We are pleased to announce that as of March 4, 2025, an updated Rich Text Editor has been introduced in the MyFitnessPal Community. To learn more about the changes, please click here. We look forward to sharing this new feature with you!

Sugar and Exercise

losingforcollege
losingforcollege Posts: 6
edited January 31 in Health and Weight Loss
Okay, this may sound stupid, but I burned over 600 calories exercising today. After my exercise myfitnesspal said that I had burned off all of my sugar for the day and it was at 0 grams. I entered in my dinner and then myfitness pal re-added all of my day's sugar plus the sugar from dinner. It said I went over 6 grams of sugar?
Did I really? Is that bad? How am I supposed to keep up my net calories without having too many carbs/fat/protein/sodium/sugar.

Replies

  • MorningWhispers
    MorningWhispers Posts: 182
    Most of us ignore the sugar setting on here since it doesn't distinguish between processed sugars and fruit sugar.
  • nelinelineli
    nelinelineli Posts: 330 Member
    I think most people look at these values as guidelines, not rules. They're more useful to nudge you in the right direction if you have a diet that's unbalanced (say you consistently eat very little protein), but some extra sugar or fat here and there are meaningless.
  • losingforcollege
    losingforcollege Posts: 6
    Thanks you two! I've got to remind myself not to get too carried away. :)
This discussion has been closed.

Categories