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Have you ever wondered what's REALLY in the
food you eat at restaurants?
The food you order at restaurants does not come
with a list of INGREDIENTS, so most restaurants add
a lot of fat, sugar, and chemicals to "flavor" the
food and make it taste better.
This may bring them repeat customers, but it
is also why women that eat out at restaurants gain
A LOT of weight and CAN'T LOSE WEIGHT when they try.
So what's a woman who wants to get healthy and
thin supposed to do?
You could always eat at home and say "no" when
your friends or family want to go out to eat, but
that would not be good for your relationships and
I doubt it would last for very long.
It's very important to know what you are
ACTUALLY eating when you go out to a restaurant so
you don't eat foods that you are trying to avoid
now that you are on the path to losing weight and
getting healthy for a lifetime.
As you know from reading these newsletters, the
KEY to losing weight and keeping it off is to
eliminate as much fat, sugar, and chemicals from
your diet as possible.
But it's often hard to know FOR SURE that there
is no added fat, sugar or chemicals because they
aren't going to tell you this, UNLESS you ask...
and even then, you don't always get the truth.
The good news is that there IS a way to eat out
at restaurants and still lose weight.
In this newsletter, I'm going to teach the 5
easy tips you can use to eat out and STILL lose
weight.
>> 1. CUT THE BUTTER
I heard a statistic once that the average
restaurant meal has an entire stick of butter in
it.
That's shocking.
That's over 90 grams of fat! And butter fat is
mostly saturated fat which is the WORST kind of
fat for you.
Saturated fat has been proven to cause cancer,
heart disease, and obesity.
So how are they getting all this butter in
your food?
Because they put it on (or in) EVERYTHING... your
fish is basted in butter, your vegetables are
sauteed in it, your bread is coated with it...
It's everywhere.
And I have found that even the waiters and
waitresses are unaware of all the food that has
butter in it.
I can't tell you how many times I've asked,
"Does that have butter on it?" And the waiter
or waitress says, "No"... but as soon as I get
my meal, I can taste the butter covering it.
But it's not my servers fault for not
informing me correctly, even they don't know
where all the butter is "hidden".
Many times the butter will be coated on or
baked in BEFORE it arrives at the restaurant, in
some pre-sealed packaging that was assembled in
some chemical food-processing plant.
Sounds delicious doesn't it?
But there's a very simple way to find out
EXACTLY what foods have butter "hidden" in them.
Tell your waiter or waitress that you have a
dairy allergy and you can't eat any butter at all.
There are health code laws that the restaurant
has to follow and so they are therefore legally
responsible to inform you of all the food that has
dairy in it.
I recently was at a restaurant and I told my
server that I had a dairy allergy. She sent the
culinary manager over to my table and she told me
not to eat the vinaigrette dressing because it
has cheese in it.
What?!
I never would have guessed that one.
Who puts cheese in a vinaigrette dressing?
I guess they will put cheese and butter in
anything and everything they can because as we
all know FAT TASTES GOOD.
And that is all these restaurants are concerned
with - the taste. They don't care about the
nutritional benefits (or lack of nutrition rather),
they don't care that their food is making you fat,
they just want it to taste good, so you'll come
back for more.
So the best way to know exactly what foods have
butter and cheese hidden in them is to tell your
server that you have a diary allergy.
By the way, you may ACTUALLY have an allergy to
dairy. If you get bloated after you eat dairy and
if you have intense CRAVINGS for cheese, ice cream
or milk... these are all signs that you could be
allergic to dairy.
>> 2. MAKE YOUR OWN SALAD DRESSING
I recently read that young women get most of
their fat and calories from salad dressing.
That's crazy, huh?
Here we are trying to eat healthy and eat salad,
eat our vegetables, but we are totally clueless that
the salad dressing we are putting on our salads has
as much fat as a large order of french fries.
If I'm going to eat that much fat, personally
I would rather eat the french fries.
And if you're one of those women who puts
ranch dressing on everything, you should try using
tahini instead.
Tahini is ground up sesame seeds and is used in
a lot of Middle East and Far East dishes.
It's delicious and creamy, but best of all, it's
NATURAL - meaning it has natural fats, and no crazy
chemicals that your body won't recognize as food.
If you just look at the ingredient label on
ranch dressing - you'll see that it is loaded with
fat and chemicals.
The best way to eat your salad at a restaurant
is to ask for the oil and vinegar on the side and
some crushed black pepper.
Ask them if they have a pepper grinder that you
can crush it right there on the spot.
This just makes your salad feel very special, kind
of like you're dining in a nice restaurant even
if you're not.
But if they don't have the crusher just use a
regular pepper shaker.
And when you make your own fresh salad dressing
right there at your table, you know FOR SURE what's
in it and that the salad dressing is NATURAL.
It won't give you any transfats or saturated fats
that make you gain weight, because it's only vinegar
and olive oil.
