Is this is good diet or am I eating too much fruit?
I recently started a diet where I have been counting calories and trading all my regular sweets with fruits.. and boy did I eat a lot of sweets. I love chocolate and candy! But I have been living in the Caribbean for the last 4 months and there is so much fresh fruit everywhere I decided to do a trade. This is what my diet looks like –
For breakfast I usually have half a grapefruit and a banana with a cup of green tea (no sugar added).
Once I get hungry again I eat a pear or apple.
Around Lunch time I usually have a chocolate slim fast. (I know they aren't wonderful for you but I figure its better than a snickers and it really fills me up as well as satisfying my chocolate cravings!)
I snack on fruits such as pineapple, papaya, plums, bananas, apples, mango, kiwi, watermelon, and/or grapefruit. I'm not a huge fan of meals and I know how amazing fruit is for your body and there are so many available to me so instead of chips, cookies, candy, crackers and cheese, chewy bars, and/or fruit snacks I reach for fruit. I do snack on carrots, celery, and other veggies but not nearly as much as fruit. I also snack on rice cakes sometimes or a nurture grain bar but I'm trying to stay away from processed foods. (And I know slim fast doesn't help but I gotta have chocolate!)
I don't have a car so I am walking everywhere and very busy, it is always easy for me to get my hands on fruit.
For dinner I make either grilled chicken with veggies and brown rice, a pita, or grilled chicken/fish salad with hot sauce of yellow mustard instead of dressings.
After dinner I have a cup of Chamomile tea (no sugar) and another half grapefruit. I stop eating at 6-7 like I am supposed to.
I eat something every 2-3 hours as I was told this would help boost my metabolism and keep my insulin level from dropping.
I work out for at leased 30 minutes a day but usually more (I try to burn around 500 calories) and all my intake calories are where they are supposed to be.
I drink 6-8 glasses of water a day, sometimes more. I also stopped drinking soda and other soft drinks that have unnatural sugars/ high fructose corn syrup. Sometimes I will have a diet soda if I am REALLY craving a carbonated drink and on the weekends I might have a beer or glass of wine but nothing too drastic.
I should be losing one pound a week but I'm not. I lost a around 5 pounds the first month and I feel great, I have amazing energy, I exercise every day on top of walking everywhere I go, my calories are right, and I'm sleeping amazing but I feel like I'm hitting a wall.
What am I doing wrong?
I have two doctors in my family and I have always been told you can never have enough fruit but I'm starting to second guess that. I was told that with the good sugars, high water content, and amazing amount of fiber that what your body didn't need would be flushed out. Is this right? Am I eating too much sugar?
Im 21, 5'1 and 25lbs over weight. I was eating out way too much and snacking on too much junk food.
Please help me.
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fruits great for you
I actually have the same breakfast as you, and I personally eat a lot of fruit too. You gotta realize that sugar is sugar. Even if it is fructose, you can still put on weight from excess carbohydrates. I don't know if this is the issue, but it happens.
of course a person can have too much fruit, fructose is still sugar otherwise nobody would like it.
on the south beach diet which was created by a cardiologist for his heart patients, fruit isn't even allowed the first 2 weeks.
i would say no more than 3 fruits per day.
you are eating fruits very high in fructose.
It isn't a matter of fancy diets, it is a matter of excercise, drinking plenty of water, limiting your food intake and avoiding quite a lot of fattening foods.
Do not be too obsessed with dropping weight. It takes time, however you will begin feeling better because you are excercising and consuming better. The higher you are feeling the extra you wish to stick with it, before you realize it, the weight is coming off.