30 Day Logging/Limiting Added Sugar Challenge
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10-26
11 gms sugar
Added accountability works
Sent some Fall cards to all of my relatives while the snow is stacking up outside.1 -
Safari_Gal_ wrote: »Evening all!
Logged 13 total sugars today... no added sugars. All from pumpkin purée and red kale. Ahhh pumpkin... 🎃 ☺️
Speaking of baking...I’m looking to make low sugar desserts for thanksgiving. Found some cool recipes!
I was in the grocery store looking at whole turkeys. Do you know they inject an 8% sugar/salt/flavoring into most mass produced frozen grocery store turkeys?? Guess I’ll get a fresh turkey from now on!
Please share the recipes!
For now, I'm just replacing snacky foods with fruit to reduce calories, but I would like some low sugar recipes for special occasions. (I do tend to reduce the sugar in baked goods by 1/3 any way.)2 -
i just found this thread and was really excited about it. I am on day 6 of logging in regularly. this sugar deal is going to be hard to keep up with. i love grapes while i work but never paid attention to how much sugar was in them. Friday i had 22 g in grapes and 51 total. boy that was eye opening. lol. thanks for starting this.
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i just found this thread and was really excited about it. I am on day 6 of logging in regularly. this sugar deal is going to be hard to keep up with. i love grapes while i work but never paid attention to how much sugar was in them. Friday i had 22 g in grapes and 51 total. boy that was eye opening. lol. thanks for starting this.
@kbulmahn welcome!
You can do this challenge however you want, however, I am not counting sugar in fruit, dairy, veggies, etc. - I am only counted added / "free" sugar per the World Health Organization recommendations:
https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/sugar-guideline/en/
4 MARCH 2015 ¦ GENEVA - A new WHO guideline recommends adults and children reduce their daily intake of free sugars to less than 10% of their total energy intake. A further reduction to below 5% or roughly 25 grams (6 teaspoons) per day would provide additional health benefits.
Guideline on sugars intake for adult and children
Free sugars refer to monosaccharides (such as glucose, fructose) and disaccharides (such as sucrose or table sugar) added to foods and drinks by the manufacturer, cook or consumer, and sugars naturally present in honey, syrups, fruit juices and fruit juice concentrates.2 -
i just found this thread and was really excited about it. I am on day 6 of logging in regularly. this sugar deal is going to be hard to keep up with. i love grapes while i work but never paid attention to how much sugar was in them. Friday i had 22 g in grapes and 51 total. boy that was eye opening. lol. thanks for starting this.
I'm glad you found this group. It's all fun. Really. I needed this added accountability, too. My brain likes to drift during the holidays and talk me into all kinds of things.0 -
Diatonic12 wrote: »i just found this thread and was really excited about it. I am on day 6 of logging in regularly. this sugar deal is going to be hard to keep up with. i love grapes while i work but never paid attention to how much sugar was in them. Friday i had 22 g in grapes and 51 total. boy that was eye opening. lol. thanks for starting this.
I'm glad you found this group. It's all fun. Really. I needed this added accountability, too. My brain likes to drift during the holidays and talk me into all kinds of things.
Yes, holiday baking gets me in trouble every year and this will shorten my season plus bring awareness to when I do start.1 -
10-27
12 gms sugar
Boom
Done
Kitchen closed2 -
🍴 10.27 - 16 total sugars for the day. No added sugar. Had some dragon fruit for lunch and tomato sauce with seafood for early dinner today —- Fruit is tasting sweeter and sweeter to me since I’ve been using no sweeteners daily..
I had a red bell pepper last night that tasted like candy. 😋
Have to say / I’m paying a lot more attn to my logging with this challenge. Thanks y’all! 😌
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24 sugars today. Guessing about 1/2 natural and 1/2 added, but I am still learning.1
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You’re all doing a great job! 👍🏻
Naturally sweet things are tasting so much sweeter to me too! 😋3 -
Added sugar:
10/23: 85 g
10/24: 48 g
10/25: 26 g
10/26: 25 g
10/27: 20 g2 -
29.1 gram added sugars, 5 grams from milk
10 from a bowl of noodles! Weren’t even that good! O0 -
12 total grams for me today. No added sugar.
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10-28
12 gms sugar
Today's the 29th, October sure did roll by quickly. It came in like a lion and it's going out like a lion.
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Hi All!
It’s early in day - but food packed and diary closed...
12 total grams of sugar. 1.5 grams added sugar - wow I had to half my portion of salad dressing with all those sugars. Sheesh. Thousand island is my fav too... have to work on my own recipe.1 -
10-29
6 gms sugar
I actually feel much better on 24 gms sugar or less. Sure do.
Had a 3 egg mixed kale/other greens vege omelette with La Tourangelle High Oleic Sunflower Oil, green olives in garlic, thyme olive oil, shaved parmesan cheese and entire small avocado slices on top. I swilled 4 or 5 espressos with nutiva coconut manna and kerrygold butter.
