by roundcoconut » Mon Apr 20, 2015 9:35 am
It's funny, but I've come to the exact opposite conclusion about fruit: it really is candy for me, and I could sit around and eat it -- whether hungry or not, and always past comfortably full. Simple sugars really do signal some bodies to eat, eat, eat!
So I guess it's different for different people!
Anyone who has a caveman-like response to simple sugars like I do, probably needs to be able to say to themselves, "Fruit is just nature's candy. A few pieces is fine, but stay within a level that maintains your level of physical comfort and level of self-respect."
In other words, anyone who eats fruits past the point of comfortably full -- maybe that's a pattern that you'll want to reign in. Also, anyone who eats fruits in quantities that sabotage their efforts to change the shape or size or their body -- maybe that's also a pattern that you'll want to rein in.
Play with it, and see where you fit in! There is a full spectrum of how people respond to simple sugars, from those who scrape frosting off of their cake because it is too sweet for their liking, to those who will compulsively polish off a jar of frosting if it is in their vicinity. Personally, I am the latter camp (I have eaten, yes -- eaten, a whole jar of ginger preserves in a 24-hour period, because I just kept going back to it at various points in the course of the day. I will consume as much simple sugars as I make available for my own consumption, whether that's strawberries or marshmallows) and always in need of healthy boundaries!