sugar!!! what are your numbers like?

Don't track it. Not diabetic.

dunno, haven't tracked sugar in years

I've noticed if I drink milk and any kind of juice in the same day I tend to go over my sugar ad well but just about every food I log has sugar so its hard many days but I try to burn as many calories exercising to cover it.

The apple I ate today had 19 grams. If I worried a lot about that sugar number being red, I wouldn't eat apples, bananas, cherries, or even cucumbers! I still track sugar but I don't beat myself up if I go over the goal. I'm going for eating better, not perfect. Perfect is why every diet I have ever been on has failed. I can't do perfect. But I can do better. I can set small goals and reach them. Maybe that's reasonable for you as well.

I read somewhere that natural sugars in fruits and vegetables shouldn't really count toward the daily food allowance. As long as you're cutting out foods with high fructose corn syrup and granulated cane sugar, you should be okay. I've started baking with coconut sugar - calories are about the same, but the glycemic index is much lower, and it has vitamins and enzymes that other sugars don't.

I read somewhere that natural sugars in fruits and vegetables shouldn't really count toward the daily food allowance. As long as you're cutting out foods with high fructose corn syrup and granulated cane sugar, you should be okay. I've started baking with coconut sugar - calories are about the same, but the glycemic index is much lower, and it has vitamins and enzymes that other sugars don't.

Hfcs turns to glucose in the body just the same as tge fructose in fruit.

Is irrelevant unless you are diabetic or pre diabetic and eat meals containing solely carbs.

I read somewhere that natural sugars in fruits and vegetables shouldn't really count toward the daily food allowance. As long as you're cutting out foods with high fructose corn syrup and granulated cane sugar, you should be okay. I've started baking with coconut sugar - calories are about the same, but the glycemic index is much lower, and it has vitamins and enzymes that other sugars don't.

Hfcs turns to glucose in the body just the same as tge fructose in fruit.

Is irrelevant unless you are diabetic or pre diabetic and eat meals containing solely carbs.

It is also relevant for anyone with a tendency to fructose malabsorption (which affects about 1/3 of the population to some degree, whether or not it's felt significantly).

with sources of concentrated fructose, you have to consider the total fructose load over the course of a day as well. your liver doesn't like the constant bombardment of fructose so getting a balance of sugars is better from an overall health perspective. This last bit is essentially true for pretty much everyone, not just those with insulin resistance etc.

I know we always say that it doesn't matter ... and it does not from a 'carbs' point of view but from a health point of view over the long term, it can make a difference.

I switched it out to track fiber instead - sugar intake might have long term affect but I'm definitely more concerned with fiber levels - don't beat yourself up about it. No one ever got fat eating fruit.

So... mfp says I shouldf only have 24g of sugar a day. Im really paying attention now because Im cutting back my sugar but this is ridiculously difficult. does anyone else have this kind of number and how do you deal with it?

I usually eat over 100g a day, all in the form of fresh fruit and then the trace sugars in veggies (and my small handful of raisins that go in my daily oatmeal). It got annoying to see my sugar in the 'red' every day so I replaced with with a different nutrient to track

I am always over due to eating a lot of fruit so I don't sweat it bec/it is not refined sugar. It does not seem to negatively affect me.

Looks like I stirred up quite a discussion over types of sugar - I have ADHD and am definitely sensitive to sugar, which is why I look for low GI alternatives. I don't think the question is WHETHER all sugars turn to glucose in the body, but how fast they do. The slower, the better.

Check out http://www.livestrong.com/low-glycemic-index-foods/. As far at fruit goes, berries are much lower than other fruits on the GI scale. Whole fruits are much better than juices in any form b/c they contain fiber. Eat anything with sugar, natural or otherwise with protein and fat to help slow the absorption.

I had the same exact concern, have some milk with cereal and an apple for a snack and you have pretty much blown the sugar budget. Based on this thread, the common sense is that you don't worry about "good sugar", aka natural sugar found in raw food. I think being sensitized to sugar content in processed foods is the point. The avalanche of sugar on the shelves of the grocery store is truly amazing (as another fat American its a bit depressing). Read the label, some cereals have sugar levels an order of magnitude higher that others. I'm trying to make choices that lower my sugar intake but I don't worry about my sugar graph.

I stopped tracking my sugar because I always went over even though all my sugar was coming from fresh fruit.