Good Lifestyle

You are presented with a multiple menu of choice, most of them are wrong, and if you do not find it all, a bad score is certain to ruin your future. The monitor (ER, the server) can not help you and you can not even cheat because the questions change all the time.

But what you can do is get these six questions each time. They may seem like simple queries, but in most cases there is a hidden agenda - and a secret opportunity to put kibosh on additional calories and speed up yourweightloss. Consider this your Cliffsnotes restaurant.

Quick response: "We eat here all the time"

A study in theInternational Journal for Food Research I found that people are less likely to make healthy restaurants choices when they feel they are dining for a special occasion. This makes sense except ... We also tend to consider meals anywhere, at any time, like a "special occasion". Yet today, between takeaway taking,delivery And eating, the average American eats restaurants for a meal in three.

Before leaving for your meal, make the stock how many times have you eaten this week. If a trip to a restaurant is really a madness once a week, so do not worry about it. But if you are like most of us, the meal outside is probably more like a madness once a day. Eat intelligently today because you will have to do it again tomorrow.

Quick answer: "Oil and vinegar on the side."

It sounds like a weight of Weenie, commanding the vinaigrette on the side, as if you try to micromanize the kitchen of your cabin. But statistics do not lie. A house salad toApplebee is 230 calories. If they empty the blue cheese vinaigrette, it is suddenly 470 calories, or what you would get by commanding their 12 oz New York band. (And the salad has 40 grams of fat, against 25 for steak.) But a light dose of oil and vinegar retains this meal less than 300 calories. An exchange like this daily newspaper will avoid nearly 18 pounds a year!

Quick response: "shrimp cocktail".

Consider this: the numerical source of calories in the American diet is not hamburgers, cookies or evenBeer. It is bread. All around us enveloping our sandwiches, sitting next to our eggs, resting in a small basket at our dinner table. And for the most part, bread is a source without nutrition of right sugar calories. A slice of Italian bread has 80 to 100 calories; A roller of dinner in plain on average 87 calories.

Why do the restaurants want we eat bread? Becausebread Give us a sugar rush, followed by a sugar accident, so we are started for dessert at the end of our meal. The simple solution consists in completely crossing the waiting bar, but damn you are hungry. If you can, order a shrimp cocktail. Five juicy shrimps plunged into a sauce clock just 100 calories and more than 12 grams of belly filling proteins and can be at your table in minutes

Quick answer: "It's my entrance."

Order your whole meal from the aperitif menu. Or hell, order your entry on the men's menu that cares you more than 9 years old? You are allowed to order as much, or as little, as you wish, then take advantage of this fact, said Dietian Keri Gans, R.D. "That's all the reason for the control of the portions," she says. "It's not that pasta is so terrible for you, it's just the size of the plate." In fact, you should consider all restaurant meals "pre-super size". Over the past two decades, restaurants have grown our portions all out of proportion. Just look at the table below.

Quick answer: "with flame."

Ha! A trick response for a trick issue. In most restaurants, grilled dishes are cooked on a grill plate - it's a bit more than a flat save stove, where fat gathers to dance and have a party. "Grill" with restaurants Lock Grease instead of cooking. Flame-Grill means putting meat or vegetables on an open flame. At this point, your server can scrape the head and shuffer in a kind of hope that I get the part in soap and can leave this jitter, "only to come back and say that there is no real grill in the kitchen. In this case, ask him to be grilled, using the grill that is located, YEP, under the hot plate. Anyway, "flame" makes a huge difference; A study in the science of meat (yeah, we are subscribers) found that the grill of a pork box could actually reduce its fat content of a third.

Quick answer: "Do you have bays?"

Even if the restaurant lists Gooey, Chocolate, decadent desserts on his menu, there is a good chance that blueberries and strawberries - two of the best fruits for loss of fat -Fall in the kitchen. Ask for a bowl surmounted by a generous spoon of whipped cream for a decadent dessert out of the menu. A cup of mixed bays with 3 tablespoons of whipped cream only has about 117 calories, against 492 in a piece of tiramisu and 411 in a slice of apple pie. Or keep it simple and simply order a bowl of ice. Four ounces of vanilla ice cream have about 145 calories, while chocolate clocks at 130 years old. In an ideal world, of course, you do not order dessert. But the ideal worlds are boring.