Obsession with peanut butter....good or bad?

if you eat enough of it such that you're going over what you burn in a day...yes it will make you gain weight. Otherwise, no, not so much.

Peanut butter has good fats. If you stay in your calorie goal you will maintain your weight. Enjoy it on fruit or veggies if you are worried. I love PB on Apples,celery and carrots.....a spoon!:happy: Gooood stuff. You should try Almond Butter. Yum!

What goes on between a grown man and a consenting jar of natural peanut butter behind closed doors is not of anyone's concern except their own, ok?

Nothing wrong with peanut butter. I found that my serving portions were off (what I thought was 1 tablespoon was actually 2, so I was going a bit over on calories), so I found Better 'n Peanut Butter which has 100 calories per serving. You can also try PB2 in shakes... it is soooo good.

Is that a metric ton or inperial? just ran a Tonne through MFP & it came to 6,000,003 calories that should give you quite a formiddable booty, seriously though eat enough of ANYTHING & it will make you fat, if it fits within your numbers it will be OK if not it wont.

From my perspective, and I LOVE peanut butter, it depends on the type of peanut butter.
Unfortunately Jif is the worst (and best tasting!) peanut butter for you. Now I'm just talking the creamy stuff. The "natural" isn't much better.. It's just because of the oils they use to preserve it, and the extra sugars added.
Peanut butter is a higher percent fat than it is protein, but like someone mentioned, it does have good fats.

I switched to an all natural peanut butter from Trader Joes (or any farmers market/whole foods place works) and I saw a bit of a drop in my weight. It's only two ingredients are peanuts and salt.. and it needs to be refrigerated because it lacks preservatives.
like you.. I eat peanut butter ALL of the time.
I also bought some sugar free strawberry preserves to get that delicious PB&J

Sooo.. it's up to you! I think everyone has great points.. Peanut butter is DELICIOUS and I definitely wouldn't recommend not eating it. But, the natural stuff, in my opinion, is delicious too. So I can enjoy it without feeling guilty.

well, its going to get pricey in the very near future............cost of peanuts is going thru the wall

I live in S. Texas, and all the peanut butter farmers have their plants producing only about 1/3 of their normal harvest.........the drought has devasated parts of the south west US, and local farmers are really taking a loss...........

watch the price of peanut butter and see if its going up in your area............might wanna cut back some, save you some money as well as some cals,............best wishes, Lloyd

I'm a peanut butter freak. I can eat up to 4 tbsp of it a day and I'm steady losing the 1/2 lb per week I set myself for. Make sure you are using correct measurements.

Super sad about the cost of PB projected to rise

I realized a new "think" recently. READ THE INGREDIENTS.

Last weekend, I was looking at two peanut butter jars: Natural vs. reduced fat. Natural was more expensive. Everything else considered: calories, sugar, fat, protein, they were very similiar.

However, I learned this week to read the ingredients in food. You know my reduced fat peanut butter had sugar and vegetable oil labeled as the first couple of ingredients! I try to stay away from oil and especially the bad oil. But I generally will try to stay away from all oils because of the calories. No, I don't care what anyone says about olive oil.. it's the calories in and calories out, but you shoudl also read the ingredients.

I wonder what the natural peanut butter has for ingredients.. I think just peanuts! I'm going to check it out and probably buy it this weekend. I'm sure I'll miss the sugar though! lol.