Welcome to the Shalene Show. Shalene is a meerkatized bestselling author, celebrity fitness

trainer, and obsessed with helping you live your dream life. Your host was born and raised

in Michigan, but now calls her self-accaligural.

Hey there! Thanks for spending some time with me today. Yeah, I'm a caligural now, and

I'd say that because I go back and I visit my relatives in Michigan all the time. And

I'm just going to tell you, you're right. It is much easier to eat healthy in certain

areas of the country. But the tips in this episode are all about dining out no matter where

you live, and I promise they will help you stay on track and still have a social life.

I'm going to share with you some of my best tips and some suggestions, even some habits

that will help you stay committed to your healthy lifestyle. Unless you plan on being

a social recluse or a hermit, we all have these situations where we're going to be asked

out to dinner or someone's going to invite us over to their home for a party or a sit-down

dinner. And it's very difficult sometimes not to feel like you're being quote unquote

the picky eater or that people are going to insinuate that you don't like their cooking

or that there's something wrong with the way other people are eating simply because you

are committed to a healthy or perhaps even just a different diet. I really don't believe

that there's one diet that fits everybody. I'm referring to the way that you eat. I'm

not talking about being on a short-term diet. I'm talking about the way that we've designed

our nutrition to best support our health, our strength, our energy, and our vitality.

ABC News recently reported on a study which indicated eating out is nearly three times

as high in calorie and fat as dining in. So every time we go out to eat especially if

it's at a full-service chain restaurant, you can expect that you're eating anywhere between

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