Fruit while losing weight

I am in a quandry. I am trying to lose a few pounds. I love fruit and there is nothing wrong with fruits, in fact they should be in everyones diet. The fresh or frozen fruits, not so much the canned with all that syrup. Neolithic diets sites and  every low carb site list berries as a fruit you may eat. Which is awesome because I like berries. I love eating frozen raspberries right from the pouch on a hot summer day.

So the quandry is, which fruits are better to eat while shedding weight, and which should I avoid? The search for information has made me very confused. Some places on the net, list the net carbs ala Atkins, carbs minus fiber equal net carbs. Other sites list just the carbs, as if all carbs are equal. Others still list a glycemic load or the glycemic index, but I am unsure which is a better measure.


The confusion continued with conflicting lists. Cherries, my most favorite fruit in the entire world, come in at the top of Mark Sisson's list as one of the best fruits to eat. The same fruit comes in at the most sugary fruits on about.com's list. The conflict continues with many other sites and fruits.

There is a lot of money to be had in the diet world. One author will push for low net carbs, another for low GI and yet another for low GL. I wonder though, if the men themselves, after careful consideration, choose a path and then as new science comes into play, do they follow the science or do they defend there theories that made their books so popular?

Look at all the writers who are doctors, who have been pushing the idea of low fat, low cholesterol diets, only to see their miserable patients dying of heart attacks while doing the steady state cardio they have prescribed.

Once, just once, I would like to see someone in the industry say, "oops, my bad. With the new studies I have read, I now know I was wrong." That would be a fitness guru that I would listen too.

I am no scientist nor do I want to be one. That being said, I have to read the articles and get a feel for the people writing them, are they trust worthy. I also have to research what they have said to make sure that I agree with the conclusions that were made based on the studies that are out there.

My conculsion is that Mark Sisson's is the most correct with the exception of water melons. I think that they should have made the list.

His List:

• Berries
• Cherries
• Apples and Pears
• Grapefruit
• Apricots and Peaches
• Figs

I am off to the store to stock the house with grapefruit because they are in season right now.