Fruit Calories - WTF

Try berries and grapes instead of banana, apple and pears.

My suggestion, honestly? Up your calories. 1200 is too low and not sustainable. It's almost certainly under your BMR. There are many threads around of men/women eating much more and still losing. fat2fitradio has been eye opening for me. Check out their website and tools. They have a great podcast too. :-)

Fruit is overrated when you're trying to lose weight. The amount of fibre in fruit just for the amount of carbs is ridiculous.

There is one better option. Berries (specifically raspberries and blackberries for high fibre content) are the best. You can eat in excess of 200g and barely hit 104 calories with 14g of fibre if you chose raspberries. Since fibre has less calories than other carbohydrates, you're consuming fewer calories. If you go the strawberry route, you can eat a lot of it for very few calories (50 calories for around 200g).

Also, if you cut out fruit, you're decreasing calories therefore you won't be eating 1200 calories anymore. And 1200 calories is insanely low. Are you only losing a pound a week on this?

There's a lot of sugar in fruit and that's what is contributing to the calorie counts. Most people recommend that you try to stick to 1-2 servings of fruit while you're trying to loose weight, as anything you can get from fruit, you can also get from veggies (without the sugar & high cal count!). Based on what you provided, you are having a lot more than 1-2 servings of fruit a day!

I think you may want to try making your actual meals more filling (using lean protein and healthy fats or possibly upping your portion sizes) so that you don't feel the urge to snack so much.

ETA: Cutting back on your calories from fruit intake, but increasing your meal portions with lean protein and healthy fats will also help keep you eating enough. As others have mentioned, you do not want to net fewer than 1200 calories a day.

I personally eat a lot of fruits and veggies. Most days I have at least 1-3 servings of fruit and probably more like 3-5 of veggies. I don't feel guilty or bad eating that much fruit and veggies. I try to watch the calories (half a banana, not a whole one) and the carbs (only limiting myself to 1 higher carb fruit just 1-2 times a week, not everyday) *edit: I eat a lot of berries too, raspberries, LOTS of blueberries, blackberries, strawberries. I pretty much quit being concerned with how much sugar is in most fruits because that was where the bulk of my sugar came from, that and sugar in veggies as well. I really try not to eat processed foods and do pretty well but it's hard to avoid some of it 100% of the time, also I try to buy sugar free stuff too.

I try to stay away from the heavier/starchy veggies such as potatoes, I pick the smallest one and don't use salt, butter or sour cream on it. Usually just some pepper or rosemary and I probably only eat 1-2 baked potatoes a month. I eat A LOT of baby carrots and after a while of not eating celery (married to a picky eater, sometimes I could not finish the whole bunch before it spoiled) but that has changed. I go through at least 1 bunch of celery a week, at least a 1lb bag of baby carrots a week, I've been adding spinach to most everything I eat, even my smoothie the other day! I go through one of those big bags once a week without fail, I eat lots of grape tomatoes and luckily DH likes those. Also we're pepper (red, green, yellow) fiends. All in all I think I do pretty good, I try to make a good balance of it all.

I figure hey, it's better than eating bad for you crackers or chips or candy bars.

Fruit is overrated when you're trying to lose weight. The amount of fibre in fruit just for the amount of carbs is ridiculous.

There is one better option. Berries (specifically raspberries and blackberries for high fibre content) are the best. You can eat in excess of 200g and barely hit 104 calories with 14g of fibre if you chose raspberries. Since fibre has less calories than other carbohydrates, you're consuming fewer calories. If you go the strawberry route, you can eat a lot of it for very few calories (50 calories for around 200g).

Also, if you cut out fruit, you're decreasing calories therefore you won't be eating 1200 calories anymore. And 1200 calories is insanely low. Are you only losing a pound a week on this?

Pretty much agree with this whole post! In addition to berries the other fruit I eat include bananas, easily accessible glucose and electrolytes before a workout, and apples, lower calorie load and high fiber load. I rarely have a banana when not working out as it's calorie load and glycemic factor are fairly high. 1200 calories? Just not enough in my opinion. You are having trouble complying based on your post. Any goal that makes it hard to comply is self defeating.

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Lots of options here: Up your calories. Do some exercise. Switch to vegetable snacks.

Up your calories and make sure you're eating fiber and protein at your meals so you're satiated longer.

also, helpful tip. Fruit that grows in cooler climates generally have lower sugar and more antioxidants :-)