470: 13 Top Tips to Eating Fast Food And Getting Results
Fit, Healthy And Happy Podcast
Colossus Fitness
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🗓️ 23 February 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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In today's episode we give you the tools you need to dine out, maintain your social life and still progress in your fitness journey.
(1:26) 1- Find accurate results in the data base
A lot of chains will have data within MyFitnessPal, that has already been used by hundreds of people. Unfortunately, it’s not always this easy, but simply searching it up will be the first place to begin.
(2:35) 2- Can’t find it? Build it.
This is an incredible way to ensure you’re as accurate as possible. As we are huge fans of build-your-own type places, you’ll simply log each ingredient by ingredient to maximize accuracy.
(4:25) 3- Too hard to build? Find a twin.
Let’s say you decide to order a 1⁄2 lb burger while out at a small unknown burger joint. If you decide not to log by ingredient you can find a replicate from a popular joint in MyFitnessPal, that could be in the ballpark of what you had just ordered.
(6:02) 4- Over-log when in doubt.
The main goal of all food places is to create food that tastes as good as physically possible. They’ll be adding a ton of oil, butter, etc to make this happen, so always remember that it’s probably a few hundred calories more than you’d think it would be.
(7:42) 5- Plan as best as you can.
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail. By looking up menus in advance, it will help give you a good idea of what’s on the menu and allocate the right number of calories for this experience.
(9:30) 6- Avoid all the “extras” or pick your fights.
It’s so easy to trick yourself into thinking you’ve picked the right option because you’ve gone to a healthy bowl place, but you’ve added 500 calories of sauces without realizing. These things add up and don’t offer any nutritional value.
Same with fries, pops, etc.
(11:05) 7- Log it even if you’re unsure.
It’s so easy to go into a place and look at a food, then think “no clue, won’t log it”, but that won’t help you on your journey.
(13:00) 8- Based on your goals, your situation will look different.
A burrito bowl for a 200 lb male that’s looking to gain muscle will look completely different than the 130 lb female looking to lose fat.
(13:50) 9- Always have water by your side.
Water will be your best friend for sure.
It will fill you up, help you stay hydrated, save you hundreds of calories and so much more.
(14:35) 10- Focus on health.
Often when people have a situation where they’re eating out, they instantly think, “there’s no way I can eat out and get something good for me”
(15:05) 11- It will never be perfect.
This is something to always remember. A lot of people don’t even realize that foods that have full labels are legally allowed to have up to 25% error on it, so that won’t even be fully accurate.
(16:30) 12- Servings can be extremely misleading
You may look at something that says, “200 calories per servings”, but always remember to look into what an actual serving is.
(18:03) 13- Log everything
Yes, that means liquids and veggies.
It also means cream in coffee, bites of your partner’s sandwich, sauces, and so on.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome to another episode of the fit, healthy, and most of all happy podcasts. |
| 0:06.6 | I'm a coach and host Josh here with his co-host and co-coach KG and I'm in the house. |
| 0:13.4 | And we got a killer episode. Make sure to bookmark this one or save the link for it or remember the number of it because this is going to be an incredible full guide which is 13 killer tips on how to eat out successfully. I pride myself in being |
| 0:26.5 | able to maintain a strong lean physique while going eating out and having those options. I've been |
| 0:31.8 | trying to challenge myself to cook more but at my base I love going out. We've now done Chipole |
| 0:36.5 | almost 60 days in a row which is crazy And we've continued to show physique and develop, sorry, we've continued to show development in our physique, which we've been really proud of. And we're going to show you how you can go to your favorite restaurants, go out with friends, and still be really fit, healthy and happy. So what's number one, Kyle? And before I jump into number one, |
| 0:54.4 | we have an amazing present for you. It is 20 pages long. Is it a free ebook? The first link in |
| 1:00.3 | the description down below, you can click that. And there's so many different things. It's all of these |
| 1:04.2 | 13 tips as well as our favorite places to eat, as well as other common chains that you may |
| 1:09.0 | have to go to depending on your situation, as well as seven amazing tips that you may have to go to depending on your situation, |
| 1:11.4 | as well as seven amazing tips to navigate going out to a restaurant as well. So it's a full |
| 1:16.5 | guide. If you're ever stuck, if you ever want to go out and enjoy, which I know a lot of you do |
| 1:20.8 | and still get great results, click that completely free, no catches. Now into number one. So number |
| 1:26.3 | one, you're going to just be finding an accurate result in the database. So first off, when it comes down to it, you're going to want to log everything. It's going to help you stay on track. It's going to help you be accurate. That's why the first few tips are within that. But just search on my fitness pal, see what's in there. And a lot of times you'll find that if you're out to a restaurant or especially if you're out to a popular chain if you search chick flay burger to grill chicken burger it's probably going to be on there so you can start with that and that's all i'm going to talk about for number one use my finis pal it is very handy if that's the app you use that's the one we use now into number two a cool hack i want to share that too if you are at a very popular chain, so I usually like to think that more than like 10 locations, there's a good chance someone's already put it in there or they will put it in there. So my fitness pal in particular, if you're wondering what that is, that's probably the easiest, most common way to track and log your calories. It's the biggest one out there. It's been around forever. Their paid version kind of sucks. |
| 2:18.5 | In my opinion, I'd stay away from it. I'd continue to navigate the free. But even on the free one, if I search Chick-fil-A grilled sandwich, there's a little checkmark and you can click the check mark items only. And those are ones that are verified and they're actually accurate because sometimes just search something and it will show the calories but there would be no protein no carbs no fat |
| 2:35.8 | because people will add their own items. And that's number two, which is if you can't find it, add it or build it. So if you're adding your own item, what I like to do is either, even for what's awesome with Chipotle, with Blaze Pizza, those are two that you will see in that free guide, that Calmade. That is incredible. It's been amazing how many people have seen that guide and be like, how much are you charging for this? I'll pay like 100 bucks. We're like, no, we're just going to hook people up and we just want to thank you for being a great listener. And that's what it's all about for us, just helping everyone do better. And we know this is a big pain point, being able to go out, enjoy your life, enjoy food, and we're really happy to solve that. But at all these big |
| 3:09.6 | chains, going back to what I was saying before, even pain point being able to go out enjoy your life enjoy food and we're really happy to solve that but at |
| 3:09.1 | all these big chains going back to what i was saying before even chippole they have a nutritional |
| 3:13.3 | calculator builder on their website so i'll put in my exact bowl i'll say normal rice i'll go heavy |
| 3:18.7 | veggie i'll go double chicken i can put everything in and at the end i can see the carbs the fats |
| 3:23.7 | the protein as well as a lot of the carbs, the fats, the protein, |
| 3:24.4 | as well as a lot of the micros for that bowl and the fiber. And I'll log it as Josh's Chipotle bowl and I'll have it there. I'll create it as a custom food and I'm good to go whenever I need to. If I'm at a restaurant, a really fancy one, I'm having the weirdest compilation of something. Let's say I'm having like a little bit of beef with |
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