Sugar from Fruit

RebeccaElizabeth23
RebeccaElizabeth23 Posts: 6 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Hey Guys,

I've just started dieting again but I seem to have a real issue with sugar intake, always managing to exceed my daily limit (sometimes by double!!).
However nearly all if is coming from fruit. Will this slow weight loss if I'm exceeding it??
I (nearly) always stay within the limits for everything else.

Thanks :smile:

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  • rejectuf
    rejectuf Posts: 487 Member
    For most people, eating a lot of fruit will not negatively impact your weight loss as long as your staying under your calorie limit and hitting your macros. Personally, I find that when losing weight keeping fruit to 1-2 servings a day helps me keep losing.

    So don't cut fruit out, there's lots of good stuff in there. If you find your weight loss stalling, you could try cutting back just a bit or choosing fruits that aren't as high in sugar.
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  • GlitterrMagpie
    GlitterrMagpie Posts: 302 Member
    I don't track sugar as most of my intake comes from fruit. I'm probably over on sugar most days, it hasn't hurt my weightloss.
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  • geebusuk
    geebusuk Posts: 3,348 Member
    or dont worry about anything and eat at a defecit
    This.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    the biggest contribution is actually "Nestle - Raisin Oats & More - 40g With 125ml Semi Skimmed Milk,"

    Cereal Grains (60.2%) (Whole Grain Oat (53.7%), Whole Grain Wheat (6.0%), Rice (0.5%)), Sugar, Glycerated Raisins (12%) (Raisins (9.9%), Humectant: Glycerol), Oat Fibre, Partially Inverted Brown Sugar Syrup, Barley Malt Extract, Glucose Syrup, Vegetable Oil, Salt, Flavourings: Brown Sugar Flavour and Vanillin; Invert Sugar Syrup, Tapioca Starch, Honey, Maize Starch, Trisodium Phosphate, Raising Agents: Disodium Pyrophosphate and Sodium Bicarbonate; Colour: Annatto, Antioxidant: Tocopherols
  • TX_Rhon
    TX_Rhon Posts: 1,549 Member
    Personally, I do not track sugar. I also have no health reason to do so. I have taken the "sugar" tab off my list and track my "fiber" instead. It has not hurt my progress. Eat at a calorie deficit. Do not view fruit as the enemy.
  • charlicee
    charlicee Posts: 53
    Eat berries, usually a full cup has less less than 100 calories a serving (especially roughly-chopped strawberries and blueberries), for the lowest sugar counts. Also, unfortunately, like the USDA and FDA, MFP lums all sugars together, regardless if they are natural or manmade. I suggest maybe having fewer servings of grain if you keep outdoing daily. Unless you have issues with your insulin (as in you suffer from diabetes or pre-diabetes), do not worry so much. And it helps to eat them throughout the morning and not eat them after lunch, imho, I eat about 2 or 3 throughout the morning to get me going, as opposed to my old diet of coffee and white bread products. (Now it's usually a couple of scrambled eggs or yogurt with fruit accompanying either.)
  • AlabasterVerve
    AlabasterVerve Posts: 3,171 Member
    I don't think it'll impact your weight loss but most days you're eating 30% - 35% of your calories in sugar and you don't meet your fat and protein goals. Perhaps if you concentrate on eating enough fat and protein each day the sugar will take care of it self? Best wishes.
  • Tangosgrandad
    Tangosgrandad Posts: 36 Member
    The fact that you are on this site and actively watching what you eat, means you are already doing way better than 99% of the population. If you are here to lose weight, just eat to a healthy deficit and dont worry about fruit sugars. You could be putting a whole lot worse into your body than you are with an apple!

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