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Does anyone eat A LOT of dates?

Posted by Martin Wright on August 5, 2013 at 7:33am in Main Chat

I moved to Israel about a month ago, and here dates are dirty cheap, and I like them a lot.

Like, I can get medjool dates for u$s 7 / kg, or deglet noor dates for u$s 5.5 / kg.

Currently I'm on a tight budget, but I don't want to go back to cooked starches, because they make me feel heavy and worse than eating dates or other fruits.

Here it's hard to find good quality bananas (generally they are green and ripen before even getting yellow, without being very sweet), so I'm eating a ton of dates.

I'm eating mainly medjool and amari dates (do someone know the "amari" variety? I couldn't find any information about them). I can eat up to 1.5 kg (about 3-3.5 lbs) of dates a day.

I'm pretty active during the day, running 6x a week (about 45-50 miles / week), plus work 8 hours a day in a moderately active job.

Do you think it's bad to eat so many dates, even being this active? 

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  • J.R. January 11, 2014 at 6:01pm

    Martin,
    I say eat all the dates you want. I know for me dates are a slimming food. In fact, I notice that the higher sugar, calorie and fiber rich foods are the best for my digestion, energy, and weight loss. I eat a minimum of one pound of dates every day...sometimes 2 pounds. I also work a very active job and I also weight train and run 4 days a week.

  • Tara Pearce January 11, 2014 at 5:45pm

    aaaaahhhh i eat so many dates (try dates with walnuts, it tastes like baklava); i feel completely normal as long as i drink lots of water (i feel weighed down, like something sitting in my stomach if i don't). lots of energy, they fill me up so easily c: 

  • jim whit January 11, 2014 at 6:18am

    I run just as much and went through a date phase was paying 39 dollars US for 15lbs. i was eating a pound of them a day give or take. scale crept up very slowly then would back down a hair then creep up etc.. i wasnt loosing the weight i wanted to loose so killed that habit. now i eat them as a treat now and then. Tho i'm still not noticing any difference in the scale I might have just filled those calories in with something else lol.

    Now I'm trying something diff rather then eating 4-5000 calories a day i'm shooting for 3-4000 calories a day. The scales starting to go down now. So I'm hoping this will do the trick to get the last of the lbs off but I gotta say it was rather enjoyable to sit around and smash dates in all day lol!

  • Gousti Fruit August 6, 2013 at 7:35am

    I had up to 1800 kcal/day of dates during the last cold season (6-7 months), no problem. If you think that your dates are dirty cheap, mine were 1.98 € / kg (Deglet Noor) :-D Probably not the best quality, but good enough for me.

    • perpetually curious > Gousti Fruit January 11, 2014 at 2:34am

      That's real good price, gousti fruit. Where did you get them? I live in the Netherlands, and i'm new to this lifestyle. Have any recommendation on where to buy cheap dates?

      • Gousti Fruit > perpetually curious January 11, 2014 at 2:56am

        I live in France and I get those from Aldi. They come from Algeria, the only listed ingredient is "dates" but I suspect they are coated in glucose. And in fact they sell by 500g (0.99 euro).

        • perpetually curious > Gousti Fruit January 11, 2014 at 3:03am

          I saw some at aldi as well, but they are more expensive (200g or 250g for 1.29 euro).

          Lidl is at 0.99euro for 250g, but it's coated with glucose and other stuff. I don't want that. Just the fruit itself, please.

          Hmm.. Any online webshop you know about?

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