Daily Sugar grams

Lillian1943

I am following the TOPS, Org healthy eating plan. I am allowed 4-5 fruits a day on 1 1500 Calorie plan. I am losing at this level of calories. Yet on this food tracker I am always over the sugar allowance? Only sugar I use is stevia and the sugar from the fruit I eat. I am not diabetic but I do want to keep my sugar grams at a healthy level.

peacemongernc

I wonder if we eat fruit if it is even possible to stay under the suggested sugar limit... and even worse, I've seen many medical websites that suggest that women shouldn't eat more than 26 grams of sugar a day, which is less than what MFP calculates. If we tried to stay under 26, that would rule out almost all fruit! Oranges have about 17 grams of sugar and even blueberries have 7 or 8 in a serving.

I don't normally track my sugar, but I was looking at it recently. I tried to modify my diet for a few days to see what the difference would be. In terms of how I felt, when I kept my sugar low, I found that I couldn't even eat all the calories I normally did... I was so full I was uncomfortable and I ate less than 1400 calories. I'm guessing that was because of the reduction in my sugar intake, but I'm not sure.

I think if you aren't diabetic, it is reasonable to be aware of how much sugar you eat, but if you are making reasonable, healthy, natural choices, your body can manage it. Also, eating fiber helps your body deal with sugar, which is why I believe nature packaged fruits in high fiber formats! So eating an orange, with 4 grams of fiber and 17 grams of sugar, is healthier than eating just the juice and none of the fiber.

Eating berries for some of your fruit choices instead of all apples and oranges will help some, too.

I'm not an expert on this, by any means, but it is something I've been looking into recently, so I thought I would share my thoughts and experiences.

I suppose the real difference, eating more natural sugar is that eating those sugars will increase your insulin levels, and possibly make you more tired or crave food you otherwise wouldn't want So I would spread them out, eat them with meals, or at least with a protein food, and maybe not eat them after about 6pm (when they are more likely to be stored as fat since your activity level is likely to drop). But I'm not finding information about eating fruit or other natural sources of sugar, if you aren't diabetic, that makes me think they need to be avoided just for the sake of keeping the number lower.

If you decide to do what I did and try a few days of low sugar, I would be very interested to hear how it goes for you! I'm curious if others would have the same sort of experience I did!

Shannon

Firefox7275

This comes up regularly: MFP cannot distinguish between natural and artificial sugars, it's not intelligent. Most healthy eating guidelines have far more veggies than fruit which keeps the sugars down, your alternative is is to stick to low sugar fruits like raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, red and black currants, grapefruit.

lpina2mi

This comes up regularly: MFP cannot distinguish between natural and artificial sugars, it's not intelligent. Most healthy eating guidelines have far more veggies than fruit which keeps the sugars down, your alternative is is to stick to low sugar fruits like raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, red and black currants, grapefruit.

so how many sugar grams to you tally daily? I tally between 60-80g while consuming 1100-1300kcal daily from a clean omnivore diet that emphasizes vegetables, legumes, nuts, dairy, and fruits over flesh or grains. I am trying to figure out why I plataeu?