Just counting added sugar?

[Anonymous]

My diet has gotten progressively worse over time. Specifically, I eat too much sugary junk food. My work was offering 3 free months of Weight Watchers, so I signed up to see if it could motivate me to clean up my diet. I’ve found it much more effective than My Fitness Pal - I can eat within the calorie range and still just basically eat crap - but it’s not really worth paying for after the free trial, as I only use it for food tracking.

Once the trial is over, I want to find a similarly easy way to track while still focusing on the right thing. If my main issue is sugar, would it make sense to just track added sugar and try to keep to the RDA (averaged over a week)? My goal is not weight loss, although I have lost weight on WW and will probably be at a healthy BMI by the end of the trial. I really just want to eat more real food and less junk.

[Anonymous]

There’s added sugar in nearly everything that isn’t a ‘whole food’. I wouldn’t count grams of sugar. That sounds like torture. I’d just focus on eating whole food instead of junk. It’s easier than you think and after a few weeks, you won’t even crave junk food anymore. My only sources of sugar in any week now are occasional dark chocolate, protein bar, dried fruit.

[Anonymous]

Like PP said, Don't count grams of sugar, just don't eat foods that have added sugar.
If you remove those foods from your life it makes it easier to eat a healthier diet.
It can be challenging and requires effort, reading all of those labels.