calories from fruit
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If you are counting calories, count everything. Just don't let the numbers discourage you from consuming all the fruit you want.0
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I went back to the beginning to see if I could figure out what was said that could make you feel bad, and for real there was the ONE pizza and burgers comment, and the point they were trying to make is "food is food". It was meant to get you to think. None of the other answers were even slightly antagonistic or mean.OK I get the message some people have gone way over the top. I posted this for support but a lot of you have actually just made me feel crap.
If you are that sensitive (and some people are, that's ok) then you may want to stay off the forums (not just MFP, but Internet forums in general). You got caught up in the emotion of being disagreed with by the majority, and as a result, interpreted the responses as mean just because you weren't handled with kid gloves. If you want to continue using the forums, realize that people will often disagree with you, and some people won't give a crap about their tone when they tell you so...but the majority of the time, even those people, are trying to help you.
Also, yeah, I could totally get fat eating too much fruit. Most apples are over 100 calories. Berries and melon and grapefruit are low in calorie per ounce but, if they didn't "count" and I ate as much as I wanted, yeah that would send me over for the day. It's not the fruit that would be putting me over, it's the total calories for the day, and fruit does contribute to that.0 -
I wish I had never asked, and its a shame as I wont be posting for advice in the future.
no don't do that. if you have a question or dilemma that is what these boards are for.. don't pay attention to the people who make it their mission to be snarky and on their high horse when replying. they are the same type of people who do their best to raise themselves up by putting others down. it was a legit question but you do have to count anything that has calories. Just count it for a while and I bet you will be surprised at how much you were underestimating how much you really are taking in. Oh I just found this out and it may help you in the future: if you don't like what a certain person keeps commenting, you can choose to mute them under their picture. it helps me when I get pissed. :flowerforyou:
This^^^^
Don't give up on us. This is a great site and has really been helping me out. I just started using this about two weeks ago, and for the most part, avoid posting to the general boards. What I have come to do is to find people with similar interests, or who's comments might have been particularly inspiring, or kind, and sent them a friend request with a message stating why I would like to be their friend. There are lots of good people here, especially if you are just starting out. It is important to find the voices who cheer you on and don't make you feel bad about yourself, or silly or stupid for asking a question. You can do this.
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You guys need to calm down.
The answer is log your fruit.
So we're all happy.
No need to be rude or feel attacked.
truth.
however when people are being rude it is hard not to feel attacked. : )
see now this might be mean but I am so out of this pity party. No one was mean, they told you the truth and you took it as mean, that's on you.
Welcome to the internet where not everyone will agree with you and there is not specific font for sarcasm, rudeness, or being mean it's all on you and how you interpret it.
thanks.
The person who made one of the comments sent me a message and said sorry for being a di** - so clearly I am not just over reacting.
I am new to forums so I had no idea people where so harsh.
go and join the mean bus, if being horrible to people brings you so much joy I feel very sorry for you and the people around you.
In my life I fill it with joy and happiness and nice people.0 -
just one comment that was not needed.
'I don't count calories from burger or pizza either'
that was totally taking this pi**
I mean this in the nicest of ways OP….
You need to log the fruit.
And if one comment in a public forum is going to upset you that much, I suggest staying off of the forums. Which is a shame because you will be missing out on some great information. (such as logging your fruit)
that was an example of one comment, there where more.
Clearly this is the last post I make.
I wish I could delete it.
You said above that it was one comment that was not needed, now all of the sudden there were more? :huh:
no ...
I meant this is just one comment... meaning one of the comments...
Ok, I'm going to be honest here, people were not rude to you. Do people joke around? Sure, but that's because people have a sense of humor, especially after the 50th or so post on MFP where someone decides the laws of thermodynamics do not apply to them because the food is healthy or they didn't consume it after 8 pm. The answer is still the same - yes, you need to log everything, even the healthy stuff. This really isn't something worth getting upset about or making a dramatic exit.
And in the future, if you feel someone is being rude to you, use the Report and Ignore features. Let the mods sort it out and save yourself the aggravation.0 -
I suggest you log everything in although it does not always have to be accurate. Fruits are good carbs and high in sugar but still that counts and too much of anything good or bad is simply not good lol ... I was wondering about fruits though. They are high in sugar and I often go over my sugar intake but I do not even eat as much. I usually eat SO MUCH fruit and if I log it in my sugar intake is over by 30 to 60 sometimes. Is that not good ? What do you all think?0
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You guys need to calm down.
The answer is log your fruit.
So we're all happy.
No need to be rude or feel attacked.
truth.
however when people are being rude it is hard not to feel attacked. : )
see now this might be mean but I am so out of this pity party. No one was mean, they told you the truth and you took it as mean, that's on you.
