Counting the calories on fruit?

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  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    GaleHawkins wrote: »
    There are good and bad foods but what may be good for one person may be bad for another and the other way around.

    We can figure out what foods are good and bad for ourselves over time but we can not tell another something is good/bad for them over social media with any degree of integrity.

    No - there are good and bad diets - individual foods just have different combinations of macro and micro constituents - people like to demonise foods in isolation. If you are allergic or intolerant to a food that would be bad for you but the food is not bad per se
  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
    jellox77 wrote: »
    Hey Everyone
    I am just having a super hard time counting calories on the fruit I eat? I feel so hungry if I'm deciding to eat fruit as a snack and its 60 calories for a small apple... I fee like I shouldn't even count it... It's better to eat fresh fruit then 100 cal snack of small chips? I don't know. Help! I need some input?

    Why do you think you should not count the fruit calories?

    Fruit is not better than the 100 calorie pack snacks, or anything else, it's just nutritionally different. It all depends on your macros makeup for the day (if you pay attention to macros. If not, all's good. :)).

    Here's the deal- that small apple might be small in your eyes, but for calories it could actually end up being a medium. Those 100 calorie packs are always more than the serving size indicated on the package. If you want an accurate accounting of intake, you need to weight everything you eat, including the apple and 100 calories packs (maybe that was just used as an example, I dunno).

    It's easy. Core your apple, put it on the scale, choose a correct entry in grams, log it. You will find out that that 60 calorie apple has 75, maybe 100 calories! You'll be glad you weighed it.
  • SLLRunner
    SLLRunner Posts: 12,942 Member
    GaleHawkins wrote: »
    There are good and bad foods but what may be good for one person may be bad for another and the other way around.

    We can figure out what foods are good and bad for ourselves over time but we can not tell another something is good/bad for them over social media with any degree of integrity.

    Gale, there are no good and bad foods.

    Just because a person can't eat something due to allergy or medical condition does not make the food bad.
  • STEVE142142
    STEVE142142 Posts: 867 Member
    No it doesn't matter what you eat from a losing weight perspective. As long as you're in calorie deficit it doesn't matter what you eat. Yes it will affect how you feel. You can eat Snickers and drink vodka and lose weight while eating healthy vegetables and meat and chicken and gain weight.

    I love eating fruit I probably have three to five pieces on a daily basis.. Calories are calories.
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