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Restaurants: 16 Quick Tips for
Eating at Restaurants or Work
By: Paul M. Jerard Jr.
Most of us eat at restaurants for a variety of reasons;
time and convenience are the most common motives. Below
is a prepared list of quick tips for eating out of your
home.
If you eat healthy food or sensible portions, that you
like, you can stick with eating healthy for life.
Your portions should be spaced out over the course of
the day. Water should be a part of every meal.
After you eat, your stomach should be half full, or
less, with food. For every two parts of food consumed,
you should drink one part water. Leave your stomach at
least one quarter empty for movement of air.
When eating at a restaurant, eat half a portion,
maximum, and wait five or ten minutes. Restaurant
portions are commonly two to four meals on a single or
double plate.
This is way too much to consume at a single sitting and
you may find out that, once you pause and sip your
drink, you are already full.
In the Providence, RI area, there are some restaurants
where the single portions could feed a family of four.
No wonder a man of 200 lbs. is now considered thin. Do
not make comparisons to other people. Eat to live and
enjoy your food, but do not use someone else’s over
indulgence as an excuse for your own.
Establish control over your appetite. Most of us feel
guilty if we don’t finish a plate. This is usually
conditioning from your childhood. Bury your guilty past
and have the rest “wrapped to go.”
Always eat something for breakfast and never “skip it.”
When you skip breakfast, you will over-consume for it,
later in the day.
Eat slowly and thoroughly chew your food.
Make sure your last meal, or last “snack” of the day, is
small and nutritionally dense. Examples: Cereal with
fruit, vegetable salad with olive oil and balsamic
vinegar, rice with vegetables, and light popcorn,
without the extra butter and salt. For those who eat
meat or fish: turkey, chicken, or salmon salad on top of
fresh greens. In the later part of your day, skip
desserts, sugary cereals, bread, and second portions.
If you absolutely must have sugar: Eat fruit,
strawberries with yogurt or low fat cottage cheese,
fruit with rice, or almonds with yogurt.
If you must have coffee or alcohol, beware that these
should be consumed in extreme moderation. Both
substances will dehydrate your body, and you will have
to drink extra water to make up for it. Wine is much
better than hard alcohol, but one or two glasses a day
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