Sugar intake

Maybe you are eating a lot of processed foods? I know a lot of things that come pre-packaged have added sugar or high fructose corn syrup. They are also high in sodium. Other than that, I have no idea.

If you are using whole milk change to skim. Check the sugar in your cereal. Remember process foods are bad surgars...fruits and veggies good and natural sugar. I hate oatmeal but it's a cereal with little to no sugar.

I went online and googled each nutritional goal and looked to see what the RDA (recommended daily allowance) was based on sex, age, and weight. It gave me much different numbers than MFP suggested. I had to go in and customize my goals.

I agree that it is most likely coming from processed foods. If I eat completely clean, I don't really even come close to my limit. So thats what I stick to, clean foods.

Next time you go grocery shopping, check the labels on your cereals. I don't know what brand you are eating that has that much sugar, but you should certainly look for a new brand. Some of the more "natural" brands are sweetened with fruit juice and still taste really good. I think general mills dusts the rasins in sugar, or at least they used to.

IF I were you, you really want to follow their recommendations. Switch to something without so much sugar. When you start looking at the sugar amounts make sure to see what the serving size is cuz sometimes you think it's low and then the serving size is tiny! Youll just start finding what's foods are lower in sugar and what's not. If you want to lose weight, eat less fruit and more veggies. Dried fruit is super high in sugar, even though its natural it doesn't matter, Sugar and high starch foods are horrible with raising your blood sugar. This is bad because it will cause major cravings and then crashing with energy. high starch foods turn into sugar like white potatos, corn, etc....anyway it's really important during weightloss phase to keep these low. I prefer eggs whites in the morning because it has no sugar.... I only eat fruit once in a while and the rest is vegetables....and usually it's a half a serving verses a full servingof fruit like half a banance or half and apple. For snacks I always usually have string cheese or organic peanut butter( because it's lower in sugar too than hormal skippy or jif) with some wheat thins flatbread crackers or celery sticks and carrot sticks with light ranch or honey mustard...fresh mushrooms are really good with dipping with a yogurt honeymustard dressing....if I do have fruit i stick with mostly berries because they are much lower in sugar than others. IT's ok to have them once in a while just try to keep in on the down low....you will notice your cravings will go way way way down to none eventually if you stick to the 24 grams of sugar. I pretty much never have any cravings. Once i have some sugar, i start getting a craving so it really is a huge help to keep it low. If you want to friend me you can and see my food diary for ideas on what to eat. I hope that helps!

I agree that it is most likely coming from processed foods. If I eat completely clean, I don't really even come close to my limit. So thats what I stick to, clean foods.

Next time you go grocery shopping, check the labels on your cereals. I don't know what brand you are eating that has that much sugar, but you should certainly look for a new brand. Some of the more "natural" brands are sweetened with fruit juice and still taste really good. I think general mills dusts the rasins in sugar, or at least they used to.

I disagree. I eat hardly any processed foods and still go over my sugar.

I agree that it is most likely coming from processed foods. If I eat completely clean, I don't really even come close to my limit. So thats what I stick to, clean foods.

Next time you go grocery shopping, check the labels on your cereals. I don't know what brand you are eating that has that much sugar, but you should certainly look for a new brand. Some of the more "natural" brands are sweetened with fruit juice and still taste really good. I think general mills dusts the rasins in sugar, or at least they used to.

I disagree. I eat hardly any processed foods and still go over my sugar.

I also disagree. I don't each much processed food at all & still go over.

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Do you both disagree that I don't go over? Cuz thats all I was saying. lol