Sugar Consumption and Weight Loss
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AmelodyAngel
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Hi MFP family,
I am struggling with sugar! It is in everything and I am having a hard time staying at 25 grams of sugar in a day. I have an extreme sweet tooth and just eating fruit with every meal puts me over. I also really enjoy frozen yogurt and sugar in my coffee. These things really help me get through my stressful days. Any advice? Do you think you still get good weight loss if you go over only on sugar?
Thanks!
I am struggling with sugar! It is in everything and I am having a hard time staying at 25 grams of sugar in a day. I have an extreme sweet tooth and just eating fruit with every meal puts me over. I also really enjoy frozen yogurt and sugar in my coffee. These things really help me get through my stressful days. Any advice? Do you think you still get good weight loss if you go over only on sugar?
Thanks!
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I have the same problem! I think you can still lose weight even though you go over in sugar a bit. I think if you try to ween yourself off sugar you'll eventually just get used to it in a few weeks and won't crave it as much. I have done that before and it works, but as soon as you start eating sugar again it's back on. I guess the other thing you can do is use artificial sweetners but thats probably not that healthy =/0
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I just don't track my sugar.
Track Fibre instead0 -
Unless you're diabetic, pre-diabetic, or have a reason to watch sugar intake, then there's no reason to track sugar. Instead track fat, protein, carbohydrates, sodium, and fiber. Total carbohydrate intake is far more important than sugar intake.0
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As long as it fits into your calorie goal, it doesn't matter what you eat, you will lose weight.0
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Lost over 30lbs still drinking cokes and eating ding dongs. I honestly don't pay too much attention to sugar and fat, protein on the other hand I try to hit my daily goal.0
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Join the group "The Skinny on Obesity" for more information.
Added sugars are the primary cause of many health problems today.
I love sugar too, but I feel much better when I stay below a certain amount.0 -
If most of your sugars are coming from Fruit, I would especially not worry. I agree with whoever said to Track Fiber instead.
I have a HUGE sweet tooth, and I make sure I have room for dessert of some kind every day.
Here is a GREAT dessert that satisfies my sweet tooth but also has a lot of good stuff in it:
http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2014/05/strawberry-rhubarb-crisp-bars/
I usually make it with mixed berries or blueberries or apples, though, as I never have Rhubarb on hand.0 -
Join the group "The Skinny on Obesity" for more information.
Added sugars are the primary cause of many health problems today.
I love sugar too, but I feel much better when I stay below a certain amount.
No. There is zero evidence that this is true.
Unless you are a diabetic, get rid of the suger and track something useful like fiber.0 -
Unless you're diabetic, pre-diabetic, or have a reason to watch sugar intake, then there's no reason to track sugar. Instead track fat, protein, carbohydrates, sodium, and fiber. Total carbohydrate intake is far more important than sugar intake.
Unless you have kidney issues, tracking sodium is not necessary either. The current RDA recommendation is what doctors put hypertensive patients on. It is woefully low for people who work out a lot or do manual labor in the sun.0 -
Join the group "The Skinny on Obesity" for more information.
Added sugars are the primary cause of many health problems today.
I love sugar too, but I feel much better when I stay below a certain amount.
Don't join this group0 -
Join the group "The Skinny on Obesity" for more information.
Added sugars are the primary cause of many health problems today.
I love sugar too, but I feel much better when I stay below a certain amount.
From 1970 to 2007:
Meats, eggs, and nut kcals decreased 4%.
Dairy kcals decreased 3%.
Percentage of fruit kcals stayed the same.
Percentage of vegetable kcals stayed the same.
Flour and cereal product kcals increased 3%.
Added fat kcals are up 7%,
Added sugars kcals decreased 1%
Total energy intake in 1970 averaged 2172 kcal. By 2007 this hiked up to 2775 kcal, a 603 kcal increase.
Stop blaming sugar. People are unhealthy and overweight because total calorie intake has gone up and exercise energy expenditure has gone down. Stop trying to blame one subset of a macronutrient for an over consumption problem...0 -
Hi MFP family,
I am struggling with sugar! It is in everything and I am having a hard time staying at 25 grams of sugar in a day. I have an extreme sweet tooth and just eating fruit with every meal puts me over. I also really enjoy frozen yogurt and sugar in my coffee. These things really help me get through my stressful days. Any advice? Do you think you still get good weight loss if you go over only on sugar?
Thanks!
As long as you stay under your overall calorie target, going over on sugar a bit won't matter.
If you are looking to cut calories though, then sugar is a good place to start.0 -
Unless you're diabetic, pre-diabetic, or have a reason to watch sugar intake, then there's no reason to track sugar. Instead track fat, protein, carbohydrates, sodium, and fiber. Total carbohydrate intake is far more important than sugar intake.
Unless you have kidney issues, tracking sodium is not necessary either. The current RDA recommendation is what doctors put hypertensive patients on. It is woefully low for people who work out a lot or do manual labor in the sun.
I didn't so much add that for health reasons, more so that if you track it and keep it consistent, it helps with water weight fluctuation which can discourage people trying to lose fat.0 -
Join the group "The Skinny on Obesity" for more information.
Added sugars are the primary cause of many health problems today.
I love sugar too, but I feel much better when I stay below a certain amount.
Don't join this group
Unless it's for the lulz0 -
Join the group "The Skinny on Obesity" for more information.
Added sugars are the primary cause of many health problems today.
I love sugar too, but I feel much better when I stay below a certain amount.
Don't join this group
Unless it's for the lulz
One day, I will invade the temple of doom...but I think my name might give me away as a spy0 -
Added sugars are the primary cause of many health problems today.
No...0 -
Hi MFP family,
I am struggling with sugar! It is in everything and I am having a hard time staying at 25 grams of sugar in a day. I have an extreme sweet tooth and just eating fruit with every meal puts me over. I also really enjoy frozen yogurt and sugar in my coffee. These things really help me get through my stressful days. Any advice? Do you think you still get good weight loss if you go over only on sugar?
Thanks!
MFP's sugar tracker is set ridiculously low!!!! I've turned mine 'off' and no longer track it. I rely on commonsense when it comes to sugar. When the sugar is coming from fresh fruit I don't worry about it as long as I stay within my calorie goal. As far as treats - 2 cookies is ok, the whole bag is not.0 -
As many have already stated - absent of a medical condition which would require you to limit sugar, tracking sugar for weight loss is an exercise in futility. Calories in vs out determine overall weight loss, even in individuals with a medical reason to limit sugar. You can eat a whole bag of cookies - if it fits your caloric goal to lose weight, you will.
Your issue may be understating food and overstating (or overcalculating) your caloric burn from exercise. Looking at your diary, there are days you log 900cals, and days you log 1500cals. Your exercise diary has you burning 300+ calories from walking or doing jumping jacks. If you are logging normal daily activities as exercise and eating back your calories, you may be eating at your TDEE, instead of in a deficit.
Sugar isn't the culprit, and cutting it out won't help if you are over-consuming.0 -
Thanks for the feedback everyone! It was very helpful to me and I know others did too0
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