How To Avoid Simple Carbohydrates While Eating Out

How do I avoid simple carbohydrates while eating out?

Eating out is a very complex issue for us, since most of us are doing it regularly in this day and age. I work so much with busy executives, I have had to really study this for them, as well as for myself, because I'm on the road a lot, too. If you're eating out, the first thing you do is look at the menu and decide what they have. Is it a possibility that they may have some complex carbohydrates here that would be valuable: quinoa for example, or for breakfast, oatmeal? Foods like that - or at very worst a baked potato. The baked potato is not the ideal, but, when it comes to carbohydrates, it's better than French fries and it's certainly better than white bread. It's at least a whole food -- it's not processed. If you can get yams or sweet potatoes when eating out, then opt for those over a regular potato. Stay away from the white bread in the basket that they bring over at restaurants because of the carbohydrate content. I always say, "Tell them not to bring the bread." The more we ask for what we want when eating out in restaurants, the more chance we have of getting it. We see that all the time. There are many restaurants that I frequent now that used to have mediocre food. Now, I can eat out and know I can get brown rice as well as white rice, so if I choose to have brown rice, I can have that. They might have sweet potatoes - maybe not yams, but now they're having sweet potatoes because more people are asking for them when eating out. We have to ask for what we want, that's the key. Encourage the restaurants to get those things in, with the suggestion that we may attend their restaurant more frequently if they have more of what we want and are more convenient for those wishing to avoid simple carbohydrates.