Avocado Health Benefits: Is This the World's Most Perfect Food?

You are right that 1. they are calorically dense and 2. they contain a higher amount of fats. BUT!!!! They are the good fats you need to be healthy. I am not suggesting you sit down and eat nothing but Avocados. I am saying you should find a way to occassionally fit them in. Did you read the articles. The health benefits far out way the calories and fats.

I would be willing to bet that not one single person in this group got fat because they ate a bunch of avocados. I am not a firm believer that you can just look at the nutrition profile and say it doesn't fit into a weight loss plan. The fiber alone is worth it. The fats in the avocados actually help you to burn more fat. Same goes for nuts. You don't have to sit down and eat a jar of peanuts or almonds but if you have a small handful each day you will benefit in the long run from both the caloric density of them and the fats. I guarantee also that nobody every got fat eating nuts.

Actually, I would take  that bet.  I have an acquaintance who had her VSG a few months after me. She had a great doctor and was told to follow a fantastic program (in my opinion), however, because of her belief in not eliminating the "good fats" from her diet early out, she lost only about half the weight she needed to lose.  The main culprit for her were nuts, cheese and avocados.  When she tried to get them out of her diet later in the weight loss process, because she was stalled, she could not do it.  I will not name her as I don't believe in shaming people, but her experience is my example of why these foods can wait until maintenance.  It is really OK with me if you disagree, it is even possible that this will work quite nicely for you, but I know that it does not work nicely for many others. 

I am not eating a lot of these things I am just not eliminating these things. I think the amount is a factor here and you mentioned a key element that was not in my original bet...cheese. Cheese is great for low carb diets but is also calorically and fat dense and it is bad fat. At the end of the day I am not a certified nutritionist or a scientists to prove or disprove any of this. I am an engineer and we take information from a bunch of different source and build something great from it. I think on the healthy spectrum nuts and avacados are generally accepted as good. Do they fit into a post VSG eating plan, I believe that is up to the individual. If I eat a slice of avacado every day and 5 or 6 almonds and I record it as my snack and at the end of the day I am within my 600 to 800 calories, under 40 carbs, etc. did it fit? Yes. Did I benefit from it? Who knows. The articles I read this morning seemed to imply they would greatly. In my post article read investigation I found that 1 avocado is about 350 calories, do I plan on eating a whole one today? Nope. Will I add a slice to my salad at dinner instead of cheese?. You bet. I used a small amount a couple of weeks ago in a turkey salad instead of mayo. Was the slice of avocado I used better than the spoonful of mayo or light mayo I was planning to use? I think it was. There is only 1 ingredient in avocado. There are more in mayo and many more in light mayo.

So I actually do not disagree with what you are saying. I am just not agreeing with you either.

Keith, I hear what your saying but here's is my problem. I CAN"T eat just a handful of nuts or just little avocado. :(   I wish I could but I don't. People however do get fat because they don't understand or cant do Moderation!! 

None of us would have had WL surgery if we could do moderation. So, to me, saying just have a handful, is really not a "doable" thing! 

Are you saying you can't do moderation now after surgery? or before?

Even now :(     If it is not protein dense foods, I can eat plenty of it. For example. I was eating lots of nuts at about 5 months but I was not loosing much weight. I was eating too many of them because I never felt satisfied and just kept eating them. There are lots of foods that will not cause people to full and there have been many post about foods to be aware of. popcorn, nuts, etc.     I wish I could just have a handful but it doesn't' work like that for me, and many of us

2 tablespoons of guacamole has 40 calories, 1 carb and 4g of fat. That doesn't fit into who's plan?

I will agree that as an occasional treat it is doable on any diet.  I would not make it a staple of my diet during weight loss. We might agree more than it appears from the earlier post. ( And if we don't always agree, that's OK too.  :)   ). 

We may not be on the same page, but we are in the same book.

I didn't like avocados until I tried one in a salad in mexico and omg... It was like  " this is how they are supposed to taste?"

I find cheese  and nuts is easy to overeat ( even when I was on atkins I could over do it and stall....) avocados? not as much.  Even in weight loss phase I would suggest them. Good fats will help you poop too!  I personally believe that this vsg helps us control portions so we can eat healthy things like this - especially since they are dense as well.. I doubt it would be super easy to over eat too many. Especially as a garnish or an add in. 

That said  not one of my trigger foods so easy for me to say