A couple tricks to eating out this week-end

Week-ends are usually when we will end up eating a meal or two out of the house.   Here a couple tricks for success.

Ask for what YOU want.  Ask questions about how your food is prepared.
Double the veggies and ask for them steamed.
Share a meal with another person
Ask for a box the same time you get your meal and IMMEDIATELY box half of it up for left overs.
Pay for your bill in cash.  We tend to eat more when we pay with a credit/debit card.  Set yourself a price point (w/tip) and bring it in cash.  Liquor, dessert, and apps are spendy and loaded with calories don't allot extra cash for the extras.
If you are going to a restaurant they offer bread and/or chips for free starters, ask the server to leave it in the kitchen you will eat a meal's worth of calories before your meal arrives.

Don't trust the word salad at a restaurant (unless you are getting a plain house salad with veggies only and can ask for the dressing to be kept off).  Typical salads at a restaurant can hold 1000 calories or more.

Salads from a few restaurants on (or off) island
Cheesecake Factory
BBQ ranch Chicken (with no bread) 1415 calories with 113g fat

Chili's
Caesar salad with chicken and dressing 1010 calories 76g fat
Southwestern cobb with NO dressing added 970 calories 60g fat
Quesadilla explosion 1000 calories 53 g fat

Ruby Tuesdays
Chicken Salad (no dressing)975 calories 68g fat

basic taco salad about 900 calories and 60g fat

Ladies...that is 2 of my kick your butt classes or about an HOUR and a HALF on a tread mill running!!!!!!!!! for a "healthy" salad : )

Have a GREAT week-end filled with BETTER choices.