re: #122 GunstarGreen

HFCS itself is not the cause. However, HFCS is the sweetener of choice for the plethora of ultra-calorie-dense crap that Americans eat.

Having embarked on a weight loss regimen that I believe it’s fair to call ‘very successful’, and having been a typical junk-swilling bachelor for most of my life before that, I feel pretty qualified to remark on it. Most of my fellow denizens eat a whole bunch of stuff that is preposterously dense, caloricaly speaking, leading to massive levels of overeating. Our stomachs are keyed on volume, not density, so a candy bar or a coke that has the caloric content of a full meal doesn’t fill like a real full meal, and leads people to eating more.

To a large extent I agree. High caloric density makes trying to lose inches worse. At the same time there is some basis to think it’s not the only thing, that corn based sugar has issues above and beyond its caloric density.

oh - and as someone who used to bother, has gained, and knows he has to get back to where he’s supposed to be, congrats on maintaining. FWIW, what worked in the past - and the reason for my gain - is that I took measure of how many calories I was eating and made sure I was burning that much. It’s oddly easier to increase the out than it is to decrease the in.