Fruit....I just don't understand it. Help please!!!

Well I'm no nutritionist, but very roughly - the sugar in fruit is fructose which is kinder to your blood sugar levels and pancreas than refined sugars in chocolate. Gram per gram, fruit has less calories than chocolate/candy. Fruit is full of vitamins and minerals, and fibre, and has a high water content. So yes, fruit still has calories, but they're nutritious calories

Edit: Oh, and I'd imagine lower GI than candy, so you won't feel hungry again as quickly as you would if you ate candy.

If you like fruit, eat fruit. If you want a candy bar, have one. Sugar and carbs are not evil. However, nothing can be eaten in unlimited quantities. A calorie is a calorie. While some foods are more nutrient dense than others, all that is required for weight loss is a calorie deficit.

If you like fruit, eat fruit. If you want a candy bar, have one. Sugar and carbs are not evil. However, nothing can be eaten in unlimited quantities. A calorie is a calorie. While some foods are more nutrient dense than others, all that is required for weight loss is a calorie deficit.

I disagree. All calories are not equal. High Fructose Corn Syrup is just calories but should you be eating food that contains it? Based on what some reports say probably not. Highly processed carbohydrates probably don't need to be completely avoided, but you should be paying attention to ensure you are getting more of the good kinds like in whole grains and fruit vs sugar and white bread types. Have a candy bar? Sure, but maybe as a weekly reward instead of a daily one.

How is fruit "high" in calories? Have you met walnuts before?!

Sugar in itself is not bad it's refined sugar that's evil. The sugar in fruit is paired with high amounts of fibre which slows down glucose absorption which prevents the rapid blood sugar spike of some other easily digestible 'foods' like candy bars.

If you like fruit, eat fruit. If you want a candy bar, have one. Sugar and carbs are not evil. However, nothing can be eaten in unlimited quantities. A calorie is a calorie. While some foods are more nutrient dense than others, all that is required for weight loss is a calorie deficit.

I disagree. All calories are not equal. High Fructose Corn Syrup is just calories but should you be eating food that contains it? Based on what some reports say probably not. Highly processed carbohydrates probably don't need to be completely avoided, but you should be paying attention to ensure you are getting more of the good kinds like in whole grains and fruit vs sugar and white bread types. Have a candy bar? Sure, but maybe as a weekly reward instead of a daily one.

Please note where I said "some foods are more nutrient dense than others". I did not suggest she fill her diet with candy bars, merely that the only thing required for weight loss is a calorie deficit. Most people are aware that eating enough nutrient dense food is important for maintaining a healthy body.

If you like fruit, eat fruit. If you want a candy bar, have one. Sugar and carbs are not evil. However, nothing can be eaten in unlimited quantities. A calorie is a calorie. While some foods are more nutrient dense than others, all that is required for weight loss is a calorie deficit.

I disagree. All calories are not equal. High Fructose Corn Syrup is just calories but should you be eating food that contains it? Based on what some reports say probably not. Highly processed carbohydrates probably don't need to be completely avoided, but you should be paying attention to ensure you are getting more of the good kinds like in whole grains and fruit vs sugar and white bread types. Have a candy bar? Sure, but maybe as a weekly reward instead of a daily one.

Yes thank u! It's not about a calorie deficit per se, it's a lifestyle! So you're saying if you're diet calls for 1300 cals a day to lose weight you'll eat that in ice cream because calories are calories? No!!

Sugar in itself is not bad it's refined sugar that's evil. The sugar in fruit is paired with high amounts of fibre which slows down glucose absorption which prevents the rapid blood sugar spike of some other easily digestible 'foods' like candy bars.

If you like fruit, eat fruit. If you want a candy bar, have one. Sugar and carbs are not evil. However, nothing can be eaten in unlimited quantities. A calorie is a calorie. While some foods are more nutrient dense than others, all that is required for weight loss is a calorie deficit.

I disagree. All calories are not equal. High Fructose Corn Syrup is just calories but should you be eating food that contains it? Based on what some reports say probably not. Highly processed carbohydrates probably don't need to be completely avoided, but you should be paying attention to ensure you are getting more of the good kinds like in whole grains and fruit vs sugar and white bread types. Have a candy bar? Sure, but maybe as a weekly reward instead of a daily one.

Yes thank u! It's not about a calorie deficit per se, it's a lifestyle! So you're saying if you're diet calls for 1300 cals a day to lose weight you'll eat that in ice cream because calories are calories? No!!

Ha! Edited because I didn't actually write anything before I posted...!

You're kind of arguing but making the same point. You CAN lose weight just by eating at a calorie deficit - so if you wanted to eat five or six 250 cal chocolate bars a day and nothing else, you could - and you would lose weight. But you'd also be severely deficient in nutrients and very unhealthy! You would also be starving hungry all the time!

A calorie IS a calorie - there are not "good calories" and "bad calories" because a calorie is a fixed unit of energy, like a gram is a fixed unit of mass, or a second is a fixed unit of time. The calories in a bar of chocolate all pretty much come from sugar and fat - the key is to choose foods that allow you to stay within your calorie goal AND give you a balanced diet of all the different nutrients your body needs.

Easier said than done sometimes...!

Whole fruit contains wonderful amounts of fibre. You have to chew and chew an apple to eat it, you can't inhale it like a handful of gummi bears. Eat your fruit whole, with the skin on when possible, and you will have a tasty sweet snack that gives you energy, fills you up and keeps you regular.

Note that all the benefits of fruit go out the window when you juice it. Juicing concentrates sugar and removes fibre. Not good for weightloss.

An apple a day keeps the lovehandles at bay

As other posters have stated - it's the other stuff fruit brings to the table - the micronutrients. Plus the fact the sugar in fruit comes with fibre, meaning it's digested slower, less likely to spike the blood sugar and less likely to leave you wanting to eat all the foodz.

Most candy won't compare. An exception being good dark chocolate, which has soluble fibre, anti-oxidants and is a good source of iron and magnesium.....

Surgar (such as fhe sugar in fruit) is only really bad for you when eaten after, or in combination with fats as the digestion rate is higher it ferments in your stomach. Better to eat it for breakfast. As for weight loss, its full kf vitamins which your body needs and without which will cause cravings forr unhealthy foods if youre not in tune with your body. Of course the calories will give you energy.

I don't think it matters whether you eat your fruit for breakfast, lunch, dinner or in between or whether you eat it with fats, with something else or alone.

What's not to understand about something that tastes good, is full of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Fruit contains natural sugars not refined sugars which are in a plethora of processed goods. Vegetables also have natural sugars in them as well as many other foods, so if you were to prohibit all sugar (even naturally found sugars) then you would be left with very little to eat.