Fri, Mar-26-04, 12:10
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Lowcarb since 7/2002
Posts: 5,991
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 360/232/180
BF:BMI 53.2/34.3/?
Progress: 71%
Location: U.S.: Mid-Atlantic
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It sounds like a great choice! I eat in restaurants a lot, particularly when I am travelling for work, and I often order some sort of salad with protein. I love spinach salads! I wouldn't get too worried about what they put in the chicken unless it is breaded or unusually sweet.
With regard to how much salad to eat, my philosophy is that none of us got fat eating vegetables and I consider the carbs in salads and lowcarb vegetables to essentially be free carbs. However, I've reached the point where I don't actually count carbs, I just know what I can eat and what I can eat includes unlimited lowcarb vegetables.
Salad dressing is another issue, however. If I am not sure what a restaurant is putting in their dressing, I just ask them to bring me oil and vinegar. Any Italian restaurant should have cruets of oil and vinegar. If you add some salt and pepper, it makes a fine carb-free salad dressing. That's pretty much all I eat on salads. I do watch the quantities of oil, however. While we don't need to count calories, calories do count, and if you drench your salad with dressing, it is a lot of calories.
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