Dining out

We love to go out to dinner, it's quite possibly one of my favorite hobbies....not exactly a healthy hobby.
While on phase 1 of this diet, it's quite difficult to go out to eat, but I did go out two times, once as a family for dinner and once for a work lunch outing. Both times I was able to stick to the Phase 1 allowed foods, we went to Chili's, there I was able to get a large salad with grilled vegetables. It was delish, the grilled veggies I'm sure had some seasoning or oil that wasn't ideal, but it was better than anything else on the menu. As for the work lunch, I was able to again order a large salad with some beans on it, and use super minimal amounts of dressing.

It is tough, but you can make eating out work for you, you just have to be willing to ask the server if they can modify things. Most of the time the servers are completely fine with modifying the menu items, and you can get a big salad almost anywhere. My dressing trick, which I learned from Weight Watchers is to order the dressing on the side and dip your fork into it and then get the salad on your fork. This helps minimize the amount of dressing used.

Weight loss goal 100lbs
Weight lost to date 5.2 lbs
Total left to lose 94.8 lbs.