Need Assistance. Want to have Fruit but trying to limit Sugars... ( as close to 0 as I can)
PlummerBecky
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I love fruits but I am trying to kick the sugar thing and I realized that over 3/4 of my sugar on my log is coming from Fruits.... Any suggestions on Fruits that are low in Sugar but taste good still.. or should I not worry about the natural sugars in fruits and veggys and try to zero out the refined sugars...
Any input or assistance would be greatly appreciated
Any input or assistance would be greatly appreciated
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Do you have a medical reason to avoid sugar? If not, there is nothing wrong with eating fruit, or the sugar that comes with it.
If your fruit consumption is stopping you eating sufficient protein and fat (at least mfp minimums), or getting enough fibre and vegies, perhaps you need to reconsider your intake, but otherwise, go for it.
For what it's worth, I'm over my sugar every day, I eat limited fruit, it's mainly from vegies and some dairy. I don't worry about it - I choose to focus on fibre instead.5 -
Use this here application to decide which fruits you wish to use your limited sugar intake on.
There's also nothing inherently wrong with refined sugar, I imagine a cup of tea with a fresh sugar cane would be rather unwieldy.3 -
You can cut your sugars in half regarding fruit in the way I did, and feel like you are having a treat, and also getting your fats. Food process fruit to a smooth paste. However much fruit you have, (measure after blending) mix together 2% milk and water with no cal sweetener with it. (Example, 2 cups fruit, 1 cup milk, 1 cup water, 1/2 cup sweetener). Throw it back in the freezer. We eat it as ice cream, and you get your fruit.
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Nothing wrong with eating fruit.
The USDA recommends 1-1/2 cups per day for women over 30.
Cutting back on processed foods, which contain added sodium and sugar, and sugary beverages, may be beneficial. Personal choice as long as you are within your calorie budget for weight loss.1 -
I don't see any particular reason to worry about fruit or the sugar from it unless you have a specific medical problem. That said, if you want sugar around 0, you really can't consume fruit (and even vegetables have sugar). Berries and of course avocado are about the lowest sugar fruits, but even berries have some -- I commonly get about 8 g or so from the blueberries I often have at breakfast.
I think the thing is to consider WHY you are trying to get sugar close to 0. You may decide you have good reasons to do so, and that includes fruit, or you may not. The question is what your goals are and do you think they are worthwhile.
Personally, I limit foods with lots of added sugar since they also tend to have lots of fat, not a lot of other nutrients, and to be calorie bombs, although that doesn't mean I never eat them. I don't worry about sugar from vegetables and fruits and even feel good if I have a lot of sugar from vegetables in a day, as it's a sign I've been eating as I like. However, you may have other concerns/goals.
Fact is, fruit has sugar, though, so if you want to actually cut it out fruit is not compatible with that.2 -
Have berries strawberries.black.raspberry.blue. And apples only0
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I tend to lose weight much quicker is I reduce my sugar... I also use to drink Pepsi..( a six pack a day at one point) and I cut back that but I just want to get healthier and if looked at the number of sugar that MFP gave and if I eat a banana and a cup of grapes ... I am almost over the half way point in sugars with just 2 items.
I think I will just try to eat that natural food with sugars and see if the weight still will come off. I am a plateau and trying anything to get off the plateau and start losing again.
Thanks everyone for your input
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janejellyroll wrote: »
Berries are low in carbs/sugar, and apples are okay in moderation.1 -
PlummerBecky wrote: »I tend to lose weight much quicker is I reduce my sugar... I also use to drink Pepsi..( a six pack a day at one point) and I cut back that but I just want to get healthier and if looked at the number of sugar that MFP gave and if I eat a banana and a cup of grapes ... I am almost over the half way point in sugars with just 2 items.
I think I will just try to eat that natural food with sugars and see if the weight still will come off. I am a plateau and trying anything to get off the plateau and start losing again.
Thanks everyone for your input
It's not the sugar, it's the fact that pepsi is loaded with calories and won't satiate you. So it's much easier to accumulate excessive calories from drinking them. If you are eating from fruit and that increases dietary compliance and enables you to adhere to your calorie level, then keep with it. I get 120g+ of sugar a day (largely from fruit) and that helps keep me on track.
Sugar isn't the problem, it's calories.6 -
Gosh, even when I was controlling my diabetes with diet I could not drop my consumption of sugars to zero. Frankly I had a lot more trouble with refined carbs and rice.2
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Don't stop eating fruit. Fruit isn't bad for you!! Eating too much, and not moving enough....that is usually the biggest problem when trying to lose weight.2
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janejellyroll wrote: »
Berries are low in carbs/sugar, and apples are okay in moderation.
This seems to be based on the assumption that other fruits aren't okay in moderation. Is that your position?
Having an apple with lunch is good, but an orange is off limits?5 -
The fruits lowest in sugar's are berries but fruit/sugar won't be the reason you are at a plateau it's incredibly normal to get stuck for a bit. Battle through and if you see no movement on the scale for 4-6 weeks then start looking at lowering calories a bit, on that note since you started losing has your calorie allotment lowered at all automatically? You may need to adjust it if it hasn't, go into goals and (re) input your weight that'll do the trick.0
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PlummerBecky wrote: »I tend to lose weight much quicker is I reduce my sugar... I also use to drink Pepsi..( a six pack a day at one point) and I cut back that but I just want to get healthier and if looked at the number of sugar that MFP gave and if I eat a banana and a cup of grapes ... I am almost over the half way point in sugars with just 2 items.
