Is anyone else going over in sugars?

If I go over in things like sugars or carbs I don't really mind much, because 95% of the time I know I'm getting it from healthy sources.

I like using my food log to see patterns & find what I'm low in or need to eat more of. For example if I'm halfway through my day or wondering what to eat for dinner & notice I'm low in protein, or only 1/2 my goal of fiber for the day, etc., I'll think of foods that have those particular nutrients & choose from there.

Beware of added sugars! Particularly High Fructose Corn Syrup... Studies have shown that it causes weight gain and a craving for more. It is in about 90% of processed foods that you find in a typical grocery store! Why on earth whole wheat bread needs corn syrup in it is beyond me! When I'm eating mostly whole foods, I have no problem staying close to sugar goal. As for yogurt... I eat plain nonfat Greek and cut up apples (or pears, or add berries) and add cinnamon for flavor w a light drizzle of agave! Yum!!! Way less sugar than your standard fruit on the bottom.

I manually adjusted my sugar goal to 55g, and it goes up when my calorie goal goes up. Honestly, I still go over, though, even if I don't add sugar/honey etc. to anything for the day or eat sweetened processed foods. I may up it again just so I don't see the red number. Incidentally, I also upped my goal for fiber to 30g based on a recommendation I read somewhere.

I try to have two servings of fruit per day - not more or less so I get the benefits of the fruit with a reasonable amount of sugar. I eat a lot of onion, and that's high in sugar, too. Oh, and tomatoes which I don't count as serving of fruit. And sweet potatoes, which are great for you.

If I'm under 100g of sugar (on a 1900 calorie day) and under my goal for total carbs I feel OK about it, though I know it sounds high. I did some research and there's no RDA minimum for sugar - it's not considered necessary. I did find some recommendations about total daily percent of calories from sugar - one said no more than 10% of your calories should come from sugar, another said 25% and I'm still not positive if they were talking refined sugar or all dietary sugars.

Edit to add: I found a website with a calculator for sugar. Of course every recommendation is a bit different, but assuming 25% of all calories can be from sugar (and that's quite a bit), this website said I could have 475 calories from sugar if I eat 1900 calories. At 3.8 calories per gram, that's 125 grams. Of course the 10% recommendation puts it quite a bit less, but OP if you are under 60 grams per day you are absolutely fine.

http://www.webcalcsolutions.com/Nutrition-Calculators/Calorie-Breakdown.asp?AcctNum=3

i've been driving myself insane for a couple of months trying to stay under on my sugar levels, i was going over every single day (fruit, fruit juice) now i've stopped tracking it completely and have got a better grip on my diet