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Eating out isn't nearly as difficult as you're making it out to be. There are plenty of foods you can order where you can fairly accurately assess the calories,
by learc83 8y ago
Eating out isn't nearly as difficult as you're making it out to be. There are plenty of foods you can order where you can fairly accurately assess the calories, once you you get good at it. Once you weigh enough food you can start judging portion size, e.g., that looks like 200g of rice and 100g of pork. And you can taste how oily or how sweet something is.
You can definitely taste if a chef is adding 5 extra Tbsp of olive oil to 1 portion.
As long as you're weighing yourself and tracking calories, you'll know how accurate your estimates have been and you can adjust accordingly.
For restaurants that are listing calories, they might not always be accurate, but over time they should average out.
Also with fast food and fast casual restaurants, food assembly is so regulated, you be even more confident in the calorie count.
- intrasight 8y agoFrom my experience, eating it is even more difficult than was made out to be. Not if you are eating out alone - then you can to to whatever keto or vegan restaurant you choose. The issue is if you are eating out with others - which is usually the case. Then you are first faced with filtering out 90% of all restaurants, and getting everyone who had planned to go to accept that filtering.
- learc83 8y agoIf you're only worried about calorie counting (the method discussed in the article) most restaurants are going to have dishes for which you can fairly accurately estimate the calories (with some experience). Tricks like ordering dressing/sauce on the side can make it easier. Fat has the highest calorie density of any ingredient with 9 calories per gram (sugar has 4). If you're really unsure, you can use that as an upper limit.