These 10 little changes will cut 338 calories from your daily routine Happy and healthy. I bet she's doing the following 10 things. THINK you need to sweat it out on a treadmill to burn 300 calories? The average Aussie eats about 8700 kilojoules or 2078 calories a day. Reducing the kilojoules we eat and doing more exercise every day is the best way to shed unwanted body fat. Cutting 300 calories out of your day is easier than you realise. In many cases, it's a matter of making a slightly healthier choice when you're doing everyday things like buying a coffee. Here are 10 little life hacks to help. Make these swaps every day and you'll shed about 338 bonus calories or 1415 kilojoules a day (of course, that will vary depending on your size and age). Despite the high amount of fat in a handful of nuts, eating them as a snack every day can actually help you lose weight (because fat, the nutrient, doesn't always make you fatter, you see). But the nutritional effects of different nuts really vary. They're all good for protein, dietary fibre and heaps of essential nutrients. But in terms of calories, go for almonds. A small handful (about 20 nuts) contains 31 fewer calories than the same number of cashews. This guy's impeccable body-fat percentage is all due to his vigorous sex. Probs. It's a bit unhealthy to think of sex as a way to burn calories - there should definitely be other things at the front of your mind when you're between the sheets. But really, burning calories is one of the lesser-known bonuses of getting lucky. Not all sex is created equal though. You'll burn 20 more calories during half-an-hour of vigorous sex than you would during the same amount of light-effort sex. Plus, who wants to do it with someone who's putting in a light effort? Come on, champ. You know that horrible feeling when you leave the vacuuming for weeks until the whole house seems like it's covered in debris from your life? Well break it down and do one or two rooms a day. Not only will hoovering stop being such an insurmountable chore, but you'll kill 33 calories in 10 minutes. Give happy hour a rethink this week. A study has shown bartenders often pour way more than the standard glass. So you might think you're drinking about 150mL of wine, when you're actually drinking closer to 190mL. Have Friday drinks at your place this week and you can ration your own pouring. You'll be 25 calories better of for it with each glass of vino. Bonus points for hairography. Turn your favourite song on and dance around like a maniac before you leave the house in the morning. Not only does this feel fantastic, but a woman will burn about 31 calories after just one five-minute jam. Blokes, you only need to do it for three-and-a-half minutes (because we burn calories faster, not because we're better dancers). A large flat white contains a staggering number of calories. It seems obvious, but you can shed a lot of them by ordering a smaller coffee. The trouble is with the milk. A 400mL flat white made on whole milk contains about 224 calories but a 300mL version is only 168 calories. Switch to a long black and you'll almost completely eliminate the calories from your daily cup of Joe. Poaching or soft boiling your eggs in the morning is way better for you than frying or scrambling them. An egg cooked in water contains about 90 calories. One from the frying pan contains about 147. And scrambled eggs? Don't even go there. It's 378 calories per cup if you do. You can't tell through his baggy jumper, but this guy just raked himself a sixpack. If you rake leaves for 20 minutes instead of 15, you'll burn 27 extra calories. The same goes for other activities in the garden, so get outside and re-green your thumbs. Ironing is just The Worst. But if you spend 10 minutes doing it every day, you'll burn about 29 calories, which is something, I guess. Also, you'll look like less of a slob because your clothes have no wrinkles and you're a calorie-burning machine. I know what you're thinking: Burn more calories by walking more. How truly revolutionary. This textbook calorie-burner is not particularly novel, I agree. But if it's such a no-brainer, why aren't you doing it? Park your car about 300 metres from your office, and the return journey will burn about 30 bonus calories a day. But you catch public transport? Get off your train or bus a stop or two earlier. And that's before you've gone to the gym or eaten a quinoa salad instead of fish and chips for dinner. Go, you. While you're at it, go here to figure out how many calories or kilojoules you should be eating and drinking.