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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Forget the rice, sweet potatoes, and most fruit. Get your carbs from nuts and berries. Green and white vegetables are good (broccoli, kale, green peppers, cauliflower, onion, radish) … skip the corn, carrots, etc.[/quote]

There is no need to drop any foods and definitely not nutritious things like sweet potatoes or fruit. All you need to do is control your calories if you need to lose fat. And nuts are actually not ideal as they are very calorie dense and easy to overeat. Nothing wrong with them, but they need to be carefully tracked. [/quote]Oh boy, where do I start. There might not be a need for YOU to drop any foods, but for many people, this is the way. The nutrition provided by sweet potatoes and nearly all fruit, compared to the sugars included, is not worth it. Despite the conventional wisdom, it is not always only about calories. As I said, berries and nuts are the best trade off. [/quote]

I would agree if you had said to drop highly processed foods, fast food and very fatty foods with limited nutrition, but it is ridiculous to not eat fruit. Again, fat loss is about calories and you might want to get the bulk of those calories from the most nutritious whole foods. Sugar in fruits is a non-issue. [/quote]Please stop with the nonsense. Any sugar can be an issue…it depends on the person. That’s the point. If someone thinks they are consuming a low calorie diet but is not losing, it’s the carbs and sugars. Fat is good for you as a signal to stop eating. Regarding fast food, I will say this: A Big Mac extra value meal with a Diet Coke is more nutritious and has lower glycemic impact and sodium than a Starbucks low fat muffin. That’s not an endorsement of fast food. I don’t believe anyone orders a Big Mac because they think it’s healthy. But the contrary is true when it comes to ordering a low fat muffin. And that low fat muffin is one of the worse things out there. Fat doesn’t make us fat and foods with cholesterol don’t give us high cholesterol.[/quote]

There isn’t a single word in this response about fruit.

Nobody is maintaining excess weight by eating fruit. Well, maybe if they eat like two buckets of mangos a day.

People are definitely maintaining excess weight by eating garbage like micdonalds or “low fat muffins” from Starbucks. Subsisting on that stuff is a great way to get fat and stay that way.

Eating fresh fruit? Not so much. [/quote]The point is, the total of all sugars consumed can lead to excess weight, regardless of the source of that sugar. Fruit has a lot of sugar, relative to its nutritional benefits. So if your body has a problem with sugars, then the foods you do eat that have substantial sugars should be the most nutrient dense and antioxidant dense possible, relative to their glycemic effects. Fruits generally would be way down on the list.[/quote]

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