This demonising of fruit is utter nonsense!
Is she a repeat fad dieter who never really loses weight?
she definitely has an unhealthy relationship with food and some funny ideas about it too.
Thought as much
I hope that conversation didn't take place in earshot of your daughter.
Just what I was gonna say
Your dd doesn't understand now...but she soon will, can your Dh have a word when dd is more aware that mil needs to not discuss such things around dd?
Not least as she clearly has no idea what she's on about!
@liveforsummer hate to break it to you but there's sugars of some kind in pretty much all food and drink except water!
I'm old enough to remember when it was fat being demonised - that worked out well, not! We're still dealing with the consequences of that bullshit!
People seem very ill educated on nutrition these days and what a balanced diet (as in what you want not a weight loss scheme) actually looks like.
Imo no food group should be eliminated completely UNLESS medically advised to do so for eg allergies
I am losing weight at the moment, I am calorie counting as a way of keeping the maths in check because you need some way of measuring so you're not having too much to eat generally, but besides being veggie (for over 30 years skinny and fat!) I eat a wide variety of foods inc fruit which I have twice a day, inc bananas on occasion (I buy 3 a week and that seems to work fine for me). I've lost almost 1.5 stone now since June. In that time I've eaten fried foods, pizza, chocolate at times because in my opinion and experience being too restrictive is setting yourself up to fail. It's boring, punitive and limits nutrition and you end up with cravings and eventually going "sod it!" And raiding the larder!
I'd bet good money she's cut out bananas (which by weight/percentage are fairly low calorie in comparison to other snacks) but still has...
Crisps? Biscuits? Chocolate? Cake? Sugary breakfast cereal? Fried foods? Ice cream? Puddings? Sweets? Takeaway high cal coffees?
I've not done slimming world but I did ww a few years back but they're very much "no food is off limits" or they were I'm hoping they haven't drank the koolade on this topic!
I've come across this type before as I think certain pps have too.
They cherry pick the parts of the plan they are following that suit them and ignore the rest and then tell everyone they meet that "sw/ww/whatever doesn't work"
When I was doing ww there were of course weeks where i gained or sts but that was because I'd either eaten too much that week (or drank calories) which I knew myself (sometimes I'd "get away with it" and lose) or it was something like being premenstrual (I noticed a pattern of I'd eg gain about 2lbs that week and lose 3lbs the next)
My understanding is that the ww plan (well when I was doing that it's changed in crucial ways since which I'm a bit concerned by) was basically using points to make it easier to count the cals when you've a busy life (which I did back then) with a little manipulation to encourage members to eat more of the more healthy foods NUTRITIONALLY speaking - lean proteins, whole food carbs, fruit and veg, dairy and to discourage over consumption of less healthy foods - fatty meats, fried foods, processed foods, biscuits, crisps etc
But it was done without demonising any food groups or making members feel bad if they eg had an ice cream on a trip to the seaside (there was guidance on choosing the lower cal healthier options when eating out etc)
That seems a sensible and positive and healthy approach to me.
But I've always believed that everything in moderation is the way to go.