Welcome to the internet where not everyone will agree with you and there is not specific font for sarcasm, rudeness, or being mean it's all on you and how you interpret it.
thanks.
The person who made one of the comments sent me a message and said sorry for being a di** - so clearly I am not just over reacting.
I am new to forums so I had no idea people where so harsh.
go and join the mean bus, if being horrible to people brings you so much joy I feel very sorry for you and the people around you.
In my life I fill it with joy and happiness and nice people.
you haven't seen harsh...
and don't feel sorry for me I have more joy in my life than you know and if you think I am mean hold onto your hat, cause if you stay on the forums and react like this everytime people don't agree with you or sugar coat their responses you are gonna get flayed a lot...
<<<<trounces off to join the rest of the mean people aka those who don't sugar coat stuff....much more informative place to be anyway.0 -
OK I get the message some people have gone way over the top. I posted this for support but a lot of you have actually just made me feel crap.
How much fruit do you eat each day. I used to do Scottish Slimmers and you were allowed 2 servings of fruit each day anything over you had to count.
I don't really count veg apart from Potaotes/Parsnips/Sweet Potatoes as these are the only ones on SS plan you had to count.
And yes people are very quick to judge, just a little advice on your question would have been suffice
Thank you.
I eat about 3-5 portions of fruit.
And a smoothie a day which is 112 calories. ( I now know to count this !)
You were just validated negatively. In order for any diet, lifestyle whatever you want to call it to work you have to create a caloric deficit, this means logging every last bite of what you eat. But first take a look at this link, I think you will find it most helpful.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1175494-a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants?hl=path+to+sexy+pants&page=1#posts-183621570 -
You guys need to calm down.
The answer is log your fruit.
So we're all happy.
No need to be rude or feel attacked.
truth.
however when people are being rude it is hard not to feel attacked. : )
see now this might be mean but I am so out of this pity party. No one was mean, they told you the truth and you took it as mean, that's on you.
Welcome to the internet where not everyone will agree with you and there is not specific font for sarcasm, rudeness, or being mean it's all on you and how you interpret it.
thanks.
The person who made one of the comments sent me a message and said sorry for being a di** - so clearly I am not just over reacting.
I am new to forums so I had no idea people where so harsh.
go and join the mean bus, if being horrible to people brings you so much joy I feel very sorry for you and the people around you.
In my life I fill it with joy and happiness and nice people.
you haven't seen harsh...
and don't feel sorry for me I have more joy in my life than you know and if you think I am mean hold onto your hat, cause if you stay on the forums and react like this everytime people don't agree with you or sugar coat their responses you are gonna get flayed a lot...
<<<<trounces off to join the rest of the mean people aka those who don't sugar coat stuff....much more informative place to be anyway.
I am not going to stay on them
because of people like you.0 -
Blimey, this has gotten out of hand! Feel free to ask questions in the future, but try not to take offense of if some answers are ruder than others.
Fruit is unfortunately classed as carbs / sugar. Depending what are you aiming for, it is wrong of you not to log it. The calories will mount up very quickly.0 -
You guys need to calm down.
The answer is log your fruit.
So we're all happy.
No need to be rude or feel attacked.
truth.
however when people are being rude it is hard not to feel attacked. : )
This is one of the nicest threads I've read lately on the forums. No one was being rude or attacking you, they were just telling you that what you're doing is wrong and could hinder your weight loss. You asked for thoughts, and you got them. Just so happened that just about everyone disagreed with logging your fruit.
BTW, I'm having 1/2 of an orange this morning, and it's 104 calories (212 grams). If I did this multiple times a day and didn't log it, I would be over my calorie limit in a hurry. It's important to log everything if you want an accurate picture of what you're eating and how it's affecting your body.0 -
ThisOK I get the message some people have gone way over the top. I posted this for support but a lot of you have actually just made me feel crap.
And thisMy thought is that no one gets fat from eating too many fruits and veggies. It's all the other processed foods and fatty oils that cause you to gain weight and be unhealthy. Fruits and veggies are like cheat items in the way that it doesn't matter how much you eat.
THANK GOD !!! some one who thinks the same way as me !!!!
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…are exactly *why* MFP vets get riled up. Someone get the popcorn...0 -
If I eat it/drink it, then I track it. A calorie is a calorie.0
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I prefer to log everything. I sometimes eat up to 500 calories a day in fruit, so not logging it would be a mistake for me.
