Sugar and Exercise

losingforcollege
losingforcollege Posts: 6
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.

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  • 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. :)

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