[blindweightwatcher] WATCH YOUR PORTIONS

From: "Jan Bailey" <jb021951@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <blindweightwatcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 03:42:54 -0500
WATCH YOUR PORTIONS

By Leanne Ely, C.N.C. 

Dear Friends,

One of the things with my own personal body clutter that I have struggled with 
is learning to eat less food than what I want to eat. What I want to eat
and what I need to eat are often incongruous and I have a small battle inside 
my head trying to decide if I am going to "behave" or "sin". You know exactly
what I'm talking about! We talk about that in our book Body Clutter. I've 
shared this particular concern with you previously, probably several times! 
LOL.it's
an issue I know a lot of us all share in common. Getting a grip on how much you 
REALLY need food-wise is tough. We are used to overfeeding ourselves, truth
be told.

Take restaurants for example. Not only do they bring your food on PLATTERS and 
not plates, they give you enough to feed your entire family. And what do
we do? The food comes, we oooh and ahhh over how big the portion is and then we 
dig in. We will either eat till we're stuffed and bag it up to take home
or we'll eat it all and complain about how stuffed we are. 

Let me share with you how many calories are in a typical chain restaurant meal. 
For fun, I'm going to share with you something I ate at a Chili's awhile
ago (thinking it would be a good choice) and how blown away I was that it was 
this many calories and this much fat-it's just unbelievable! 

The Chicken Caesar Salad I ate had 1,010 calories and 76 grams (yes, 
SEVENTY-SIX) of FAT!!!!!!! Hello?? I was absolutely STUNNED!! That's just NOT 
doing
my body ANY favors! 13 grams of that 76 fat grams were saturated fat, too. 

What does that tell you? 

Two things: 

1) BEWARE of "healthy" main course salad options at restaurants and,

2) Restaurant salad dressings are usually really REALLY over the top fat-wise 
and in calories.

And that brings me back to my original point: less food-we don't need to eat 
all of that! The all-you-eat-mentality is particularly pronounced at 
restaurants.
They BRAG about their hefty portion size! 

So how do you handle restaurants? Know what you're walking into, for starters. 
If it is a chain restaurant, look on line to see if you can find the menu
and the nutritional info for the menu. Not all restaurants do that, but there 
are other sites out there with that info-just google it.

Second, have a back up plan. Order sauces, dressings and anything else that you 
will lend a huge caloric and often, fatty punch to the meal, on the side.
All restaurants will happily accommodate.just ask. 

Third, if you haven't split your meal with a dining companion, ask for a doggie 
bag right when your meal comes. Cut your meal in HALF or more, and bag it
up. If it is off your plate, you are less apt to chow down on it and leave with 
a Thanksgiving-stuffed feeling.

And last but not least-keep restaurant eating as a treat and not a part of your 
weekly plan. Eating at home is always cheaper, most likely to be more 
nutritious,
you control the fat and the salt and the service is predictable, LOL. If you 
need help planning your menus, go to 
http://www.savingdinner.com/
 and we'll help you out!
[blindweightwatcher] WATCH YOUR PORTIONS

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