I try to keep it at max 1.5 oz a day. But not every day, maybe 2 times a week. I eat macadamia nuts. I use almond or other nut butter.

This really has to do with tolerance, I eat about 1.5 oz of nuts a day too but it goes up or down depending on what I garnish my food with or if I am not feeling full after a meal I'll grab some. I was eating about 3 to 5 oz a day when all the weight was coming off but I really do not seem to have any intolerance's to nuts. If you are having difficulty losing weight or upset stomach after you eat nuts then take a week off and see if that all changes, the weight could be due to an allergy to them that is causing inflammation in your system.

I don't personally think nuts are healthy for me so I do my best to avoid them. If you tolerate them then eat them but if they cause health issues or you go crazy with them I would recommend avoiding or minimizing them. They have the same anti-nutrients as grains so I'm not sure why many find them so acceptable.

I had no idea of the fat and calorie content of nuts until getting onto MFP. I have since cut them out and replaced with fruit. But.... Now my sugar levels are up! Not sure what is a safe replacement. Nuts are so fattening and having around 60gms a day blew my diet out the wall.

only small amounts... example: no more than 28 almonds per day...otherwise (not sure why) my weight loss stalls and cravings for other foods increase.

Yeah. Moderation @Kimberly_Harper sighing

Think about it from a hunter/gatherer perspective. You find a nut tree while wandering, gather up what you can hold, and take a rock to them and eat. All in all - just a handful. Keep that picture in your head. Also, roasting/salting encourages overindulgence (which is why they do it). Stick with raw and/or unsalted.

Example: it takes me 15 minutes to shell/eat a cup of pistachios, yielding 1/2c nut meats. In 15 minutes I can also go through TWO cups of pre-shelled pistachios (I've done it). I now make damn sure I keep only unshelled pistachios around.

I can eat macadamia nuts they are too high in fat for my iffy gall bladder. I eat raw almonds in ounce portions.

I love macadamia nuts but their high cost keeps me from eating to many, I have them about once a week. Otherwise, I'll have some cashews or almonds. I use nuts as a quick snack at work if I'm not able to make it away to eat a proper lunch, just enough to hold me over.

Kitnthecat wrote: »

I find that I have to limit my nut intake to feel my best and especially to lose weight. When I first went paleo, I think I overdid the nuts and went overboard making all kinds of grain substitution recipes. I have cut that way down, and since trying primal keto, I limit even more. I might have .5 to 1 oz macadamia nuts a couple of times per week.

I've been very careful about "paleo-ized" treats. However, last week, knowing I'd be facing a table full of home-baked treats every other hour (they keep the judges' room stocked with all sorts of food at high school debate tournaments, at least, all the ones I've gone to over the past three years), I baked up several batches of coconut flour muffins to take with us. Everyone who tried them said they didn't taste "paleo", whatever you'd mean by that. They were slightly sweet (1/4 cup honey divided amongst 8 muffins), high in protein (half an egg per muffin) and involved no starches like tapioca or arrowroot (the flour in the recipe was 1/3 cup of coconut flour). They turned out well, and I'm making another batch today for the gf members of my family. (They're gluten-free eaters, not "paleo" but it makes an easy treat for them, and if I'm tempted to eat one myself, it will still be a fairly healthy choice.)

By the way, I read that cashews can cause a gluten-like reaction in very sensitive people, so keep that in mind if you have a problem with gluten.

I rarely do nuts or nut butter -- it's too easy to overeat them. I was thinking of making sunflower seed butter, the other day, to see what it's like, but haven't gotten around to it yet. I just got around to making coconut butter, after putting it off for weeks due to busyness and the fear it wouldn't turn out as well as people claimed, and the shredded dried coconut being a waste of money. I'm the only one around here who uses coconut milk in recipes, and I've been too busy to make and use up coconut milk for the last few months. (Aargh, can't tell you how much bone broth I've thrown away since January. I make a crockpot of the stuff on a weekly basis, but I don't always get it drunk up if I'm gone four or five days in a row, and didn't have time to get it into the freezer. At least it's made from leftover bones, after roasting a chicken, so it's not a complete waste.)

I measure nuts out into snack bags of about 2oz each. That is usually about 350 calories. I use it as a snack at work to help get me through the day without getting too hungry.

I am a type 2 diabetic and I eat a mug muffin made with 1/4 cup of any nut meal I'm in the mood for daily for breakfast and I really don't eat the nuts for snacks any longer. When I did I ate 1/4 cup max. I do keep baggies in my car and gym bag for meal or low glucose post workouts if it happens. I decided to do double-duty and make them part of a meal so that helps calorically speaking and it improves the nutrition absorption. I soak raw nuts, dehydrate them, store in glass jars and grind or do whatever I want with them. I also have been ramping up my veggie intake in the last week to at least 75% and it has really helped my glucose levels drop even more plus the scale is moving down again. I feel better to boot. I love meat of all kinds but I just am consuming smaller portions. That is fine because the plants keep me full and my insulin levels down. Nuts are part of that plant profile and I consider them a regular part of my daily nutritional profile. I consume green, other LC veggies, some berries but no HC starchy veggies for now because they spike my sugars. I invested in a Vitamix and make 32 oz green smoothies daily. I ditched 12 years of meds 13 months ago due to LCHF and whole eating. Now I exercise regularly and everything continues to improve.

Akimajuktuq wrote: »

I don't personally think nuts are healthy for me so I do my best to avoid them. If you tolerate them then eat them but if they cause health issues or you go crazy with them I would recommend avoiding or minimizing them. They have the same anti-nutrients as grains so I'm not sure why many find them so acceptable.

+1

Lot's omega-6 oils and phytic acid in most nuts.

I've actually been watching the amount of nuts I eat more lately because I want to do more to keep my Omega 3/6 ratio in balance. Nuts have mostly Omega 6 so too many can be a problem. I still routinely eat nuts but not every day and when I do I'll have maybe a tbsp or 2 of nut butter OR maybe an almond flour baked something OR a handfull of nuts. I try not to do more than one nut thing/day. That being said if one day I have some more nuts it's not the end of the world. There are much worse things you can eat.

Akimajuktuq wrote: »

Interestingly grains and nuts are similar when it comes to how they act in our body. I find it interesting that nuts are so acceptable. I view them as equally unhealthy for my body. If i did eat nuts, I would prefer macadamias though.

Is it the carbs?

I don't do well with nuts, though I don't know why. Although if they act similarly to grains, that could be the reason -- grains and I don't get along at all. Although I don't seem to be gluten intolerant. I don't feel worse for eating wheat. Rice, actually, and oatmeal make me feel worse than wheat does. Maybe it's because their carbs are so concentrated?