Always going over sugar for the day

DavPul

While I enjoy the tracking mechanism, I disagree with their calorie distribution greatly. It seems as if Myrfitnesspal would just have us all eating white bread and white rice with their exorbitant distribution for carbohydrates, with a lower than reccommended fiber minimum, and a recommendation for sugar which is almost impossible to stay under even for those of us who eat zero added sugar, and a protein recommendation which is too low for satiety or muscle building.
What basically I have different goals than that which are laid out for me. I keep my carbohydrates under 100 grams, my protein as close to 100 grams as possible, and aim for 25 grams of fiber. . . And the amount of carbohydrates which comes from fruit is irrelevant to me. Of course i cannot eat an excessive amount of fruit because my cabohydrates will go over 100.

I'm riding with Joline on this one. I use MFP for it's awesome tracking and it's very good caloric intake suggestions, but I either alter or ignore their distributions. The sugar one doesn't make any sense at all and the protein is incredibly low for most active people. To be fair, MFP was created with weight to be reduced strictly by cutting calories so that could explain the low protein, but the sugar thing is a joke. So my advice would be to ignore the sugar and use the protein and fiber number as a *minimum* instead of a ceiling.

You can also adjust the settings so you don't have those red numbers staring at you.