24. How To Be Awesome At Ordering Healthy At Restaurants
How To Be Awesome At Everything
Lindsay Dickhout
4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Don’t avoid eating out because you think it's all bad!
It’s totally possible to eat at restaurants AND be healthy!
It’s all about balance so you never feel deprived.
Choose a healthy main and have little splurges in your starter or dessert.
When you’re looking at the menu…
Look for these WORDS…
- grilled
- steamed
- baked
- roasted
- broiled
Avoid these WORDS
- fried
- crispy
- breaded
- creamed
More tips!
❤️ Limit white starches and sugars
❤️ Skip the bread basket!
❤️Ask for double or triple veggies!
❤️Don't be afraid to ask questions! What’s in it?
❤️Order Zucchini noodles instead of pasta noodles if they have it!
❤️Find the places who are progressive in this way and offering healthy options!
❤️Careful of the calories and sugar in drinks… is it worth it??
❤️If you’re going to do a starch… do it as healthy as possible like brown rice.
❤️Look at the whole menu!! So you can see what looks good and decide on how you’re going to balance it out!!
❤️If you don’t have a sensitivity to gluten - gluten free - it's not always the healthiest option
❤️Get your dressing and sauces on the side!
❤️ Don’t arrive starving!!
❤️ Bring your own alternative (purse treats😂😋)
❤️ Slow down your earring speed and drink water!
❤️ Splurge when you want- just don’t overdo it!
AND there you HAVE IT!!
Hoping these hacks help with fueling your body with the best food possible so you feel AWESOME! Thank you for listening! Cheers friends, to going out and eating healthy!
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| 0:00.0 | One of the hardest parts about trying to eat healthy is, what do you do when you go out to eat? |
| 0:05.8 | It's taken me a long time to know exactly how to order at any restaurant, so I'm excited to share it with you. |
| 0:12.1 | So much of the information I've learned over the years is from nutrition documentaries and reading articles and watching videos, talking to my functional medicine doctor, and basically |
| 0:22.1 | anyone else who will talk to me about health and nutrition. Now, I don't subscribe to any one specific |
| 0:28.3 | diet or fad. I just believe in eating good for you whole foods and limiting the starches and the sugars. |
| 0:36.8 | But I also believe in living and enjoying and eating. |
| 0:40.9 | So today, I'm going to go through the ways I've learned to order healthy at restaurants. |
| 0:45.2 | So you're still able to go out and enjoy, but also stick to your healthy eating plan. |
| 0:50.5 | Today is all about healthy hacks for eating out. |
| 0:56.7 | Let's go. You're listening to the How to Be Awesome at Everything podcast where we're obsessed with life hacks that make your life more awesome. |
| 1:03.4 | Your host, Lindsay Dick Hout, is an entrepreneur and business owner, a mom and wife, |
| 1:08.4 | and someone who wants to do things over the top at all times. |
| 1:12.2 | This concept started as a collection of things Lindsay has learned that she was documenting |
| 1:16.6 | to give to her kids one day. And now it's a podcast. Join us on this journey where we talk |
| 1:21.5 | about how to be awesome at everything we do. Here's Lindsay. I'm so excited for today's episode because one of the reasons |
| 1:29.9 | why I wanted to start a podcast to begin with is to share things that I've learned that would |
| 1:35.6 | have helped me so much if I would have learned them five years, 10 years, 15 years earlier. |
| 1:42.6 | And this is one of those, eating healthy at restaurants and how to order |
| 1:48.4 | and what to avoid and what to stick to. For so many years, I was so confused and I made so many |
| 1:55.2 | mistakes. And I definitely don't have all the answers for sure. But I figured out a way to eat healthy that works for me and works for my body. And I definitely don't have all the answers for sure, but I figured out a way to eat healthy |
| 2:02.3 | that works for me and works for my body and I think works for most people. |
| 2:07.6 | And the friends and family that I've kind of shared it with and how I do it have had |
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