Olive oil is the "good" kind of fat, and vinegar
is a natural fat burner (when I found this out, I
started putting vinegar on EVERYTHING... fish,
veggies, salads).
So you get the combination of the good fats
with the fat burner and as well as tasting great on
your salad.
You just turned your salad from something that
was going to make you store fat in the areas where
you don't want... into a super charged, high
anti-oxidant, fat burning, vitamin and fiber packed
salad.
Now, that sounds like what we're trying to get
from a salad, right?
>> 3. ELIMINATE SAUCES
Now I've already told you that there is LOTS of
butter hidden in restaurant food, and the best
place for them to "hide" all this butter is in
the sauces.
Always ask if there is sauce on ANY part of
your meal.
Even if they say, it's a "wine sauce" or a
"garlic sauce".... think of it as "hidden butter
sauce".
What most restaurants do is make the sauce
mostly out of cream, butter and sugar and then
add a touch of wine or garlic so they can call
it a "wine" or "garlic" sauce.
The best way to avoid this added fat is to say
"NO SAUCE AT ALL".
Ask for a side of lemon wedges to squeeze onto
your food, and vinegar is a delicious alternative
as well.
By taking out the sauces, you are cutting out
the "extra" part of the meal that does not give
you any nutritional value and is what makes you
fat... and all that's left is the actual FOOD that
your body needs.
>> 4. NO WHITE CARBS
Why are white carbs so bad for you?
Think about it like this... grain is not
supposed to be white.
So if it is white, that means that it has gone
through a "process" of making it white, and it is
therefore a PROCESSED FOOD.
For example...
Have you ever seen a field of wheat blowing in
the wind?
Think about what wheat looks like in it's natural
state. It is a tall grass with long hairs at the
tips... and it's BROWN.
When they pluck the wheat-berry from the wheat
grass, it is STILL BROWN.
Only after they have "processed" the wheat by
removing the outer layer that contains all the
fiber and nutrients, and then BLEACHING the
flour does it turn white.
The white flour that is in that white bread
has gone through A LOT of processing to get that
color. And that is why it turns to sugar so
quickly in your system.
By processing the wheat into white flour, they
have taken out all the nutrition and have turned
it into a simple carb that turns to sugar as soon
as it hits your system.
This is what spikes your insulin and makes you
store fat. Yuck!
But if you eat "whole wheat" bread, you can
see that the bread still has it's natural color
BROWN. I especially like it when I can "see" the
whole grains in my bread. That way I know for
sure it is a whole grain bread.
And the other white carb to avoid is white
rice for the same reason.
You may not know this, but rice is brown in
the wild because it also has an outer "shell" or
husk.
It's only after they "process" the rice and
remove the husk, that the white grain underneath
is exposed.
So stick to brown rice because it still contains
the fiber and nutrients of that outer BROWN shell.
And white potatoes should also be eliminated
from your diet as much as possible because they
also turn to sugar in your blood very quickly and
make you store fat.
Notice that I only said "white" potatoes.
Sweet potatoes and yams are an excellent source
of natural, high-quality carbs (just make sure
they aren't covered in butter and sugar).
>> 5. SKIP DESERT
Tell the waiter ahead of time that you don't
want to eat any desert. Tell them you don't
want to see a desert menu after you're eating
and you certainly don't want them to bring out
the desert tray to your table... don't you hate
when they shove it in your face like that?
Obviously sugar is the best thing you can
eliminate from your diet if you are really
serious about losing weight.
If you have an INTENSE sweet tooth and need
some extra help with this, don't worry, I've
got all the help you need.
I've written an entire chapter on breaking
addictions in my eBook.
I have broken my addiction to sugar and there
was a very clear path that I took.
I lay it out for you step-by-step and make it
easy for you to stop eating sugar and start
losing weight.
So today I've given you 5 Easy Tips To Eat Out
And STILL Lose Weight.
These small changes are what could turn
everything around.
Small changes can make a BIG difference.
You have to eat, right?
Everybody HAS to eat food in order to live.
So you take food that you have to eat anyway and
you turn it into a supporter, a positive part of
your life that will make you healthy.
It's like taking medicine every day versus
taking poison and eating foods that make you
fatter, and increase your cholesterol, and make
you depressed, and lazy... and all those things
that high fat, chemical-filled foods do.
It's your choice.
By just making a small change like substituting
your salad dressing for oil and vinegar, and
squirting lemon on your food instead of covering in
butter...
You will start to see and FEEL changes INSIDE
and OUT.
This is what happens and this is how it starts.
Just making one choice at a time.
I can teach you how to make the right decisions
in every situation you're in, keep tuning into
these newsletters because I'm going to cover it
ALL. And if you're ready for a fast-forward
eduction, you can check out my eBook.
I talk about dealing with social situations
just as much as I do about your internal dialogue
and building yourself up to make positive choices.
It's all part of the process of becoming the
healthy person that you are destined to become.
I believe in you.
I know you're on the path to great health and
happiness.
Your Friend,
With Love and Light,
Andrea
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