Bananas and fruit sugar in general?
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Unless you have medical issues, eat what you want and don’t worry about it but am really surprised anyone would want three bananas a day. I’d like three slices of banana bread 🤣2
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1 was using another app to track calories when I began but sadly it was dominated by a group of low carb/keto peeps who kept advising that sugar was the devil and the only fruits you should be eating were berries (and those we label vegetables that are actually fruit). Eating was for nutrition only, not something to be enjoyed. I started to feel guilty about eating bananas and wholegrains and ....... It really was not a healthy mindset at all and I am sure I would have development disordered eating if I stayed there.
I then found this app and things are so much more balanced. I started eating more fruit and grains and guess what? I began to feel better, physically and emotionally. The extra carbs gave me more energy. Not only that but I continued to lose weight at exactly the same rate. I stopped seeing food as good or bad, healthy or unhealthy. I realised it was all about moderation and that food and eating should be enjoyed. The take home from this ramble .... if you enjoy eating bananas and they fit within your calories goals then eat bananas guilt free.9 -
Do what makes you feel good and works for YOU!
I used to eat a lot of bananas, I stopped about a month or two ago. I did change my foods and pay attention to sugar because of several health reasons. Anxiety, fungal infections, digestive and imbalance. I feel like a new person with elimination of sugar- however this is recent. Higher carbs worked for a long time,.not now.
Listen to your body, do what makes you happy!4 -
Anyone who thinks eating large amounts of bananas is unhealthy should look up 'Freelee'.
She makes me conclude that eating tonnes and tonnes of bananas bad for your health, but it might make you a mad as a box of hammers.8 -
Luckily, very few people eat the amount of bananas Freelee recommends.
There's a Canadian dietitian (Abbey Sharp) who has made some videos commenting on Freelee's what I ate today videos. Kind of mean but also very funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyE_i0yZbBY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2__6XKHHVE 5 -
Unless you have medical issues, eat what you want and don’t worry about it but am really surprised anyone would want three bananas a day. I’d like three slices of banana bread 🤣
I probably started off eating three bananas a day when I was in Costa Rico, but I found this a little constipating, so cut back. I definitely ate at least three mangos a day, every day. OMG, the fruit was SO good there!
I also had rice and beans twice a day, so a very high carb diet, but still managed to lose a size without even trying, because my overall calories were less than at home.3 -
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Luckily, very few people eat the amount of bananas Freelee recommends.
There's a Canadian dietitian (Abbey Sharp) who has made some videos commenting on Freelee's what I ate today videos. Kind of mean but also very funny.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyE_i0yZbBYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2__6XKHHVE
Hysterical! Thanks for sharing!3 -
I had 85 grams of sugar today from fruit. It was wonderful.4
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Do what makes you feel good and works for YOU!
I used to eat a lot of bananas, I stopped about a month or two ago. I did change my foods and pay attention to sugar because of several health reasons. Anxiety, fungal infections, digestive and imbalance. I feel like a new person with elimination of sugar- however this is recent. Higher carbs worked for a long time,.not now.
Listen to your body, do what makes you happy!
Please explain the Woo.0 -
Do what makes you feel good and works for YOU!
I used to eat a lot of bananas, I stopped about a month or two ago. I did change my foods and pay attention to sugar because of several health reasons. Anxiety, fungal infections, digestive and imbalance. I feel like a new person with elimination of sugar- however this is recent. Higher carbs worked for a long time,.not now.
Listen to your body, do what makes you happy!
Please explain the Woo.
I didn't woo you, but strongly suspect the reason for the "woo"s was the implication that sugar triggers anxiety, fungal infections, etc. I'm not questioning your personal experience (you're the expert on that by definition
), but I haven't seen any sound research supporting that linkage at a general population level. I've heard it from some local chiropractors, but not in a context that offered clarity on the question of scientific support. 8 -
Do what makes you feel good and works for YOU!
I used to eat a lot of bananas, I stopped about a month or two ago. I did change my foods and pay attention to sugar because of several health reasons. Anxiety, fungal infections, digestive and imbalance. I feel like a new person with elimination of sugar- however this is recent. Higher carbs worked for a long time,.not now.
Listen to your body, do what makes you happy!
Please explain the Woo.
People misuse the Woo reaction all the time. I would be annoyed if I shared my personal experience and it got woo'd.
Years back, my mother was also able to alleviate a health condition by drastically reducing dairy and added sugar for a time.1 -
kshama2001 wrote: »Do what makes you feel good and works for YOU!
I used to eat a lot of bananas, I stopped about a month or two ago. I did change my foods and pay attention to sugar because of several health reasons. Anxiety, fungal infections, digestive and imbalance. I feel like a new person with elimination of sugar- however this is recent. Higher carbs worked for a long time,.not now.
Listen to your body, do what makes you happy!
Please explain the Woo.
People misuse the Woo reaction all the time. I would be annoyed if I shared my personal experience and it got woo'd.
Years back, my mother was also able to alleviate a health condition by drastically reducing dairy and added sugar for a time.
Thank you for this. I am talking from true experience. Its not just having sugar, it was not having nearly enough healthy fats and omegas. I am not advocating, selling or trying to convince anything. I
Clearly stated we are all unique, do what works for you. I ate tons of ( healthy) carbs for years- 1,2 or more bananas a day, yams, oats, etc
It started not working for my body. I simply traded avocado for bananas, etc.
I already decided after my last few postings I am not going to do any forums because too many people take things in unintended ways. There is so much negativity, criticism, non support or fellow sharing without backlash
. So I am being " woo" for telling my true experience. Ksasma2001, thanksfor the quote and happy to hear about your mom finding healing!
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I find the suggestion that one either cuts way down on carbs, including high nutrient ones like fruit and veg and beans and lentils, or goes way low on fats to be an erroneous and misleading one. I did not woo anyone but I do consider that a false dichotomy and not good advice. It's fine that you or others prefer lower carb, but the suggestion that one must cut back on fruit for better health is a bad one, IMO. Very few people eat so much fruit that they are low on other nutrients (that some might fall into that trap was a point made earlier in the thread with the reference to Freelee). I also think the idea that fruit causes fungal infections, etc., is one not pushed by credible sources but by some less than credible ones (certain kinds of alternative medicine types).
I think it's worth noting that this thread was started by a poster wondering if he should be worried about too much fruit in a diet he said was working for him, so I would -- and I assume the wooers did -- take the "yes, fruit was bad for my health" anecdote to be telling the OP that he should worry about his fruit consumption. Context is important.7 -
Sugar only matters if that's all you eat.
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