Thursday, May 15, 2014

Hints On How To Eat Healthy While Eating Out

By James Spann


Missing out on your favorite food or being strict on nutrition does not imply healthy eating. Keeping yourself healthy entails having a feel good mood as well as more energy. By learning nutritional tips and basics, it helps to choose the appropriate diet for you. In most cases, people do not consider eating out at a particular restaurant healthy. It is often taken as unhealthy lifestyle. Through thorough preparations and awareness, restaurant food can be taken as a healthy choice. Outlined are the common tips on how to eat healthy while eating out and if paid attention would be of benefit.

Order first. In most cases, individuals get lost when their colleagues make the first order. They tend to order if not the same but closely related order to the initial one. This happens mostly in ladies who tend to mirror one another when out to eat. Therefore, it would do you great good to raise the tone by being the first to order. In this case, if you order healthier options, then the rest are likely to follow. A restaurant where you likely to meet friends and business associates is recommended.

Red flags. The menu should be checked for red flags once you take a seat to make an order. This is done to help identify which food has high calories. Smothered, fried or breaded are some of the foods believed to contain high level of calories. Orders like; broiled, steamed or grilled are preferred. For a healthy diet any of the combination will work.

Tailor the meal. You should always feel free to change a menu in case you not pleased. For instance, when an individual prefers steamed veggies to French fries. The sauce in certain orders has calories. To avoid consuming lot of it, a server can be requested to put it separately where you can have the required amount. There is an addition of dressed salad which should be put into consideration.

Soup and salad. To minimize eating, it is recommended to first order a salad or soup (broth-based). Research has shown that individuals who take the broth-based soup or the vegetable salad before attending to their meal take less calories for the whole meal session.

Controlling portion. To ensure that one sticks to the appropriate target the knowledge of identifying the right portion is vital. The best portion should not be go beyond the size of the fist and the meat should not exceed the size of the palm. The most preferable is the appetizer in comparison to entree.

One should carefully choose the best drink for them. All drinks whether alcoholic or not contain a certain amount of calories. A glass of wine and water are preferable. When one takes water first it reduces the amount of alcohol they would take. Alcohol should not entertained in any way hence should be taken as little as possible.

It is not an easy task to cope with such a menu bearing in mind that one has to do away with their best meals. When one gets to a restaurant, they crave for certain foods and holding on is not as easy as said. It should be noted that the temptations of keeping off from certain orders to stick to healthy food is a sacrifice but worth taking.




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