i consume INSANE amounts of sugar!!!!!!

Where does your sugar come from? Fruits? Or cakes, candies, etc...

Really are you sure!? @_@ I consumed 126 grams of sugar today! And it was all in my fruits and fruit yogurt...@_@...And the 3 teaspoons of honey I had with no sugar tea. (Holy it's like 9 g of sugar per teaspoon @_@. And the italian ice haha >.<).
But seriously, I average about 60 grams a day mostly. Today was a weird day.
I can't imagine anyone staying on a 30 g per day if they eat fruits. Fruits are naturally sweet. I didn't have any refined sugars (okay except the ice). So that doesn't seem right to me.

Try not to drink any soft drinks, coffees with sugar, sodas, candies, etc. Just water, milk/soy milk, and unsweetened tea. It's hard for me @.@, but I try to be good. I find that with stuff that says "low-fat" these products are even more loaded with sugarrrrr to make up for the lack of fat. Just eat the fatter versions. Read nutritional facts. I think that's why I'm thristy right now (it was that nonfat yogurt loaded with sugar, I didn't read the label -sigh-). >.< Try eating fruits with lower sugar content and more complex carbs. Real food tends not to have a lot of sugar in it.

I don't cook so I don't know any recipes :laugh:.

Also I highly doubt that 90 grams of sugar per day is what is preventing you from losing five pounds. I would suggest lowing your sugar if you're really having 90 g/ per day every day though.

If you haven't lost any of it in two years and have been trying to, there's probably a larger problem that you aren't addressing that isn't the sugar. Are you exercising? If so how many cals. You basically have to eat those exercise cals on top of what MFP tells you you need a day. Perhaps you'll find that you're eating too little? Eating too much? Eating a lot of junky stuff? Etc etc etc. I would try changing up your diet. More variety. :flowerforyou:

My sugar is always WAY over too- most of it from fruit. I'm a banana addict, but I can't resist them. Fruit sugars aren't as big of a concern though (from what I've read). It's added sugar you have to worry about.

Sugar is sugar, no matter if it is fructose, lactose, sucrose, etc...................The body processes it the same.

Eat lower glycemic fruits.............

Berries are the lowest
Melons are the next lowest
Apples, grapefruit, etc..............

Bananas are among the highest and should be consumed sparingly............

Also, my endocrinologist told me that we should only have 3-4 servings of fruit per week (should be used as a treat, not a staple of the eating plan). The remainder of the servings should be all vegetables, which some veggies have a high natural sugar content also......................

My sugar is always WAY over too- most of it from fruit. I'm a banana addict, but I can't resist them. Fruit sugars aren't as big of a concern though (from what I've read). It's added sugar you have to worry about.

Have you had your triglycerides checked?

EAting too much fruit will cause your triglycerides and LCL cholesterol to skyrocket.................Sugar is sugar..............

I didn't know LDL and fruits were linked?

Here is part of an article....................notice that it includes fruit ...........

Why Sugar is Poison



Dr. Abram Hoffer said, “Refined sugar and all refined foods such as polished rice, white flour, and the like are nothing else than legalized poisons”, and that “sugar is the basic addictive substance from which all other addictions flow”. We certainly know that this is true with alcohol. Many foods have a high glycemic index, which is to say that they break down rapidly into sugar in the blood. The pancreas is then stimulated to produce insulin and gets worn out by too much demand. The body also goes into hyperactivity to store the sugar as fat, to produce cholesterol, and to conserve water. This is happening with all sugar, fruit, or carbohydrate you take in. Simple sugars (to include fruit) and carbohydrates have higher glycemic indices.

haha margaret, you are funny.:happy:
i actually do not drink soda or any sugary drinks, and take my tea with no additives...it's the damn ice cream. and milk also has sugar. i just feel trapped. i wouldn't care as much if i wasn't in a 2-year plateau. seriously: it's been two years of struggle, and i've nothing else to blame but the sugar. 30g a day may not happen tomorrow, but maybe 50g is achievable...
good luck to you, as well.

Do you ever try frozen yogurt instead of ice cream? I know there is quite a difference (being that I am also a MAJOR die hard ice cream fan), but it can be quite good. And you can also freeze your own yogurt in posicle trays to make frozen yogurt type ice cream bars (if that made any sense?)

If you are eating yogurt such as Yoplait, dannon, etc....................you are just as well off to eat the ice cream.

