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Hi im looking to lose weight and i have read that Peanut Butter & Banana Sandwiches are good for losing weight.

I normally have shredded weight for breakfast, shake for lunch and a normal dinner at night and always calorie count using fitness pal app which is great, i highly recommend

If so when would be best to have one Breakfast, Pre workout or after?

Im trying to stick to cutting 1000 calories daily, Im row 30 - 60 min daily 5 times a week

Ive been rowing on and off for a about 3 month and ive lost 10 pounds and ive kept it off too when i have taken a brake from rowing say 1-2 weeks

Sorry im a bit of a noob here

Also what peanut butter do u recommend here in the uk

Thxs

Best type of peanut butter is a natural source without lots of added butter as nuts are a good source of EFA's, EFA's are fats which make you body burn more fat for energy.

Low carbs, high fat, high protein. No sandwhiches

I put them on spinach tortilla wraps instead of bread! I know these aren't perfect but om nom nom nom nom nom nom

Sometimes it's hard to get the 250 grams of protein in every day, man!

Peanut butter goes on everything. I even put it on peanut butter.

Say what? Peanut butter and banana sandwiches for weight loss? I do think it makes for a good energy snack, though, well before a long run or something. Most peanut butter has sugar and bad fats slugged in there. Many health food stores let you grind your own - I do that with the (superior in my opinion) almond butter. I put that on celery, carrots, in smoothies, on a spoon, on a banana, on a sprouted grain English muffin.

We have this: http://www.adamspeanutbutter.ca/

Ingredients: peanuts.

Good fats or bad fats, either one takes a long time to digest. Protein is also slow to digest, so heavy exercise should only be done 3 - 5 hours after eating a lot of peanut butter - or nuts of any kind.

B.

Bob S. wrote: or nuts of any kind.

You've triggered my pedantry. Peanuts are not nuts, they're a legume more closely related to a pea or bean.

Citroen wrote:

Bob S. wrote: or nuts of any kind.

You've triggered my pedantry. Peanuts are not nuts, they're a legume more closely related to a pea or bean.

Indeed

Bob How can you not know. Nuts grow on threes only

Laziness. I just didn't bother to distinguish between peanuts and what some people now refer to as "tree nuts." They are legumes to be sure, but it appears that they are higher in fats than peas and various kinds of beans. I just checked the labels on peanut butter and some dried peas, both with no added ingredients. Sure enough, the peanut butter was very high in triglycerides and low in saccharides and the peas were the reverse. Both are good sources of proteins. To a botanist, peanuts and tree nuts are quite different, but to a chemist they are very much alike - that is not an excuse for my carelessness. However, from the point of view of nutrition, peanuts are more in the same league as tree nuts than with other members of the legume family. The odd feature about peanuts is that they grown in the ground on the roots instead of hanging in the air from the branches. I wonder if there are any other legumes that do this.

My wife just made the point that there is a difference between culinary and botany terms. One example of that has always bugged me - the use of the terms fruits and vegetables. All fruits are from vegetable plants and they include things that are not considered to be fruits in the culinary sense, like peppers, squash, eggplants, tomatoes, and legume pods. In edit here, it just occurred to me that legumes and tree nuts can be lumped together since we usually just eat the seeds or inner part of the seeds of those. Exceptions to that are string beans and snow peas; they are usually consumed pods and all, so would come under the category of fruit.

B.

Yeh, what Bob said. Take that, you taxo-comical Aristotelians! Jack

I think for breakfast, or recovery just after rowing, that is a great choice. Natural Peanut Butter, Banana, and I usually will have a single slice of whole wheat/whole grain bread. I snack on nuts a lot (generally weigh them so that they equal a morning or afternoon snack. Great choice for fiber and weight management if used appropriately. Throw in another snack of a protein shake in the afternoon, and it works well. Your rowing will take care of the rest!!