Aperitif at the neighbors, meals among friends ... The opportunities for sprains his lean and do not miss! Our tips for enjoying the delights gourmets and without taking a gram.
Aperitif at the neighbors with fewer calories
Adopt slimming vegetables
Carrot sticks, cauliflower heads, stalks of celery, radishes ... If your hosts give pride to raw vegetables, the solution to reduce caloric any invoice is found! Otherwise, remember - when you feel the seams - a mere handful of peanuts equals 180 calories ... What curb the enthusiasm!
Prefer green olives
They are half the calories (118 kcal / 100 g) than their black cousins (293 kcal / 100 g).
Make the pleasure last
Accept a glass of champagne, some peanuts, but enjoy them slowly. This prevents you do resserve you a drink and have an excuse to get the flat chips without touching it, "No thank you, it remains in me yet!"
No need to tempt fate!
The more you are close to the petit fours, the more you'll be tempted to snack on. Occupy outset the farthest up the buffet.
Dinner with friends
Do not go empty stomach
If you arrive at your hungry friends, you'll take without restraint on appetizers. Just before leaving, so chew fruit, drink soup or eat a cheese ramekin to 0%.
Do not come empty handed!
Submit to charge you the dessert and bring a delicious fruit salad or a delicious lighter homemade recipe.
Taste everything in moderation
Face your friends, difficult to refuse a dish under pain of being a nagging! So eat everything, but without helping. A "Thank you, but I still room for more" will generally be effective.
Have fun!
Remember the main thing: you are there to have fun, discuss, remake the world, dancing ... and not just for the food!
Restaurant romantic
Ask the server
About the ingredients used and their method of preparation. She has meat soaked in a marinade? Are steamed vegetables? In your own informed decision.
Enlist some adjustments
Ask, for example, serve the sauce or replace fries with plain rice or potatoes in the oven.
Avoid the formula "appetizer, entree, dessert"
Be satisfied with a single main course or opt for two entries. Also replace dessert with coffee or tea.
Take the rest home
Several types of restaurant (pizzeria, Chinese ...) offer to pack your leftovers. Jump at the chance, you stop and you feel compelled to clean your plate.
Easy on the alcohol!
1 gram of alcohol is 7 calories. The higher the alcohol content of a drink, the higher it is caloric. For example, a glass of wine provides approximately 90 kcal, beer 150, a 200 and a Martini Pina Colada 300. Also remember that alcohol reduces your ability to control the food! The more you drink the drink, the more you do not care to eat ... so Moderate your consumption.
Thwart the weekends traps
Pitfall # 1: snack at any time
In the absence of real time, we tend to snack more than usual. Despite freer schedules, try to keep 3 meals daily at regular times.
Pitfall # 2: splurge foods "empty calories"
Waffles, biscuits ... Small pleasures are innumerable, but all calorie! Headline weekend? Neither frustration nor excess. So crazy, but not more than once every weekend.
Pitfall # 3: outrageously lazy
Enjoy having some free time to spend you, swim or walk, run, explore the trails around by bike, go shopping on foot ...