Don't Be Afraid!!!!

The hardest part about eating well is going out to eat. The portions are huge and there are alot of sneaky ingredients!

We recently went to Minnesota for a funeral. We felt the entire time....we just ate ate ate.....and ate ate ate alot of simple carbs. I am talking Dairy Queen people. Dairy Queen started in Minnesota. The ice cream is thicker and more creamy. Naturally, we had to sample each location we drove past (research purposes only). The dipped cones come in many flavors there...and I needed to try them all, many times.

After all this DQ and eating all the food we did, the night before we left...we were over eating. Just felt gross and full and bloated. We went to a restaurant because we knew we needed to eat but didn't really want to. Bryan and I spent a good 20 minutes looking over the menu for the most healthy thing.

Bryan wanted to order sushi to be healthy....but there is white rice.....simple simple carbos. Skip it. What we needed was some good lean protein and FIBER.....

We thought about the chicken....

roasted Half CHiCken
Tomato & basil salad, broccolini, whipped potato, lemon vinaigrette

However, they probably cooked it in the skin so there would be too much fat in it. The whipped potatoes are just starchy simple carbs...and I am sure the lemon vinaigrette has sugar in it.

We skipped it.

We thought oh salmon! Good protein.....

glazed grilled salmon
Lobster mashed potatoes, sweet chili buerre blanc, sautéed spinach

Too many bad things going on there! If you even skipped the mashed potatoes......GLAZED means SUGARS.....and buerre blanc sauce is fatty, rich and buttery....and sauteed usually means in mucho oil or butter.

SKIP.....

We thought about stir fry....

CHiCken stir-fry
Bell peppers, zucchini, squash, snow peas, broccoli, stir-fry sauce, and steamed white rice

We were just going to order it without the rice but the stir-fry sauce...who KNOWS what is in that! I bet butter and sugars! Plus the vegis in this were not the super healthy kind...squash is more starchy as well

and then I told Bryan ding ding ding....we need NOT to be afraid to ask them to make something healthy!

We saw this: grilled Pork CHoP
Sweet potato mash, spiced apple chutney, bacon jus

We realized that is all kinds of unhealthy....but asked the server if he could make us something more healthy.

We asked them to simply just GRILL the pork chop (the other white meat) and if he can just steam some vegis for us. And they did it! They grilled the pork...and brought out steamed broccoli that they lightly sauteed after in olive oil with red pepper flakes.

It was simple but tasted great. Just what we needed after a long week of eating bad. Sometimes that happens, you splurge and get tired of eating....but you must remember to FEED your body.

Moral of the story...don't just order something on the menu to eat. ASK the chef to prepare something good for you. Save your calories on bad things for something you want. Assume there are hidden ingredients that make things NOT healthy.

Don't be afraid to order something off the menu or ASK what is in the food. Its YOUR body and your stomach, don't just assume.

Bryan always says....assuming makes an ass out of you and an ass out of me....so don't assume!

Keep it simple.....its your dollar bills ya'll.....ask for something YOU want.