Has anyone eliminated fruit in their diet?

I am not a fruit lover anyway so I have plenty of vegetables to replace it.
Generally I don't eat any or much. I go through phases.

Natural sugar.... low gycemic index.... not to worry... unless you overdo it !! Stay active.. sugar is fuel to burn... Eat your veggies to help neutralize and balance the intake.:drinker: :bigsmile:

No, I have not cut back on fruit. In fact, since I started losing weight, I have dramatically increased the amount I eat. All the weight I have lost has been while using fruit for snacks a LOT!

Sugar (naturally occurring or otherwise) does spike insulin levels and MAY cause the body to store fat. HOWEVER (before haters jump all over me) I would never cut out fruit from my diet, but I would watch my intake (if I am trying to lose weight). There are way too many health benefits which outweigh the sugar.

Interesting and true story for you: my friends husband ate roughly 4-6 cups of fruit daily when he was diagnosed with pre-diabetes (to quench a sugar addiction, he replaced refined sugars with naturally occurring ones). He believed that if it was naturally occurring, it could not be bad for him. Wrong. He is diabetic now. So, really, moderation is always the key I think. Has anyone else ever heard of this?

Are you trying to imply the fruit caused his diabetes?

Not trying to imply at all, why? Ninerbuff made a great observation about possible family history, and therefore the entire diabetic situation may been unavoidable to begin with. I had never heard about this before the other day.

There's no reason to be concerned about sugar unless you have a medical condition that warrants it. I track sodium instead of sugar because that's more important to me. Eating fruit is generally a good thing.

I have.

However, I have metabolic disorder that it's in my best interest to keep all starchy carbs to a minimum, not only sugar (which is a carb).

If you are not pre-diabetic, diabetic, have other metabolic issues, there really isn't any reason to cut out fruit, now watching your carb intake, that's a horse of a different color in my opinion.

Sugar (naturally occurring or otherwise) does spike insulin levels and MAY cause the body to store fat. HOWEVER (before haters jump all over me) I would never cut out fruit from my diet, but I would watch my intake (if I am trying to lose weight). There are way too many health benefits which outweigh the sugar.

Concern of fat storage only happens if there is an excess of calories.

Interesting and true story for you: my friends husband ate roughly 4-6 cups of fruit daily when he was diagnosed with pre-diabetes (to quench a sugar addiction, he replaced refined sugars with naturally occurring ones). He believed that if it was naturally occurring, it could not be bad for him. Wrong. He is diabetic now. So, really, moderation is always the key I think. Has anyone else ever heard of this?

Sugar whether from refined or natural sources is broken down to it's simplest form and absorbed in the body (glycogen). If your friends' husband has a history of diabetes in his family, it may have been unavoidable.

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Dead on. :drinker: except for the fat storage part.....
My personal experience was that with high blood sugars, I craved more sugar. Makes sense since I had alot floating around my bloodstream but lacked the ability to move it to my cells where it was most needed....hence, I was hungry all the time, fatigued etc. carby things were mostly my downfall and I only found that out after I cut starchy carbs and all fruit except strawberries out.

Currently I eat to my meter....meter indicates a spike?...food item is cut by portion, then out if not able to facilitate a change.

Dietary sugar/carbs in general, do not *cause* diabetes per se, however, they exacerbate an already present problem with a strong genetic component.

The idea that someone brought on their diabetes, a chronic disease by eating themselves into it is ridiculous and shameful. That shame kept 3 of my close family members from disclosing their diabetes, thus when MY diagnosis reared it's ugly head, I was stupefied.

No one in my family has this though....then as my dx became known from auntie to uncle to cousin, at a mere 44 yrs old, one by one, they came out of the woodwork to reveal that of my grandmother's 5 children, 3 have it and 1 just died from it, the 5th has kept his silence.