Healthy Choices At Fast Food Restaurants

Looking for healthy choices at fast food restaurants is a wise move. It's very easy to eat high calorie, low-nutritional-value food when eating out.

Salt, fat, and calories are easy to come by with fast food, however.

The good news is that most fast food restaurants have the nutritional value of the menu items available for customers, so you don't have to be sidelined. Remember to ask for this as most of the restaurant's most popular items are incredibly damaging to a normal weight loss diet.

With that in mind, let's explore some restaurants.

Kentucky Fried Chicken is a restaurant that can really fool you. For example... you might think that the coleslaw would be a healthier choice than mashed potatoes. The calorie content and fat grams beg to differ, though. Mashed potatoes with gravy have 130 calories and 4 and a half fat grams, while the coleslaw has 190 calories and a hefty 11 grams of fat.

Just three crispy strips at KFC will pack on 400 calories and 24 calories of fat. A healthier choice would be the tender roasted chicken, which has 250 calories and 11 grams of fat.

When eating out at the burger chains, opting for a plain hamburger (preferably without mayonnaise) and side salad is generally a lot safer than the restaurant trademarks such as the "Big Mac" or "Whopper".

You can easily find more healthy choices by doing a simple Google search.

If all of this "substitute" talk leaves you a little ill, you might want to consider a different weight loss strategy. This strategy, called calorie cycling, allows the dieter to eat a moderate amount of calories most of the week... and also has 1 to 2 cheat days built in, every single week.

People generally love this because they still get to eat "bad" foods which they wouldn't ordinarily eat, but they're still losing weight.

The reason that this happens is because your metabolism gets confused and can't go into starvation mode (which is what generally happens with low calorie diets), and continues to heartily burn fat.

You can check out more about calorie cycling on my website at http://tinyurl.com/yayFOODlifestyle