What kind of oil and about how much?

Can you estimate the amounts or ratios?

Customs doesn't give problems and thus confiscate it all?

Birth control/estrogen pills are prescription only, aren't they?

I really doubt any medical professional worth his salt would issue such a thing to a male.

Maybe HRT, but that's difficult to obtain and would require passing an extensive psychological evaluation to determine if the patient is trans and thus eligible for it, right?

If it's takeout food, who cares? They don't know if it's just for you, or even if they do, they probably don't care.

At the grocery store... again, who cares? Maybe you're buying for others in addition to yourself.

Even if you forget about gaining and feederism for a second, think about it. Who buys entire turkeys or those big sheet cakes? Or those larger pizzas? Most of them do so with the idea more than one person will be eating it. So maybe that's what you're doing. Or maybe not, but that's not really your business.

You can also always use self checkout. If a cashier asks, say you have a lot of cooking and prep to do, or there's some sort of event or big get-together coming up.

I'm sorry, but this is very bad, even terrible advice.

High Fructose Corn Syrup is extremely vile stuff that messes with your blood sugar levels much worse than regular sugar.

HFCS is primarily found in:
- The vast majority of "regular" soda.
- Most (not all) barbeque sauce and ketchup.
- Some chocolate sauces, most notably Hershey's.
- Certain adulterated/non-traditional beverages.

That last one can include things like "Sunny D" (vile stuff, probably popular just because it's very low in price), and certain types of fake lemonade, in particular Minute-Maid brand.

However, the vast majority of fruit juices will NOT contain HFCS.

Regarding barbeque sauce and ketchup, there should nearly always be an option at any supermarket that does NOT contain HFCS. Certain proprietary sauces, such as McD's "Sweet & Sour," will contain HFCS but others, such as Wendy's Barbeque sauce, will not.

A lot of "ultra-processed" snacks used to contain HFCS years ago, but they no longer do. Though, some might still have it.

Actually, if you simply don't drink soda and make other alternative choices, it's extremely easy to avoid 99%+ of HFCS these days.

Before I gave up soda for good, my experience with HFCS was NOT good.

I remember that if I drank about a liter of soda, Fanta I think it was, the result is that within the hour, maybe even sooner, I feel an overwhelming urge to nap and I just feel groggy and NOT good. And in general, HFCS beyond trace amounts just makes me feel very bad.

Not saying sugar is the best thing either, but I never had that kind of reaction to regular sugar.

In addition, the soda just seemed to have a bloating effect and a water retaining effect, which actually caused me to eat LESS, not more. For someone who'd like to gain weight, this is not good.

I feel like that kind of quantity of HFCS consumption is pretty much guaranteed diabetes, and you absolutely do NOT want that.

If that isn't enough, HFCS is about 3 calories a gram v. sugar's 4 calories a gram.

But yeah, don't get me started on the Big Corn Lobby.

I'm not saying one has to eliminate HFCS consumption entirely. You probably don't eat out all the time, so there's not a lot of point in fussing over whether the ketchup at some diner, or if the ketchup used at some burger joint has HFCS in it. You could probably even have the occasional can of soda from time to time.

But a 2L every day? That's just asking for trouble. Another member here ended up pre-diabetic and well on the way to becoming full-blown diabetic because she was doing that, and she was also under the age of 21 too. So, this process didn't even take a very long time.

The only way she found out is that as a trans-female on HRT, checking the blood work fairly regularly is part of the process. Most folks probably don't get that checked regularly.

Am I on a crusade against HFCS? I guess I am. There's a reason a number of countries have moved to ban the ingredient, or at least highly restrict it, particularly when a far less vile alternative, sugar, exists.

Sure, some may say they don't care about health, but some things really are no joke, and the reality is often very different from fantasy.