Will food labeling change your eating habits? With the health info on menus do you think you will eat healthier?

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Yes, I like it. Under normal circumstances I would say no it would make no difference to me. I use to not care about the health info on the menu.

Now things have changed in my life. I joined Weight Watchers over a year ago. I have lost twenty five pounds.

Slowly but surely. I have another ten to go. I have learned in Weight Watchers that I can in fact go out to eat if I go into a restaurant prepared and read the new health info on menus.

Before that when I ate out I would eat mindlessly. Since I wanted to loose weight I stopped eating out for a long time because I was afraid I would screw up my diet. Now I will go out to eat once in a while since I know the calorie and fat count of the menu items.

If I did not have a problem with weight gain I would not bother with it and just enjoy myself and eat. Now since Weight Watchers I have been trained to eat what is good for my body. It is now a way of life not a "Diet".

The only thing I have a problem with is giving up my wine. Since I am Italian it is a custom to always have wine with my dinner. I have cut it back to one or two glasses once or twice a week.

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I already eat healthy. I already avoid those processed foods my daughters live off of. And, no, it won't change their eating habits at all.

Menus? We hit restaurants so rarely that it'd be pointless to go to one for all that money and worry about fat and salt (isn't that why we're paying extra? ) .

1 I used to read labels...now I realize anything in a box/container is not healthy. I can't have dairy/gluten. I wish I had known that a long time ago.

I wish all food was made this way...it would help millions of people. Reading the labels will not help much of the undiagnosed Celiac people.

I used to read labels...now I realize anything in a box/container is not healthy. I can't have dairy/gluten. I wish I had known that a long time ago.

I wish all food was made this way...it would help millions of people. Reading the labels will not help much of the undiagnosed Celiac people.

Poppet! Replied to post #1: 2 The information will be on the menus in restaurants, too, Shasha. I'm thinking that some menus are going to be like HUGE books now!

The information will be on the menus in restaurants, too, Shasha. I'm thinking that some menus are going to be like HUGE books now!

3 Absolutely. Ignorance is bliss. I like to think I make decent food choices.

I've taken several nutrition classes. I know what's good for me and what isn't, I know which ingredients are high in fiber or fat or calories, and I know about the physiological processes that take place when we eat. I also know from past experience that if I go too long without paying attention to labels or counting calories, my perception gets skewed.

All it takes is counting calories and fat grams for a day and I'm shocked at how lax I've gotten. An example: we have one of those "wheel of death" vending machines in the breakroom at work. It's stocked by a local vending company.

Most of the food is marginal at best, but they make the most awesome cookies. I loved these cookies. Then the jerks posted a nutrition facts poster in the breakroom, and like the idiot I am, I looked up my cookies.

I haven't been able to eat them since. I'm usually pretty good when I go to a restaurant. I try to get things that sound healthier, and I really try to leave enough to take home for a second meal.

But once I *know* just how bad most of that crap is for me, I won't be able to justify eating it even though I don't go out to eat all that often.

Absolutely. Ignorance is bliss. I like to think I make decent food choices.

I've taken several nutrition classes. I know what's good for me and what isn't, I know which ingredients are high in fiber or fat or calories, and I know about the physiological processes that take place when we eat. I also know from past experience that if I go too long without paying attention to labels or counting calories, my perception gets skewed.

All it takes is counting calories and fat grams for a day and I'm shocked at how lax I've gotten. An example: we have one of those "wheel of death" vending machines in the breakroom at work. It's stocked by a local vending company.

Most of the food is marginal at best, but they make the most awesome cookies. I loved these cookies. Then the jerks posted a nutrition facts poster in the breakroom, and like the idiot I am, I looked up my cookies.

I haven't been able to eat them since. I'm usually pretty good when I go to a restaurant. I try to get things that sound healthier, and I really try to leave enough to take home for a second meal.

But once I *know* just how bad most of that crap is for me, I won't be able to justify eating it even though I don't go out to eat all that often.

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