know what your lifestyle has been but body has an amazing ways to recover from bad past if you just give it what it needs. And ultra "paleo" likely isn't what it needs.