Check Nutrition Facts Online
Even as a personal trainer bad foods slip under my radar pretty regularly.
A good example of this is products you purchase without labels.
This happens dining out, ordering in, and buying beverages like coffee.
It is always a good idea, especially if you are on a weight loss program, to check the companies website online for nutritional facts and information.
A good example of this is coffee: I will regularly pick up a coffee from one of those big chain coffee shops in the early afternoon.
I do not really think of coffee as being loaded with calories and fat, despite knowing it has cream and sugar in it.
I mean, it is only added to taste, right? I looked up the count of a large double double and nearly fell off my chair when I saw that it contains 230 calories and 9 grams of fat.
This is more than a pop, equal to a donut or chocolate bar, and more than a non fat caramel latte, which I had always considered to be a "dessert coffee!" Take that size up to an extra large, make it a triple, and then you are looking at over 400 calories and 20 grams of fat! Unbelievable.
Even something most of us do from time to time, like grabbing a slice of pizza, is worth checking out online.
A slice of cheese only (walk in), is 600 calories.
This is equal to 3 slices from a delivered large pizza.
These simple realizations put portion in to perspective for snacking, dining, out and with the coffee, how many empty calories you drink on a weekly basis.
Even when the label is right in front of you, it can be deceiving.
A while back I was hungry and the only thing around was a coffee shop.
I popped in for a snack and saw "breakfast cookies.
" Now, I know anything with cookie in the title, is not going to be healthy but I needed the energy and saw that the individually wrapped, single cookie, had 100 calories per 45g serving.
After buying the cookie and sitting down I read the label more carefully.
The cookie itself is 90g, so the facts had to be doubled.
This was not a big cookie by any means.
Who would think they would assume anybody would eat only half, or share? Even though it is a mere 200 calories, most of that was sugar.
I felt a little duped.
Many weight loss programs fail because of these calories that sneak past even the most observant shoppers.
If you have been trying to lose weight without success, look to your food and beverage consumption.
90% of the time, you will find the culprit there!
A good example of this is products you purchase without labels.
This happens dining out, ordering in, and buying beverages like coffee.
It is always a good idea, especially if you are on a weight loss program, to check the companies website online for nutritional facts and information.
A good example of this is coffee: I will regularly pick up a coffee from one of those big chain coffee shops in the early afternoon.
I do not really think of coffee as being loaded with calories and fat, despite knowing it has cream and sugar in it.
I mean, it is only added to taste, right? I looked up the count of a large double double and nearly fell off my chair when I saw that it contains 230 calories and 9 grams of fat.
This is more than a pop, equal to a donut or chocolate bar, and more than a non fat caramel latte, which I had always considered to be a "dessert coffee!" Take that size up to an extra large, make it a triple, and then you are looking at over 400 calories and 20 grams of fat! Unbelievable.
Even something most of us do from time to time, like grabbing a slice of pizza, is worth checking out online.
A slice of cheese only (walk in), is 600 calories.
This is equal to 3 slices from a delivered large pizza.
These simple realizations put portion in to perspective for snacking, dining, out and with the coffee, how many empty calories you drink on a weekly basis.
Even when the label is right in front of you, it can be deceiving.
A while back I was hungry and the only thing around was a coffee shop.
I popped in for a snack and saw "breakfast cookies.
" Now, I know anything with cookie in the title, is not going to be healthy but I needed the energy and saw that the individually wrapped, single cookie, had 100 calories per 45g serving.
After buying the cookie and sitting down I read the label more carefully.
The cookie itself is 90g, so the facts had to be doubled.
This was not a big cookie by any means.
Who would think they would assume anybody would eat only half, or share? Even though it is a mere 200 calories, most of that was sugar.
I felt a little duped.
Many weight loss programs fail because of these calories that sneak past even the most observant shoppers.
If you have been trying to lose weight without success, look to your food and beverage consumption.
90% of the time, you will find the culprit there!
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