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Does metabolizing your own body fat raise your cholesterol since your body fat is saturated fat?

It was my understanding that consuming saturated fat raises your bad cholesterol. So when an individual metabolizes their own fat when faced with a caloric deficit does it still have this effect?
gpt
When you are metabolizing fat instead of glucose in times of fasting, you are breaking down fats in the form of fatty acids (eg triacylglycerols).  These fatty acids undergo a process called beta-oxidation, in which fatty acid chains lose 2 carbons at a time to create acetyl-CoA and succinyl-CoA.  These molecules can then feed back into the citric acid cycle or into ketogenesis to create energy for the body.  

Acetyl-CoA can also be used as a precursor for cholesterol synthesis, but in the fasting state this should be down-regulated by an AMP-regulated protein kinase.

TL;DR: You don't create cholesterol during fat metabolism.