There are so many variables as to what to is in a dish that it is sometimes a crap shoot as to what nutrients are in a dish. Should you go with just a salad? But what about the salad dressing? Grilled chicken? Seems safe, but what about the rest of the plate? What can you do?
Well, if you have a mobile device with you scan the internet for nutrition information. Many chains have nutritional information published or someone has gone through the effort to determine the nutrients. If you can't find it, the odds are that you can find the individual components of the dish and add those up to create the dish. Yes, it is a lot of work, but sometimes you can't do anything else.
This isn't to say that you can't eat out. I've done it dozens of times since I started my diet and have been fairly successful in finding the menu item already identified and nutritionally broken down somewhere on the Internet. Sometimes, however, I have had to wing it and live with the consequences.
One bad choice does not completely kill your diet. It might be a hiccup. It might actually turn out to be a good choice. The important thing to remember is that the end goal requires a marathon effort and a single meal out of the 3000 meals that I will be eating to reach my goal will not have that adverse an impact on the total effort. Whether I eat 1,000,000 calories or 1,000,400 calories will not make that big a difference, particularly if you are exercising at the same time.
You don't need to avoid eating out, you need to be smart about it.
You do have a choice.
Status for October 5th
- Weight - 326.2 lbs
- Blood Sugar - 6.0 mmol/L
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