Top 7 tips to get calories out of restaurant food

^{You may want it to be special when you eat out, you may have seen the advice on shaving calories at restaurants but really, do you want to pay high restaurant prices for unsweetened salads and plain steamed vegetables. ? No, then how do you solve the dilemma of too many calories when you eat out? Here are seven great tips for getting the calories out of restaurant food when ordering your favorite. A. You have to stop supersizing, and you'll save money. Better still, order a dinner and ask for an extra plate. Many restaurants will do this for a dollar or two, and it is well worth it. Then share the meal with your friend, you split the cost directly. Another option is to order from the so-called "appetizer" menu. Two people can order three entrées split a dessert and the whole thing, it's still a ton of food! B. Unless the bread is fresh or some really special bread, just leave it out. You don't need a simple bread filling when you're paying good money for a meal. If you can't resist just ask to remove it, but frankly, you're an adult, you can protest if you want. You can simply choose not to have rolls on your plate. Can not skip the rolls, then at least leave the butter. This is right. Eat it, simple Whole grain bread is delicious on its own. C. Never order a drink. Soft drinks are a big cash cow for restaurants. For pennies, they sell you syrup and a squirt of carbonated water and act like they're doing you a huge favor by charging you $1.35 for just 74 ounces of soda. Start saving those dollars. Especially if you're ordering "to go" then skip the drinks. If you're eating it there, ask for water, or at least switch to diet drinks. Stay away from drinking "fat pop". D. Take your time, enjoy the moment, enjoy the flavors. Recognizing the subtle signs of hunger is a big part of learning to stay in touch with your hunger cues and eat what will satisfy. You won't know when you're approaching satisfaction if you've nailed everything down to five minutes. Take a bite and notice how many times you chew before swallowing? Try chewing your food and your body will be more pleased. A great deal of digestion starts in your mouth, not to mention that you'll get more pleasure if you let the food linger. E. You really love the skin—of course you do, it tastes good, it must be pure fat. Do you want to be lean, or do you want to eat fat? You choose. There was a man that also doesn't eat chicken skins and never eats the fat hanging off a steak, good taste or not. You have to decide whether you want more, a second worth of delicious taste buds, or a lifetime of carrying an extra 40 lbs.? I know this is contrary to the low-carb crowd's belief that fat is good, carbs are bad, but he's lost 80 pounds in 18 years without dieting and doesn't eat visible fat or skin. Enough said. F. Ask for a doggie bag at the beginning, before the meal. When the meal is served, immediately portion something up to take home for tomorrow. Most restaurants in America serve too much. There is no law that you have to eat it all. Do this over and over, and soon you'll find that you're getting an extra lunch out of that meal. G. Get you a copy of Restaurant Confidential by Michael F. Jacobson and Jayne Hurley, and start checking how many calories you're eating. If you frequently eat outside food, and you are overweight, then maybe this is the problem. This book will help you understand why it seems like you haven't eaten much yet still can't lose weight. Harden's recently introduced a new burger that's just under 1200 calories on its own! Now that's scary. To deal with your weight problem, first look at where you eat, second what you eat, and thirdly how much you eat. Try these steps, choosing one tip at a time, to see how easily you can cut some calories from restaurant meals.}