Apples are great portable snacks!!! But do me a favor and make sure that every time you have a serving of fruit, it’s a different fruit! Variety is extremely important. It’s probably the single biggest lifestyle change you could make for long-term health, energy, brain chemistry and hormonal balance.
Go for color, too! I eat blueberries, blackberries, raspberries. I eat star fruit (carambola), mango, lychee, oranges, kumquats, apples, tangerines, grapes, watermelon. See how many different fruit you can eat before repeating one.
Re the fat in the eggs, you’re right! Even though I tend to prefer eating whole eggs over egg whites, I add fruit to my P+C meals, not my P+F meals. So it you’re eating a P+C meal, you should make an egg white omelet with veggies and have that piece of fruit. If you’re eating whole eggs at a P+F meal, you shouldn’t be eating fruit.
I thought apples are higher glycemic simpler sugars.
Don’t worry about the fruit from sugar. Fruit tends to be higher in fructose, a sugar that doesn’t spike insulin. Just don’t go over the 100 calories you’re allowing yourself per serving. I measure all my fruit in ounces (tenths of an ounce, actually) using a digital scale that I got at Staples in the postal scale areas.
Excellent job on adjusting your numbers and cutting the brown rice!!! You have a talent for this, Ranger!!!