How many grapes is too much grapes?

I have been having a very hard time with grazing, food is all I think about all day and all night.  So yesterday I decided to go to the store and buy some grapes.  I bought almost $10 worth of grapes and have probably eaten close to half of them.  The red grapes are not to high in calories, but I'm wondering about the natural sugars and what they will do for me and my weight loss. 

I know some people cant' eat grapes, but so far no problem with me.  They are keeping me from getting the chips, cookies and dry cereal for late night snacks.  What do you all think?

Looks like 24 G of carbs in 3/4 C of red grapes.  For me, I'd never lose weight eating even a single serving a day but I'm really carb sensitive.  I wouldn't eat more than a serving day though, particularly close to bed time. 

Kari

Oh and DARN that dry cereal!  It gets me as I walk by the pantry quite often these days!!

Kari

I love honey nut cheerios, could eat the mess out of them.  But way too many carbs.  I never realized grapes had so many carbs.  But aren't they the good ones? 

Amount per 1 cup, seedless
Calories:	110.3 cal
Water	128.86 g
Carbohydrate (94%)	28.96 g
Protein (4%)	1.15 g
Total Fat (2%)	0.26 g
Monounsaturated	0.02 g
Polyunsaturated	0.08 g
Saturated	0.08 g
Trans Fat	0 g
Cholesterol	0 mg
Dietary Fiber	1.44 g
Total Sugars	24.77 g
Alcohol (0%)	0 g
Vitamins
Vitamin A	105.6 IU
Thiamin	0.11 mg
Riboflavin	0.11 mg
Niacin	0.3 mg
Pantothenic acid	0.08 mg
Vitamin B6	0.14 mg
Folate	3.2 mcg
Vitamin B12	0 mcg
Vitamin C	17.28 mg
Vitamin E	0.3 mg ATE
Minerals
Calcium	16 mg
Iron	0.58 mg
Magnesium	11.2 mg
Phosphorus	32 mg
Potassium	305.6 mg
Sodium	3.2 mg
Zinc	0.11 mg
Copper	0.21 mg

*	Note: USDA factors are used in calculating certain foods and do not necessarily follow the "4-4-9" method. Percentages may not always add up to 100.
	Data source: USDA Nutrient Database, R17

Hi Sabrina,I don't know what happened to my regular reply. I am one of those who cannot eat grapes very well. For me I would never be full on them, anyway. I eat nuts and they fill me up better. I don't think they are bad for you and the calories aren't too bad at all. Good luck.

Thanks Mari - that just reminded me one of the things I did in the beginning.  So maybe I'll hit the nuts again and see how they go. 

My nut wants me on no more than 900 calories a day.  That pretty much rules out grapes and nuts.  Oh gosh, I wish I could get this head hunger to go away!!!

Me, too!!! One of my good "male" friends from H.S. is coming to town,tomorrow and I'm stressing about going to see him. I just saw him last August but I still stress about it. LOL Had me some cereal today. Head hunger is taking over. (I had a candy bar yesterday YIKES) But as long as I am not doing it everyday and I am AWARE that I am doing it, it helps. Before I would just eat and not be aware. So tomorrow is another day as Scarlet O'Hara would say, and I will do better. Nuts do have alot of calories, but you can have 15 pistachios for a low cal snack. Or a string cheese.900 cal seems a little low to me, but your nut probably knows best.

Maybe this can help?


Okay first I want to say, I wasn't so much of a grazer, more of a pig out every chance I got kinda guy.

As for your specific issues:  Rather than looking  at it as grazing, maybe you really are hungry during the day and evening because you are putting the wrong stuff in.

Make a list of things that are low carb / low sugar that you like,  I mean things like turkey, chicken, beef, veggies, etc etc etc.   That list becomes your snack list.

For example, stuff a bunch or mushrooms with crabmeat, maybe some devilled eggs, some scallops wrapped with bacon.   Some cheese cubes, or some little turkey meatballs.    What I'm getting to here is make yourself a smorgasbaord of hor's dourve.  Buy yourself a bag of peeled cooked shrimp.  Make a bowl of ****tail sauce, use salsa instead of ketchup and have some shrimp to snack on.

If you snack and graze on those type foods regularly and exclusively for say two weeks you will have detoxed yourself away from the things you are currently craving so desperately, cookies, chips,  cereal etc.  (All worthless carbs by the way).

I firmly believe you will be far more successful feeding the grazing monkey with high protein foods , even if your calories are above the target, you'll be miles away from the carb monster in no time.

Another thing that I have done that had a very positive effect for me, I have been taking my lunch to work and I have started to make the portion bigger than I plan to actual eat at lunch.  Why, because, I fond that by the time I got home from work in the evening I was too hungry and was snacking relentlessly (not bad choices but more calories just the same) before dinner.  So the leftover lunch, is available say for a few healthy bites  around 4 pm.  Sometimes that holds me enough that I find I don't need much dinner or dinner at all.

Give it a try, you might be very surprised.  Remeber this is as much about changing your food choices as it is anything else.  Changing what you graze allows you to not fixate on being deprived.

I'm pullin' for you !

Best of Luck,

FatGuy(shrinking)inNC

I tried them Ostrim Beef Sticks.  They were actually pretty yummy tasting, take a while to eat and chew and are pretty filling.  They are pretty big too, i think.  They are low in cals, fat and carbs and high in protein.  I ordered them on Amazon.