Too much sugar?

VixenLips
VixenLips Posts: 17 Member
edited November 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I've been sticking to the MFP recommended daily intake of protein, carbs sugar, etc.
However, a lot of the sugar I pull from fruits and vegetables, and it says I always go over.

I am only allowed 45g of sugar a day.
It's only lunch time, and I've maxed that from my oatmeal, cup of chopped peaches at breakfast.

And now lunch, i'm having 1 cup of sweet kale salad mix [cabbage, kale, and other vegetables in the mix] and 1 whole carrot.
I am already over the 45 grams.

I guess I want to ask if this is a huge deal, I don't want to cut fruit out of my diet, and I have begun looking for oatmeal options that have less sugar.

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  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    If you don't have a medical condition it's not a big deal. MFPs sugar guidelines are a bit unrealistic in my opinion and since sugar (refined or natural) is just a carb, most people tend to just track their carbs for the day. If those are in check, you should be good. I would suggest replacing the sugar tracking with fiber, but that's just me.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    No, unless you have some kind of medical condition where your doctor told you to watch sugar it doesn't matter.

    The usual recommendations are about added sugar, not sugar from sugar and dairy too, but there's no way for MFP to distinguish. A lot of people switch sugar out for fiber, which gives you a better sense of the source of your carbs (and the carbs include sugar). I watch sugar on occasion to see how much I'm getting and from what, but I don't worry about it, since generally speaking I don't have a problem with any of the foods I eat that contain sugar and know how much I'm eating.

    If you see you are getting more than expected from something like oatmeal it can be helpful as that's something you can easily change, but I certainly wouldn't worry about fruit because of sugar.
  • blktngldhrt
    blktngldhrt Posts: 1,053 Member
    Hornsby wrote: »
    If you don't have a medical condition it's not a big deal. MFPs sugar guidelines are a bit unrealistic in my opinion and since sugar (refined or natural) is just a carb, most people tend to just track their carbs for the day. If those are in check, you should be good. I would suggest replacing the sugar tracking with fiber, but that's just me.

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  • VixenLips
    VixenLips Posts: 17 Member
    Thank you everyone, I feel a lot better now (:
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    Swap out sugar for fibre
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