Way over my sugar allowance every day!
susan_skipper
Posts: 33
According to this site, to loose weight I am at 1200 calories and 24g of sugar. I have no trouble sticking to the calorie amount but am way over on the sugar. For example today for breakfast I had a small orange as well as 1/2 cup of cheerios. The sugar was 12 g for the orange alone. For dinner tonight I microwaved a small sweet potato. That contained 17g of sugar! Just between those two items, I was at 29g of sugar for the day. That isnt including the other items I ate today. Adding everything else, my sugar intake was over 50g!! I ate nothing sweet today other than fresh fruit. How do you keep within the allowed range of sugar without cutting out fresh fruit?
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Its not like you are eating candy bars. Healthy sugar is good for you, I wouldn't (and dont) even keep track of it. (but thats just me)0
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I find it extremely hard to stay under the sugar allowance too. I just try to limit stuff with added refined sugar (although some of that does creep in now and then). I tend to agree with the previous poster and not worry about it only much as long as the sugars are those that occur from whole foods. By the way, I live in the Hat too!0
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unless you have a medical reason for doing so, there's no reason to track your sugar. track your carbs instead, actually.0
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