Is fruit in the afternoon bad?
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I have an apple every day on my long commute home instead of a bag of chips and a candy bar. Neither are bad but apple is better.2
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All fruit begins to ripen at 2:00am EDT sharp. That make it ideal to eat your fruit at 6am (3:00am in California). By noon it is at the turning point at which it will begin to compost, rot and fester until it becomes an ugly brown smelly sludge. So yes, eat your fruit in the morning and avoid an embarrassing mess.
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WinoGelato wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »
Meeting reasonable macro targets definitely helps with satiety. You don't know the rest of the OPs diet so to eat fruit inside of a macro target I feel is good advice.
I must have missed where OP said she was struggling with hunger and needed advice on satiety?
She is craving fruit. Therefore her diet has not given her satiety.
satiety - the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more
Maybe she is low on carbs which can cause cravings, maybe she is excess in carbs which can also cause cravings, maybe she is deficient in potassium which might cause cravings, we simply don't know. Therefore, I advised to stay within reasonable macro goals and I feel this is sound given we don't know the rest of her diet.
Maybe she's craving fruit because fruit tastes good? Just throwing that out there. Not every craving means a mineral/vitamin deficiency.
Maybe...it does taste good. She can eat all the fruit she wants as long as it doesn't throw her macros totally out of whack it is not going to cause her the first problem. Which is my point. But she said she is craving it after dinner, most people if their macros are right will not have craving.17 -
WinoGelato wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »
Meeting reasonable macro targets definitely helps with satiety. You don't know the rest of the OPs diet so to eat fruit inside of a macro target I feel is good advice.
I must have missed where OP said she was struggling with hunger and needed advice on satiety?
She is craving fruit. Therefore her diet has not given her satiety.
satiety - the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more
Maybe she is low on carbs which can cause cravings, maybe she is excess in carbs which can also cause cravings, maybe she is deficient in potassium which might cause cravings, we simply don't know. Therefore, I advised to stay within reasonable macro goals and I feel this is sound given we don't know the rest of her diet.
Maybe she's craving fruit because fruit tastes good? Just throwing that out there. Not every craving means a mineral/vitamin deficiency.
Maybe...it does taste good. She can eat all the fruit she wants as long as it doesn't throw her macros totally out of whack it is not going to cause her the first problem. Which is my point. But she said she is craving it after dinner, most people if their macros are right will not have craving.
People find success, even thrive, on all sorts macro splits: high carb/low fat, low carb/high fat, moderate protein, protein sparing, and even - pay no attention to macros just focus on calories.
If the OP isn’t focusing on macros how will eating fruit throw her macros out of whack and what would the resulting problem be, if her goal is weight loss and she’s still within her calories as she indicated in her first post?10 -
I get the hungries in the afternoon too. I stay on track much better if I have a small snack before I get home with an entire pantry full of temptation staring at me in the face. A small fruit would be about perfect.0
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WinoGelato wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »
Meeting reasonable macro targets definitely helps with satiety. You don't know the rest of the OPs diet so to eat fruit inside of a macro target I feel is good advice.
I must have missed where OP said she was struggling with hunger and needed advice on satiety?
She is craving fruit. Therefore her diet has not given her satiety.
satiety - the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more
Maybe she is low on carbs which can cause cravings, maybe she is excess in carbs which can also cause cravings, maybe she is deficient in potassium which might cause cravings, we simply don't know. Therefore, I advised to stay within reasonable macro goals and I feel this is sound given we don't know the rest of her diet.
Maybe she's craving fruit because fruit tastes good? Just throwing that out there. Not every craving means a mineral/vitamin deficiency.
Maybe...it does taste good. She can eat all the fruit she wants as long as it doesn't throw her macros totally out of whack it is not going to cause her the first problem. Which is my point. But she said she is craving it after dinner, most people if their macros are right will not have craving.
You can also create a craving from habit. Always having fruit after dinner then suddenly not having it? Oh look, a craving!13 -
Strawberries. Hardly no calories.0
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WinoGelato wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »
Meeting reasonable macro targets definitely helps with satiety. You don't know the rest of the OPs diet so to eat fruit inside of a macro target I feel is good advice.
I must have missed where OP said she was struggling with hunger and needed advice on satiety?
She is craving fruit. Therefore her diet has not given her satiety.
satiety - the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more
Maybe she is low on carbs which can cause cravings, maybe she is excess in carbs which can also cause cravings, maybe she is deficient in potassium which might cause cravings, we simply don't know. Therefore, I advised to stay within reasonable macro goals and I feel this is sound given we don't know the rest of her diet.
Actually, her OP says she's craving sweets, and she is satisfying that with fruit, which I think is an excellent strategy.13 -
FickleFruitBat wrote: »Sorry that so many users here are chomping at the bit to make others feel stupid for asking beginner questions.
