Dear Cindy,
Like the others, I am really sensitive to fat too--ESPECIALLY in the form of oils. If I have one drop more than whatever I eat can absorb completely, I am ruined for the rest of the day.
I am a vegan and scrounging for calories and protein, so I pretty much have to use nuts in some form; I rely on peanut butter more than I would like, but I still keep my TOTAL fat around 20% or slightly under. The trick that I have learned for using the nuts and/or nut butters is to have them in no more than 1 tbsp. or 1/2 oz. servings and have them with my largest meals--breakfast, lunch, and dinner--so as to keep the calorie/fat proportions better. I started following Heather's general recommendation to eat a good bit of my SF first--say, oatmeal or rice--and then work in the nut fat a bite or so at a time, followed by veggies or whatever (since fat takes a lot longer to digest, so eating things in a certain order can help). That helps to keep it from setting me off.
I think going too low on fat is definitely not a good idea. The nutritionist I was seeing for a while always gave me a hard time if my fat dropped too low, and there definitely seems to be POSITIVE affects from the right fats in your system--if you tend to have C, which I do sometimes (IBS-A here).
Be well.
-Justin
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