Eating in Restaurants the New Addiction by Kathryn Martyn, M.NLP

Addicted to Restaurants

Are you addicted to restaurants? So are lots of Americans. What

used to be a "treat," going out for dinner, has become more

common that cooking at home, and we think we're better off? Think

again. Restaurant eating, fast foods and highly processed foods

are turning us into a nation of tubby's. It's time to take back

control of our waistlines.

You choose where you eat, and you choose what you eat. Here are

some suggestions to begin to make better choices.

Restaurants Exist to Make a Profit

The bottom line is restaurants exist to make a profit. They pile

on the extra butter and rich cream sauces, caramelized sugar

toppings, cheese sauce, double-deluxe, new improved, and whatever

they can do to make the food so enticing, so delicious, we just

cannot resist. Fine for an occasional splurge, but not everyday

fare, and herein lies the problem.

Extra Value Meals

McDonalds started the trend by offering slightly larger portions

for a bit more money, and every other food establishment quickly

followed suit. Extra value they called it. Who wouldn't order a

bit more for only pennies? Today nearly every restaurant, fast

food or sit down dining, serves gigantic quantities that boggle

the mind. There is usually enough food served for two, sometimes

three meals.

Reading in Restaurant Confidential (get a copy of this book and

read it until it sinks in), the calorie count in the typical

restaurant meal is so staggering it ends the surprise of why

obesity is rampant and on the rise. Cheese fries with Ranch

dressing are listed at having over 3,000 calories and 217 grams

of fat (91 of them saturated). That's an entire day's worth of

food, and it's considered an appetizer. Most people don't just

eat the cheese fries either, so add in the rest of your day's

calories and you end up with far more than you may realize.

Anyone who eats out regularly (at least once a day) is likely

consuming closer to 5,000 calories a day, which easily explains

their being overweight.

Getting the Calories Out of Restaurant Food

Unless you mentally make it okay to pay good money for very plain

foods, you're not likely to solve this puzzle. Here are a couple

of painless ideas you can put into action at restaurants:

1. Just say NO to super sizing. The size you ordered is already

too big. Stop super sizing and you'll save money (see How to Save

Money and Lose Weight).

2. Skip the bread and rolls served with most meals. Most family

restaurants still serve a bread basket with your meal. Unless

it's a fresh baked loaf, or some special bread, just skip it. You

don't need to fill up on ordinary bread when you're paying good

money for a meal - just push it away - it's not that good. You

can do it, if you want to - it's not that hard to simply choose

not to put a roll on your plate. Try it, just once and see if you

don't walk out of that restaurant feeling strangely powerful.

If you can't skip the rolls, at least skip the butter. That's

right. Eat it plain. Bread all by itself is good enough.

3. Stop ordering drinks with your meals. I stopped buying the

soft drinks many years ago when I realized they are a huge cash

cow for the fast food restaurants. For pennies, they sell you a

squirt of syrup and soda water and act like they're doing you a

big favor by only charging you $1.29 for a giant 64 ounce soda.

Start saving those dollars. If you take the meal home, just don't

get a drink, and if you're eating it there, ask for water, or at

least switch to diet drinks. Never drink "fat pop."

5. Trim visible fat and skin. You really love the skin - of

course it tastes good, it should, it's pure fat. Do you want to

get leaner, or do you want to eat fat? You choose. I never eat

chicken skin, and never eat the visible fat hanging off a steak,

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BIO:

Kathryn Martyn, Master NLP Practitioner, author of the free
e-book: Changing Beliefs, Your First Step to Permanent Weight
Loss, and owner of http://www.OneMoreBite-Weightloss.com

Get The Daily Bites: Inspirational Mini Lessons Using EFT and
NLP for Ending the Struggle with Weight Loss.
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