Fruit - dukans its fattening, WW limitless quantities

[Fiddledee]

Did WW and lost nearly a stone and its stayed off, another half a stone to a stone to lose and thinking of doing the Dukan diet partly I want some rapid weight loss. However with WW pro points you can eat lots of fruit and I eat loads currently. Under Dukan you first have no fruit then restricted to one a day. Currently I have 4/5 pieces a day. Find it weird that one actively encourages it and another doesn't.

It is all to do with the carbs.

WW = low fat and calories, high carb

Dukan = low carb

Well if WW is so great why not stick with it? Because with eating 4-5 pieces of fruit your weight loss has slowed down?

However you look at it fruit has calories and (fruit) sugar and so cutting it out (or restricting it) will increase/speed up weight loss.

FWIW I was doing tesco diets totals - a bit like WW except fruit/veg not free... was eating around 2-3 pieces a day, any more than that was using up too many totals.

Have cut it out for now as now doing low carb.

its really to do with sugar - its all about the sugar and energy

so, you have fruit, it has sugar, your body burns that first for it's fuel

whereas with low carbers - i often think the carb thing should also read low sugarers as well, because when lcing, you eat very little sugar so your body can use the estisting 'fuel' reserves or fat

have an exlpaination on my blog homepage here

I stopped doing WW before Xmas,I lost the weight very quickly in about 3 weeks then its stabalised and I haven't dieted since - this was before pro points. Would like to fit into more of my clothes so looking at losing more weight and noticed for pro points fruit is limitless. I like the sound of Dukan as I think I will lose weight quickly and keep it off but the lack of fruit I find rather depressing - lots of fruit and veg does make me feel better.

supercusty, i like your blog, very interesting.

It just illustrates how all diets are F**ked Up

Fiddledee - I tried dukan but couldn't manage without the vegetables (I don't miss the fruit as much as I thought I would. Now doing low carb. If you look on the dukan thread you'll see everyone's weight there has also stabilised...

Why not do WW but limit yourself to 1 piece of fruit per day? Whatever way you look at it fruit contains calories.