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Originally Posted by Circebee
Got it! Sorry, sometimes I get stuck in the old mindset of CaloriesIn/CaloriesOut, that I forget about the positive aspects of healthy foods. I'm sure that some healthy Omega 3 fatty acids would actually be helpful for my dry winter skin- whoohoo for healthy fats!
Also, you are probably not pouring as many calories down the drain as you think when you pour off the fat. You have to remember to recalculate the number of servings in the container based on how much you've poured down the drain. Let's say your PB container has 16 servings; each serving is 2 tbsp and 200 calories. So the total container has about 3,200 calories (16 servings x 200 calories). You pour off 2 tbsp worth of oil; each tbsp of oil is about 120 calories. Now your container only has 15 servings (because you've discarded approximately one 2-tbsp serving in oil) and a total of 2,960 calories (3200 originally less 240 calories poured off). The end result is 197 calories per serving (2,960 divided by 15 servings). You poured off all that good fat to save 3 calories per serving.
Moreover, peanut has both good fats and bad fats. Good fats are generally those that are liquid a room temperature (like olive oil). So the fat that you are pouring off is largely good fat. Bad fats (like butter) are solid at room temperature; those don't separate from the peanut butter so you can't pour them off. So by pouring off the oil in your peanut butter, you are pouring off the good fats but leaving the bad fats.
I was just going to say the same thing. 
