Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Making Nutritious Decisions When Eating At Restaurants

By Thomas Wilson


Most of us have quite possibly dealt with this problem before in their lives. You start up a baseball training program, invest a lot of time in doing your baseball workouts, and also eat healthy day after day. Then, 2 or 3 days into your training program, all your family members want to go out to eat. Of course, family should always be your first priority and you don't want to miss out on any valuable time with your family so you decide to go with them. You end up choosing really unhealthy, high calorie foods, you end up getting discouraged and stop your training program completely simply because you feel you screwed up so badly. Sound familiar? Trust me, it has happened to me a couple of times when I was younger and it has very likely happened to you. Thankfully for us, there are ways to prevent messing up your healthy eating and baseball workouts program when you're going out to eat.

To demonstrate just how easy it can be to stick to your baseball workouts and diet program when eating out, we will suppose you are going to one of the toughest places to stick with a diet plan...McDonald's. There can not be anything even relatively healthy at McDonald's, right? Wrong! Regardless of where you go out to eat, there's always likely to be something that will at least not totally destroy your diet program.

Using McDonald's as an example, a lot of people probably will order a burger, french fries, and perhaps a soft drink or a shake. This is the type of food that will destroy your diet plan entirely. However, substituting a chicken sandwich, a salad (yes McDonald's does serve salads), and a glass of water should be in accordance with your diet plan.

McDonald's isn't the only case however! Most (if not all) restaurants will have salads and quite a few will have nutritious meals such as lean meat and vegetables. With a little creativeness, substituting healthy foods can be achieved at every restaurant.

It won't be easy deciding on nutritious items while the rest of your family pigs out on unhealthy junk food. Just don't forget which you love more...baseball or food? You're either going to suffer the pain of self-discipline by eating healthy or the pain of regret after you realize you've wrecked your diet plan by eating that junk food. Believe me, the pain of self-discipline is a whole lot better!




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