I've been on a diet for a week and during this time I've been eating a lot of fresh fruit. Is there such a thing as eating too much fruit while trying to lose weight or can I eat all I want? Thanks.

Might be counter productive, most fruit is high in sugar. Two ways to lose weight, eat less, exercise more.

If you eat more and more fruit, you will cross a critical point wherein your weight loss will accelerate exponentially.

You can speed things along by adding a few handfuls of Haribo Sugarless Gummi Bears to the mix.

You can get a lot of extra sugar and too much fruit can have some explosive side effects.....

So can sugarless gummi bears.

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Originally posted by TXJIM:
You can get a lot of extra sugar and too much fruit can have some explosive side effects.....

To be more direct, too much fruit can lead to explosive diarrhea. Certainly wouldn't want to trust a fart if you're drastically changing your fruit intake.

Fruit has a lot of fiber which effectively cancels out the sugar. I eat 5-6 servings a day of various fruits. You're fine just don't gorge or you are defeating the purpose. But if it's between eating filthy diarrhea fast food or this, eat the fruit.

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Originally posted by dwright1951:
Might be counter productive, most fruit is high in sugar. Two ways to lose weight, eat less, exercise more.

to be more accurate;

Burn more calories ~ intake fewer calories = lost weight

ymmv
john

small amounts of fruit are fine. Loaded with sugar so counter productive to losing weight imho

25 grams of sugar for males is a good threshold. that is a small group of grapes. So if you eat them. That is your daily alottment of sugar
Be careful.

How fiber "cancel out" sugar? That doesn't make sense. Sugar is sugar, and fruit has a lot of it for a natural food.

5 servings isn't too much, though. It is probably still less sugar than a can of coke or a jumbo Snicker's bar.

How much is "a lot"? Age, weight, current health would be useful otherwise everyone here is just guessing.

Do a little home work on how the body
metabolizes fructose.

In my case it depends on the fruit. A little watermelon and my blood glucose jumps up. Strawberries, blueberries-I can eat hands full of them no problem. Bananas-I'm screwed. Play with a glucometer if you're interested.

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Originally posted by jhe888:
How fiber "cancel out" sugar? That doesn't make sense. Sugar is sugar, and fruit has a lot of it for a natural food.

5 servings isn't too much, though. It is probably still less sugar than a can of coke or a jumbo Snicker's bar.

I believe he may have been misstating a low carb diet guideline.

In a low carb diet, "net carbs" are commonly used to keep track of carbs but still allow fiber intake.

Sugar and Fiber are both Carbs. Net Carbs (g) = Total Carbs (g) - Fiber (g)

Berries (blackberries, raspberries, etc) are good examples of fruit with low net carbs. Bananas, grapes, apples, oranges, any fruit juice are very high in net carbs.

I recently lost 30lbs over four months on a low carb diet (under 20g net carbs per day) and have maintained the weight loss for the last three months since (under 40g net carbs per day). On my high fat high protein diet, my cholesterol dropped by about 40 points. Finally got off the statin meds.

To the OP: Fruit is essentially nature's candy.

However, if you make the right choices and minimize the quantity, adding small amounts of the right fruits to a weight loss diet can help you get the nutrients necessary to staying healthy.

Or just skip the fruit for a while and take a multivitamin untill you hit your weight loss goal.

In my case, yes. YMMV.

At the beginning of Lent, I stopped eating fast food, soda, alcohol and candy.

I would start my day off with Oatmeal with honey, a banana, and a glass of orange juice, Mid morning, I would have a large apple and a large orange. At lunch, I would eat a salad and a bunch of grapes (sometimes red, sometimes green). Mid afternoon, another large apple. Chicken, pork or fish for dinner and strawberries (with whipped cream) or watermelon for desert.

I never experienced diarrhea. I did lose some weight, but was exercising pretty regularly.

Last blood work (after approx. 50 days of lots of fruit), my blood glucose was 125, but my A1C was much higher than in the past. My Doc asked if I knew 1/2 of a large apple is considered a serving?

He told me I was eating too much natural sugar, in the form of fruit? WTH? I had never heard such a thing. Apparently, I was consuming more than my body could normally process. Who knew??????

More than about two, maybe three apples at a time give me gas, and don't get me started on roasted garlic cloves.

Did the weightwatchers thing starting last a May, ate tons of fruit - bananas, apples, grapes, fresh pineapple (my favorite). It helped me lose 63 lbs but I did cut other sugars out totally

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Originally posted by dwright1951:
Might be counter productive, most fruit is high in sugar. Two ways to lose weight, eat less, exercise more.

It's actually not counter-productive. While fruit does contain sugars, the sugar is not absorbed as quickly or completly as it is by drinking the fruit's juice alone. This is due to the soluble fiber in the fruit. Fruit has a high nutrition to calorie ratio. You can eat as much as you wish. Veggies, fruit, legumes. Eat 'em all up.

Following this book I lost 44 pounds in 6 weeks. Never hungry. It worked. About 1 pound per day it seems.

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Too much fruit a bad thing?

Too much of anything is never a good thing, when it comes to your health.

Everything in moderation. An all-fruit or almost all-fruit diet is not good.

Increasing fruit as a replacement for other sugars like bread, rice or tortillas...not so bad.

And by "sugars" I mean how your body processes them.