Healthy fats and satiety

lennnox

If healthy fats like avocados, eggs, salmon, nuts etc. contributes to satiety then why do we at the same time recommend fats to people who are trying to gain weight "because these foods are easy to eat and doesn't fill you up"? Yes, I know about fats and hormones. And yes I know fats have more calories. But if fat helps keeping me full I wouldn't want to eat more of them if I was trying to gain weight. I would rather opt for some chocolate milk or something along those lines.

lemurcat12

What fills you up depends on the person. I can easily eat lots of higher fat foods without getting especially full. Just adding more olive oil or butter to my meat and veggies would add lots of calories and pretty much no satiety. (Taste, though!)

cwolfman13

for people who are trying to gain weight, I always recommend that they just eat all the foods...I don't really see too many people saying to specifically eat more fat...just eat all the foodz, including fat. Beyond that, bulking and gaining weight can be uncomfortable...you eat even when you don't feel like it or feel hungry...in that RE, fat can be a good thing because it is calorie dense and you don't have to eat a ton of it to get in some calories.

Bulking/gaining weight is uncomfortable...you have to keep eating even when you're not hungry, regardless of dietary fat.

EvanKeel

For the same reason we just make recommendations instead of telling people how it's going to work: one size does not fit all.

Try it (or not) and see if it works (or doesn't). The effects of fat on satiety may not be that significant compared to the energy density per gram within the context gaining weight. It's all a balancing act to see what works.

EDIT: I would also add...and this is just a guess...that the person who allocates a greater piece of their macro pie to fat because they're hungry in a deficit is not necessarily the same person who finds gaining weight to be a challenge.