10 Tips for Eating Out While on a Diet

10 Tips for Eating Out While on a Diet



Dining out on a diet doesn't have to be cause for panic. With a little
planning and preparation, you can make it through eating out without
blowing your diet.

1. Order from the appetizer menu. Hungry? Order a side salad as
well ... a good way to ensure you're still eating instead of watching
your date finish off his entree after you've polished off that shrimp
cocktail.

2. Keep tabs on that tubini. Endless pasta may be your idea of bliss
(Darn near nirvana for yours truly!), but it's a scary prospect to
those of us who overeat. Stick with a single entree and don't worry
about being a member of the clean plate club . I won't tell your mom
if you don't tell mine.

3. Meat yourself half-way. As tempting as that guy at the booth across
from you is making that bucket of fried chicken look, always elect
poultry to be prepared the following ways: steamed; poached; roasted;
broiled; boiled; grilled; or baked. As for you beef-eaters out there,
be sure you choose lean cuts like loin or flank .

4. Modify the menu. In my neck of the woods, where anything and
everything can be batter-dipped and fried, I ask for fried entrees and
sides to be boiled, broiled or roasted and I'm rarely turned down.

5. Beware the buzz words: Cream sauces; butter; oil; au gratin;
breaded; Alfredo; battered or batter-dipped and, Mom's favorite
topper, gravy . Avoid them all unless you're putting in some extra
sessions on the stair climber this week.

6. Wrap it up, I'll take it! You know you're at a nice restaurant when
the server wraps up your food for you at the end of the meal so you
don't have to worry about fashioning that tin foil swan for yourself.
Keep temptation at bay by asking the server to wrap up half your meal
before you start eating.

7. Don't let take out take over your diet. Take out half of your take
out ... and put it into plastic containers ... tuck it away in the
fridge. After a long day at work, chances are you won't want to go to
the trouble of heating up the rest. (Instant will power!)

8. Cram for tonight's dinner. Ask your favorite eateries to fax you
take out menus and then keep them on-hand. Highlight the healthiest
options and choose your entree ahead of time.

9. Banish buffets. Portion control can become a foreign concept for
the best dieter at a buffet. Who can practice portion control when
there are new, clean plates beckoning for more? The variety of foods
available at buffets is also daunting; studies have shown when we're
given more choices we tend to eat more.

10. Mini meals make your day. Eat smaller meals during the day if
dining out tonight, just be sure you don't eat too sparingly so that
you're so famished by dinnertime you end up overeating. Have a small,
healthful snack in the afternoon to quell hunger.

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On Jun 9, 10:47 pm, O My Garden wrote:

10 Tips for Eating Out While on a Diet

It might be easier to just post the link.
http://weightloss.about.com/od/eatsmart/a/a101405a.htm

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Phil M.