Let's talk sugar grams or who else goes over everyday?

Yeh my calories are always under and I always try and keep my total fat and carbohydrate under too but my sugars and monosaturated fat etc are always over and I dont really understand why which is kind of annoying ... but I guess if the totals are under it should be fine.
But like you say yoghurt and fruit always push up the amount of sugar.

unless you are going crazy with little debbie i wouldnt worry about it.

Keep using real sugar (as opposed to substitutes), as your body knows how to digest it and recognizes that you've had it. HOWEVER, start cutting back on it a little at a time. I recommend raw sugar over processed white sugar - it's more expensive but hasn't been through all the chemical processes. I think it tastes better, and therefore I use quite a bit less of it. Also, don't lie or omit it from your diary. The data you are entering here is to help you make changes to your eating habits. The reports are factual data and not a judgement. If you can't be truthful to yourself, then to whom can you be?

actually i just read this about watermelons on there lol

Temperate climate fruits - apples, pears, citrus (oranges, grapefruit) and stone fruits (peaches, plums, apricots) - all have low GI values. Tropical fruits - pineapple, paw paw, papaya, rockmelon and watermelon tend to have higher GI values, but their glycemic load (GL) is low because they are low in carbohydrate.

I always go over on sugar as well... or at least if seems like an everyday occurrence. If you are going to use sugar as an additive to foods like coffee, greek yogurt or other foods, other than your sugars being high due to fruit intake, make sure to be aware of what happens to your sugar before you put it in your mouth.

Refined sugar, aka the perfectly white sugar that we all grew up with sitting on your mothers counter, is not the healthiest version for sugar lovers to eat. if you are one of those individuals who just can't give up sugar, cause you hate the taste of artificial sweeteners or other natural alternatives, then you should look into buying "sugar in the raw". It is the same end taste and is obscenely healthier for you. Refined sugar is put through a "cleaning" process the achieve a "clean white look" in which it is ran through "filters". It has been found that a majority of these "filters" are commonly constructed from charred animal bones, gross if you ask me. Sugar in the raw, although it still has the same addictive nature, just like as crack cocaine (the more you eat it the more your body will crave it), it is the least processed and therefore worth investing a few extra cents per pound when buying your groceries.

Also an FYI for Splenda users: currently the FDA and the National Sugar Association are in a law suit against splenda for false advertising. Although it comes with no calories doesn't mean that it doesn't come with a cost! Splenda is the chlorinated version of sugar, basically the processing that sugar is put through in the splenda plants changes it's molecular structure; creating a finished product that has been found to have 2% of its make up to contain HEAVY METALS (aka mercury, you know the element that causes birth defects and all sorts of crazy stuff to happen to our bodies) and ARSENIC!


Sorry for the long post but I hope that whomever reads this will think twice before buying refined sugar and emptying a Splenda packet into their morning coffee.

I bust my sugar carbs each day, but i still lost 50+ lbs and never gained weight whilst on my diet, so don't fret.

This is good to see! I'm almost always over on my sugars and it was starting to worry me.

over every day

I go over as well. But I go over because I eat a lot of fruit.

Keep doing what your doing. If it works for you, keep on doing it. If it stops working for you, then you gotta change it.

Not only do I go over, but I go WAAAAAAYYYYY the hell over. LOL - and seriously, it's not like I am eating swedish fish, chocolate, and twinkies - it is eye opening to see how much sugar lurks in everything we eat.

Eye opening, but I am not gonna do anything about it. Seriously.... I do enough!!!!

every one goes over their sugar levels. what i do is for 4 servings of fruit ( recommended per day) ill ignore the sugar grams and not count it. natural sugar in fruits is healthier than sugar that you put in things. as well if there is sugar of any kind in vegtables its the extra stuff im care ful about the sugar, the one cookie stuff like that.

I track sugar very closely as I know if I go over that will cause unnecessary cravings. I am also making sure the my sugars only come from natural sources and I think that helps a LOT

I was just about to post this topic when I saw this one. I was also worried about going over my sugar intake daily. But I see lots of people have had great success and go over as well. I'm one of those that don't use the fake stuff either! Thanks for posting - I too will be taking it off my diary!

I don't keep focus on sugar either. I eat a lot of peppers and some citrus fruit. I find it's really easy to go over on sugars even when eating raw healthy foods. I am loosing weight and inches so if I'm going over on healthy sugars vs processed sugars I'm not going to get jazzed about it.

How bout we lay off Paula Dean? On a site that supports people in weight loss there seem to be a few holier than though types that seem to be enjoying her situation. I'm assuming anyone on this site is here because they have weight to lose. Which suggests they haven't always made healthy choices. Ok. I'll get off my soap box

Trouble is that it makes no differentiation between 'artificially' added sugar in stuff like tea or coffee and the much more natural sugars in fruit.
I like fruit but I love tea. If I had to lose one it would be the fruit but I would then be losing a lot of other good stuff. I've cut out stuff like syrup on porridge and fruit juice in the morning but I'm still always over.

The body makes no differentiation between them, either.

To the OP - Are you diabetic? Then going over sugar is a bad thing. For everyone else, it doesn't matter. For the record, sugar is not the actual cause of diabetes. People with diabetes have issues with sugar, but eating sugar alone will not give you diabetes. It's like telling someone that sneezing is the reason they have the cold, rather than the cold is what's making them sneeze.