Here are seven tips to get the calories from restaurant meals, while ordering your favorites.
1. Say NO to super sizing. The size you ordered is already too large. Super Stop sizing and save money. Better yet, order a dinner and ask for an additional plate. Many restaurants will do this for a dollar or two, and it is well worth it. Then share the meal with your friend and you split the cost down the middle. Another option is the order of the so-called "cocktail" menu. Two people could order three dishes, one dessert and split it all and it's always a ton of food!
2. Skip the bread and rolls. Many family restaurants still serve a bread basket with your meal. Unless it is a bread baked bread or a really special, just jump. You do not need to fill out the ordinary bread when you pay big money for a meal. Just ask to be removed if you can not resist, but frankly, you are an adult, you can resist, if you want. You can simply choose not to roll on your plate. Try, just once and see if you do not walk on this restaurant feeling strangely powerful.
If you can not skip the rolls, at least skip the butter. That's right. Eat plain. The whole grain bread is delicious on its own.
3. Stop Ordering Drinks. Soft drinks are a huge cash cow for restaurants. For pennies they sell you a squirt of syrup and carbonated water and act like they're doing you a big favor by only charging you $1.29 for a giant 64 ounce soda. Start saving those dollars. Especially if you're ordering "to go" skip the drink. If you're eating it there, ask for water, or at least switch to diet drinks. Never drink "fat pop."
4. Slow Down You eat too fast! What is the urgency? Take your time, savor the moment, enjoy the flavors. Much to get in touch with your hunger signals and learn to eat what will be really happy is learning to recognize the subtle signs of hunger. You never know when you approach the satisfaction if you swallowed everything down in five minutes. Take a bite, and note how many times have you chewed before you start wanting to swallow? Once, twice? Make an effort to chew your food and your body will be much happier. A very large part of digestion begins in the mouth, not to mention you have much more fun if you leave food linger.
5. Remove visible fat and skin. I know you really like the skin - of course you do, it tastes good, it is, it's pure fat. Do you want to get leaner, or do you want to eat fat? You choose. I never eat chicken skin and never eat the visible fat hanging from a steak, good taste or not. You need to decide what you want most, the second is a pleasure to taste delicious, or a life of achieving around a 40 lbs more? I know this is contrary to the belief of the low-carb crowd is that fat is good, carbs are bad, but I maintained a weight loss of 80 pounds for 18 years without dieting and I do not eat no visible fat or skin. Enough said.
6. Have a Doggie Bag at the beginning of meals. When food is served, immediately portion off some home for tomorrow. Most restaurants in the United States are too much. There is no law you have to eat it all. To do this frequently and soon you will see that you get a lunch out of that extra meal.
7. Get a copy of confidential restaurants by Michael F. Jacobson and Jayne Hurley, and begin to see how many calories you're really eating. If you eat regularly and you carry the extra weight, so it's probably the problem there. This little book can help you understand why it seems that you do not eat that much yet you can not lose weight. Hardees recently introduced a new burger that clocks just under 1200 calories all by itself! Now that's scary.
If you really want to get a handle on your weight problem, look first to where you eat, second at what you eat, and third how much you eat. Where, What and How Much? Try these steps choosing one tip at a time, and see how easily you can take some of the calories out of restaurant food.
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