Confused

StuJ77
StuJ77 Posts: 26 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
My daily goal for sugar intake is around 60g Yet I eat a apple (16g sugar) and a banana (17g sugar) and I am over half of my daily target?! I thought fruit was supposed to be healthy?! Am I eating the right fruit?

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  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    Sugar intake does not matter for weight loss. If you have a medical condition, maybe. Eat your fruit.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    I changed from tracking sugar to tracking fiber instead. More useful info, unless you have a medical condition where you need to track sugar. Any fruit and you're over your sugar goal. Berries have less sugar.
  • StuJ77
    StuJ77 Posts: 26 Member
    Okay thanks but fat Coke has a lot of sugar and that's bad...
  • arditarose
    arditarose Posts: 15,573 Member
    StuJ77 wrote: »
    Okay thanks but fat Coke has a lot of sugar and that's bad...

    What is fat coke? If a can of coke fits your calories for the day and you want it, have it. Personally I'd prefer not to drink those calories because it would not fill me up, but the sugar does not scare me.
  • StuJ77
    StuJ77 Posts: 26 Member
    Fat Coke is the red can not the diet can. Thanks for your help!
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,142 Member
    I try to watch added sugar but I don't worry about natural sugars like fruits or honey.
  • kgirlhart
    kgirlhart Posts: 5,142 Member
    I would rather drink "fat" Coke than "fake" Coke. If you want it drink it if you can fit it in your calorie goal.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    StuJ77 wrote: »
    Fat Coke is the red can not the diet can. Thanks for your help!

    Britishism. Means non diet.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    edited January 2016
    kgirlhart wrote: »
    I try to watch added sugar but I don't worry about natural sugars like fruits or honey.

    Same here. Although I don't pretend there's a difference between adding a bit of sugar to rhubarb or sugar to cookies or a holiday dessert vs. using honey or some other substitute with sugar. I just rarely do.

    MFP has no way of distinguishing between sugars, so they use a number that assumes 5% plus an assumed amount of fruits and veg or some such. The issue with added sugars is weight gain (more calories and lower nutrients, usually, not if you are tracking and don't have compliance issues), and there's no credible evidence that total sugar is meaningful or that fruit or veg (or dairy or sweet potato) is an issue. I ate the most sugar (as a %) near when I first started and was cutting starches a bunch and eating little added sugar, but lots of fruit, veg, dairy, sweet potatoes, plantains. I also lost a huge amount of weight at that time.

    Better to just focus on eating an overall healthy diet, IMO, and maybe watching to make sure you aren't eating more added sugars than you thought.
  • StuJ77
    StuJ77 Posts: 26 Member
    Thanks for all the help guys!
  • HutchA12
    HutchA12 Posts: 279 Member
    Fruit is good and can have lots of needed vitamins but they aren't a free pass on calories. Fruit should be more like a small snack or a treat. I see so many people drink smoothies which are fruit but also can be an easy 500 Kcal in a glass. Vegetables are generally going to give you more volume per calorie.

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