Fruits in your diet...

[2-Swole]

...how much fruit do u guys put in ur diets and why????

I eat a BIG orange before my workouts to boost the NO levels and get a better pump...

In the morning I eat some strawberries with my breakfast just because...

And post workout I put a banana in my shake for the carbs and postassium

WHAT ABOUT U GUYS???

[T-Man007]

Re: Fruits in your diet...

I eat only low glycemic index fruits....for the most part. LOL

Grapes, cherries, green bananas (the ripe ones are very high on the GI list), peaches, strawberries, blue berries, nectarines, kiwi and plums. Those are my list. I do my best to avoid mellons, ripe bananas and pineapple, those are very high on the GI list. Cherries are the lowest on the list so when they are in season I load up everytime I go to the store.

[turtle]

Re: Fruits in your diet...

while cutting i ate alot of fruit. almost all of them are low GI, to moderate. and all high in fiber. nothing wrong with fruit. think that is a big misconception.

[Iron_Gook]

Re: Fruits in your diet...

Love the stuff... eat it throughout the day but try to cut back towards the evening... too much and I fart like a silverback gorilla...

IG

[T-Man007]

Re: Fruits in your diet...

while cutting i ate alot of fruit. almost all of them are low GI, to moderate. and all high in fiber. nothing wrong with fruit. think that is a big misconception.

Like you know anything about cutting.....look at you.....sporting the 3% BF. It's not like you are 2% and know everything. LOL j/k

[dixiechick]

Re: Fruits in your diet...

No, it's no misconception. Fruit has no place in a cutting diet especially for pre-contest. Fruit is a simple sugar (mostly fructose). You really need to eliminate all simple sugary if you want to cut.

If you aren't getting ready for a contest but still want to cut, you could add a low GI fruit in right after a workout. (Generally up to 20 minutes after a workout.) The theory is the added sugar goes to the muscles and helps recovery. If you reach a plateau and can't loose any more, then you need to take it out of your diet.

[Deno]

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i had about 20 strawberries last night..

[turtle]

Re: Fruits in your diet...

No, it's no misconception. Fruit has no place in a cutting diet especially for pre-contest. Fruit is a simple sugar (mostly fructose). You really need to eliminate all simple sugary if you want to cut.

If you aren't getting ready for a contest but still want to cut, you could add a low GI fruit in right after a workout. (Generally up to 20 minutes after a workout.) The theory is the added sugar goes to the muscles and helps recovery. If you reach a plateau and can't loose any more, then you need to take it out of your diet.

there is more to it then just sugar. Fiber will slow the absorbtion of carbs. Also fructose isnt as simple a sugar as glucose. A cherries have a GI index of like 22, lower then any typical complex you would eat except maybe barley. Also the added benefit of eating fruit is the anti-oxidents, enzymes and vitamins essential to good health. So IMO I think you can get contest shape with fruit being part of your carbs. if you know to cut and diet in in tact, a couple fruit a day will make now difference in BF lost IMO.

flip side being that everyone is different. Not everything works for everyone.