I'm kicking peanuts out of my diet. First of all, it's calorie-dense and less feeling. Second, it contains too much fat and my body isn't use to consuming too much fat (60 grams a lot for me). And third and the most convincing reason for me to stop eating peanuts... "I'm allergic to it!!! It causes pimple!!!
... and not to mention that it's very easy to overeat and cause you gastrointestinal problem (farting too much :o )

Nothing much worth of a thread huh? I just want to write my goals :D

They do have a lot of fat, but they are sooooo good. Aren't a little bit, like a tablespoon of walnuts in your cereal or a handful of almonds supposed to be good for you?

Don't get me wrong, nuts are healthy and good for you. But the reason I stopped eating them is I'm afraid that it's too easy to over-indulge and that can hinder any fat-loss goal. Remember, you can still gain weight by eating healthy foods, right? Besides, I'm allergic to them :)

Don't get me wrong, nuts are healthy and good for you. But the reason I stopped eating them is I'm afraid that it's too easy to over-indulge and that can hinder any fat-loss goal.
Nuts are very healthy for your, but peanuts are not nuts. They are legumes (in the same family as beans).

One of the problems with peanuts is that they are highly atherogenic. (Kritchevsky D, Tepper SA, Klurfeld DM. Lectin may contribute to the atherogenicity of peanut oil. Lipids. 1998 Aug;33(8):821-3. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=9727614)) In fact, when researchers want to study atherosclerosis in lab animals, they feed them peanut oil to stimulate the disease.

They do have a lot of fat, but they are sooooo good. Aren't a little bit, like a tablespoon of walnuts in your cereal or a handful of almonds supposed to be good for you?
Walnuts and almonds are both great.

Walnuts and almonds are both great.
you know, they say ostrich has less fat, but you eat more of it... ~George Costanza

i cut all nuts from my diet because i found myself accidently binging on them alot. i stick to natural peanut butter because its one scoop with a plastic spoon, and i dont go back. if i have nuts around, i always want to have just one more, which turns into like 200 more.

cashews and almonds are the two reasons why i had no progress for 4 months.

if i have nuts around, i always want to have just one more, which turns into like 200 more.


Sometimes it's best to have them up in a cupboard and out of reach rather than somewhere that makes it too easy to eat like a table, etc. (although that can be good for exercising your willpower). Then when you want some you have to go get 'em, take a small serving, put the lid on and put them back. This is an extra reason why you don't want to go through the chore of going back for more...


Also, I'd just like to add that I've been out of almonds for a while and it sure is a pain in the butt to find more with no salt or oil added. It seems wherever I go I can hardly ever find some good varities of nuts that haven't had oil or salt added to them. Gee, why is that? :confused:


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you know, they say ostrich has less fat, but you eat more of it... ~George Costanza

i cut all nuts from my diet because i found myself accidently binging on them alot. i stick to natural peanut butter because its one scoop with a plastic spoon, and i dont go back. if i have nuts around, i always want to have just one more, which turns into like 200 more.

cashews and almonds are the two reasons why i had no progress for 4 months.
Ah... finally someone who understand my problems :) Any food, no matter how healthy it is can make you gain weight or hinder your progress if you consume too much of them. Plus, not to mention the side-effect of peanuts written by jack-deuce; I think that's something to consider (especially if your habit is to binge on peanuts) ;)

Wow, I know what you mean about them causing pimples. I've had some major acne outbreaks (and I'm 40 years old), and peanuts do seem to have been a common factor each time.

I now eat almonds every day. With nuts you have to train yourself to be aware of their huge calorie-density. It would be natural for me to eat my way through a bag of almonds. Instead, I eat a very small quantity of almonds with many of meals, to make up the numbers. Sometimes this means eating just 4 almonds at a time! Other times it is more. I weigh or count them precisely.

It's very amusing when other people watch me eat less than half a dozen almonds - they can't believe that that is a major part of a meal. My colleague said to me: "what? That's not even a small snack!" I couldn't convince him that my handful of almonds contained a lot of the nutrtion required for the rest of that morning.

Almonds, by the way, are particularly useful foods. A big fraction of their fat is monounsaturated. And they also contain lots of manganese, vitamin E, and other stuff.