jay wrote:

*Eight oz of almonds is also 1377 calories, 125 g fat, 16 net carbs.
Too many nuts. *You need to exercise some portion control here. *

On day I had 10 oz of macadamias. According to the packet, that would
be 2010 calories. Oh my! On lo-carb, these nuts taste just as sweet as
candy.

New fat is 3500-4500 calories per pound. There's no way you stored
any new fat at all if you stayed under maybe 100 grams of carb that
day. It takes either enough insulin to push fat into storage or a
much
larger overload than that to force fat into storage against the
pressure
from low insulin.

That link told me
BMI: * 17.2
Percent Body Fat: * *10.3%
Lean Body Mass: * *105.8 lb
Underweight by 4.0 kilograms (8.8 pounds).

And a lot of those programs run about 10 pounds under what works
best so you could bounce up 20 without any ill effects at all other
than being less hungry less often.

Consume at least 2251 calories per day.
Your diet should contain at least 85 grams of protein per day.

Prior to the nut binge and chicken, I was eating approximately 40g of
plant protein from zucchini, chayote, lettuce, celery and chocolate.

Most of the protein estimates are generous not only to make
sure there are enough of all of the essential amino acids without
tracking by type, by also to keep the protein high enough that there
are no protein cravings.

You would have needed to track amino acids by type to avoid
protein cravings eating 40g per day but long term vegetarians
usually follow a system that does do that.

I'm going with it being a "beneficial" craving that you don't agree
with. You're listed as underweight so your body chemistry will
set hormone levels to be ready to eat more. Your long term low
protein intake may have been tuned for health but our bodies aren't
evolved for that level of sophistication. I think you fed your body
an
unaccustomed high protein food and it triggered appetite hormones
that drove you to eat more. When it comes to hormones your
body concluded a surplus was available and it needed to eat right
now. I get not agreeing with a sudden drive to eat like that, but
that's my theory on why it happened.

Atkins and other low carb plans say nuts are good. The bounce on
the scale was water not fat. You don't agree with what happened
but it was towards the center of "all is well" as far as low carb
plans go.