Lunch was 1/2 cup rice with mixed vegetables with tuna and horseradish mayo, added dill and parsley, dilly chips (dill pickles on the side). Gouda black peppered cheese
Dinner - marinara and meatballs0 -
Anyone else noticing improved mental clarity? 💭2
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SuperMotivated56 wrote: »Anyone else noticing improved mental clarity? 💭
Yes, indeedy. Absolutely. I feel better, already. I'm so glad we're all doing this, aren't you?1 -
Oops! 52 added sugars today. 11 natural.
I usually have 1 caramel apple every Halloween. Today was the day. 22 sugar. Worth it.
I had a prepackaged salad. I knew it had a sweet dressing included, but gees! 22 added sugars again. Nope. Not again. I’ll look before I buy next time.
While looking at this I realized the caramel apple would be partly natural from the apple. Guess I’d look up a small apple for sugar and subtract from 22 to get added?
Still learning.1 -
Safari_Gal_ wrote: »Hi All!
It’s early in day - but food packed and diary closed...
12 total grams of sugar. 1.5 grams added sugar - wow I had to half my portion of salad dressing with all those sugars. Sheesh. Thousand island is my fav too... have to work on my own recipe.
Ya, I just started making salad dressing with EVOO and pomegranate molasses, and the pom is all juice, which the WHO counts as an added sugar, so I did the math to see if I can fit it in tonight - just barely. The other salad dressing I use is a half serving of Newman's Ranch, which only has a half gram of sugar, plus cottage cheese, and I do not count the sugar that comes naturally in that.
I have 18 g of "must have" sugars, which leaves me with about 7 g of discretionary.2 -
corinasue1143 wrote: »Oops! 52 added sugars today. 11 natural.
I usually have 1 caramel apple every Halloween. Today was the day. 22 sugar. Worth it.
I had a prepackaged salad. I knew it had a sweet dressing included, but gees! 22 added sugars again. Nope. Not again. I’ll look before I buy next time.
While looking at this I realized the caramel apple would be partly natural from the apple. Guess I’d look up a small apple for sugar and subtract from 22 to get added?
Still learning.
Sure, that would work.
Did the apple have packaging with the nutrition info? Companies are starting to add what of the sugar comes from added sugar. Big companies (supposedly) have to complete this by January and smaller companies plus niches like cranberry products have more time.
https://www.fda.gov/food/food-labeling-nutrition/industry-resources-changes-nutrition-facts-label#AddedSugars
When must the label be displayed on food packages?
Many manufacturers are already using the new label, but they have more time to make the changes. Changes must be made by January 1, 2020, for manufacturers with $10 million or more in annual food sales. Manufacturers with less than $10 million in annual food sales have an extra year to comply – until January 1, 2021. Manufacturers of most single-ingredient sugars such as honey and maple syrup and certain cranberry products have until July 1, 2021, to make the changes. Manufacturers of certain flavored dried cranberries have until July 1, 2020 to make the changes.
I understand that FDA has received multiple requests from manufacturers to provide additional time to comply with the new requirements. Do I still have to meet the January 1, 2020, compliance date?
The FDA has heard from several manufacturers and groups that more time may be needed to meet all of the requirements. Therefore, during the first 6 months following the January 1, 2020, compliance date, FDA plans to work cooperatively with manufacturers to meet the new Nutrition Facts label requirements and will not focus on enforcement actions regarding these requirements during that time.1 -
10-30
11 gms sugar
Three egg omelette with homemade bacon bits and mixed greens
Swilled espressos - 4-5 with all of the uzhe (usual) tiddlywinks that I add every single day
Steak grilled to perfection outside in -4 degree temps this morning but now sittin' pretty @ 17 degrees F
Small baked potato
Green beans
Sour cream
Butter
Can I post a song. Hope so, because all of this is making me very happy. I feel better and that's just the way I roll with less added sugar. I hope we keep going through the holidays.
The lyrics.... "I never liked the taste of crow but baby, I ate it" keep running through my head. I've had to eat crow in my past.
Thought I had the world by the tail until I ate it all back. That was the most humbling experience to pick myself back UP after I ate it all back. 100 lbs. I can't grow through that again and tightening things back up like we're doing is making it easier. You're out there, I'm here and I'm telling on myself because I do not want to have to eat crow again.
I used to entertain myself with playfoods. So here's the song and I just changed my mind, now it's going to be "I Don't Want to Be a One Man Band". This is more fun, together. We're dialing it in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lxA1FXOiv0
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I was out of town (for a conference and then work) through Monday, so while I was not intentionally eating added sugar (i.e., sweets), I am sure there was some in dressings and sauces and such, and I could not measure. I also grabbed a protein bar for a breakfast on the run. So oh well.
Yesterday I was finally able to log again, and to eat only my homecooked food and had no added sugar.
