WAY over sugar goals!!!

mkcalvert
mkcalvert Posts: 219 Member
edited September 25 in Health and Weight Loss
Okay so I would like to know how to stop this!! When you look at my diary though the only thing I've had is pb and fruit...Can some one advise me what to eat instead, if anything?

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  • remember that sugar isn't just what we think of as sweets.. it is carbs.. so bread, pasta all those yummy things.. It might not be the fruit at all but the breatd you are eating with your peanut butter??
  • SuperKatie
    SuperKatie Posts: 94 Member
    Also maybe replace your fruits with some veggies. Just as filling, less sugar and less calories. Red peppers are a good options. Or edemame. Just buy it frozen and defrost. .
  • mkcalvert
    mkcalvert Posts: 219 Member
    :ohwell: My diary is public, but I had the pb with a waffle....
  • Bridgetc140
    Bridgetc140 Posts: 405 Member
    I go over my sugar every day...I have all but given up on staying under the set sugar goal here on MFP.
  • mkcalvert
    mkcalvert Posts: 219 Member
    I go over my sugar every day...I have all but given up on staying under the set sugar goal here on MFP.

    So are you still doing good losing weight?
  • Bridgetc140
    Bridgetc140 Posts: 405 Member
    I started here on March 1st and I've lost 2.5lbs. So yeah, I'm still right on target with my weight loss. I think the level is set pretty low.
  • missy1970eb
    missy1970eb Posts: 1,209 Member
    i quite often go over my sugar, think mines from carbs:smile:
  • pftjill
    pftjill Posts: 488
    Find the glycemic index in a search engine and look for fruit that is lower on the glycemic index. Like you had a banana. I eat bananas when they are still green-so not as much natural sugars. Plus thing you are eating complex carbs and that is where you are getting your sugars from. Complex carbs are a good thing. I need to eat more fruit I guess. I never go near my sugar goal. Another thing is to replace some of your fruit with more veg. So go lower on the glycemic index for fruit and eat more veg over fruit, but don't get rid of fruit!!
  • mkcalvert
    mkcalvert Posts: 219 Member
    Find the glycemic index in a search engine and look for fruit that is lower on the glycemic index. Like you had a banana. I eat bananas when they are still green-so not as much natural sugars. Plus thing you are eating complex carbs and that is where you are getting your sugars from. Complex carbs are a good thing. I need to eat more fruit I guess. I never go near my sugar goal. Another thing is to replace some of your fruit with more veg. So go lower on the glycemic index for fruit and eat more veg over fruit, but don't get rid of fruit!!

    Ugh that's what I was afraid of...I'm just not a veggie fan, when I ate my salad today I ate all the carrots out first lol...I just can't stand em...:sad:
  • newjmf
    newjmf Posts: 78
    The difference between FRUIT sugar (fructose) and refined sugar
    (sucrose) is as follows.

    Fruit sugar is something known as FRUCTOSE

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose

    "Fructose is broken down by the body slowly and is converted into
    SUCROSE and GLYCOGEN. Fructose is often recommended for, and consumed
    by, people with diabetes mellitus or hypoglycemia, because it has a
    very low Glycemic Index (GI 23) relative to cane sugar."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycemic_Index

    "Glycemic index (also glycaemic index, GI) is a ranking system for
    carbohydrates based on their immediate effect on blood glucose levels.
    It compares carbohydrates gram for gram in individual foods, providing
    a numerical, evidence-based index of postprandial (post-meal)
    glycemia. The concept was invented by Dr. David J. Jenkins and
    colleagues in 1981 at the University of Toronto."

    Sucrose (common name: table sugar, also called saccharose) is a
    disaccharide (glucose + fructose) with the molecular formula
    C12H22O11.

    This website explains it well

    http://waltonfeed.com/fructose.html

    "There are differences between the different sugars. When we eat
    sucrose, our bodies quickly break it down into roughly equal parts of
    glucose and fructose. Glucose is the sugar our bodies use for both
    physical and mental energy. When our bodies sense an increase of
    glucose in the blood, it immediately directs the pancreas to push
    insulin into the blood stream. With the insulin, the body is able to
    burn the glucose as energy. If there's too much glucose in the blood
    stream to be used as energy, the glucose can be changed to glycogen,
    the body's short-term storage energy supply. And if the glycogen pool
    is already full, the body will turn it into long term storage in the
    form of fat.
    Different blood-sugar effects possible after
    eating a high concentration of sucrose sugar.

    Different blood-sugar effects possible after eating a high
    concentration of sucrose sugar.
    Depending on the condition of the pancreas, the above graph shows what
    can happen when a person eats a lot of sucrose sweets at one time. In
    each of the three cases, the large amount of sugar dramatically raises
    the blood-sugar level but the results can be radically different if no
    medication is given.
    Eating a huge amount of sugar at once with it's resultant spike in the
    blood-sugar level can cause stress to a weak pancreas as it struggles
    to deliver enough insulin to bring down the blood-sugar to acceptable
    levels.
    This cycle is especially hard on people who have an abnormal
    pancreas. If the pancreas doesn't produce enough insulin that person
    is considered diabetic. If it produces too much insulin they are
    considered hypoglycemic. These people will generally suffer from an
    abnormal glucose level depending on what their condition is. Checking
    the graph to the right, when a person eats too much sugar (sucrose),
    there is a resulting rapid increase in their blood sugar level. If
    things are working normally, the pancreas produces just enough insulin
    to bring the blood-sugar level back down to normal. If they are
    diabetic and no medication is given, there isn't enough insulin
    produced and the blood-sugar level remains elevated. In a hypoglycemic
    person, as the blood-sugar level raises, their over-active pancreas
    dumps too much insulin into the blood stream and they end up with low
    blood sugar levels which creates it's own havoc.
    Using fructose instead of sucrose puts a strong damper on many
    of these problems. Your body can't use fructose without converting it
    into glucose in the liver. Actually, most of the time, however, unless
    your body needs to immediately increase it's blood-sugar level, the
    liver changes fructose into glycogen first. We have already mentioned
    glycogen which is the body's short term energy supply. A typical adult
    will have as much as 3/4 pound of glycogen in their various tissues at
    one time, mostly stored in the liver and muscles. As the glucose level
    in the blood begins to drop, the liver can rapidly convert this stored
    glycogen into glucose."

    In short the reason why Fruit sugar is better for you than table sugar
    is that by eating table sugar (Sucrose) our bodies go out of sync with
    our sugar levels as the sugar is processed in the body extremely fast
    and in doing this the body informs the pancreas to pump out insulin.
    Someone with a weak pancreas will have a hard time doing this.

    Fructose (Fruit sugar) is broken down more slowly which allows the
    body more time to react to the sweetener that has been consumed. This
    puts less stress on the body and also the pancreas which is good news
    for diabetics as they too can have sweet tasting things but without
    the worry of a sudden sugar spike.
  • Erica9903
    Erica9903 Posts: 156
    I go over on my sugars most days and I don't worry about it too much because it's mainly from fruit or the honey I add to my greek yogurt and I don't stress over natural sugar. I've been at it since January and I've lost 29 pounds (with exercise too) since that time. Good luck!!
  • mkcalvert
    mkcalvert Posts: 219 Member
    Thanks, ya'll have been very helpful...Also, I just started taking a supplement Chromium Picolinate 200 that someone I know told me about, and he is taking it bc he was having a hard time balancing his blood sugar...So I guess I'm going to try it and see what happens:happy:
  • Hi there. I go over on my sugars everyday but its from fruit so I don't worry about it too much. I'm still losing weight most weeks.

    Lisa
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