Sweet Dreams

Yesterday I managed to just barely stay under the daily recommended of sugar. The max you should eat is 50 grams, I ate 49.6 grams.

It wasn't easy. I had to track my food throughout the day on the food journal site instead of at the end of the day.

Yesterday's foods with sugar:

Baked Potato {1 potato before butter and salt}=2.04g
Dark chocolate {3 squares off the bar}=13.08g
chicken nugget {1 nugget}=.05g
yogurt {low fat doesn't mean low sugar!}=12g
orange juice =1.30g
banana {I thought this was good for me!}=14.43g
milk {just what I put in my coffee}=.19g
Sugar {I put in my 2 cups of coffee}=8g

I was shocked that a baked potato and milk contain any natural sugar.

The worse thing I ate yesterday was a banana. Orange juice, dark chocolate, and bananas are good when it comes to serotonin but not when you want to lower sugar. I don't think sugar free banana's exist. I am pretty darn sure that sugar free dark chocolate and O.J. do.

I really enjoy my food and fitness food journal but I wish that it had more brands on it's list. Sometimes I have to find the 'closes thing' to what I really ate. Today I will be writing down the sugar from the labels and keeping track on my own. I know I need to start buying stuff like Splenda but it's hard. $1.98 vs $6.99 hard. I suppose I will just need to make my health worth the $.