Take the Fat Out of FAsT Food!

How to cut down on the fat at fast food restaurants in 5 easy steps? It can be done. Most of us used to think of a fast food restaurant as fat on a bun, or in a box. However, it was fast, and usually cheap. Therefore it was what you did on lunch, or at the end of a busy day.

Now with the changes that have been made in the fast food restaurant menu options, there are several available choices for low fat lunches and dinners. So the next time you go into a fast food restaurant, you can use these 5 steps to cut down on the fat at fast food restaurants.

Step #1

Be prepared. This step will help you to know what is available at the restaurant that is low in fat. This is simple. By going to the fast food restaurant’s web site prior to eating there, you can look in their nutritional section to find out what foods they have available.

Take a half an hour or so to be become aware of what is available; this will empower you to eat fatfree, and healthy.

In order to find the restaurants you usually go to, just look up the name of the restaurant in a search engine like Google. Then you can go to their nutritional food section. They usually have nutritional facts, calories, fat etc. listed there.

Here are a few of those links.

Taco Bell
McDonalds
Kentucky Fried Chicken

Step #2

Now that you are aware of what food is available, when you get to the restaurant, you will want to choose from those options. If you get there and did not have a chance to look, or cannot remember the healthier choices, many restaurants have nutritional fact sheets available. These will give you the information for several of the food options available. They may also have it listed on their menu.

Step#3

Lose the sauces. This is because there is an additional 135 calories and 15 grams of fat just from adding mayonnaise to your burger. The same thing happens with fries. French fries have a high fat level due to frying, then you add on the fat for the fry sauce. It is horrible.

Stick with ketchup and veggies. These can still make a tasty mean sandwich without all the calories and fat.

The same goes with a salad. Why all the salad dressing? Some of these dressings contain almost as much fat as mayonnaise. Try oil and vinegar, or a vinaigrette, something with lower fat.

Pick foods that are broiled not fried. This helps with the fat intake. Even some great salads can be high in fat if they have fried meat on the top.

Step #4

Why super size? This is another way to bring a meal that is already high in fat to over the limit. Super sizing, mega, jumbo or whatever it is called at the restaurant, is not good for caloric and fat intake. There is no reason that a person needs to eat that much fat in their food.

The standard food intake for a healthy body is almost the size of a child’s ‘kids’ meal’. This may not satisfy some people’s hunger, which is understandable. However, instead of super size, how about adding a salad, or some fruit?

Step#5

Watch what you eat. If the burger, fries and a coke is what you really want, just make it a rare occasion. We all love to eat the forbidden fruit. When you do eat it, do not feel guilty. Enjoy every bite, because you know that it is only once in a while and most of the time you watch your fat intake. You have earned it.

This is how you can cut down on the fat at a fast food restaurant. Now it is up to you to implement new practices. These 5 easy steps should help.