I think I will just try to eat that natural food with sugars and see if the weight still will come off. I am a plateau and trying anything to get off the plateau and start losing again.
Thanks everyone for your input
Weight will come off if you consume fewer calories than you burn, regardless of how much sugar (natural/added/refined/brown/white/festive easter colored) you eat.3 -
I tend to go for raspberries, blackberries, strawberries & blueberries first. Mostly in that order. I like raspberries because they have pretty good fiber (I often eat it with jicama) and I can have my fruit fix. I have everything else in moderation except Mango and bananas they are too high in sugar for me and I can't eat just a little.2
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I'm diabetic, but I eat fruit all the time and don't get spikes in my sugar especially when I pair it with protein like nuts or cheese. But most berries are low on the index. My favorite dessert lately is berries and whipped cream (its low carb, who would have thought whipped cream was low carb i had no idea) I also eat apples alot.2
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janejellyroll wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »
Berries are low in carbs/sugar, and apples are okay in moderation.
This seems to be based on the assumption that other fruits aren't okay in moderation. Is that your position?
Having an apple with lunch is good, but an orange is off limits?
I don't think thats what they are saying...but I know for me, I dont eat alot of certain fruits bc i am diabetic and they spike my sugar more than others. Like bananas, I don't eat much bananas anymore but I do have the occasional one. I forgot to say in my original comment I eat alot of Cuties with yogurt in the morning for breakfast and my sugar always stays low. Berries are lower sugar fruit so if someone wanted to cut carbs berries would be a good fruit. BigBerry did not pay me for this endorsement lol3 -
I've seen a couple anti sugar documentaries on netflix the last week. I think they are very poor quality in that make it out as pure evil rather than point to moderation and that fruit is perfectly fine.1
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janejellyroll wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »
Berries are low in carbs/sugar, and apples are okay in moderation.
This seems to be based on the assumption that other fruits aren't okay in moderation. Is that your position?
Having an apple with lunch is good, but an orange is off limits?
I don't think thats what they are saying...but I know for me, I dont eat alot of certain fruits bc i am diabetic and they spike my sugar more than others. Like bananas, I don't eat much bananas anymore but I do have the occasional one. I forgot to say in my original comment I eat alot of Cuties with yogurt in the morning for breakfast and my sugar always stays low. Berries are lower sugar fruit so if someone wanted to cut carbs berries would be a good fruit. BigBerry did not pay me for this endorsement lol
If someone says eat these fruits only, I am going to wonder why they're limiting it to that group. Your limitations seem reasonable because you are diabetic. But I don't think OP is, so I'm not sure why she would be told to only eat two types of fruits.1 -
janejellyroll wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »
Berries are low in carbs/sugar, and apples are okay in moderation.
This seems to be based on the assumption that other fruits aren't okay in moderation. Is that your position?
Having an apple with lunch is good, but an orange is off limits?
I don't think thats what they are saying...but I know for me, I dont eat alot of certain fruits bc i am diabetic and they spike my sugar more than others. Like bananas, I don't eat much bananas anymore but I do have the occasional one. I forgot to say in my original comment I eat alot of Cuties with yogurt in the morning for breakfast and my sugar always stays low. Berries are lower sugar fruit so if someone wanted to cut carbs berries would be a good fruit. BigBerry did not pay me for this endorsement lol
Like janejellyroll said, that's reasonable, but I don't think that was the meaning. This is all that was said:Have berries strawberries.black.raspberry.blue. And apples only
I get that berries have less sugar than most other fruits, as I said that myself. (They still don't have zero or close to zero, which was OP's original desire.) Apples, on the other hand, have quite a lot of sugar and are extremely comparable to many other fruits that we are apparently being told to avoid. So I still find the comment extremely odd. Apples are fine, I like them, but I don't see why I should eat only them and berries and exclude other fruits.
(I also love clementines, btw. I eat them all winter. I often prefer pears to apples. In the late spring and summer I mostly eat what's in season and local -- strawberries, plums, peaches, apricots, melon, raspberries and blackberries, cherries (one of my absolute favorites) and blueberries, too many to name. And sure, apples are often one of the more available fruits, especially in the fall.)0 -
janejellyroll wrote: »janejellyroll wrote: »
Berries are low in carbs/sugar, and apples are okay in moderation.
This seems to be based on the assumption that other fruits aren't okay in moderation. Is that your position?
Having an apple with lunch is good, but an orange is off limits?
Of course not. I was simply clarifying what the other poster was suggesting (I'll admit that I was making an assumption that the OP wanted to go keto).I'll also admit that when I see a post where multiple people responded the same way, I just let it go. Either the Op gets it and follows through, or he/she doesn't.
I actually agree with everyone else. There is nothing wrong with fruits at all! I'm low carb/sugar for health reasons , and I eat apples, oranges, pineapple, and all sorts of fruit everyday in moderation...and everyday I am just under my sugar goal. I love fruit, and I'm jealous my parents are visiting family in Egypt in a few weeks. Mango and mango juice there= absolute heaven!
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I eat around 800g of fruit every single day in summer, so therefore my sugar grams are high. It's winter here soon, so i'll be replacing that fruit snack with roasted broccoli and cauliflower. So for half the year, it's high sugar, for the other half it's low sugar. I haven't experienced any problems thus far.
I'm having a blood test on Thursday where they'll hopefully check for prediabetes, I'm very curious to see the results.0 -
Like fish, eat the cold climate ones instead of the warm weather ones. Apples and berries have less sugar than mango and pineapple.0
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