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Eating out and staying healthy.

By Rick Rakauskas

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Published: 13Oct2009
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Eating healthily is a hard thing to do. People are constantly busy working, travelling, and doing whatever they need to do in their daily lives. With their busy lifestyles, they often fail to eat healthy and they usually resort to fast food.

How can one be healthy if he or she constantly eats out? On average, people consume 300 calories or more, 19 grams of fat, and more than 400mg of sodium per meal. This is too much as compared to when you eat at home.

Don't think however, that eating out is unhealthy. You can still eat healthy food and prevent overeating by following some simple steps.

Before the main dish, order water right away to avoid confusing thirst with hunger.

When eating out, your choices are important.

If you want to rid yourself from dreaded fats, calories, and other notorious foods, choose your food with these restrictions in mind.

You can choose whole grains, brown or wild rice, vegetables, and fresh fruits. You can have lean meats, skinless poultry and fish, and other simply prepared foods.

It is important to know that you can have your food prepared just the way you want it You can order something that is not on the menu like steamed vegetables, baked fish, skim milk, broth or vegetable-based soups, fresh fruit, grilled steak and plain baked potato. By ordering foods according to your liking, you can benefit from eating healthy meals.

Before ordering the main dish, order a salad or soup.

Finish your soup or salad before ordering your main dish. This can prevent overeating. When eating your salad, don't use a salad dressing, instead, use vinegar or lemon.

Another great healthy eating method is portion control. Today, restaurants offer much larger sizes of meals. To avoid overeating and consuming everything on your huge-sized plate, make it a habit to ask for a to-go box.

This way, you can take home some of your leftover foods. Another great idea is to split a plate of food with another person.

Now for the dessert, you can split it up so you will not consume everything. You can give the other half to someone or take it home for consumption later on.

Don't be scared of asking restaurants to do what you want. Most restaurant owners are even glad to do this for their customers. Remember, you are a customer.

Another thing that you should moderate is alcohol consumption.

Alcohol contains calories and can dehydrate the body. If you have to drink, make sure to drink a glass of water.

Make sure to check your food's nutritional information. Sometimes, they will say that it is healthy while in truth, it is not. So, be sure to monitor what you are eating.

Healthy eating when eating out will stop you from consuming those notoriously bad and unhealthy foods.

Getting good health isn't difficult - it just needs consistency of effort. And knowing the right thing to do and when to do it. Just take baby ACTION steps, building one upon the other under the guidance of an empathetic and properly qualified Fitness Mentor. Rick Rakauskas can safely guide you so you get your life and figure back with http://www.fitnessbyphone.com.au and http://gold-coast-personal-training.com

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