Already reached my daily SUGAR intake at breakfast

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  • nomorehidding
    nomorehidding Posts: 4
    Not a good start to the week -- had a smoothie with 4 strawberries, half a banana, protein powder, 1 cup 2% milk -- and it put me over my daily sugar count ?!?! UGH -- not happy about that but what can I do now -- was planning a salad for lunch and not sure what for dinner but now just makes me not wanna eat all day ..... back to the old habit of only eating once a day .... dont wanna do that...hopefully I get feeling better mentally as the day goes on .... started out good with my exercise but then this freakin' breakfast smoothing shot me down :noway:

    I sometimes go over too but you can workout to even the numbers for the day. :)
  • SaraBrown12
    SaraBrown12 Posts: 277 Member
    I would never every deprive my body of fresh fruit regardless of the sugar content. If i was tracking sugar i would think twice about a cadburys creme egg. The sugar counter appeared on my diary the other day although i have not changed anything nor requested to track this. Since it appeared when i complete my diary entry its always red and over about double. But i care not. Carbs fat and protein are all that bother me really, i also watch sodium but thats only to explain why (if) i every gain a few LB by what seems to be eating good then i can go back and look at sodium levels and see if maybe its water retention.

    Sugar shmugar... Good luck all x
  • jessicae1aine
    jessicae1aine Posts: 885
    My fitness Pal has sugar tracking for a reason and it's not to be ignored.

    Not even trying to be rude, just kinda baffled: Do you trust everything the internet tells you? O.o
  • susannamarie
    susannamarie Posts: 2,148 Member

    Because its true. There is so much misguided information just because its been posted on here. Sugar is sugar, natural or not. Doesn't mean fruit is free. I didn't say it will make you fat, I said the excess will get stored as fat which is going to make more work to get rid of.

    I realise we gain weight by eating too many calories but most of those calories would have been from sugar which is part of why it's important to track it.

    Yes, I will continue to post this.

    Nobody says fruit is free. Fruit has calories that need to be counted like anything else.

    The reason added sugars are supposed to be restricted is because they are incredibly easily digestible and contain absolutely nothing of value besides calories.

    This is not true for fruit, which is why the sources I linked (the USDA and the American Heart Association) recommend eating MORE fruit and LESS added sugar, not LESS FRUIT.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    yeah, they recommend you eat fruit instead of stuff with added sugar as that's better for you. They probably hold back on the full story. Here are the sugars your body will see when you eat fruit, honey HFCS, sugar :-

    glucose-fructose-and-sucrose.jpg

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