5 Ways to Lose Weight at a Restaurant

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Outsmart Restaurant Menus

Jessica Girdwain

Learn to suss out the tricks and you'll still lose the weight, even when dining out

Dine out without ruining your diet

Photo: Ture Lillegraven

If you walk into a restaurant with the intention of ordering the grilled chicken salad, but find yourself wolfing down a bacon cheeseburger, it may not be because your willpower suddenly pulled a disappearing act. It's possible you were duped by menu-design experts who are paid to dream up sneaky ways of enticing you into ordering cheap, not-so-healthy foods that yield big profits. WH reveals the tactics restaurants use so you never fall for them again.

Last updated: June 10, 2010 Issue date:

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By jeannegerh on Jul 12 2010 - 1:24pm
Overall, this article is negative and does nothing to point the reader toward better choices when dining out. All it does is restate mistakes that are already being made.

By jasminn44 on Apr 20 2010 - 10:26pm
My problem is I'm dieting and when on a rare occassion I go to a restaurant I almost feel like I have to eat something fattening. I think I can make salad and chicken at home and if I'm paying for it I'm going for the good stuff. That's why I try and limit eating out while I'm trying to lose weight.