Usually, you avoid eating at restaurants while trying to lose weight. That’s because restaurants provide too much temptation and, let’s face it, restaurant nutrition isn’t typically conducive to losing weight. It is possible, however, to eat out and still make good decisions. If you don’t see any food nutrition facts on the table when you are seated, just ask your server of a manager for them. When you’re armed with the food nutrition facts, you can make better choices and you won’t feel as though you’ve cheated on your eating plan; even though you’re still eating out at a restaurant.
What Do You Look For?
When you request food nutrition facts most restaurants will provide you with detailed information including the calorie, fat, sodium, and carbohydrate content of most items on their menu. If your goal is to order low fat, then this paper or card will tell you exactly which menu items you can order. You can add a ton of calories, fat, and salt into a meal just by the condiments or sauces, so always ask for these to be served on the side. So even though a salad may seem very fattening when looking at the food nutrition facts, realize that it’s probably the dressing that comes on the salad that provides most of those excess calories and fat.
If They Don’t Have Nutrition Facts
If you happen to be out at a restaurant and you ask for food nutrition facts, but they don’t have any available, you should still be able to make good food choices based on your knowledge of basic nutrition. For example, your best choice while trying to lose weight is not going to be a double bacon cheeseburger. Instead, you might want to choose a chicken sandwich, not fried, and a baked potato or even a salad with just a little bit of dressing.
You will find the majority of restaurants do provide food nutrition facts. You may just have to ask for them. The reason you have to request them is that many restaurant owners believe that if the food nutrition facts are placed on the menus next to the food items, some people would be dissuaded from eating the ones with the most fat or calorie content. It is reasonable to assume that if most people know how much fat was in an entrée, they might reconsider ordering it.
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