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catrinafinney34

Okay, I've been eating a lot of fruits and vegetables. Making salads protein shakes and eating yogurt... And a fiber one bar for snacks here and there... But like damn how can I keep my sugar count down low... Okay plain Greek yogurt and apples.. I heard peanut butter with reduced fat... But what else can u eat so u dont go over ur sugar marker

psuLemon

You're eating whole foods. Dont worry about the sugar goals. Its supposed to be for added sugar. In the end calories matter.

livingleanlivingclean

You don't worry about it.... Unless you have a medical reason to do so. There is nothing wrong with natural sugar from fruits, vegies, diary etc, so why limit the nutritional benefits of these foods by avoiding them?

I would choose natural yoghurt over a flavoured one by preference, and I make most of my food from scratch which limits added sugars.

Reduced fat peanut butter is likely to have more sugar added, so not sure how that's going to help you. My peanut butter contains peanuts, nothing else.

Sabine_Stroehm

consider not eating reduced fat foods. Often when manufacturers have reduced fats they've added sugars.

mph323

Unless you have a medical reason for limiting sugar, I wouldn't worry about it. As long as you are meeting your nutritional needs and staying within your calorie goals, sugar is really just a type of carb and is present in a lot of the foods we consider nutritionally dense - fruits and veg especially.

nvmomketo

Peanut butter can be sugar free. Mine has roasted nuts and salt.

Yogurt will have lactose (milk sugar) but the flavoured varieties tend to have more added in. Buying plain and adding an extract and some sweetener helps.

Carbs will often have sugars. Especially fruits. Especially tropical fruits and dried fruits. The rest of carbs (grains, veggies, fruits) will break down to simple sugars in the body. Some people find that they need to limit fruits and other carbs in order to limit sugars.

lemurcat12

Peanut butter is not sugar free, but shouldn't have that much. My almond butter (only almonds) has 2 g of sugar. My peanut powder (Santa Cruz--leftover from Lent when I was using it as a source of protein) is only peanut powder, no other added ingredients, and has only 1 g of sugar per serving. Anyway, not enough to matter. My feeling is unless you have a specific reason to watch sugar (or are watching overall carbs, in which case I wouldn't focus on sugar specifically), and if you are getting enough protein, fat, and vegetables, there's no particular reason to worry about sugar from whole foods (including dairy, like in plain greek yogurt, which is just lactose).

However, I always am interested to see where sugar is coming from and if there is anything surprising.

catrinafinney34

Thanks everyone... I eat a lot of salads and fruit and yogurt and protein.... But I see on here the sugar is always over....I drink 1% milk in my smoothy or one of the kids boxes... I was worried about my sugar count .... Lol

catrinafinney34

Lean chicken I'm sorry...
I dont eat pork I dont like it... And I dont like fish... So I'm complicated...

AnnPT77

If you're not eating a lot of added sugar, but going over primarily from sugar in whole unsweetened fruit, non-sweetened dairy, and that sort of thing, and you're not diabetic or prediabetic, consider adopting the solution I used: I modified my diary format via the MFP settings to stop showing a sugar column, and show fiber instead.

Seriously, I was over the MFP default sugar goal every day, when the only added sugar I ate was a tiny bit of fruit juice concentrate in my one daily 30-calorie tablespoon of all-fruit spread (and not even the first-listed ingredient in that). The rest was from 2-3 daily servings of whole fruit, and unsweetened dairy products.

I lost 60 pounds just fine.

dadsafrantic

catrinafinney34 wrote: »

Lean chicken I'm sorry...
I dont eat pork I dont like it... And I dont like fish... So I'm complicated...

so uncomplicate. lose the powders, bars and shakes. eat real food. what's more concerning to me at least is the value added cr@p in the premade "health" foods. stick with the fruit, salads and yogurt. lose the non and low fat foods as well. not good. and especially keep your kids away from them.
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