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MFP and sugar

aymie24
aymie24 Posts: 227
edited September 2024 in Food and Nutrition
I have been really struggling to keep my sugar intake at the 24 g MFP allows. I am trying to get the now recommended 9 servings of fruits and veggies daily and it's impossible to do that and stay within the 24 g of sugar range.

I just popped in and asked my boss, who is an RD, and she said ignore MFP's recommendation for that and just eliminate any added, processed sugar.

What do the rest of you do? Anyone really eat their fruits and veggies and stay under 24 g?

I should mention I eat three times the veggies that I do fruit so it's not like I'm having strawberries and bananas all day. When I do have fruit it's more like blueberries and cantalope or fresh pineapple. It's the celery, cucmumbers, tomatoes and such that are putting me over, not the fruit.

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  • aymie24
    aymie24 Posts: 227
    I have been really struggling to keep my sugar intake at the 24 g MFP allows. I am trying to get the now recommended 9 servings of fruits and veggies daily and it's impossible to do that and stay within the 24 g of sugar range.

    I just popped in and asked my boss, who is an RD, and she said ignore MFP's recommendation for that and just eliminate any added, processed sugar.

    What do the rest of you do? Anyone really eat their fruits and veggies and stay under 24 g?

    I should mention I eat three times the veggies that I do fruit so it's not like I'm having strawberries and bananas all day. When I do have fruit it's more like blueberries and cantalope or fresh pineapple. It's the celery, cucmumbers, tomatoes and such that are putting me over, not the fruit.
  • DeeDeeLHF
    DeeDeeLHF Posts: 2,301 Member
    Personally, I look at the sugar count to mean refined sugars or even things like honey and real maple syrup. I avoid refined sugars but do occasionally indulge in honey or real maple syrup.

    As for fruits, vegetables, and my personal weakness, Romaine lettuce, I ignore it. Milk products are another killer to that total and yet, as a pre-diabetic, the benefit of protein and other nutrients in dairy far outweigh the "badness" of the sugars.

    Keep doing what you are doing and avoid, sucrose and things like high fructose corn syrup but not your blueberries!:wink:
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