Help, adicted to peanuts

Does this mean you are 13 feet 2 inches tall or 13 feet 2
inches around?

"Dan Mors" <Dan [email hidden]> wrote in message
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Hi. Yes, I eat about 150g of peanuts a day because I love
them. I'm 38, 150lb, 170 in and I want to lose weight? My
question is, will I lose weight if I keep eating so many
peanuts? I guess it does not help my diet, does it?

Hope to have some input on this

DM

Dan Mors <Dan [email hidden]> wrote in
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Quoted message said:

Hi. Yes, I eat about 150g of peanuts a day because I love
them. I'm 38, 150lb, 170 in and I want to lose weight? My
question is, will I lose weight if I keep eating so many
peanuts? I guess it does not help my diet, does it?

Assuming you're not counting the weight of the shells,
you're consuming about 900 calories a day from peanuts. At
150 pounds, you need approximately 2250 calories per day to
maintain your current weight; less and you'll lose weight,
more and you'll gain weight. Right now the peanuts account
for 40% of your maintenance calories, which seems a little
extravagant. You don't tell us whether your weight is
currently stable or increasing (since you say you want to
lose weight, we can presume it's not decreasing).

If we can assume that your current weight is steady, then if
you were to cut your peanut intake by one-third (i.e. limit
yourself to 100g/day) without making any other changes, then
you'd expect to lose about one pound every 11 days (if
you're actually gaining weight, then you'd expect the gain
to slow down by about one pound every 11 days).

What's your desired weight? As a general rule of thumb, you
need 15 calories per pound to maintain a particular weight;
you can use that to figure out how many calories per day
you'll need to consume once you're there. Obviously that's
going to be fewer calories than you consume now. For
example, if you wanted to weigh 140 pounds, your maintenance
requirement would be 2100 calories, so you'd need to consume
150 calories/day fewer than you are now. You could achieve
that by consuming 25g less of peanuts per day; if you did
that, your weight would drop to 140 in about 8 months. Not
very fast, but then it took you a long time to gain the
extra weight in the first place (actually you'd lose weight
somewhat quicker early on and then the rate would slow down,
since as you lose weight your maintenance calories drop and
the rate of loss is proportional to the difference between
your actual calorie consumption and the maintenance level
for your current weight).

So you don't have to give up peanuts altogether, but you do
need to set some limits. Since peanuts are quite calorie-
dense, you can achieve a substantial reduction in the number
of calories from them with what you'll perceive as only a
small decrease in the amount you're eating.

Be very careful of peanut withdrawal. If suddenly stoping
them and then resuming again, even part of that dosage, you
could end up in the hospital, if you make it, with a severe
allergy attack.

"Eric Bohlman" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Dan Mors <Dan [email hidden]> wrote in
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Quoted message said:

Hi. Yes, I eat about 150g of peanuts a day because I
love them. I'm 38, 150lb, 170 in and I want to lose
weight? My question is, will I lose weight if I keep
eating so many peanuts? I guess it does not help my
diet, does it?

Assuming you're not counting the weight of the shells,
you're consuming about 900 calories a day from peanuts. At
150 pounds, you need approximately 2250 calories per day
to maintain your current weight; less and you'll lose
weight, more and you'll gain weight. Right now the

peanuts

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account for 40% of your maintenance calories, which seems
a little extravagant. You don't tell us whether your
weight is currently stable or increasing (since you say
you want to lose weight, we can presume it's not
decreasing).

If we can assume that your current weight is steady, then
if you were to cut your peanut intake by one-third (i.e.
limit yourself to 100g/day) without making any other
changes, then you'd expect to lose about one

pound

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every 11 days (if you're actually gaining weight, then
you'd expect the gain to slow down by about one pound
every 11 days).

What's your desired weight? As a general rule of thumb,
you need 15 calories per pound to maintain a particular
weight; you can use that to figure out how many calories
per day you'll need to consume once you're there.
Obviously that's going to be fewer calories than you
consume now. For example, if you wanted to weigh 140
pounds, your maintenance requirement would be 2100
calories, so you'd need to consume 150 calories/day fewer
than you are now. You could achieve that by consuming 25g
less of peanuts per day; if you did that, your weight
would drop to

140

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in about 8 months. Not very fast, but then it took you a
long time to

gain

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the extra weight in the first place (actually you'd lose
weight somewhat quicker early on and then the rate would
slow down, since as you lose weight your maintenance
calories drop and the rate of loss is proportional to the
difference between your actual calorie consumption and the
maintenance level for your current weight).

So you don't have to give up peanuts altogether, but you
do need to set some limits. Since peanuts are quite calorie-
dense, you can achieve a substantial reduction in the
number of calories from them with what you'll perceive as
only a small decrease in the amount you're eating.

"Dan Mors" <Dan [email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Hi. Yes, I eat about 150g of peanuts a day because I love
them. I'm 38, 150lb, 170 in and I want to lose weight? My
question is, will I lose weight if I keep eating so many
peanuts? I guess it does not help my diet, does it?

Hope to have some input on this

DM

Eric did a nice job in his answer.

You say 170 inches tall? No way. 70 inches I might believe:-
)

I'll suggest that you should try a variety of other nuts.
Preferably raw or dry roasted nuts. Nuts are concentrate
food source so you may need to moderate your intake
somewhat. Don't get me wrong, almonds, filberts, sunflower
seeds, pumpkin seeds, brazil nuts (at times), walnuts, and
pecans provide in the neighborhood of 800 calories per day
in my diet.

Dan Mors <Dan [email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

Hi. Yes, I eat about 150g of peanuts a day because I love
them. I'm 38, 150lb, 170 in and I want to lose weight? My
question is, will I lose weight if I keep eating so many
peanuts? I guess it does not help my diet, does it?

Hope to have some input on this

DM

I think that you are what you eat.....

TC