I see, thank you.
I’m sorry, but this isn’t a helpful comparison for you to make. Like every other part of our bodies, people’s livers have different strengths and weaknesses. I know of people who can go HAM on a week-long bender and are no worse for wear after a shower and a shave. At the same time, I know of quite a number of people who are unable to drink even a few sips of weak alcohol because they lack certain genes required for the “healthy” metabolism of alcohol.
And livers’ abilities can change over the course of one’s life.
People who approach or enter into alcoholism, by nature, have strong livers. People with weak livers usually don’t because their liver’s inability to process the toxins of alcohol usually cause severe enough reactions before the habits and dependency can form.
Just I can’t look at Mr. Olympia as a benchmark for what I can or should lift, your friends aren’t a meaningful comparison for you.
If you really need to get your fatty liver fixed, you cannot be drinking any alcohol, regardless of your friends habits. Your test results are telling you your liver is under a significant strain as it is and , if you really need to get your fatty liver fixed, you have to do everything to support it (because liver transplants are costly, hard-to-come-by and all around suck…and you disqualify yourself unless you can demonstrate that you will not drink alcohol, not even a sip of champagne at your daughter’s wedding).
That means no drinking as well as an avoidance of other substances which are hard on the liver (such as caffeine and other medications like paracetamol).
I mentioned Intermittent Fasting (IF) above. That’s not the same as your eating challenges. Your eating challenges has probably put your body into starvation mode, which blocks the results you’re asking about here.
In one of the diabetes-related threads on here, a form friend linked to a talk by a doctor who had extended the idea of IF to 7 days or up to 21 days. That might work with your eating challenges. Be aware that this is not simple fasting. His protocol consists of specific nutrition (usually proper bone broth) to prevent the body from going into starvation mode.
And because fatty liver is considered an indicator of pancreas problems, metabolic syndrome and blood sugar dysregulation, you’ll also want to support your pancreas, blood sugar and endocrine systems to fix your fatty liver as well, because your liver has become the downstream end-product of those issues.