Small Changes, Big Differences.

Going to restaurants is something that is hard to change. But there are thing you can buy on the menus of most restaurant that will be healthier and decrees your overall calorie consumption. With some small changes like drinking tea and having salads you can make a big difference in your goals. This is what I did for my first two days on my diet.

My normal meal at Wendy’s is a Baconator, interesting name Bacon and Terminator in one word. I digress, the Triple Baconator with all the topping is 1840 calories. Not to mention that I also had the large chili cheese fries, large root beer and finish off with the large Frosty. This brought my meal calorie total to a whapping 3,370! And there is the whole refilling the large soda as you leave the restaurant, so add 360 to the total.

So instead of that lovely meal, I decided to have a the Berry Almond Chicken Salad with the Pomegranate Vinaigrette Dressing only 480 calories and a large light lemonade bring my total to just 515. This little change reduces my intake for this one meal by more than 2,800 calories. This with my two meal replacements and three snack my total calorie intake for the day is 1,215.

My meal on the second day will be at Panda Express. I love my Chinese Food and normally pig out at an all I can eat, and I can eat a lot. But panda is more like a cafeteria so you play for what you choose. Even here I can rack up the calories. My normal meal here is the fried rice with orange chicken, Beijing Beef and honey shrimp. Don’t forget the eggroll, sweet and sour sauce, fortune cookie and large raspberry tea (with refill). This rack up my total to 3,052! Now let us see what I did differently. I had the mixed veggies with beef n broccoli and mushroom chicken. Since I already know my fortune, I skipped the cookie. And with plain tea at 0 calories, my calorie count for this meal is 370!

Over 2,500 less than I was eating before. This combined with my three snacks and two meals bring my second day total to 1,170. I could have another snack at this rate! Right now I am feeling good and not starving at all. I just need to keep drinking more water and this thing with be working. I can do it!