calories from fruit

Haha calories from anything can make you gain weight.

It's very difficult to become overweight on a diet of whole natural plant foods, because they are so low in calories. Your body's satiety mechanism would take over before you got too many calories, and you would no longer have the desire to eat.

Whole natural plant foods, aside from being loaded with the necessary vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, amino acids, fatty acids, phyto-chemicals and anti-oxidants to sustain healthy life, are loaded with fiber and water. There is a lot of bulk. Because of the bulk of the fiber and water, whole plant foods physically stretch your stomach, signaling your brain that it's time to stop eating.


All animals eating their natural diets do not gain too much weight, even when food is in abundance.

All animals eating their natural diets do not gain too much weight, even when food is in abundance.

Ponies are one counterexample - they will become distressingly fat on a diet of only grass. Some breeds of cattle will also do so. One of the cows on my mother's farm hasn't had anything but grass in ten years and still waddles when she walks.

If you said 'most animals', I'd say you were right.

Me too because the minute I put a banana in there there's only 12 calories left for all the rest ! I'm highly interested !

I would also like the recipe for the 112 calories smoothie please!

Me too because the minute I put a banana in there there's only 12 calories left for all the rest ! I'm highly interested !

I would also like the recipe for the 112 calories smoothie please!

Y'all are missing the point. It's ONLY 112 calories because she is NOT counting the fruit calories!!!

My 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 !!!!

: )

Well you might like this as a thought but it happens to be untrue.

Fruits have calories, calorie intake versus calorie burn determines whether you lose fat or gain fat. Period, end of story.

Now if you also care about health in addition to fat loss then yes what you eat matters in addition to how many calories you eat but this doesn't change the fact that weight loss or gain is wholly determined by how many calories you net each day.

An apple is going to have about 70 calories, A banana about 100. If you strip out the fiber and drink it as a juice or a smoothie chances are it has a lot of calories as you end up drinking much more. Pretty easy to drink a 500 calorie fruit smoothie.

Fruit is sugar, there is not much difference between drinking a fruit smoothie and drinking sugar water in terms of calorie intake.

Vegetables calorie content versus fiber is very low, it would indeed be very hard to eat 2000 calories worth of broccoli for example.

Fruit however is actually pretty sugar-filled. It is the candy of the natural world. It wouldn't be that hard to eat 2000 calories worth of fruit ESPECIALLY if that fruit is ground into a juice so you skip the fiber part.

The idea that you can eat all the veg you like is that it is filling for the amount of calories so if you fill your stomach with veg you are likely to eat a little less of a calorie rich food and it balances out. I would not say the same for fruit.

Personally I find vegetables filling but I do not find fruit filling, I find fruit tasty and I think its a healthy snack but its not a good way to avoid calories and you definitely should log fruit.

I log everything i eat, even when I have my bad days like today. I had pizza and am going out later for drinks. I make sure that I keep working out everyday if possible.
I fill up on salads and log all that too and find that I"m not as hungry. Fruit contains lots of sugar but I find that the more I work out the more sugar cravings I get. I also find that sugar from fruit doesn't satisfy my sugar cravings as much as real sugar does so I've been buying cookies that are low in calories but have the sugar boost I need to keep going. Even when I fill up on veggies, I make sure that I am always about 300 calories under my daily intake and I have been losing weight. I guess it depends on how quickly you want to lose weight. I have noticed that lately I'm hungry so I eat more. Someone told me that I can eat as much veggies as I want but I don't see it that way. Food is food!

I count fruit because sugar is sugar for me.. half a banana is a "serving" and so on..

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.

What? You asked for people's thoughts and you got them.

Support isn't telling someone what they want to hear.

My 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.

Sorry, but you are 100% mistaken.....

My 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 !!!!

: )

so thats what you wanted? just someone who thinks like you to pat you on your back and make you believe that you're on the right track?

no I wanted honest opinions.

but also to not think that I was insane in way of thoughts.

but some peoples comments - not yours btw. where very sarcastic and not needed.

You stated you do something because it's your belief and were told you were wrong, there is no shame in being wrong...

