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Just eat pasture raised eggs. It’s only the grain fed eggs that have bad cholesterol.

They’re expensive, but given the nutrient density it’s worth it for me.

There is no such thing as dietary “bad cholesterol”.

When people use that term, it generally refers to low-density lipoproteins, which are an endogenous transportation mechanism for cholesterol in your body.

All dietary cholesterol is just cholesterol, and it essentially has no impact on serum (blood) cholesterol levels.

Are you saying that dietary fat won't make me fat?

I have nothing to back this up with* but my understanding is that simple carbohydrates like sugar are more readily converted to bodily fat. Dietary fat is digested and processed by the body into component parts that are less readily converted into bodily fat. It's not like your body just takes fat and stores it directly in your love handles unmodified.

*Found this though: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1199523/

Yes, unless you eat too much.

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