Eating out doesn’t have to wreak havoc with your diet. Try some of the following tactics to help make restaurant foods fit into your own eating plan.
* Order regular portion sizes instead of the jumbo sizes now common. Try an appetizer, half an entrée, or share a meal with a friend and order an extra side salad. Ask for half the entrée to be wrapped up to go before the food is brought to the table.
* Get exactly what you want by ordering each item separately (a la carte). For example, one chicken enchilada easy-on-the-sauce, side salad, and fruit desert instead of the #8 enchilada plate with rice, beans, sour cream, guacamole, etc.
* Learn to spot which dishes are made with lower calorie cooking methods.
* Ask how dishes are prepared and can they can do it your way: grill the chicken, steam the vegetables, bring sauces and salad dressings on the side, put just a dollop of cream sauce on the pasta primavera and extra grilled vegetables.
* Don’t tempt yourself! Have the waiter remove the bowl of chips or peanuts, or the basket of bread, after you’ve had a small portion. Calories from mindless nibbling can add up before you know it. Don’t sit near the desert cart.
* Limit alcohol. It’s high calorie, has few nutrients, and can weaken your will power.
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This post was written by SaipanEats on October 15, 2008
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