Quote Originally Posted by bluebug32 View Post
I love nuts, but they seem really high in calories (or perhaps I'm just bad at restricting how many I eat!).
By "seem," do you mean you're going by some book, or did you actually try snacking only on nuts and find that you gained weight? If it's the former, really, try it. The satiety level is so much higher than with high-carb snacks that you wind up eating fewer calories; and because they're so high in healthy fats, they'll actually help you lose weight provided your total calorie intake is reasonable.

I started looking up protein contents in formulating this reply, and I guess the key is to eat beans with EVERY meal. Because when I looked it up, it turns out that two cups of cooked kidney beans, a cup of cooked long grain brown rice and a medium stalk of broccoli gives you about 35-40 g protein in only 700 calories, which is plenty reasonable. I'm used to a breakfast of cereal, fruit, rice/hemp/soy milk and 3-4 tbsp of nuts, and loading my protein very heavily toward dinner. So I guess maybe I have to start looking harder at getting more protein earlier in the day and I won't be so reliant on animal products.