When you go out to a restaurant, it is so easy to indulge or to just say "forget it" and go right ahead and gobble varieties of food.
Even if you want to eat right, you don't know how to properly do it.
Following these 5 tips can help you eat out at restaurants and still lose weight.
Mix your own salad dressing.
When you order salad, you want all the freshness, the green, healthy food.
But if you smother it in that salad dressing, you might as well eat some French fries because it has enough calories and it has enough fat as a large order of French fries.
Ask for oil and vinegar on the side.
In that way, you sprinkle the olive oil and the vinegar on top of it with crushed black pepper.
The oil from olive oil is actually a healthy type of fat that HELPS you lose weight and vinegar, on the other hand, is a natural fat burner.
These condiments not only help you lose weight naturally but provide you wonderful-tasting salads-the best of both worlds.
Cut out the butter and the cheese.
I read an article once that the average restaurant meal has over a stick of butter in it, which is a LOT of fat.
You would be surprised at how much butter is actually in food that you would never expected to be in.
In a restaurant, tell the waiter that you do not want any butter or cheese on any of your food.
You can order a side dish of vegetables but if they're sautéed in butter, it will no longer be healthy for you.
If you order a fillet of fish that's drizzled in butter, that kind of cuts the point of being healthy.
There are many restaurants around where you would not expect to find butter and cheese hidden in your meal.
That's understandable, of course, because butter and cheese add an enjoyable taste to the food they serve.
Restaurants want their customers to enjoy what they eat.
They will not serve food that contains dairy products to lactose-intolerant customers.
So by saying you have, at least, a dairy allergy, your server becomes obligated to tell you what foods they have exactly that contain butter and cheese from the list of food in the menu.
Cut out white bread.
White bread turns straight into sugar once you eat it.
Worse, it is the type of sugar that stores fat.
Whole-grain breads take more time to digest and will give you more nutrition from wheat.
Eliminate sauces completely.
The main source of a lot of these calories and fat comes from sauces served in restaurants.
They may say it's a "wine sauce" or a "garlic sauce" but really, it's mostly cheese.
It's mostly cream, butter and sugar sprinkled with a little wine or bits of garlic just so they can be referred to as wine or garlic sauces.
Things you do not want to be eating in order to lose weight naturally and get healthy.
Skip dessert.
Tell the waiter before you even finish eating that you will not have any dessert.
Chew a stick of gum, preferably the sugar-free ones.
A lot of times you want dessert that's something sweet just to take out all the flavors in your mouth so chewing gum will help you crave your desire for eating something sweet.