Fruit causing my sugar to skyrocket. This ok?

Are you monitoring blood sugar for any medical reasons? A lot of fruit has fiber, which helps regulate your blood sugar, so it will raise and lower gently, rather than spiking up sharply then declining rapidly.

Unless you have a medical condition, do not worry about it. Sugar is a carb, track that number.

fruit sugar isn't bad for you, unless there's a medical condition (e.g. diabetes) that makes it so. personally I ignore sugar levels, and try to get a balanced amount of protein, fat and carbohydrate (without worrying too much if that's from starch or sugar)

If you're hitting your calorie goals overall, and getting enough protein and fat and you don't have a medical condition that means you have to limit sugar, I wouldn't worry about it.

Are you diabetic? If not, then it's fine.

If you are concerned, you can create a meal called Fruits & Vegatables. Then you can just subtract those sugars out and then you will come close to what would be monitoring the "added sugars". Otherwise, just ignore it. In my main diary, I deleted sugars and added potassium and fiber. Two things which I felt were more important than monitoring sugar.

^^^^^^^^ Realitively heavy exercise should take care of this. A banana is about 110 calories. Not sure how much of it is from sugars but let's just for the sake of argument most of it. If you eat your banana about a half hour before a workout or a run, I can burn this in about 10 minutes on the treadmill at 6 MPH.

sugar is just a carb. as long as you're minimizing carbs, you're ok.
however fructose can only be managed by the liver and excess fructose is not good for the liver as it contributes to non alcoholic fatty liver disease. hence fruit juice, HFCS, etc. are all pretty hard on the liver. whole fruit with fiber is better, but sugary drinks like fruit juice should be avoided.

Our bodies can only tolerate a small amount of sugar in the bloodstream at any one time. We must either burn the sugar or store it or we would die. That is where insulin comes into play. It is the storage hormone. If all the storage cells are full then the level of glucose in the blood remains high. Excess glucose is turned into triglycerides. If the glucose in the bloodstream is elevated then you CANNOT burn stored fat because your body needs to get that extra glucose out of the blood stream. Hopefully that makes sense. Not saying never to eat fruit or carbs. I do. You should just understand how your body works. I do not have diabetes but I have a glucometer from walmart and I know exactly how high my glucose will get from eating 1 banana. my glucose increases from about 70 to around 120 in one hour. I still eat bananas.

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I usually have a banana, strawberry, greek yogurt and protein powder smoothie after my workout. Reason being I burn off my glucose levels first thing in the morning so I need to resupply. I am also type 2 diabetic and have found no problems so far, however if I drink the smoothie pre workout and have a mid morning apple about 2 hours after my workout I start to feel "sugary" if thats even a word..

^^^^^^^^^ Certain vitamins absorb better when they are consumed naturally in foods or in combination of other foods. I have not done all the research to be able to quote facts coherently, but in general getting your vitamins via natural food sources is much better than getting them from supplements. Bananas provide a high dose of potassium (as does other food sources). Potassium is a necessary electrolyte that you loose from heavy workouts. I guess you can drink a sports drink like Gatorade to replace that, but then you would be consuming "added sugars" which is the very basic topic of this thread and increases your sodium levels. Getting all the potassium that mfp advises is a challange, so eating as many food sources that supply potassium is greatly advised. Cutting out something as basic as "all fruits" greatly hinders getting all your nutrients in. Also, eating whole fruits (and vegatables) also provides fiber which is necessary for your digestion track.