Sugar daily goal

Also, second part of your question: the database on this site is crowd-sourced, so many of the vitamins are missing. You can vet your choices against the NHS nutrition database or the USDA database in the U.S.

If micronutrient tracking is important to you, you'll need to vet every entry you use from the database. Once you use it, then it's in your list (Recents, Favorites, etc.) Or you can enter new items or edit existing ones and then they are in your MY FOODS.

arowswell wrote: »

Thanks. So do I need to change my sugar grams ? Or is that about right?

Unless you have the Premium version, I don't think you can change Sugars, they are default levels, I believe. I don't even track sugars, they are covered in Carbs.

Sugar is available by default on the View Print Version, so I just track something else on the FOOD page.

Nutrition is important, but I do want to point out that for weight loss, nutrition doesn't much matter, especially in the short run**.

Weight management is all about the relationship between calories eaten and burned: Burn more than you eat, whether you burn them through daily life stuff or exercise, and no matter what you eat (as long as it isn't poison or medically counterindicated for you personally), and you'll lose weight.

Nutrition is very important for health, energy level, and potentially to feel full and satisfied. Since most of us want to be healthy, not just thin, it's helpful to get good well-rounded nutrition. Good nutrition - despite what a lot of the internet seems to want us to believe - is more about what is in our eating, not about what to exclude from it. Get enough protein, get enough healthy fats, eat a bunch of varied, colorful veggies and fruits (at least 5+ servings, and more is better), and you'll do pretty well - better than the average person.

The MFP settings are a good guide, but you don't need to be exact (even on the nutrients it's pretty good at tracking, like the major macronutrients). A little over one day, a little under the next: Fine. If persistently under on protein or fat or fiber, think about gradually nudging your eating pattern in a more positive direction. If hitting your minimums on those things, I personally wouldn't much worry about sugar - it's hard to be overeating added sugar while getting other needful nutrition, and focusing on that other needed nutrition is usually a higher-payoff use of time and energy.

** In the longer run, nutrition can affect energy level. Poor nutrition can cause fatigue, which means we rest more, do less . . . so burn fewer calories. That can indirectly affect weight loss. It can also affect how full we feel. Many calorie-dense but nutrient-poor foods are not very filling. That means we feel hungry, and it becomes easy to give in and overeat. Obviously, if overeating happens, that will have an effect on weight loss. But these are indirect effects of nutrition on weight management. At the core, in a direct sense, weight management is primarly about calories.

Best wishes!