The eternal question - Does Fruit Make you Fat?

I read an interesting blog of someone I know yesterday that dealt with this issue and while I appreciated her point of view I decided to also blog my side of fruit and what it can mean for me.  She talked about fruit and the fact that it won't make you fat and sometimes you can eat 3 or 4 pieces a day and the nutrition values outweigh the bad, etc.....for her blog yes - I agree with her.
I decided to blog about it because in my case and in the case of people trying to lose weight this is not the case.  And maybe my trainer Rita will hop on and make a comment along with my blog - that would be cool.
In my case, I'm trying to lose weight and that means cutting out sugar which also means natural sugars like what are found in fruit.  And in fact - today for the first time I am not having my fruit shake for breakfast because Rita and I think this could be holding me back.  So I will be having 3 hard boiled egg whites and half a banana for my breakfast today and tomorrow and then I will be curious to see how I feel.  The only fruit I will be consuming for the next few days (and keep in mind that I am not a fruit lover at all) is the homemade applesauce that Megan and I are making today and that will be a small bowl in the early afternoons and half a banana in the morning.  This is according to Coach Rita and we will see what it does for me.  Sometimes just those tiny little tweaks are all I need.  Normally in my shake I would have consumed a whole banana and some frozen strawberries and mangoes plus sometimes in the afternoon I would have an apple.  Too much according to Coach Rita for what I need right now in my life.
I'm not saying no to fruit, but for people trying to lose weight 2-3 fruits per day is probably too much in my opinion.  For the average person who just wants to lead a healthy lifestyle and maintain and eat a clean lifestyle then yes eat a piece of fruit per day - I still wouldn't be scarfing down 2 or 3 pieces.
that's why I love reading other peoples blogs too - we are all blogging about different ways of eating and what works for us and what doesn't.....

So on to my food for today:
Breakfast which I will be eating in two stages - 3 hard boiled egg whites - that will happen shortly so approx 915am
Then half a banana on the way to pilates at 1000am.
Pilates for an hour at 1015am followed by a protein shake.
Then I'm going to my sisters for lunch and applesauce making. She is making us her homemade vegetable soup and a salad for lunch.  Perfect and not something I would make for myself - she actually thinks its hilarious that I've never had vegetable soup before.
Snack will obvi be applesauce since we will be surrounded by it today.
Supper tonight is my old faithful - salad plate with chicken and chickpeas - I seem to never get sick of that.  Tom and the kids will be having leftover chill.
And then its the weekend and I'm out both evenings but I've already made a plan and I will blog about that tomorrow.

Another side note - I changed Tom and the kids menu last night and made them spaghetti sauce with ground beef and some spices.  Jack had hockey until 630p so what I did was I ate my salad plate at 600pm before they got home.  Once they got home I served them their spaghetti and garlic bread dinner and I took a tiny little plate that you would put a cup of tea on and put a teeny little bit of spaghetti on it and ate that with them and told Avah that mommy was so hungry I had eaten before they got home.  And shockingly I wasn't even tempted by the yummy scent of the garlic bread and that was one of my staples before.  Yah Sarah....another hurdle that I managed to overcome.