Eat fruit to fill your stomach to lose weight? Beware of sugar, it can make you fat

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You know, fruit is likely the culprit of your weight gain!

A friend who has been struggling with weight for years said to me angrily, "I don't understand why I can't lose weight when I don't eat much every day, not even half of what you eat."

I asked her curiously what she had eaten. As soon as she opened her mouth, I smiled sympathetically. Every morning she adhered to the principle of "What the doctor said: An apple a day keeps illness and obesity away"! I eat normally at noon, but usually skip a proper meal at night because I’m afraid of getting fat. When I’m hungry, I eat fruit, and I prefer non-sweet fruits such as guava, kiwi, and grapefruit.

Despite controlling my diet so carefully, my weight started to increase after I turned 30. The most frightening thing was that during a full-body health checkup provided by the company, I discovered that I was actually close to the danger zone for diabetes.

There is a big misunderstanding about how to eat fruit!

In fact, the sweetness in fruits is the purest of all sugars. It is so pure that after entering the stomach, it goes directly into the blood and is 100% absorbed without leaking out at all. If the sugar content in your blood is too high, it will place too much of a burden on your liver.

In addition, if you are used to eating fruit as the first thing you do when you wake up and as the last thing you eat before going to bed, this is a completely wrong idea. Your poor liver is like working in a sweatshop, without any rest every day.

On the contrary, it is the sweets such as candies, cakes, chocolates, etc. that we eat that have gone through a delicate processing process. After entering the human body, they are broken down and transformed by the stomach and intestines, and then classified into fats, and the remaining waste is excreted from the body. But please don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying this to teach you to eat snacks instead of fruits! Don’t just listen to half of the story or you might miss the point!

The reason why we need to eat fruits is mainly because of the fruit fiber in the fruits, which can promote gastrointestinal motility. Especially for those who have constipation problems, they need to eat fruits at regular times and in regular amounts to help us break down and digest the food we eat and turn the excess food into "poop" and excrete it from the body.

Another important concept when eating fruit: the sweetness of fruit does not equal calories!

You may often see fruit farmers holding a sweetness measuring machine to test the sweetness of harvested fruits. The reason they test the sweetness of fruits is to know their own planting environment, planting methods and harvesting time to make the sweetness of the fruit reach the most perfect level.

In other words, the sourness and sweetness of the same fruit will not change the calories of the fruit itself, but only affect the taste you feel when the fruit enters your mouth and passes through your taste buds, rather than the amount of sugar that is used to calculate calories.

As mentioned before, I am not good at math, have a bad memory, don’t like to calculate calories, and don’t know how many calories each food contains. I like to use portion sizes instead of counting calories.

Taking the example of fruits that everyone likes to eat as a non-fat food, we often hear people choose to eat guava, apple, grapefruit, kiwi, date, etc., which are not too sweet, to replace the main meal.

Firstly, if I only have so few choices, it completely goes against my principle of eating happily and losing weight happily. What I hate most is being restricted in what I want to eat, so if I can't choose my favorite fruits as I please, it means that I am suppressing my desires, and this weight loss attempt is doomed to fail.

This article is provided by Booker Culture Publishing House and excerpted from [Making Awkward! You will lose weight no matter how much you eat: Eat happily and lose weight easily, never gain weight again with this magical weight loss method]