There are zero posts in the thread accusing the OP of being stupid for asking beginner questions. There are a lot of posts accusing the people who gave the OP bad advice of being stupid. Some of them try to use a bit of humor to make the point.18 -
i have heard people say that and i think the reasoning is, it's late in the day and you may or may not burn it off, so your body will store it. But, if you have the urge to eat something sweet is it better to eat fruit or a candy bar. I think making a decision for a natural sugar over something unhealthy is a win every time. I would try to keep it to a minimum late in the day, but fruit almost always gets a bad rap these days. Everyone is on board with keto and low carb stuff.16
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When did sugar beets/sugar cane become unnatural?
No food is inherently healthy/unhealthy (possibly exception for transfats). An overall diet can be, but for the foods making it up, it's about context and dosage. Had lunch four hours ago and about to work out, but want some quick energy? Gimme that Snickers bar.
And your body is metabolizing food 24/7 and doing the lion's share of it while you sleep. Time of day really doesn't matter.6 -
I've never heard of that, or can make any sense of that. It's after 1 in the afternoon and I just had a pear, it was AAAMAZING!!!!1
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danigirl1011 wrote: »i have heard people say that and i think the reasoning is, it's late in the day and you may or may not burn it off, so your body will store it. But, if you have the urge to eat something sweet is it better to eat fruit or a candy bar. I think making a decision for a natural sugar over something unhealthy is a win every time. I would try to keep it to a minimum late in the day, but fruit almost always gets a bad rap these days. Everyone is on board with keto and low carb stuff.
That's one way in which people are mistaken: That's (the bolded) not how bodies work. We're burning and storing energy all day long, every day, including while we're asleep. When you eat a thing doesn't determine whether you'll store those calories long term or not. If you're in a calorie deficit - eating fewer calories than you burn - then eventually that difference comes from stored energy, mostly stored fat.
It's kind of like a checking account: You put dollars (calories) in, you take dollars (calories) out. You don't know, and don't really need to care, which ones are new dollars/calories vs. old ones. If you spend more than you put in, you end up with a declining balance of money, or body fat.
Also, full transit of our digestive system can potentially literally take more than two days (per research studies), and energy extraction can happen during a decent fraction of the process. Thankfully, there's no reason to worry about timing, because it would be a heckuva difficult thing to figure out!
Best wishes!16 -
SweetLove1988 wrote: »Lately after dinner, if I’m craving something sweet I usually eat a fruit. Cherries, grapes, strawberries. I’ve had two separate people tell me that eating fruit late is horrible for you. I’m just wondering everyone’s opinion? Does it really matter on the time you eat fruit? Morning vs night? Why do people think fruit is bad for you?
It looks like you've gotten enough positive feedback on this. As long as it's with in your daily allowance you go right on and enjoy that fruit. I'm about to go to town on a delicious plum myself.
I would just add, when someone tells me something as fact, I tell them to show me supporting documentation from a reputable source. I will also investigate it myself.
Inversely I will try not to give advice unless I have researched it and can provide a reputable source to support my stance.
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kshama2001 wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »WinoGelato wrote: »
Meeting reasonable macro targets definitely helps with satiety. You don't know the rest of the OPs diet so to eat fruit inside of a macro target I feel is good advice.
I must have missed where OP said she was struggling with hunger and needed advice on satiety?
She is craving fruit. Therefore her diet has not given her satiety.
satiety - the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more
Maybe she is low on carbs which can cause cravings, maybe she is excess in carbs which can also cause cravings, maybe she is deficient in potassium which might cause cravings, we simply don't know. Therefore, I advised to stay within reasonable macro goals and I feel this is sound given we don't know the rest of her diet.
Actually, her OP says she's craving sweets, and she is satisfying that with fruit, which I think is an excellent strategy.
I agree.1 -
this thread makes me want a parfait.5
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Like many have said, it doesn't matter when you eat it if it fits in your daily caloric or nutritional macro parameters. Unfortunately I learned the hard way for my body type that fruit had other things I needed to stay away from or slow down on like sugar and carbs. I get it though. Fruit is good.3
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danigirl1011 wrote: »i have heard people say that and i think the reasoning is, it's late in the day and you may or may not burn it off, so your body will store it. But, if you have the urge to eat something sweet is it better to eat fruit or a candy bar. I think making a decision for a natural sugar over something unhealthy is a win every time. I would try to keep it to a minimum late in the day, but fruit almost always gets a bad rap these days. Everyone is on board with keto and low carb stuff.
That's not how the human body works though. You burn calories 24/7...most of your calorie burn is you simply existing. You also cannot have net fat storage in a calorie deficit regardless of when you eat something.7 -
Honesly, people in the afternoon are probably worse for you than fruit.19
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