Sugar intake limits are impossible!!

sijomial

Care to enlighten us on the differences between added and sugars from natural sources, take sucrose found in your sugar jar vs sucrose form an apple

Studies at the University of Google have shown that when viewed under a microscope sugar molecules from fruit clearly have wings and a halo whereas sugar molecules from candy have horns and cloven feet.

Moral of the story is that there's no point in the vast majority of people tracking sugar separately - if you stick to your calorie and macro targets you will be fine. Very sad if people avoid eating fruit (or dairy...) to meet a pointless sugar limit.

Tctr

If you're in this to "simply" lose the weight and not to obtain the perfect "model" body type, guy or girl, just keep to the calorie limit and eat responsibly during the day.

For most of us, once you start getting too strict with your intake this lifestyle change becomes the dreaded DIET instead. Once that happens, a large number of people stop following the program and revert back to their much worse eating habits.

MsPudding

Carbs are bad so I dont eat carbs

Fat makes you fat so I dont eat fat

I was eating protein for a while but now I know its destroying my liver in such large quantities...

now, I just dont eat anything, ever... I think its the healthiest option...


sugar is the devil and supplements are the end all be all cure to everything

and they all give you cancer too, don't forget that!

Not to mention Alzheimer's, IBS and fungal nail infections.

danielle_hester

You can change what you track in the Settings...one pickle & my sodium is through the roof, which is depressing to me, so I changed it to track my fiber!

shannashannabobana

Since I need my 100% Vitamin A and C, it's practically impossible doing that without fruit

Fruit is not the only food with nutrients!

You can get VitaminA from: cod liver oil, liver, sweet potato (709 μg 79%), butter (684 μg 76%), kale (681 μg 76%), spinach (469 μg 52%), pumpkin (400 μg 41%), collard greens (333 μg 37%), Cheddar cheese (265 μg 29%), cantaloupe melon (169 μg 19%), egg (140 μg 16%), apricot (96 μg 11%), papaya (55 μg 6%), mango (38 μg 4%), pea (38 μg 4%), broccoli (31 μg 3%), milk (28 μg 3%), tomatoes

Vitamin C from:
broccoli, bell peppers, parsley, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, lemon juice, strawberries, mustard greens, kiwifruit, papaya, kale, cabbage, romaine lettuce, turnip greens, oranges, cantaloupe, summer squash, grapefruit, pineapple, chard, tomatoes, collard greens, raspberries, spinach, green beans, fennel, cranberries, asparagus, watermelon, and winter squash.

CraftyWeeWifey

I recently saw a talk show where a dietician was a guest and he claimed that if you eat less than 3g of sugar daily, no matter what the rest of your diet/exercise for the day looks like, that you'll rapidly lose weight. I suppose there might be something to that since cutting out sugars would mean cutting out most unhealthy foods. He said that even eating fruit is bad in daily amounts.

Hmm. I would actually suspect that for most people, cutting out ALL sugars would result in cutting out all favored snack foods, and therefore losing weight by default. But I'm calling BS on 'no matter what'. 1) I do not believe that I could eat hundreds if not thousands of calories over my TDEE and not gain just because I'm not eating sugar. I would love to see a study showing that that's possible, because almost all of my favored snack foods are low-sugar -- such as oil-popped popcorn, where I can easily put away 1200 calories in an hour if I'm not paying attention. 2) I have seen people who eat a raw vegan diet with huge proportions of calories coming from fruit. If this were true -- if you needed to cut sugar to lose weight -- they ought to be monstrously obese, but most of the ones I've met (it's popular at my college lately) were on the lean side.

I went fructose free (as much as possible) mainly as an experiment to see if it would suit me and I have found it really interesting how I have majorly upped my fat consumption (have butter on everything, frying my meat, eating way more meat) and the weight is steadily coming off. Definitely some of it is not having the junk food, but i still have potato chips and non/low sugar junk food (and I'm sure my daily calorie intake isn't that much less than it was before) and as of today (nearly 3 months since starting) have lost 7kg. So its not speedy weight loss but its a little bit each week. I was just going to do it for 8 weeks but it seems to be working for me so I'll keep going.

Have to say its the easiest way I've ever tried to lose weight.

Dragn77

I replaced sugar with iron. The only "sweets" I eat is half a banana at breakfast and and apple for a snack, and the rest of my sugars come from the various other greens and such I eat during the day. And Im always over on my sugars. Not by much but still...

so to me its pointless...Im not going to avoid eating fruit. I have however stopped drinking fruit juices...the cals in that add up fast, and its not as filling as eating an actual fresh fruit.

But anyway, iron is more important to me than sugars because Im anemic, so I track that instead.

teamAmelia

I just now noticed that. Right before seeing your post, I added Sugar to report and I have 2 grams left for the day! WTH? From eating 2 bananas today? That means I would have to have just protein and veggies for dinner. Which, I guess sounds like a good idea, but I was planning on a taco salady sort of thing. And God forbid I try to satisfy my sweet tooth by eating an orange tonight for dessert. Ugh. I am sorry I even looked now.

Wow. You're doing good if you can satisfy your sweet tooth with an orange and not actual junk food. So jealous.

Lorijp

This is what has worked for me and I realize all of us are different on what works for them. I have only went over 30 grams of sugar daily very few times the past year. To be honest, I am mostly unde 10-15 daily. I have found that staying lower on this, I don't crave it. However I don't eat fruit daily but I do eat it. I try to do high protein and watch my carbs. Keeping my carbs from 30-80 normally but I do go over at times. I do my best to flucute my routine. For snack Ideas I eat Quest protein bars, Nature valley (great vallue) protein bars, sugar free blue bell bullet popsicles (these hae saved me many times lol), sugar free jello, celery and peanut butter, peanuts/almonds pre-packaged, apples/peanut butter pre-packaged in produce department. It's possible to keep your sugar intake low. One of my main goals was to stay away from sweets because that was my trigger point. Hope this helps!

ashleywilcox88

I watch my sugar limits, but I always go over. I eat fruit for breakfast, like strawberries and blueberries, and occasionally yogurt, and it puts me over. So, as long as I don't go crazy with sugar, then I think it's ok.

airwindsea

so do we add the sugars from all fruits and natural sugars from lke honey etc to add or not to add is my question????

betsymichaelsen

Thanks, I just started this and was blowed a way when I saw my sugar go over after the day was done.