It’s sad that there are very nutritious and delicious foods that should be off the menu when you’re trying to lose weight. Unfortunately, some healthy foods are very high in calories and therefore to be avoided at times when your calorie intake needs to be lower than normal. And that includes fruit. Here are the fruits to avoid when you’re trying to lose weight.
1 Raisins
Avoid raisins when you're trying to lose weight because of their high caloric content. A half-cup serving of loosely packed raisins has up to 217 calories – a 100g serving has up to 324 calories. Under normal circumstances, when you're not trying to lose weight, raisins are good. It may be high in calories, but a ½ cup serving also has 3g of fiber, 2g of protein, 1g of iron, and up to 543mg of potassium.
2 Dates
Adding more fiber to your diet may actually help you shrink your waist size, but you cannot afford to get fiber at the cost of calories. That's exactly what happens when you include dates in your diet. A 100g serving of medjool dates will offer 7g of dietary fiber, but you will also load your body up with 277 calories - not good when you're trying to lose weight. Please note that dates are great when you're not trying to lose weight because they have calcium required for stronger bones, iron for your red blood cells, and vitamin A for better skin.
Adding more fiber to your diet may actually help you shrink your waist size, but you cannot afford to get fiber at the cost of calories. That's exactly what happens when you include dates in your diet. A 100g serving of medjool dates will offer 7g of dietary fiber, but you will also load your body up with 277 calories - not good when you're trying to lose weight. Please note that dates are great when you're not trying to lose weight because they have calcium required for stronger bones, iron for your red blood cells, and vitamin A for better skin.
3 Prunes
Reducing your caloric intake by 500 calories a day will help you lose a pound a week, so you need to avoid prunes, which are otherwise good but have a high caloric content. One cup of dried prunes has 418 calories with 66g of sugar. It is an extremely rich source of potassium, which is vital for bodily functions and helps with heart rhythm, digestion, muscle contractions, and nerve impulses. You still have to avoid this high calorie fruit for its added sugar content and extra calories.
4 Dried Figs
Figs are too sweet and too addictive to be on your weight loss diet. Controlling your portion size can be difficult enough, so avoiding this high calorie fruit completely is the better option. One cup serving has 15g of fiber, for your digestive system, 241mg of calcium for bones and a healthy nervous system, and 0.8mg of zinc for a healthy immune system. It also has 71g of sugars and 371 calories that can easily hurt your weight loss goals.
5 Avocados
This high calorie fruit is full of healthy mono-unsaturated fat, which is good for your heart. It also contains potassium and magnesium, two nutrients known to keep your blood pressure in check. It's good, but not when you're counting calories and trying to shrink your waistline because a 1-cup serving is loaded with 384 calories.
6 Olives
Olives have antioxidant nutrients that prevent heart disease by impeding the oxidation of cholesterol. They have anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties that reduce chronic inflammation and chronic oxidative stress. Black olives are high in iron and improve the ability of red blood cells to carry oxygen. So many benefits, but should it be a part of your weight loss diet? Probably not, all thanks to its high caloric content – its 100g serving contains 149 calories.
7 Banana
While bananas are nutrient-dense and have loads of potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, and calcium, they are also loaded with natural sugars. With 28g of sugars and 200 calories in one-cup serving, bananas are definitely one of the fruits you want to avoid to lose weight.
I love all of these fruits so it’s hard to stay away from them – especially because some make great snack foods. Which food do you most miss when you’re eating for weight loss?
Twink1580 Is this article a joke? This person does not need to be writing about health and nutrition.
Jenny Completely counter intuitive, and drop-dead wrong! No offense to the OP, but so many others have posted the reasons to NOT AVOID most of these fruits! No girl should judge an avocado by calories, avocados are one of the healthiest fruits you can eat!
Magnolia Thank you
Lia This is not true! All of these are healthy and good in moderation
Lauren I cannot believe I'm reading this article. All the fruits and other food listed in this article are healthy. Even healthy food has some calories. Come on now 😞
Kailee @Heatherlaure, thank you. It's so true, factual, fruits (and veggies) will not make you gain weight, it's healthy eating, healthy fats...oi vey~
Clarissa Avocados and bananas are good for you! Duh! Avos have healthy fats which we do need just don't eat too much of it that can cause weight changes. And bananas give you energy and are good for snacks probably best in the morning for breakfasts!! You'll burn those calories through the day anyways
Melissa I do not agree with this article at all! Avocados are super healthy. I eat half of one everyday and I've lost 20 in a month a half. Bananas, and dates are very good for you too.
peony These are brilliant fruits everything in moderation of course but just simple things like exercising would bring harmony to your body
Sarah These are good fats. Better to have these than crisps, chocolate and fatty processed foods.
Isabella I think this is aimed for people who count calories, but nevertheless moderation is key. I loove prunes, they're my tummy candy, but I have to stick with just 5 a day if I have any. Avocados I love too, it's soo hard not to have a whole one (unless it's baby small hehe)! Loving bananas lately, and olives I rarely have but only in tiny amounts.
Jasmijn EAT HEALTY! NOT LESS. Eat whatever you want if it's from a plant you will not gain
Nienke No this is not true. Simple
Shanelle These foods are so important to our diets. Especially avocados and bananas. Eat everything in moderation. To be honest, this author actually has a lot of articles that are not worth reading. They need to research before they post damaging things like this.
Courtney Calories are not the enemy its the SOURCE 200 calorie soda and a 200 calorie smoothie are completely different. Fruit is not the enemy eat as much as your heart desires:)
Alexandra people, don't listen to this article and eat all pf those HEALTHY fruits!!!
Megalomania Bananas & avocados have too many health benefits to give up.
Ask Totally disagree with this article! Moderation rather than saying to not eat these fruits. Eat process food lose weight and have a other health issues? I think not!!!!!
Cassieculbreth Well then I guess I'm gonna eat ice if I don't want to eat calories. These foods are really good for you, and you NEED calories and fats, just not processed food
sm94 Perhaps this article should be focusing on eating these foods in moderation? I eat and love all of these "high calorie" foods because they are healthy and your body needs them!
Twink1580 This is a horrible article. Olives, bananas and avocados are all staples in my diet.
Anna I have to disagree with this article to some extent. Avocados actually contain healthy fats that can help you lose weight. They do this by helping your body utilize the fat you already have stored in your body for energy. Both bananas and avocados are laden with fibre and nutrients that our body needs. It's been proven that you can't lose weight just by reducing calories alone. It's important to incorporate nutrient-dense foods in your diet to really keep your metabolism in top shape. ;)
Manuela I agree with @KeshL I eat banana and avocado on a daily basis and they're healthy for all of us.
Heatherlaure Yesssss Scarlett! Plus I hate how this article mentions the many benefits of these fruits but then says you shouldn't eat them because they have some calories. Like, even if you're trying to lose weight you still need some calories. Calories from these fruits are gonna be a lot better for you than say, calories from a bunch of flavorless processed rice cakes
KeshL Banana and avocado should not be there. Avocado is a healthy fat.
Scarlett Not sure if i agree with this advice. These are all good natural whole foods, as god made them. Imo, the problem foods are the refined processed ones, and sugar. Quit that junk and the pounds will melt away. But fruits full of vitamins and minerals and yes, even fat and calories? Embrace them! :)
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