Sugar?

Pandasarecool

Should I track sugar in my food diary? If it is all (or mostly all) from fruits? because 1 apple has 12 grams of sugar! Yikes!

savageman69

no...Sugar, or any one thing doesnt make you fat. Stay in your calorie goal, hit your macros (protein, fats, carbs) and micros (vits) and your good. Anyone who says to much sugar will stop weight loss just thinks that because it worked for them,...best way to lose weight eat less then you burn in a day

jeme3

No, I don't track sugar in my diary.

There is no way to track added sugars separately from sugars that re naturally occurring in your food, like fruit. Two servings of fruit will blow your sugar numbers out of the water, so I just ignore it.

I am eating very little (frequently no) added sugars, so I consider it a non issue.

ToughTulip

I never track mine. Out of curiosity I checked today and i hit 124g!! :O

But I have no medical reason to pay attention to it, so I don't

SonicaBE

I do track it because It does play a part... Keep it at 15-25 grams

gddrdld

There is no reason to track sugar separate from other carbs. Sugar is just a carbohydrate. All carbs (starches and sugars) break down into simple sugar (ie: glucose) very quickly after reaching the stomach. That's how the body extracts energy from carbs (ie: calories). Carbohydrates should be balanced with proteins and fats as an energy source in the diet. Focus on getting your carbs (starches and sugars) from mainly whole, unprocessed plants.

Pandasarecool

I do track it because It does play a part... Keep it at 15-25 grams

That is impossible If I want to eat fruit

onedayillbeamilf

Unless you have a medical reason to do it, I don't see the point.

savageman69

I do track it because It does play a part... Keep it at 15-25 grams

That is impossible If I want to eat fruit

Not only impossible but totally useless to do so

SonicaBE

eat berries- and other berries that low in sugar. Thats just my thing, but I am not imposing this on anyone else.

trophywife24

I track mine because I can have a bit of a sugar problem and like to see my numbers, it's a visual thing. I loose the best when I keep that in check. I do agree that it goes hand-in-hand with carbs..... I track both. I don't eat a lot of fruit other than apples (becaue I just don't like it much) so that's a non-issue for me. You just have to figure out what works for you.
Don't let someone else tell you that your own personal diet and what you personally track is stupid. It's a personal experience.

CharlieBarleyMom

I believe, for me, sugar is an important factor. I've been here on MFP for 18 months now and at first I lost 10 pounds a month and then it slowed down and I was okay with that... but around December 2011 I started reading "Eat to Live" and it was a great book with wonderful information. I started trying to incorporate more and more fresh, raw veggies and fruits into my diet... and I lost 4 pounds the first couple of weeks...

Then I lost NOTHING for 4 months. I was healthy as all get out!!!! Felt fabulous. My hair was shiny and bouncy and health just exuded from every pore of my skin as well!!!!


Then I started up and down with the same 6 pounds... this was very frustrating. Mind you, all the while tracking every gram of food that I was eating (99% of the time). I know, there is a flaw there, that 99% of the time is not 100% of the time and that could very well be the problem (yeah, right!).

I realized that my carbs were well over 300 grams most days... so I tried to cut that back to 150 or 200 per day... that meant cutting out some fruits and replacing with veggies... and that was okay but I wasn't losing anything for the 5 weeks that I changed this up.

When I looked back at my diary from the previous year's worth of entries, I found that I lost the most weight when I kept my sugars at under 100 grams per day. That is still way higher than MFP tells me I should have it, but still hard to do when eating fresh fruit (a lot of fresh fruit!) as a staple in my diet.

I lost the 6 pounds I had been fighting with and then lost another 1/2 pound. Two weeks later I lost another 1/2 pound.

No, I cannot state absolutely that sugar is the factor here... but it looks like it to me.

I will continue on my quest to see if this is helping me or changing nothing. I could be missing some other crucial information as to how I've changed my diet... but I just don't think so.

Edited to add: I do not have any health reason to track sugar or be careful about the amount of sugar I intake. This is a test only for weight loss.

mandyabraio

I track my sugar as well as carbs...because I am diabetic. But that's the only reason I track it! And some days I still go over cause of my fruit...but my doctor told me fruit in moderation is OK for me.