Is it alright to eat 100g of peanuts/ groundnuts a day?

[vhbjn]

@redeyemindtricks

Yes

No, too much

[redeyemindtricks]

100 grams per 24 hours? Yeah -- that's not an extreme amount.

Do note that there's ≈50 grams of fat in 100 grams of peanuts. That's a pretty high quantity -- it's equivalent to ≈450 calories from fat (≈600 calories overall).

So...

This sort of intake is ***HIGHLY SUITABLE*** for 2 kinds of diets:
• A ketogenic (= very-low-carbohydrate) diet
• A "dirty bulk" (= weight-gain diet where you don't care if you gain fat along with muscle)

It's ***WORKABLE*** for a normal "balanced" diet (like Zone proportions, 30%/30%/40% of calories from fat/protein/carb), although in that case -- if you are a normal height and weight -- you won't have too many fat calories left to allocate.
For instance, if you are 6'0" 190lbs and you lift a few times a week, then yr maintenance is about 2750 calories/day. If you get 30% of those calories from fat, that's 825 calories from fat. If you're getting 450 fat calories from peanuts, that leaves only 375 fat calories (42 grams of fat) for *everything* you're going to eat for the entire rest of the day.
Which is do-able, but not necessarily easy, depending on yr tastes.
If you're smaller than that, you'll have even less of a margin left over. (If yr weight was the same as mine, that would pretty much be all the fat calories you'd get for the whole day under that kind of diet.) If you're bigger, you'll have a bigger margin left over.

100g/24hr of nuts/peanuts is UNSUITABLE for a non-ketogenic weight-loss diet, or for a training-day (low-fat high-carbohydrate) diet.

[vhbjn]

i just generally want to increase dietary fats and peanuts are cheap lol

[redeyemindtricks]

Why do you want to increase dietary fat?

[vhbjn]

i dont ever get more than 45 g according to the app

[vhbjn]

and i need 80-90

[redeyemindtricks]

Right... that's my question, why do you "need" that many grams of fat? Just to achieve a certain percentage of calories?
That 80-90 figure sounds like you're trying to follow a 30/30/40 type "balanced" diet... which is fine, if yr activity level is average.

The main problem with a shortage of dietary fat is that yr body uses fat to make sex hormones. So, if you actually DO need more dietary fat, you'll feel classic signs of lower testosterone (you can look these up if you don't know what they are).

If you *don't* seem to have issues with yr testosterone levels, then there's no urgent need for extra fat in yr diet (although adding fat is OK).

[redeyemindtricks]

In any case, the answer to yr original question is that there's nothing wrong with that quantity of peanuts in a day.

[vhbjn]

actually i am skinny fat and demotivated in life and trying to compensate for the fact that i am a female repellent by trolling on sites

so yeah, i do have testosterone issues

[redeyemindtricks]

In that case, you should try to eat some more SATURATED fat, too -- and some more cholesterol.
Red meat, whole eggs, etc.

These kids of lipids raise testosterone more than monounsaturated fats (the kind in peanuts/almonds/olive oil)... which, in turn, raise testosterone more than polyunsaturated fats (the kind in soybean/corn/fish oil).

After 3-6 months you should get yr blood lipids tested (HDL, LDL, triglycerides), just to make sure they are still at acceptable levels.

But, for now, try to eat higher quantities of both saturated and monounsaturated fats.

Also,

• Do less cardio (or none at all) -- cardio lowers testosterone levels
• Do less lower-weight higher-rep weight lifting

• Do more high-intensity interval training (HIIT)
• Do more HEAVY weight lifting (sets where you can't do more than 4-7 reps)

[Anonymous]

Yeah should be alright, it's quite a bit of fat but not too much so long as you don't have too much other fatty stuff. And so long as you aren't allergic :P

[Walrus_au]

with the obvious caveat - as long as you are not allergic and that is not your only food.

[serious]

I think that should be ok.

[Anonymous]

She doesn't know shit about health.

[Anonymous]

yesterday I ate 250g