You might be surprised to learn how much sugar you eat in a day.
Take a look at this video to see how much you are likely to eat in a day. You might not think you eat this much, but remember that in some ways, we were conservative about our estimates: we used 12 ounce sodas instead of restaurant sizes and we didn’t include many hidden sugars such as you might find in salad dressings, peanut butter, or thousands of other foods.
Here is the table we used to make the sugar estimates:
| Cereal | 4 teaspoons |
| Toast | 3 teaspoons |
| Jam | 3 teaspoons |
| Coffee | 1 teaspoon |
| Orange Juice | 5 teaspoons |
|
BREAKFAST TOTAL: |
16 teaspoons or 1/8 pound |
| Doughnut | 8 teaspoons |
| Coffee | 4 teaspoons |
|
SNACK TOTAL: |
12 teaspoons |
|
GRAND TOTAL: |
28 teaspoons or 1/4 pound |
| Hamburger | 3 teaspoons |
| Soda | 8 teaspoons |
| Ketchup | 1 teaspoons |
|
LUNCH TOTAL: |
12 teaspoons |
|
GRAND TOTAL: |
40 teaspoons or 1/3 pound |
| Granola or Protein Bar | 5 teaspoons |
|
SNACK TOTAL: |
5 teaspoons |
|
GRAND TOTAL: |
45 teaspoons or ¼ pound |
| Bread | 3 teaspoons |
| Soda | 8 teaspoons |
|
SNACK TOTAL: |
11 teaspoons |
|
GRAND TOTAL: |
56 teaspoons over ½ pound |
i’m surprise to see coffee has a sugar impact…..on the 30 day sugar free, what do you recommend as a replacement? Is green tea ok?
Bruce,
Yes, green tea is okay. Anything with caffeine can increase sugar cravings, so just pay attention to see if this happens to you.
I am glad you are exposing this problem. What you might also wish to note is that in your example, if you were to remove the sodas and the doughnut, most experts would say you have a healthy diet. Yet, you would still have over 40 teaspoons of sugar each day. In other words, the advice we are getting to reduce sugar intake still leaves us eating way too much. I really believe that the only answer is for health professionals to tell us that SUGAR is unhealthy, which would have far better results than what they are telling now, that TOO MUCH sugar is unhealthy. If you agree, I will buy your book.