I wish fruit was calorie free though, the average avocado I buy is 320 calories!!!!

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It was my belief - It felt nice that someone else thought the same.

clearly I am wrong as I wouldn't be so fat !! lol

I wanted help not people making sarcastic comments.

I will count the calories from now on.

It just felt ****ty the way some people's comments where. I thought this website was for support not ridicule.

You have been around a while and I am sure that no matter what a thread is about, there are always a handful of people who make stupid, uninformed and childish remarks, or as it has happened here wrap what otherwise is correct advise in sarcasm. Only you can know if you want to put up with those answers when starting a thread, or if you want to ignore those people's posts ( and if they always do this you can put them on ignore ), or you can of course decide that what ever you need to know is not worth it asking in the threads. Usually complaining about it makes things worse, because for the high& mighty crowd that is an invitation to just keep on being sarcastic.
One thing I had to learn here and accept to a certain degree; many of those sarcastic people often have good information. I personally just wish they would package it differently.
If you eat a lot of fruit you really have to log it, especially when considering that the average piece of fruit that is eaten as a single fruit ( like apples, bananas, pears etc ) are around 100-120 calories. It is easy to ingest 500 calories worth of fruit, maybe another 500 or more on smoothies and that is before you have eaten something which is easily another 1000 plus calories. That might be ok for maintenance depending on your height, age weight and activity level, but for most women it is too much to lose weight more ore less consistently.
Good Luck !

Haha calories from anything can make you gain weight.

It's very difficult to become overweight on a diet of whole natural plant foods, because they are so low in calories. Your body's satiety mechanism would take over before you got too many calories, and you would no longer have the desire to eat.

Whole natural plant foods, aside from being loaded with the necessary vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, amino acids, fatty acids, phyto-chemicals and anti-oxidants to sustain healthy life, are loaded with fiber and water. There is a lot of bulk. Because of the bulk of the fiber and water, whole plant foods physically stretch your stomach, signaling your brain that it's time to stop eating.


All animals eating their natural diets do not gain too much weight, even when food is in abundance.

Not.true.at.all. I got fat because I fell in love with rice while living for 20 years in Asia. I ate a cup of usually brown rice or more for breakfast, lunch and dinner and did not avoid potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, plantains, cassava and mandioca either.....those are all whole plant foods.....except they are all very starchy. And then I could also talk about whole wheat, home made pasta ( also all natural ) and home baked bread from all natural flour ( and no grinding the grain does not fall under " processing " ) and seeds.
My diet is a diet minimally processed ( usually at home through grinding , chopping, freezing, drying etc ) and based on whole or natural foods and I have eaten it for over 65 years now......and still gained almost 40 kilos/over 80 pounds....because the quantity of food eaten causes weight gain and not the quality. It is true that it is impossible to eat 3000 calories of steamed spinach or plain cucumbers in a day, but making that or a similar point is such a ridiculous extreme that it's not worthwhile answering to.
And by the way; if a lion would eat a whole gazelle ( part of their natural diet ) every day and not move, that lion would get fat also......as it can be seen in some of the zoos around the world.

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.

you posted it for validation, not support. you wanted everyone to tell you that you are right and that you don't need to worry about counting fruit calories. Food is food, to lose weight what goes in must be less than what gets burned. so, you shouldn't feel like crap, just make the change. Fruit is actually really high in natural sugars, which are difficult for a lot of peoples bodies to differentiate from processed/ refined sugars. That being said, logging everything and being completely open and honest with yourself is the best way to recognize your patterns and know where you need to tweak to get to your goal.

I wish I had never asked, and its a shame as I wont be posting for advice in the future.

You didn't want advice. You wanted an "atta girl!". You got honest advice. Butthurt ensues.

This is a useful thread.
I have to log all my fruit intake as it's my favourite food group. In fact my diet pal and my other half say I eat too much fruit because of the sugars so I'm trying to cut it down a little. But it is good for you! It's a balance.
But yes, log it. Log everything. And maybe stop being so defensive? People have taken the time to give you advice as they're trying to help.
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