That being said, it is possible that you could lose weight by not logging fruit. If you have MFP set up to lose 2 pound a week you are basically at a 1,000 calorie a day deficit. If you did this then ate to that calorie limit, and didn’t log your fruit, you would probably still lose weight – just not the 2 pounds a week you may be expecting. This is because it is unlikely (yet not impossible) that you eat over 1,000 calories a day in fruit.
I don’t know much about Weight Watchers but I am guessing that since they allow you to eat as much fruit as you want, without counting it, that the amount of points (calories) they allow you is a large enough deficit that most people won’t cover that gap by eating fruit. If that is the case I am sure there are people out there eating a lot of fruit who don’t understand why they aren’t losing weight on Weight Watchers.
* Edit to add that I am not saying you should or should not do this, just that I could see it as an alternative way to use MFP and still be successful at losing weight. I still recommend logging everything.0 -
You're also doing 5:2 and not eating back exercise calories.
Is this the site for you?
Why would it not be? When I joined this site I never read anything that said we all had to follow the same type of diet...eat the same thing...do exactly everything by the rules...or leave and go somewhere else.
There are several members of this site that do the 5:2...they use this site obviously because it fits their needs.
BTW...I don't eat my exercise calories back either...well...unless I want pizza...0 -
You guys need to calm down.
The answer is log your fruit.
So we're all happy.
No need to be rude or feel attacked.
truth.
however when people are being rude it is hard not to feel attacked. : )
see now this might be mean but I am so out of this pity party. No one was mean, they told you the truth and you took it as mean, that's on you.
Welcome to the internet where not everyone will agree with you and there is not specific font for sarcasm, rudeness, or being mean it's all on you and how you interpret it.
thanks.
The person who made one of the comments sent me a message and said sorry for being a di** - so clearly I am not just over reacting.
I am new to forums so I had no idea people where so harsh.
go and join the mean bus, if being horrible to people brings you so much joy I feel very sorry for you and the people around you.
In my life I fill it with joy and happiness and nice people.
you haven't seen harsh...
and don't feel sorry for me I have more joy in my life than you know and if you think I am mean hold onto your hat, cause if you stay on the forums and react like this everytime people don't agree with you or sugar coat their responses you are gonna get flayed a lot...
<<<<trounces off to join the rest of the mean people aka those who don't sugar coat stuff....much more informative place to be anyway.
I am not going to stay on them
because of people like you.
you do realize that this post could be reported as a personal attack on me...that is against the ToS...
If I were so inclinded that is...0 -
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OK I get the message some people have gone way over the top. I posted this for support but a lot of you have actually just made me feel crap.
How much fruit do you eat each day. I used to do Scottish Slimmers and you were allowed 2 servings of fruit each day anything over you had to count.
I don't really count veg apart from Potaotes/Parsnips/Sweet Potatoes as these are the only ones on SS plan you had to count.
And yes people are very quick to judge, just a little advice on your question would have been suffice
Thank you.
I eat about 3-5 portions of fruit.
And a smoothie a day which is 112 calories. ( I now know to count this !)
Depending on the fruit, 3-5 medium apples would be 215 - 360. Berries would obviously be less. Pineapple is a lot more - you could be eating 300-500+ calories of "free food" a day with the 100 calorie smoothie included. 2100 - 3500+ a week, which could be an additional pound of weight loss. It may work for you now but there could be a point where the weight loss stalls and you might need to consider readjusting this theory.
I am not posting this to attack you or make you feel stupid. I understand that you can count calories. But according to your first post, you choose not to and this is my way of backing up my opinion with facts (the numbers, calorie counts). Some people on here are rude but most aren't. It is hard to understand tone in text most of the time but most people here are just trying to help answer your question.0 -
You guys need to calm down.
The answer is log your fruit.
So we're all happy.
No need to be rude or feel attacked.
truth.
however when people are being rude it is hard not to feel attacked. : )
see now this might be mean but I am so out of this pity party. No one was mean, they told you the truth and you took it as mean, that's on you.
Welcome to the internet where not everyone will agree with you and there is not specific font for sarcasm, rudeness, or being mean it's all on you and how you interpret it.
thanks.
The person who made one of the comments sent me a message and said sorry for being a di** - so clearly I am not just over reacting.
I am new to forums so I had no idea people where so harsh.
go and join the mean bus, if being horrible to people brings you so much joy I feel very sorry for you and the people around you.
In my life I fill it with joy and happiness and nice people.
you haven't seen harsh...
and don't feel sorry for me I have more joy in my life than you know and if you think I am mean hold onto your hat, cause if you stay on the forums and react like this everytime people don't agree with you or sugar coat their responses you are gonna get flayed a lot...
<<<<trounces off to join the rest of the mean people aka those who don't sugar coat stuff....much more informative place to be anyway.
