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Rather than supersize downsize by putting 1/2 of your restaurant food in a doggie bag before you eat.
We can eat out and still lose weight; however, a recent study at the University of Texas found that female dieters eat more than 250 calories and 16 grams of fat when they eat out versus when they eat at home,
Research by FITNESS advisory board member Brian Wansink, PhD, director of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab in Ithaca, New York, and author of Mindless Eating, shows that we keep nibbling until our plates are empty rather than waiting for our bodies to tell us we're full.
What to do
- Don't starve yourself all day so you can eat more at the restaurant. If you go to the restaurant starving you'll eat everything in sight.
- Women who drink more that two drinks of wine/alcohol a day get about 30% more calories than those who don't. So one drink is ok; two - not so good.
- Once upon a time the plates were 7 inches. Now they average 9 inches. Ask that half your food be put in a doggie bag before it even comes to you. Then you have a chance of eating the right portion of food.
- Fill up on salad. Don't be afraid to ask for a special dish. For example if your dinner comes with a potato and veggie ask for two veggies and skip the potato. Ask that the vegetables be steamed and that healthy broiled fish is not swimming in butter.
- Try to keep away from the white foods and anything that says cream in it. Go for a marsala dish rather than an alfredo dish!
- Share a dessert with someone and then just take a few bites. Enough to tell your brain that you've had sweets and that you aren't denying yourself anything but not enough to gain 2 pounds by the next day.
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