Just because you are on a diet doesn’t mean that you have to avoid eating out. You need to be informed and pay attention to what the menu has to offer, and it offers foods to choose and to stay away from. You can still enjoy your prepared meal without compromising your diet.
The menu at a restaurant can be a tricky thing to navigate. It is loaded with enticing pictures of the most sumptuous looking platters and your mouth starts watering at the sight of it. Those menu pictures were placed by advertisers to deliberately evoke your desires. The best thing to do is avoid the trap of the pictures and read the food choices.
Even just looking at the names of the meals can trick you. Deceptive titles that appeal to your desires are all over that menu. The name could be an impressive trick.
You decide to get the vegetable platter but then you notice the Fiesta vegetable platter. You are thinking it is the same thing with a south of the border spice. What it really happens to be is vegetables with refried beans and sour cream with three kinds of cheese and flour tortillas. So focus on the ordinary item names.
Often you will open up the menu and see a nice list of healthy options, yet right next to it will be a selection of unhealthy choices to trick you. Psychological studies have shown that this menu format is more likely to influence you to choose the unhealthy items instead of the healthy foods. Be aware of this and you are empowered to avoid the wrong choices.
Again, there are more pictures, but they are images of vegetables. In fact, they show a whole page of the menu with vegetable choices. You need to think about this because these seemingly healthy choices could be battered or buttered or covered with caloric sauces and bacon chunks.
Find out how the vegetables are prepared. Steamed, boiled, or lightly stir-fried are your best options for staying on track with a diet.
You might be with a group of friends and someone orders the mega-sampler platter. Those quaint little appetizers are calorie bombs to keep your distance from.
With all of these points in mind, the next time you go out to eat you will select foods which support your diet, not thwart it.
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