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title: How I Logged My Added Sugar for a Month in Noshlog
date: 2026-09-15
author: Personal experience — a Noshlog user
category: personal
excerpt: A practical walk-through of tracking added sugar for a month: what I logged, the surprises, and what I changed afterwards. Not advice — just one person's experience.
---

# How I Logged My Added Sugar for a Month in Noshlog

After reading about the WHO's sugar recommendation on the professional side of this blog, I decided to actually track my added sugar intake for a month. This is my personal experience — I am not a health professional, and how this went for me says nothing about what anyone else should do.

## What I did

I used Noshlog's built-in sugar data. For each food I logged, the app shows sugar **per 100 g** and a separate **"sugars, added"** figure where the dataset records one, and scales it to the portion I actually ate. My self-imposed target was the FDA Daily Value of **50 g of added sugar per day**, with an eye on the stricter 25 g level as a stretch goal.

A few habits made it workable:

- I logged meals as I ate them, using the editable timestamp when I forgot to log at the exact time.
- For things I eat often I used custom portions, so I didn't have to weigh anything repeatedly.
- I kept the daily total visible on the Today screen and glanced at the nutrient trend graph once a week.

## What surprised me

The first week was humbling. Here is my weekly average added sugar across the month:

| Week | Average added sugar / day |
|---:|---:|
| 1 | 74 g |
| 2 | 58 g |
| 3 | 49 g |
| 4 | 41 g |

Three things I did not expect:

1. **The label lies by omission.** Several products looked "low sugar" on the front but the *added* sugar line told a different story. There is a huge difference between total sugar from whole fruit and added sugar from processing.
2. **Drinks were the worst offenders.** My coffee habit with flavoured syrup and juice accounted for far more added sugar than any solid food I ate.
3. **Logging changed what I chose.** Just having the number in front of me at 6 pm made me pick a different dessert. I did not plan that; the data nudged me.

## What I changed afterwards

Not much at first — and that is the point. I did not aim for a dramatic diet change; I switched to logging the same way for a second month to see whether the trend held. Two small swaps (diluting juice, dropping the flavoured syrup) made most of the difference between weeks 2 and 4.

## Notes for anyone thinking about trying it

- This is **not** health advice. If you are thinking about changing your diet, talk to a qualified professional first.
- My numbers come from the food database Noshlog uses; always double-check against the label of the specific product you are eating.
- Tracking for a month gave me a trend I could actually see — one week alone would have told me very little.