When I first decided to get fit and decrease my body fat, I did David Kirsch's "New York Body Plan". It completely eliminated fruit from your diet. Also, I've read bios from various fitness professionals and they too stay away from fruit.

But in other places they do not say to completely eliminate fruit from your diet if you're cutting.

So which is true? Fruit or no fruit while cutting? Same with dairy- I've read to stay away from dairy when cutting. So stay away from both fruit & dairy while cutting?

Thank you!

David Krsch is an obvious idiot. Most fitness "pros" are idiots.

So long as a proper hypocaloric diet is in place. One can eat anything they want. This includes fruit and dairy...

Fruits have their place, just eat them in the morning and don't go over board.

Keep the fruit; you need the vitamins and such. I eat about 2 apples everyday.

Eat as much as you want, thats rediculous.

Fruit promotes fat loss, has phytonutrients, very low calories, and promotes satiety.

I wouldn't go as far to say "eat as many as you want"

Wouldn't be healthy to be eating 10 bananas, mangos, oranges,etc a day.

I think I remember Lyle Mcdonald saying that it would take about 8 servings of fruit a day before the fructose really had an impact on body composition.

You can always select fruits that score low on weight gain (such as apple or pineapple) if you're cutting
(check nutritiondata.com or 'negative calorie food' on wikipedia)

What about eating 10 tablespoons of peanut butter in a day ?

Most people would have difficulty eating that much fresh or frozen whole fruit, unless fruit was most or all of what they ate.

But watch out for fruit juices, which are high in sugar / calories and low in fiber. It is easy to drink huge amounts of calories without feeling full. "Fruit drinks" are even worse, since they are usually mostly sugar (or high fructose corn syrup) water with only a little fruit juice.

Dried fruit is also much more calorie dense than fresh or frozen whole fruit.

Never said that was healthy as well.

...And that is why I am abandoning peanut butter. Been peanut butter free for 6 days now.

why?????????!!!

To test myself, and see if that maybe if i go long enough I'll stop craving it. Most cravings for a certain food die out at around 21 days, sometimes longer.

Ice cream is the downfall of my cut

is this too much fruit?
morning: bannana, cup of stawberries (oatmeal)
day: 3 pieces of fruit (usually orange or apple)
night: banana, cup of strawberries (protein shake)