Making use of nutrition labels

If you care about nutrition labelling, if you want to be able to read it and feel more in control of what you're consuming, these little cards may help. 

I ordered a whole bunch of resources from Livelighter and this was one of them. It's a little card that you can stick inside your wallet or phone case. I've used it to compare between different brands of my favourite food. It hasn't made a dent in my weight loss but helps me think more about what I'm about to buy. 

Recently, I completed an EDX course titled 2018 The Science of Weight Loss: Dispelling Diet Myths and discovered a new tactic that I have found useful. The concept is to calculate the amount of exercise you need to do to burn off food you have eaten.

So when I see something that I find hard to resist, like a can of coke or cake, I look at how many calories are in a serving. So if a can of coke is worth 500KJ I have an idea in my mind that it is equivalent to 15 mins of hard work doing zumba and if I give into temptation I'll have to work it off -- all for what? This has helped me resist buying coke from the store a few times but unfortunately right now there is a box of coke cans in the house and I'm drinking it up mindlessly now that it's so readily available. 

This has also helped me resist a buying a pricey cup of milk tea at the milk tea shops. I take one look at the menu, one regular cup is like over 1000 KJ, around 1500-2000 KJ, which equates to 1 hour of working really hard at zumba. So I shake my head and think "No, it's not worth it. A little bit of sugar isn't worth $6, and isn't worth the effort either."