Is it reasonable to compare yourself with MM?

Yes it works but losing weight may be the crucial factor to improve cholesterol somewhat regardless of how you do it. If you have high cholesterol and don’t need to lose weight, then maybe something else is required?

That said, its probably a good idea to do the fast diet anyway.

One thing i have read about several times is that low fat diets are not good for cholesterol levels but the way dieting science seems to be done its hard to know where the truth lies in anything. that said, if someone makes a convincing argument, then its hard to go past it. I read a convincing argument in the art and science of low carb.

I read a brilliant article about the difficult with nutrition and diet science but for the life of me, i can’t find it again. I wish i’d kept a link. Basically it was about how hard the science is to do and get right and why we are therefore all so confused about it and why things always seem to be changing and so on. An insight into this issue is achieved from reading Good Calorie Bad Calorie by Gary Taubes.