Mix Messages to Eat or Not to Eat

luvnlife6
luvnlife6 Posts: 44 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Everything I'm read or hearing is sending mix messages when it comes down to eating fruits. I hear/read only eat fresh fruits and vegetables. Then I would hear or read to not eat any fruits because it turns into sugar. What's a girl to do when she got to have at least one fruit per day? Feeling like the battle is already lost if i can't have any fruits. lol

Replies

  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    Who is telling you not to eat fruit? And of course fruit has sugar, surely you knew that already... That's not a good reason not to eat it.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    fruit contains sugar, it doesn't "turn into it". One serving of fruit a day isn't going to be a problem, especially if you stick to berries and the lower sugar fruits rather than juicy sweet things. Buckets of fruit could be a problem.
  • pinkmoonk
    pinkmoonk Posts: 6 Member
    I eat a few fruit cups a day (2 - 3 sugar free fruit cups) and some fresh fruit as well.
    It keeps your appetite curbed and is healthy! As long as it's not all you're eating you should be fine. :)
  • cartrat
    cartrat Posts: 120 Member
    chillax, chica--usually the "no-fruits" rule is for low-carbers. and yes it's sugar but it's natural sugar and your body naturally craves sweet things and mother nature ain't trying to kill you lol. no one will ever get fat and die because they ate a peach.

    eat whatever is healthy and makes you happy.
  • pastryari
    pastryari Posts: 8,646 Member
    Eat your fruit.
  • luvnlife6
    luvnlife6 Posts: 44 Member
    I read a previous post that mentioned not eating any fruits. Thank you guys for putting this in perspective for me.
  • Quackledorf
    Quackledorf Posts: 12 Member
    fresh is always healthier because it's a natural sugar instead of a processed sugar. It's kinda like fat. Healthy fats (egg yokes) are essencial to the diet. The natural sugar is energy the body needs to keep you moving & boost your metabolism.
  • therealangd
    therealangd Posts: 1,861 Member
    What's a girl to do?

    Read everything you can on the subject and then decide for yourself what information makes the most sense to you and go with that.

    But if you like fruit, then eat it. If it's a choice between an apple or a chocolate chip cookie, eat the apple. If eating fruit will help you reach your goals, then eat 'em up.
  • Owlie45
    Owlie45 Posts: 806 Member
    Nothing wrong with eating fruit, you wouldn't eat 20 servings of it a day.
    Eat the fruit it good for you.

Categories