Quick Tips: Eating Out - 3
7. Look for better lunch options:
Many of us working in offices or still in school have to take the option of eating out for lunch. The best alternative is to pack sandwiches from home. However, if that’s not possible, try checking out some of the healthier restaurants.
For example, in many fast food restaurants, a large meal can top 1,500 calories. If you opt for Subway or someplace similar instead, you’ll find a number of alternatives that have much fewer calories, with many sandwiches under 300. In Subway’s case, there is an entire lineup of low-fat sandwiches called “6 Grams of Fat or Less”. Most of these are excellent in terms of calories as well. See if something similar is available in your area.
Pick one of these sandwiches with a low calorie beverage and you may end up saving hundreds of calories in a single meal.
8. Avoid high calorie beverages:
A couple of glasses of cola can total 300 calories. Try to wash down your meal with water and you will be saving that many calories with every meal eaten out.
9. Be good for the rest of the week:
If nothing else works, simply go and eat out as much you normally do but balance it out on other days.
For example, let’s assume that for all the other days of the week you have been burning 600 calories each day, which will make it a grand total of 3,600 calories burned. Even if on this particular day, you go 100 calories overboard from your daily requirements, you would have still lost 3,500 calories for the week.
So, if you think the extra calories are bearable in your overall plans, than simply go out and have that meal. Of course, this can only work if you eat out infrequently.
Print This Page
Comments
Leave a Reply