To Lose Weight Consistently, You Need to Be Careful About the R Word - Restaurants
So, you are doing great on your eating plan, and you are exercising.
You have cut out fatty foods, you have seen results.
You have begun to build muscle, and lose fat.
But then, you are placed in the danger zone.
You have to deal with the R Word - restaurants.
Why is that the hardest place to stay on your diet? This may seem obvious - because the food is so yummy you want to order the tastiest thing on the menu.
But actually there is more to it.
A restaurant is loaded with triggers.
Triggers are things that make us want high fat and large portions, and big desserts.
Once you know what the triggers are though, you can get some ammunition to ward off their effects.
Here are the main triggers that can potentially get to us in restaurants: 1.
Waiting to be seated: While you wait, you smell the food, watch servers carry by plates of food.
All the while you think, wow that looks good.
And you are hungry - you wouldn't be there if you weren't hungry.
SO you start to relax and consider what you might order off one of those plates that went by 2.
Looking at the menu, and waiting to place your order: On the menu are all the choices - more triggers.
With great descriptions all designed to get you to pick them.
And then the waiting...
all the while you are getting more and more hungry.
3.
The social pressure to order festive, special, and treat type food, to "pull out all the stops" and let your diet fall to one side...
just for today.
So, how to counter all the temptation? Here is how.
Know in advance that you can cut out the waiting.
Here is your plan.
As soon as your host seats you, order soup or salad right away.
Otherwise triggers like the smells, menu items, and bread and butter the waiter brings will put you in high fat hell.
Restaurants are a set up for you to fail because of the waiting.
Each second you wait, you get more and more hungry.
You wait to order and you are ravenous, so you pick high fat and larger meals.
By immediately asking the server to bring you a soup or salad, you can curb your hunger, BEFORE you even order.
And you'll know the minute you walk in the door that you'll be getting that salad right away so you don't have to contemplate what you might be getting to eat.
And by the time you do order your main meal, you can make a reasonable choice.
You won't be as ravenous anymore, so at this point your order will more likely be healthy and more filling than high fat food - and this will also help you to resist dessert because healthful foods are denser and fill you up quickly.
So, you can stick to your diet in a restaurant - if you simply take a little time to recognise all the triggers and decide in advance what you are going to do about them.
You have cut out fatty foods, you have seen results.
You have begun to build muscle, and lose fat.
But then, you are placed in the danger zone.
You have to deal with the R Word - restaurants.
Why is that the hardest place to stay on your diet? This may seem obvious - because the food is so yummy you want to order the tastiest thing on the menu.
But actually there is more to it.
A restaurant is loaded with triggers.
Triggers are things that make us want high fat and large portions, and big desserts.
Once you know what the triggers are though, you can get some ammunition to ward off their effects.
Here are the main triggers that can potentially get to us in restaurants: 1.
Waiting to be seated: While you wait, you smell the food, watch servers carry by plates of food.
All the while you think, wow that looks good.
And you are hungry - you wouldn't be there if you weren't hungry.
SO you start to relax and consider what you might order off one of those plates that went by 2.
Looking at the menu, and waiting to place your order: On the menu are all the choices - more triggers.
With great descriptions all designed to get you to pick them.
And then the waiting...
all the while you are getting more and more hungry.
3.
The social pressure to order festive, special, and treat type food, to "pull out all the stops" and let your diet fall to one side...
just for today.
So, how to counter all the temptation? Here is how.
Know in advance that you can cut out the waiting.
Here is your plan.
As soon as your host seats you, order soup or salad right away.
Otherwise triggers like the smells, menu items, and bread and butter the waiter brings will put you in high fat hell.
Restaurants are a set up for you to fail because of the waiting.
Each second you wait, you get more and more hungry.
You wait to order and you are ravenous, so you pick high fat and larger meals.
By immediately asking the server to bring you a soup or salad, you can curb your hunger, BEFORE you even order.
And you'll know the minute you walk in the door that you'll be getting that salad right away so you don't have to contemplate what you might be getting to eat.
And by the time you do order your main meal, you can make a reasonable choice.
You won't be as ravenous anymore, so at this point your order will more likely be healthy and more filling than high fat food - and this will also help you to resist dessert because healthful foods are denser and fill you up quickly.
So, you can stick to your diet in a restaurant - if you simply take a little time to recognise all the triggers and decide in advance what you are going to do about them.
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