Here are seven tips to get calories from a restaurant while ordering your favorites.

1. Say NO to large size. The order size is already too large. Stop super sizing, and you will save money. Better yet, order one dinner and ask for an extra plate. Most restaurants will do this for one or two dollars, and it’s worth it. Then share the meal with your friend and divide the cost straight into the center. Another way is to order from a menu called “appetizer.” Two people can order three entrees, one dessert, and split everything, and it’s still a ton of food!

2. Skip the bread and rolls. Many family restaurants still offer a basket of bread and your food. Unless it's freshly baked bread or an extraordinary bread, throw it away. You do not need to supplement the regular bread when you pay for a good meal. Just ask for it to be removed if you can't resist it, but frankly, you're an adult; you can resist it if you want. You can choose not to place the roll on your plate. Try it, and once you see that you are not leaving the restaurant, you feel powerful.

If you can't skip the rolls, at least skip the butter. All right. It's clear. Whole grain bread is delicious on its own.

3. Stop Ordering Drinks. Soft drinks are a big buck for restaurant food. For pennies, they sell you a bottle of syrup and carbonated water and pretend to do you a favor by charging you only $ 1.29 for a large 64-ounce soda. Start saving those dollars. Especially if you order "walking," skip the drink. If you eat it there, ask for water, or at least switch to beverages. Never drink "fat pop."

4. Reduce Speed ​​Eat Fast! What is the chase? Take your time, enjoy a minute, enjoy the taste. A big part of contacting your symptoms of hunger and learning foods that will really satisfy you is learning to recognize the underlying symptoms of hunger. You will never know when you will be satisfied if you have knocked everything down in five minutes. Take a bite and notice how often you chew before you start wanting to swallow? Once, twice? Make an effort to chew your food, and your body will be much happier. The biggest part of digestion starts in your mouth, not to mention that you will get more pleasure if you let food slow down.

5. Reduce Oil and Exfoliating Skin. I know, you really like the skin - yet you love it, it tastes good, it should, it's pure oil. Do you want to earn a living, or do you want to eat fat? You choose. I have never eaten chicken skin, and I have never eaten any visible fat that hangs in a bowl, good taste or not. Should you decide what you want, the second pleasure of a yummy taste, or your whole life of carrying another 40 lbs? I know this contradicts the low-carb crowd belief that fats are good, bad carbs, but I have maintained a weight loss of 80 pounds for 18 years without diet, and I do not eat visible fat or skin. That's enough.

6. Ask for a Doggie bag at the beginning of the meal. Then, if the food is served, quickly pack up what you will take home tomorrow. Most restaurants in the US work in a very different way. There is no law to eat it all. Do this often, and you will soon find that you get extra lunch on that meal.