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dalerst
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Just looking at my sugar allowance, how important is it that I stick to it? I eat quite a bit of fruit which is obviously sugar so that means I go over most days by about 20g ish.
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Unless you have a medical reason to monitor your sugar intake (diabetes springs to mind, but there are others), it's not at all important. A lot of people have posted in other threads that they've switched sugar tracking for fiber on the diary page. (Personally, I track iron, but that's just because if I'm less-mindful of it, I don't usually hit my target and my hemoglobin was a little low at my last checkup.)0
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I switched my sugar tracker to track fiber instead. Unless you have a medical reason to track sugar, you're good.1
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As long as you don't have medical issues or the sugar/fruit isn't crowding out your other macros or nutrition, it's all good1
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lean bulk whilst doing progressive overload training.
I don't have any medical reasons to track sugar.0 -
estherdragonbat wrote: »Unless you have a medical reason to monitor your sugar intake (diabetes springs to mind, but there are others), it's not at all important. A lot of people have posted in other threads that they've switched sugar tracking for fiber on the diary page. (Personally, I track iron, but that's just because if I'm less-mindful of it, I don't usually hit my target and my hemoglobin was a little low at my last checkup.)
Iron is something I need to look at as its very low on most days.0 -
lean bulk whilst doing progressive overload training.
I don't have any medical reasons to track sugar.
And that is why sugar is good. Carbs are anticatabolic and prevent protein breakdown. This in turn will allow amino acids to rebuild muscle.
And if most of your sugar is coming from fruit, you are in a good position.2 -
estherdragonbat wrote: »Unless you have a medical reason to monitor your sugar intake (diabetes springs to mind, but there are others), it's not at all important. A lot of people have posted in other threads that they've switched sugar tracking for fiber on the diary page. (Personally, I track iron, but that's just because if I'm less-mindful of it, I don't usually hit my target and my hemoglobin was a little low at my last checkup.)
Iron is something I need to look at as its very low on most days.
Don't trust the database. Many entries don't have micronutrients completed.1 -
estherdragonbat wrote: »Unless you have a medical reason to monitor your sugar intake (diabetes springs to mind, but there are others), it's not at all important. A lot of people have posted in other threads that they've switched sugar tracking for fiber on the diary page. (Personally, I track iron, but that's just because if I'm less-mindful of it, I don't usually hit my target and my hemoglobin was a little low at my last checkup.)
Iron is something I need to look at as its very low on most days.
Don't trust the database. Many entries don't have micronutrients completed.
I did think that, I eat a lot of veg, red meat pasta etc which I thought are all high in Iron.0 -
estherdragonbat wrote: »Unless you have a medical reason to monitor your sugar intake (diabetes springs to mind, but there are others), it's not at all important. A lot of people have posted in other threads that they've switched sugar tracking for fiber on the diary page. (Personally, I track iron, but that's just because if I'm less-mindful of it, I don't usually hit my target and my hemoglobin was a little low at my last checkup.)
Iron is something I need to look at as its very low on most days.
Don't trust the database. Many entries don't have micronutrients completed.
I did think that, I eat a lot of veg, red meat pasta etc which I thought are all high in Iron.
In all honesty, it's not very common for men to have iron deficiencies. And if you think you have one, I'd get a blood test.1 -
estherdragonbat wrote: »Unless you have a medical reason to monitor your sugar intake (diabetes springs to mind, but there are others), it's not at all important. A lot of people have posted in other threads that they've switched sugar tracking for fiber on the diary page. (Personally, I track iron, but that's just because if I'm less-mindful of it, I don't usually hit my target and my hemoglobin was a little low at my last checkup.)
Iron is something I need to look at as its very low on most days.
Don't trust the database. Many entries don't have micronutrients completed.
I did think that, I eat a lot of veg, red meat pasta etc which I thought are all high in Iron.
In all honesty, it's not very common for men to have iron deficiencies. And if you think you have one, I'd get a blood test.
Also, the 100% value used on U.S. nutrition labels (which the MFP database is formatted to reflect) is for adult women. Adult men only need about two-thirds of that (so if you're at 67% or above, you're OK).0 -
As long as you don't have medical issues or the sugar/fruit isn't crowding out your other macros or nutrition, it's all good
This.
I was going over the MFP default when my only added sugar was a bit of concentrated fruit juice well down the ingredient list in my single daily 30-calorie tablespoon of all-fruit spread. The rest was inherent sugar in 2-3 fruit servings, and unsweetened dairy foods. Heh! I stopped tracking sugar & tracked fiber instead.0
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