How many grams of Sugar in a day?

This is something I have been thinking baout recently also. My sugar intake is pretty high, I think mostly because I eat a lot of fruit. I do not drink pop or add sugar to my coffee or tea, so most of my other sugars come from yogurt, bread, cereal, protein bars, etc. I also have abig sweet tooth so that doesn't help. When I'm actively watching how much sugar I may come in at 50-60g but sometimes probably 100g or over.

Edit: I am also looking to lost about 15 lbs hopefully you get some responses.

Yeah, I think that for now I'm going to focus on choosing more protein and less carbs.....because I naturally eat about 70% carbs and split fat a protein down the middle. My line of thinking....and this is based simply on my opinion not any research that I have done (yet) is that if I eat more lean protein and try to eat fewer carb heavy foods. By carb heavy I mean actual breads and pastas, not potatoes corn etc. that my sugar intake will lower slightly and that I may come closer to a 50/30/20 division of carbs/protein/fat respectively. And most importantly within reason and within my lifestyle.

Edit: Even in my healthy choices I always go for cereal, oatmeal, whole wheat bread etc when making food choices on top of a huge sweet tooth

I have also been a bit confused so I did some research and spoke to one of my closest friends who is a registered dietician and had further training as a Diabetes specialist. We are supposed to limit our added sugars a day to approximately 24 grams for women and 36 grams for men. This is ADDED sugar. I always go over my daily sugar allowance according to MFP, but when I subtract the natural sugar from the added sugar then I'm ok. Milk has natural sugar, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, zucchini, many other fruits and vegetables, etc...

If you have a health reason (i.e Diabetes) then you have to monitor all sugars, but for those of us without any health restrictions then watch your added sugars but don't obsess over the natural ones. Try to have an all around well balanced diet which includes low fat dairy and fruits and vegetables.