Thip I think you are on the right track about restricting fat intake.
Especially for cirrhotics.  Fat digestion requires bile and our liver has
to work to make bile.  Then extra bile is stored in the gall bladder.  So
if a sick liver is working overtime to make bile to digest  potato chips,
and if our gall bladders aren't up to speed (or missing!), common sense
says a lot of fat can't be good.   Good internet info is hard to find.
It's always either too technical or too simplistic.  But here is a blurb
about fat digestion from the janis7 website.  I wonder if you folks with
advanced hcv trouble have ever had a doctor that prescribed this
"fat-lite" product?  

Our bodies need at least some fat for energy and survival.  From reading
these chat groups for a couple years now, it seem like a lot of docs just
prescribe lactalose for constipation for cirrhotics, advise limited sodium
intake,  and never take the dietary issues and farther.  Pisses me off.  I
think they blow it off as being beneath them, or relegate it to the domain
of nutritionists.  

The medical profession likes to think of itself as "keeping people from
falling between the cracks"   But sometimes I think that I am falling into
the cracks between specialists.  Rant.

Kathy J.  
likes cheese too much

http://janis7hepc.com/Diets%20for%20People%20with%20Cirrhosis.htm

"Persons with cirrhosis often begin to experience difficulty digesting and
absorbing fat in the diet. The result is steatorrhea, (the presence of
undigested fat in the stool), and thereby may require dietary fat
modification. Fatty liver is also a condition that can occur which is the
accumulation of fat in the liver. In either of these cases, reducing the
fat to 25% of total calories (about 40-70 grams of fat daily) is
recommended. Use of a special prescription type of fat called MCT oil is
sometimes necessary. MCT (medium-chain triglycerides) does not require
bile for absorption into the blood stream, so is advantageous when the
liver can no longer produce adequate bile for digestion and absorption of
dietary fat (lipid). MCT can be used in place of other fats in cooking and
some recipes and is also available in certain types of liquid nutritional
drinks."