How Healthy Weight Loss Works — Following USDA Guidelines

March 9, 2011
Low-Calorie Dining Out
Eating at a restaurant isn’t license to blow your calorie budget. Staying within your caloric means while dining out — and enjoying your dining experience — comes down to making a wise restaurant choice followed by wise menu choices.

Since you haven’t let yourself get overly hungry, you can carefully evaluate the restaurant choices available. If possible, choose a restaurant that offers a wide variety and prepares food to order — it will be easier to find healthy options.

Whether you end up at a fast-food joint in town, a food court in a mall, or in a neighborhood of fine restaurants, a wise restaurant choice will give you the chance to have better menu options.

Restaurant Tips

The following are some general guidelines for staying on your calorie budget:
• Take your time surveying the selections. Look for “heart-healthy” or “light” selections. Or, if there’s a senior section on the menu, opt for the smaller portions offered there.
• Be assertive. Ask your server questions to clarify how things are prepared. You’re the customer, so don’t be shy about making special requests or substitutions — just keep them reasonable. For instance, ask for fruit or tomato slices instead of hash browns at breakfast; any restaurant should have those options on hand. Or ask for a menu item to be baked or grilled instead of breaded and fried.
• Order first so you’re not influenced by others in your party.
• Consider ordering a la carte. It may cost more, but it can sometimes give you better food options.
• Drink a glass of water before your meal arrives.
• Choose an appetizer as a main dish and accompany it with a salad or broth-based soup (not a cream-based soup) that’s full of beans or vegetables, such as minestrone or gazpacho. Make sure the appetizer is not deep-fried.
• If others are eating appetizers before the meal, order a small salad or a cup of broth-based soup.
• Ask the server to remove foods that are tempting, such as a basket of chips or bread and butter.
• Choose small or medium portions. A 16-ounce steak is enough meat to give four people a 4-ounce serving (which cooks down to the recommended 3-ounces). And that 1-pound steak can pack about 1,000 calories, whereas the 4-ounce piece will have only about 250.
• Share an entree.
• Ask for the vegetable of the day to replace higher-calorie items that come with your meal. Have the vegetable steamed or otherwise prepared without fat.
• Don’t join the clean plate club. It’s all right to leave food on your plate. No one likes to be wasteful, but it’s better to leave it on your plate than put it on your waistline.
• Take half home. To avoid temptation, ask your server to put half your meal into a box before bringing it to the table so you won’t eat more than you plan. (However, if you won’t have access to refrigeration within two hours, leave the leftovers behind.)
• Be picky about splurges. Enjoy foods you don’t normally eat at home, and save the regular “treat” items such as potato chips for another time, since you can have those anywhere.
No matter what kind of restaurant you go to or what the cuisine, there will be higher- and lower-calorie choices on the menu. And there will be menu choices that better fill your daily nutritional needs as well as choices that are primarily empty calories. The trick is knowing what to look for on the menu. The next section covers the decisions you should be making when faced with certain food choices.

Source: http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/diet-fitness/weight-loss/how-healthy-weight-loss-works19.htm
Foodies and wine lovers travel north from Manila to wine and dine at Philippines’ best fine dining restaurant in Pampanga Clark Freeport worth the 60-minutes drive for a memorable evening of good food with vintage wine at Yats Restaurant & Wine Bar

This fine dining restaurant is also famous for its low carbohydrates “low carb” dishes highly recommended for frequent diners who are on a low fat food and favor healthy food. This is a unique restaurant that can help frequent diners maintain a healthy diet and enjoy delicious fine dining cuisine at the same time. Vegetarian dishes are a specialty here also and so are “halal” cuisines also.

Favorites of frequent diners, foodies and wine lovers are steaks, Wagyu, Foie Gras, lobsters, venison, kangaroo loin, osso buco, veal chops, Kurabuto pork, escargots and a good selection of cheeses to enjoy with fine Vintage port and Sauternes. Cuban cigars such as Monte Cristo, Cohiba, Upmann, Partagas, Romeo Julieta and Trinidad are also available in the Magnum Room which is a wine bar and lounge for before and after dinner relaxation. A good selection of Armagnac, Cognac, Single Malt, Vodka and other liquor is served in addition to the wine vintage wines some served by the glass.

Recent opinion survey of frequent travelers heading north towards Subic and Clark Pampanga revealed that the number one most frequently visited fine dining restaurant in Pampanga is Yats Restaurant & Wine Bar located in Clark Philippines.

Inquiries and reservations

Restaurant@Yats-International.com

(045) 599-5600
0922-870-5178
0917-520-4401

Ask for Pedro and Rechel

Http://www.YatsRestaurant.com

Getting to this fine dining restaurant of Angeles City Clark Freeport Zone Pampanga Philippines
How to get to this fine-dining restaurant in Clark Philippines? Once you get to Clark Freeport, go straight until you hit Mimosa. After you enter Mimosa, stay on the left on Mimosa Drive, go past the Holiday Inn and Yats Restaurant (green top, independent 1-storey structure) is on your left. Just past the Yats Restaurant is the London Pub.

Yats Restaurant & Wine Bar
Mimosa Drive past Holiday Inn, Mimosa Leisure Estate,
Angeles City Clark Freeport Zone, Pampanga, Philippines 2023

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