I am not going to stay on them
because of people like you.
you do realize that this post could be reported as a personal attack on me...that is against the ToS...
If I were so inclinded that is...
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha0 -
I prefer to log everything. I sometimes eat up to 500 calories a day in fruit, so not logging it would be a mistake for me.
That being said, it is possible that you could lose weight by not logging fruit. If you have MFP set up to lose 2 pound a week you are basically at a 1,000 calorie a day deficit. If you did this then ate to that calorie limit, and didn’t log your fruit, you would probably still lose weight – just not the 2 pounds a week you may be expecting. This is because it is unlikely (yet not impossible) that you eat over 1,000 calories a day in fruit.
I don’t much about Weight Watchers but I am guessing that since they allow you to eat as much fruit as you want, without counting it, that the amount of points (calories) they allow you is a large enough deficit that most people won’t cover that gap by eating fruit. If that is the case I am sure there are people out there eating a lot of fruit who don’t understand why they aren’t losing weight on Weight Watchers.
Yep. All of this. Including the "eating a lot of fruit and not losing weight" -- some people use the "fruit is free" to just gorge on bananas or something similar. Well, if you're eating 1200 calories worth of random weight watchers food and 1800 calories of bananas, yeah, I would not be surprised that you're not losing weight.0 -
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Count the calories! It you eat an apple, banana, orange, and some pineapple that's roughly 300 calories right there! If you make a smoothie with a banana, and 8 oz of orange juice and nothing else in it that is over 200 calories. So if you ate all of the fruit and smooth I mentioned and were set at a 1200 calorie a day allotment, that would be almost half of your daily calorie intake just in fruit and smoothies.0
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You guys need to calm down.
The answer is log your fruit.
So we're all happy.
No need to be rude or feel attacked.
truth.
however when people are being rude it is hard not to feel attacked. : )
see now this might be mean but I am so out of this pity party. No one was mean, they told you the truth and you took it as mean, that's on you.
Welcome to the internet where not everyone will agree with you and there is not specific font for sarcasm, rudeness, or being mean it's all on you and how you interpret it.
thanks.
The person who made one of the comments sent me a message and said sorry for being a di** - so clearly I am not just over reacting.
I am new to forums so I had no idea people where so harsh.
go and join the mean bus, if being horrible to people brings you so much joy I feel very sorry for you and the people around you.
In my life I fill it with joy and happiness and nice people.
you haven't seen harsh...
and don't feel sorry for me I have more joy in my life than you know and if you think I am mean hold onto your hat, cause if you stay on the forums and react like this everytime people don't agree with you or sugar coat their responses you are gonna get flayed a lot...
<<<<trounces off to join the rest of the mean people aka those who don't sugar coat stuff....much more informative place to be anyway.
I am not going to stay on them
because of people like you.
**** it.
People went out of their way to be nice to you. No one was rude. You just got all whiney because you didn't like that you didn't hear, "Oh honey, you don't need to log it. You're doing everything perfectly. Have some cake."
You got real support. Good advice that you should follow. You called that mean and focused on the one person saying you were right. That's what you were really after.
Yes, people can be snarky. No one here was. People really tried to be helpful and nice and still you pulled the "Everyone's mean I'm never posting again!" card.
Hell with it. Unleash the gifs.
thanks.
not interested.
join the que of people who get fun out of negativity.0 -
All fruit has calories and "smoothies" can be upwards of 500 calories. Why wouldn't you count the calories in everything you eat or drink?
My smoothies often have MORE than 500 calories.
ETA: To get the best results; if you eat it, Log it.0 -
A friend of mine did the green smoothie challenge and gained 5 unwanted pounds by drinking a lot more fruit than she needed. She even had her smoothies as meal replacements. Of course she said she also put avocado in there! Yum though. Enjoy your fruit but weigh and log it to get an idea of how many calories you are consuming.0
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Thank you to the people for honest - supportive comments.
This clearly isn't the place for me.
To the people who seem to get a pleasure out of being negative and having an argument. goodbye.0 -
Log everything you eat. I will even log an atomic fireball, which I am addicted to!0
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Thank you to the people for honest - supportive comments.
This clearly isn't the place for me.
To the people who seem to get a pleasure out of being negative and having an argument. goodbye.
this is rich coming from one of the few here who was rude, personally attacked and got joy out of being mean...ironic post is ironic
offers peace offering to OP
*Release the GIFS0 -
Posting on the community page invites all members to comment and some of the members won't be as nice as others. Maybe posting on your own page is a better option.
I do believe that there is no such thing as a stupid question, but it's clear you haven't done any research on the specific subject.
You received many good and factual answers.
COUNT THE FRUIT.0
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