The biggest problem with Dining out is choosing a healthy meal once you get there. With often so many unhealthy meals offered it can be difficult to make the right choice. Almost every restaurant today offers at least one healthy meal on the menu. If they don’t, you can always ask them to make a dish the way you prefer it.
However, even when our intentions are to eat healthy – we sometimes fall prey to the company we are in and the choices we make. So how do you make a healthy meal choice when there are so many tempting things to choose from? The following tips are especially helpful to those who Dine out often.
Follow these 4 Tips to help keep you on track when dining out.
- Check out the menu before you go. Most places carry a menu right online. It’s very helpful to know exactly what you are ordering.
- Bread….When you get to the restaurant and they are seating you – tell them immediately no bread for the table until dinner arrives. You will not only being doing yourself a favor but everyone at the table a favor. Most people fill up so much on the bread they don’t enjoy the dinner they ordered. If the bread arrives the same time as your meal you are less likely to pick from it.
- Drink Alcohol? Order your drink with dinner and not before. It’s wise NOT to drink an alcoholic beverage before you order dinner or before dinner arrives. When everyone is ordering drinks you can order water with lemon. Tell the waiter that you would like your alcoholic beverage when dinner arrives. This will help you in three areas: First the water with lemon will hydrate you before you drink your dehydrating alcoholic drink. Second, you will fill up on the meal with your drink and be less likely to order a second drink. Third, if you have the drink before dinner you will be more likely to make a poor choice for your dinner option.
- Eat slowly. Really think about and enjoy your meal. Chew each bite and try not to get so caught up in the conversation at the table that you shovel the food in your mouth without thinking – and before you know it you look down and it’s all gone. Really think about and savor each mouthful. Put a little moan into it. Everyone at the table will be envious of how much you are enjoying your healthy choice.
Healthy meals can be just as delicious as unhealthy meals with a gratifying end. Think about after your meal and how happy you will be that you did not overdue it. That you feel a healthy full, and not overly stuffed and sick. You enjoyed your healthy meal and one drink and stayed on track to maintain or lose the weight you have worked so hard to do. It’s always very important to think about the choices we make in life. When it comes to food and being healthy – making the right choices will keep you on a healthy successful path to a fit and healthy future.
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