Down with HFCS!

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Actually, neither of them is terrible for you if you're eating in moderation.

Meth isn't terrible for you if you take it in moderation either.

OK yeah that was a cheap strawman. But people's ideas of "moderation" are vastly different. Having a high-fat, high-calorie meal once in a while is fine. But if that's more than one or two meals per week, that isn't moderation, it's the rule (unless you are an athlete and are burning a seriously high amount of calories, in which your weight goals are probably different anyway, or you have an abnormally fast metabolism). Foods high in fat raise your cholesterol levels and clog your arteries. Sorry, but that is bad for you. I find, for me personally, eating a Double-Double is hard to justify except a couple times a year (and only then, it's if I've been doing the regular gym thing and not kidding myself about how many calories I've eaten that week).

I think the feeling of "satisfaction" though when you eat is sort of a cop-out. You can't just eat until you're satisfied. If you're eating ANYTHING after you're full, you're overeating. Frankly, if you ARE full, you're overeating. Like Morrigoon says, it is portion control, but in that portion one needs to take into account how many calories one wants to eat, and stop. You can eat MORE (volume-wise) of lower calorie food.

At the beginning of any weight-loss regimen, where your calories expended are greater than your calorie intake, I know I'm going to feel hungry. I try and avoid this by eating smaller portions at regular intervals, but I'm still gonna feel hungry at the beginning. As long as my calories are around 1400 per day, I'm gonna feel hungry but I'm not starving myself (I think under 1200 calories, your body goes into starvation mode, which has its own set of issues).