If you are a kind of
person that love dinner outside, do you think that you can lose weight when the
foods out there contains over 500 calories?
The answer is yes if you
know how to order the right menu.
Here are some tips on how
you can enjoy a healthy dinner out there :-
When ordering drinks,
avoid asking for alcoholic beverages and you can avoid calories which is
considerably high in it. You would be best taking the iced tea with non caloric
sweetener, a diet soft drink or any water with lemon. All these drinks are
calorie savings.
Consider salad in your
menu. Salad comprise large amount of antioxidants which is known to combat
heart problems. Never forget to ask the waitress to exclude croutons and cheese
as this will further reduce the caloric intake. Be wise in choosing the
dressing of the salad. Avoid the cream based dressings and choose for the
vinegar based one. You can also use the olive and vinegar oil which is good for
a healthy heart.
Do you need appetizer in
your dinner menu?. Some appetizers have more calories and fat than the main
course.Don’t order it unless it is necessary to complete your dinner. Many
appetizers are fried-based and served with heavy sauces.All these are full of
saturated and trans fats and also calories. Thus, you may not want to start
your meal with this unhealthy foods.
Avoid fried but go for
grilled and broiled foods. You will save a lot on calories and fat grams
and also trans fats which are mostly found in fried foods. Maybe you could consider
to place double order for the vegetables to start the meal.
Starch do contain
calories and carbohydrate. Eat your salad with tomato based sauces rather
than cream based as explained earlier that this is calories savings. Ask the
waitress to serve the sauce in a separate dish so that you could control the
amount of sauce that you want to take with the salad.
Nowadays, many
restaurants are offering larger quantities of food at an attractive rates as
compared to the past. In this situation , put a portion aside of the meal
before you start eating for you to bring it home with you. By doing this you
will be less tempted to overeating at one time.
Remember this : Avoid
sugar and fatty dessert but go for low fat or carbohydrate foods such as low
carb cheesecake. This is a good choice if you are concern about staying healthy
but still ending your meal with sweet things. The other option, try end up you
meal with a cup of coffee to help you have the feel of something sweet when
ending your dinner.
Keep all the above tips
in mind when you go for dinner and you will see that you are far from calories
build-up.
You will enjoy having
your healthy dinner by choosing the right menu.
Healthy Dinner
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