Can Fruits Sabotage your Weight loss?

Can Fruits Sabotage your Weight loss?

Yes, they can and they will. Weight loss is complex process that should be approached and planned carefully. There is no place for mistakes, as it will backfire with opposite result (even bigger weight gain).

Good and effective process is combination of right eating habits, food choices and activity.

When it comes to food, everyone knows that fruit and vegetables are clear leaders here.

During many years of practice and looking at people’s menus and daily eating habits while on weight loss mission, most of them made similar mistake.

Unconsciously, without realising it they were sabotaging weight loss process.

Simply, they were eating too many and wrong kids of fruits.

You will ask how there can be to many fruits in anybody diet.

Fruits should be 1/3 of your daily food consumed. When for example vegetables should be 2/3 of your daily portions.

Confused? After all its fruits and they are healthy.

Yes, they are but they are also tricky to handle sometimes.

Most of the fruits is nutritious, will keep you hydrated, good source of fibre and vitamins. Among them there are few higher in calories and by this not recommended for weight loss process.

Fruits, which are the best for weight loss:

• raspberries
• strawberries
• blueberries
• red currant
• black currant
• grapefruits
• apples
• plums

The most caloric fruits;

• bananas
• grapes
• dried fruits
• avocado

What is so bad abut them?

Every single fruit contains some amount of fructose. Fructose is one of simple sugars, also called fruit sugar.

One gram of fructose is (4) four kcal. That is why; eating to much of it will result in weight gain. Fruits like bananas, avocados, grapes are especially high in fructose. That is why they were listed on high GI food list. Fructose will also reduce level of hormone responsible for you feeling full and raise one responsible for you feeling hungry.

That is why you may feel always hungry after eating fruits, and reaching for more.

Eat or not to eat?

Eat. There may be reason why they are potentially more caloric but it is the same like with having anything else. You may have a slice of cake or you may inhale whole one. It is up to you.

With fruits is the same. One banana here and there will do more good than harm. Key here is not to include only fruits with high fructose level.

If you like them it’s good, they are still healthy. Have them once for a while. After all, they are good source of vitamins, water, fibre and more.

Be careful when you are fan of smoothie. As you know, most of them are banana based. One here, two there and your score might go higher than expected.