Challenge 3

Too much food

Do you tend to overeat when you eat out? If so, it’s not surprising restaurants portions are often substantial, frequently larger than what you’d serve yourself at home. Why? Generous portions are popular with costumers and food costs less for a restaurant than the service that goes into every dish. For most of the people, over eating is a common sit down restaurant phenomenon. Out of habit, people often order a starter, a main course, a dessert and all that comes along with it; whether or not they are hungry enough for all that food. 

Solutions

• Size your order
• Turn a starter into your main course: Still hungry? Order a second starter with plenty of vegetables. With 2 small starters, instead of one big main dish; you get 2 flavor experiences and more food variety.
• Order for today (and tomorrow). Plan for packing up the left over portion after you are full. Eat half, set the rest aside if the portion size is large. Refrigerate the take home portion promptly and eat it for your next meal.
• Split the dish 50-50. For half the calories, you double the pleasure by sharing it with your companion.
• Dump the “Clean Plate” notion: Give yourself permission to leave food on your plate when you’re full. We always have been taught not to waste food. It is bad to dump food in garbage but it is worse to dump the food in your stomach.
• Skip “super size, value size “items: There’s no value in ordering and eating more than you want or need!

Challenge 4

Planning the other meals of the day: You’ll find dozens of ideas here of eating delicious restaurant food without blowing your diet

Solutions

Remember these 2 tips:

• If you are going to eat out for lunch or dinner, think about what you are eating for your other meals so you can plan well and not blow your “calorie budget”. For example, plan on a light lunch if you’ll eat out a dinner time.
• Try not to skip meals, which may make you overindulge later. And most importantly, try not to show up at the restaurant famished! If you’d like to splurge on a higher calorie entrée, plan to skip dessert and commit to sticking to your plan once in the restaurant.
• Have it your way. Restaurants are in the business of serving costumers. Don’t be afraid to ask for items specially prepared the way you want them.

All of us have friends or been in company of people who make eating fried, oily, cheesy food cool! Avoid giving in peer pressure by thinking about your goals of weight loss or achieving great figure you are working hard to achieve. When you achieve your goal every thing is going to be worth white. Your cool unhealthy eating friends will be fat or thin with cholesterol in their arteries.

Remember how much effort it takes to burn calories and couple of bad choices can nullify all your efforts. Indulging in what you like once a while is ok. If it has become your habit it’s time to change it! 

Pic: ilker .