I absolve you for this sentence alone. Yes, yes I have been young and stupid and drank WAAAY too much. LOL. My little brother was wondering if he was an alcoholic (they all come to me in the family and I ask them leading questions and then proclaim, "Only YOU can decide if YOU are an alcoholic.") Only secretly I think they all are. Like my little brother said he didn't think he would have "nothing interesting to say in meetings" and I asked him something he had done while drunk and he was like, "Well.... I ate some catfood. Not dry, the wet kind (he had a cat the poor creature) and I started, when I was drunk, to feel bad for the elderly and how they might have to eat cat food and figured it was pretty bad, like, I mean I didn't WANT to but I felt I had to eat "some" in solidarity, and after half the half can I puked. LOL after I picked myself up off the ground laughing, well, l sort of said, "Nothing to say, eh? Let me tell you if I had that story to tell, I would tell it EVERYWHERE, it's almost better than the turkey story." The I straight facedly gave him an AA book and said, "ONLY you can decide, my brother, if you are an alcoholic, so I will circle some meetings near you and you may venture there if you dare." Only I figured he would not figure out all then like pictographs so I circled the old people's meetings. I wanted him to feel "a part of." It was moot. He did not go.
My sis went through a brief AA moment. I knew she was no longer going like after some intense discussion of higher powers, my sis is a graven Atheist and like, she was having trouble with it. She almost got there when I was like, "Look it's nice if your higher power has some sort of vested interest in you but it is not NECESSARY because like, ANYTHING can do it. Do you know a trash can that like, gets drunk no matter how many bottles that are shoved in it? That takes its migraine medicine so it can blot out the world? Why not start THERE dude, I mean.... The trash can is doing something YOU can't. Maybe you can work your way up to IDK a Venus fly trap sometime.
She stopped talking about meetings and I said, "So, I take it you've gone back to the drinking T? And by the way, I could give a rats rear. If YOU can drink and live comfortably well that's all cool with me, I just know *I* can't. But via the wizardry of like, Al-anon, I don't really care much who drinks at all. She said, "I don't know, I just decided life was TOO short to never drink again. I mean... life is too short for all that. I don't know how you do it." It was such an awesome alcoholic statement I had to try hard to not giggle. But I was like, "Um, I TOO think life is too short to not drink. It's just that I have drunk my lifetime allotment early on, I think."
Hitt, what kind of work out are you doing? Is it aerobic like running or weight lifting? I hear (from my doc and it appeared to be true) that you wanna do like some running or you know whatever the male version of aerobics is like crossfit? It's supposed to break down the cholesterol better somehow.
I had high C in my youth and I got on a stair master every day for 45 minutes. Yeah it sucked, it was the only change I made. When I went back it was perfect and the doc was like "change nothing else." I was like, cool, cool, well I can just keep smoking and drinking black coffee then? He was like "if your numbers say so."
Although I have to admit I am not sure of the true veracity of cholesterol numbers in general.
You can start by walking but I bet you can do better than that.
Doing nothing is fantastic when you don't have a jillion things to do but I picked up some momentum later in the day. The husband was like, "yep, so I have to chase you when you are sleepwalking?" I was like, "Until the meds get at least TAPED in a closet, yeah you do."
He is such a great guy. Mostly. He was like "You are sleepwalking again. That's not good." I was like, "Nope and not even any reason this time. Sigh.
Hopefully I will have a chance to say goodbye to my band of Tucosn coyotes however.
Anna
However, they are putting a generator in my building at work so the power is going out most of the day so I can't vpn into my work computer. I could transfer stuff to my home computer and work but I'm not going to. 