I have not been counting or limiting total sugar, since mine usually comes from veg and fruit, so I like it to be high, but for fun yesterday I had 59 g -- 31.5 from an apple and a couple of clementines, and 27.5 from everything else (mainly vegetables, including winter squash). About 35 g of fiber.2 -
kshama2001 wrote: »i just found this thread and was really excited about it. I am on day 6 of logging in regularly. this sugar deal is going to be hard to keep up with. i love grapes while i work but never paid attention to how much sugar was in them. Friday i had 22 g in grapes and 51 total. boy that was eye opening. lol. thanks for starting this.
@kbulmahn welcome!
You can do this challenge however you want, however, I am not counting sugar in fruit, dairy, veggies, etc. - I am only counted added / "free" sugar per the World Health Organization recommendations:
https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/sugar-guideline/en/
4 MARCH 2015 ¦ GENEVA - A new WHO guideline recommends adults and children reduce their daily intake of free sugars to less than 10% of their total energy intake. A further reduction to below 5% or roughly 25 grams (6 teaspoons) per day would provide additional health benefits.
Guideline on sugars intake for adult and children
Free sugars refer to monosaccharides (such as glucose, fructose) and disaccharides (such as sucrose or table sugar) added to foods and drinks by the manufacturer, cook or consumer, and sugars naturally present in honey, syrups, fruit juices and fruit juice concentrates.
Yes, this is the same for me. I generally try to eat a good amount of foods with intrinsic sugars like fruits and veg. I am avoiding added sugar, although I'm going to allow small amounts in savory spice mixes and sauces if I really want to use those.1 -
kshama2001 wrote: »i just found this thread and was really excited about it. I am on day 6 of logging in regularly. this sugar deal is going to be hard to keep up with. i love grapes while i work but never paid attention to how much sugar was in them. Friday i had 22 g in grapes and 51 total. boy that was eye opening. lol. thanks for starting this.
@kbulmahn welcome!
You can do this challenge however you want, however, I am not counting sugar in fruit, dairy, veggies, etc. - I am only counted added / "free" sugar per the World Health Organization recommendations:
https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/sugar-guideline/en/
4 MARCH 2015 ¦ GENEVA - A new WHO guideline recommends adults and children reduce their daily intake of free sugars to less than 10% of their total energy intake. A further reduction to below 5% or roughly 25 grams (6 teaspoons) per day would provide additional health benefits.
Guideline on sugars intake for adult and children
Free sugars refer to monosaccharides (such as glucose, fructose) and disaccharides (such as sucrose or table sugar) added to foods and drinks by the manufacturer, cook or consumer, and sugars naturally present in honey, syrups, fruit juices and fruit juice concentrates.
Yes, this is the same for me. I generally try to eat a good amount of foods with intrinsic sugars like fruits and veg. I am avoiding added sugar, although I'm going to allow small amounts in savory spice mixes and sauces if I really want to use those.
Yes, lots of fruit and veg here:
Added sugar:
10/23: 85 g
10/24: 48 g
10/25: 26 g
10/26: 25 g
10/27: 20 g
10/28: 24 g
10/29: 21 g
10/30: 18 g3 -
Today 17g added sugar, small piece of cake, salad dressing.
14 g natural, onion, carrot, milk
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10-30
13 grams total sugars today. I had a breve cappuccino 😇
(And some grapes, carrots, celery and alfalfa sprouts. Alfalfa in egg salad is my thing lately..) 😋
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I always doctor up the first cuppa espresso and I drink the rest of them black. The first one gets the royal treatment with a wild combo of tiddlywinks. Nutiva coconut manna, kerrygold butter, nutpods, ripple or SO coconut creamer and collagen peptides.
I drink espresso in the 'fasted' state, first thing when my feet hit the floor. Some may start working out in the fasted state, not me. Coffee and breakfast first.1 -
Diatonic12 wrote: »
I always doctor up the first cuppa espresso and I drink the rest of them black. The first one gets the royal treatment with a wild combo of tiddlywinks. Nutiva coconut manna, kerrygold butter, nutpods, ripple or SO coconut creamer and collagen peptides.
I drink espresso in the 'fasted' state, first thing when my feet hit the floor. Some may start working out in the fasted state, not me. Coffee and breakfast first.
@Diatonic12 is that your house? Where is that much snow already?
Yeah - I’m a breakfast eater...1 -
The wild, wild west. That's as close as I can get without compromising others when you live waaaay out in the country. It didn't even wait until Halloween. We always have a lorra, lorra snow in the wintertime but we're already breaking record cold temps and have almost twice the normal annual rainfall right now. Weatherman said our bizarre weather is affecting CA and those wildfires because the jet stream is spinning everything over here. They have none and we're getting it all. I do know someone who lives directly in the path of the fires and they are sitting on pins and pine needles, holding their breath.
I'm going to a Halloween Party at lunchtime and I'm wearing a costume. I'm not really sure what we're having but I'll make it work. For breakfast, the uzhe coffee. Crepes with a side of homemade marinara with a couple of Italian meatballs on top, parmesan cheese
It is Halloween and if you're holding your breath, remember to breathe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAHenpGhCVA
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