Shocking High Calories in small bags of nuts

MyChocolateDiet

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bobkat80

I eat peanuts or pecans or pistachios almost every day, but as was said, you have to weigh them. I only eat a small amount, which may be hard for you. They taste sooo good you want more, but that is what self-control is about. I know I can always have more tomorrow! It is worth to me to fit them into my calories. But I can say I wouldn't have eaten 950 calories of them either!

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MyChocolateDiet

if you have a small bag of nuts, i bet you have trouble getting dates? Am i right? I mean the food, dates..cause you cant even finish the small bag of nuts..

ElectricDragon

I weight nuts (walnuts, almonds, pecans) regularly. One serving (28g/1oz) is about 200 calories (slightly more or less depending on the type of nut). It's very calorie dense, yes. It is not something you want to binge or mindlessly eat without weighing. 150 grams of peanuts is about 5 servings (about 1000 calories), so yeah quiet a lot. How many servings did it say on the bag? Usually that info should be there. I recommend getting a digital kitchen food scale to weigh foods like this if you don't have one, it's one of the best investments I made on my own journey.

MyChocolateDiet

I weight nuts (walnuts, almonds, pecans) regularly. One serving (28g/1oz) is about 200 calories (slightly more or less depending on the type of nut). It's very calorie dense, yes. It is not something you want to binge or mindlessly eat without weighing. 150 grams of peanuts is about 5 servings (about 1000 calories), so yeah quiet a lot. How many servings did it say on the bag? Usually that info should be there. I recommend getting a digital kitchen food scale to weigh foods like this if you don't have one, it's one of the best investments I made on my own journey.

To avoid all this confusion with weighing my nuts or eyeballing a "handful" serving size, I find an MFP database entry that lists by nut. Sometimes it will say like 14 nuts and then you can pull down and choose 1 nut and then tailor the serving size of that one nut to the exact amount you actually ate. I keep saying I'm gonna put two just for funz but never fails once I eat those two nuts, I just always have to eat more.

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DoNotSpamMe73

I was about to eat 150g plain salted peanuts (It's only just over a handful), but thought Ill just log it on MFP before I eat them so I don't forget, to my shock nearly 950 calories if I consume that little bag.

So glad I logged before I ate, I discarded the peanuts and deleted my log entity cause I decided not to eat them.

Things like these existing just make me feel angry and how people can comsume them all day and not gain a single ounce.

You may as well have a large (175g) bag of Doritos for that. Healthy and weight loss are not the same, after all a healthy person is maintaining not losing weight. Fruit (not dried or sugared, fresh only) are good in all circumstance though.

Supertact

yeah man nuts and seeds are high in cals
i eat 28g of almonds a day and that comes up to 185 cals, now imagine
150g of almonds = 990 cals

MyChocolateDiet

I weight nuts (walnuts, almonds, pecans) regularly. One serving (28g/1oz) is about 200 calories (slightly more or less depending on the type of nut). It's very calorie dense, yes. It is not something you want to binge or mindlessly eat without weighing. 150 grams of peanuts is about 5 servings (about 1000 calories), so yeah quiet a lot. How many servings did it say on the bag? Usually that info should be there. I recommend getting a digital kitchen food scale to weigh foods like this if you don't have one, it's one of the best investments I made on my own journey.

To avoid all this confusion with weighing my nuts or eyeballing a "handful" serving size, I find an MFP database entry that lists by nut. Sometimes it will say like 14 nuts and then you can pull down and choose 1 nut and then tailor the serving size of that one nut to the exact amount you actually ate. I keep saying I'm gonna put two just for funz but never fails once I eat those two nuts, I just always have to eat more.

shall i go on?

MinimalistShoeAddict

I was about to eat 150g plain salted peanuts (It's only just over a handful), but thought Ill just log it on MFP before I eat them so I don't forget, to my shock nearly 950 calories if I consume that little bag.

So glad I logged before I ate, I discarded the peanuts and deleted my log entity cause I decided not to eat them.

Things like these existing just make me feel angry and how people can comsume them all day and not gain a single ounce.

Great job logging your meals in advance in order to make decisions leading to achieving your goals!

That being said I don't see any reason why you should feel angry. You made the right decision for yourself. Other people have different goals. Perhaps other people like nuts more than you and don't mind getting a large percentage of their fat and sodium macro and micro nutrient targets from one snack.

Frequently I consume large quantities of cashews, pecans and walnuts. I would have no problem fitting that many calories (and those fat and sodium levels) into my daily meal plan on occasion and I am not a big guy. I just exercise a lot.

MyChocolateDiet

I was about to eat 150g plain salted peanuts (It's only just over a handful), but thought Ill just log it on MFP before I eat them so I don't forget, to my shock nearly 950 calories if I consume that little bag.

So glad I logged before I ate, I discarded the peanuts and deleted my log entity cause I decided not to eat them.

Things like these existing just make me feel angry and how people can comsume them all day and not gain a single ounce.

Great job logging your meals in advance in order to make decisions leading to achieving your goals!

That being said I don't see any reason why you should feel angry. You made the right decision for yourself. Other people have different goals. Perhaps other people like nuts more than you and don't mind getting a large percentage of their fat and sodium macro and micro nutrient targets from one snack.

Frequently I consume large quantities of cashews, pecans and walnuts. I would have no problem fitting that many calories (and those fat and sodium levels) into my daily meal plan on occasion and I am not a big guy. I just exercise a lot.

Me too, but raw almonds, pistachios, and cashews are my top 3. Walnuts do a weird acidy chalky puckery thing to my mouth when I eat too many. Pecans are great though, but I blew through those way too fast to justify buying more. They are the perfect texture to just eat a bunch with no stopping, unlike the harder raw almonds that I have to give up when my chewing gets tired or pistachios that require work to get at.

eldamiano

I was about to eat 150g plain salted peanuts (It's only just over a handful), but thought Ill just log it on MFP before I eat them so I don't forget, to my shock nearly 950 calories if I consume that little bag.

So glad I logged before I ate, I discarded the peanuts and deleted my log entity cause I decided not to eat them.

Things like these existing just make me feel angry and how people can comsume them all day and not gain a single ounce.

Rubbish, or the 'other' people perhaps just don't scoff a load of other rubbish at the same time

healthygreek

I don't understand why you discarded a perfectly good bag of nuts.

toddis

Proves/disproves the OP's theory of not gaining an ounce?