Yogurt from mainstream grocery stores is nothing more than high fructose corn syrup, sugar and other crap that is not good for you.

Oh? This I didn't know. I have been eating Danon Sillohette. I thought it was good for me. :blushing:

I eat organic full fat yogurt with a cream line on top and add a drop or 2 of honey.....................

Here are the ingredients of the Strawberry on the Danon Sillohette yogurt:

Notice that sugar is the 2nd ingredient and it has modified corn starch (which is not good for you either). And because it is low fat, when they remove the cream, it takes away from some of the vitamin D, which means that have to go back and fortify it with vitamin D...............making it more processed.

Skim milk, sugar, cream, strawberries, modified corn starch, whey protein concentrate, milk protein concentrate, gelatin, active bacterial cultures, natural and artificial flavours, colour, pectin, vitamin D3. Made with vitamin D fortified skim milk. /quote]

haha margaret, you are funny.:happy:
i actually do not drink soda or any sugary drinks, and take my tea with no additives...it's the damn ice cream. and milk also has sugar. i just feel trapped. i wouldn't care as much if i wasn't in a 2-year plateau. seriously: it's been two years of struggle, and i've nothing else to blame but the sugar. 30g a day may not happen tomorrow, but maybe 50g is achievable...
good luck to you, as well.

Do you ever try frozen yogurt instead of ice cream? I know there is quite a difference (being that I am also a MAJOR die hard ice cream fan), but it can be quite good. And you can also freeze your own yogurt in posicle trays to make frozen yogurt type ice cream bars (if that made any sense?)

If you are eating yogurt such as Yoplait, dannon, etc....................you are just as well off to eat the ice cream.

Yogurt from mainstream grocery stores is nothing more than high fructose corn syrup, sugar and other crap that is not good for you.

The only yogurt/dairy I would eat is organic. But some people just cannot eat yogurt without any fruit in it as it's soooo sour. Regular milk is just not good for you either. Have you seen what they do to the cows? It's horrifying. They get pumped with antibiotics as they're constantly SICK from their overgrown udders.
To get the benefits of yogurt take probiotics.

I honestly would be lost without fruit. Although, I am working on trying to get my sugar down to 60g a day. It's really sad that 60g would be super low for me. Mostly from fruit and such. I read that you should consume no more than 10% of you calories from any type of sugar. For me that is 44g so 60 is still too high.:grumble:

Totally disgusted with myself.:explode:

I thought I was reading labels better, but obviously not.

Today's sugars:grumble: 25 green grapes(throughout day) and 1 yogurt (snack)

33 grams of sugar, when MFP's max is 25.:explode: :explode: :explode:

:sad: How many days I had 20-25 grapes and 1-2 yogurts...
Better to learn now than later.

no offense but there is plenty of research in the other direction that says that fruit sugar is in fact NOT harmful in the way that we think of refined sugars being. I am someone that has lost weight before eating lots of fruit. What made me overweight was the junk food including refined sugars NOT a banana, or strawberries or any other fruit.

http://www.reducetriglycerides.com/lifestyle_triglycerides_sugar.htm
This link could be of some use.

I think what's really important is ADDED sugar intake. Not so much fruit sugar and other natural sugars from foods themselves unless you're diabetic or at risk of diabetes. Added sugar intake should be limited to 40 grams/per day as recommended by the USDA. Now what would reallyyy help is if the FDA would start getting companies to put the amount of added sugar on their labels so we're know what % of food is from naturally occurring sugar and added sugar. They haven't even set a daily intake for added sugar.

I don't trust the USDA guidelines, nor the FDA.................

They are government and the reason for the low fat crap of the 70's and 80's as to why food manufacturers feel the need to add sugar to everything, especially things that don't need sugar added, such as mayonnaise, yogurt, etc......................the list goes on and on...................

With as much as 60-70% of Americans either being pre-diabetic (metabolically resistant) or having full blown diabetes, emphasis on consumption of fruit needs to be addressed.

That is why people are trading eating cookies and cake for gorging on fruit and wondering why weight loss is minimal or none at all.........................

People don't get the blood work done and fruit does cause triglycerides and LDL cholesterol to rise when eating too much.................

So, even though fruit has its place in our eating plan - a sugar addiction is just being replaced from processed sugar to a more natural sugar, but in the end, sugar is sugar and does not break the addiction.