Fuits....

Just curious why the doctor said no fruit after 5pm?????

I love fruit and usually have an apple, grapes, and some strawberrries a day, some times an orange in place of other things..you get the idea. I feel that if I want an apple at 7pm..I will eat the apple and not have to worry about weight gain.

I agree about the fruit for breakfast or lunch... I NEVER eat fruit at dinner or after... I have noticed that grapes are one of the fruits that are higher in calories so I limit my intake of grapes DRASTICALLY... Apples are very low in calories and super yummy! Try cutting up the apple and putting it in lemon juice.... it gives it a different sort of tang thats really yummy! :-)

A piece of fruit is the most caloric thing you eat in a day? There's something wrong with that. Fruit has a vast amount of vitamins and water to help hydrate you. Most fruits are roughly 100 cals or less (I know some are a tad more). A 100 cal snack is actually very good. This post kind of confuses me. Most people are concerned witht he sugar content of fruit...Anyhoo, I love fruit and it seems you do too. So enjoy it!!

Bunk, its all Bunk!!!...if God made it, then I can eat it!!! No one will ever convince me that fruit is bad!!! Obviously EVERYTHING in moderation but I will Never cut out fruit!

Just because God made it doesn't make it fit to eat. There are many varieties of mushrooms and such that God made that are very poisonous to humans and other life.

I am finding I have an ever mounting list of fruits that I am allergic too.

The newest find is kiwi. The other night I ate 2 small organic kiwi, mouth started stinging and burning, lips and tongue got swollen and felt like I had little cuts all over the inside of my mouth.

Bananas do something similar.

I think God created arsenic too.

If you're concerned about the number of calories in fruit, but don't want to cut back, fresh raspberries, strawberries, blueberries and blackberries are all very low in calories and full of micronutrients. Other good options are half a pink grapefruit (30), a kiwi fruit (30), tangerines (20), fresh figs (20) and most melons.

I'm not sure if these calorie values are the same as those on mfp.

You can check the calories in a piece of fruit and compare that number to your calorie target, but there are other things to consider as well.

Some fruits (oranges ?) give up their sugar immediately, whereas others (apples) put up a noble fight. After you eat an apple, it takes quite a while for your digestive system to break down all that fiber and get at the sugar. Result : you feel full longer.

Fruits that are canned, cooked, dehydrated, or chopped to smithereens or otherwise processed also tend to give up their sugar more readily.

By the same reasoning, if you're going to eliminate *anything* from your diet, fruit juice is probably #2, right after soda.

Another thing about fresh fruit is that, IMO, its a lot less addictive than other forms of sugar. I'm sure nearly everyone here has said something along the lines of "OMG, did I really eat *all* those chocolate chip cookies in one sitting ???!!!" But with, say, apples, its pretty easy to stop at just one.

(You may notice that I'm partial to apples : I eat 2 every day.)

I think the term "addiction" should be taken seriously when it comes to sugar. Concentrated, sugarry snacks hit your pleasure response pretty darn hard, and as a result your body compensates. Ordinary foods no longer trigger the same response they used to. So in order to get pleasure, your only choice is to go back to the real sugarry stuff.

I've noticed that since I quit drinking soda and fruit juice (completely) that I can really notice and enjoy the sweetness of beets, carrots, etc. in a way I never did before.

I only usually have a few berries in the morning, or I'll have 1/2 an apple, or on a splurge I'll go overboard and eat 7 or 8 clementines (they might go bad, plus they're small & delicious!), or 1/2 a small watermelon. That's definitely only a few times a year though. I do have plenty of lemons though--either with soda water, or if I'm having vodka drinks with soda & lemon. Otherwise I pretty much steer clear.