You don’t have to lift a finger and it tastes soooo damn good. It’s restaurant food, and yes, it’s awesome.
Is restaurant food going to make you fat?
Yes, and no. 
Yes, restaurant food is heavily laden with fat. That is at least part of the reason why restaurant food tastes so good (and a big reason why the “healthy” items on the menu will never taste great and go largely unordered by the majority of patrons). Aiolis and sauces, cheeses and creme de-you-name-it. Most all restaurant food is cooked in a lot of oil or butter too, because butter, oil, and salt all add a lot of flavor to meals.
Grilled dishes, fried dishes, deep fried dishes with extra awesome. They all taste like heaven and the chef knows how to throw it all together into one giant magical culinary work of art. The beef is roasted in its own juices and the pork tastes so good that it makes you wonder how anyone in the world could abstain from it. So is restaurant food going to make you fat?
The answer is yes, but only if you eat restaurant food once a day or more, or often enough to where it is a problem causing you to exceed your recommended total daily calorie intake. Truthfully, it’s going to be hard to get an awesome body, one that is fit, lean and ripped, by eating restaurant food very often. Having worked in many restaurants myself during my lifetime, I will say that most people that work in restaurants are not exceptionally fit, ripped, or lean- if they’re eating there too often. It’s too easy to stick around work and have some clam chowder just because it’s there and you don’t feel like cooking. But that little cup of hot fat is going to catch up with you.
I can’t stress how important it is for you to get used to investing a little time into preparing your own quality meals, even when you don’t feel like it. Especially when you don’t feel like it!
As a matter of fact, if you want to have an awesome body, you’re going to have to get used to preparing your own meals. This is how you’re going to take control of your food choices and see just what goes into preparing a dish, and by this you’ll be able to monitor ingredients, calories, and ensure that you’re getting enough of the major food groups along with vitamins and minerals that your body needs.
So I Can Never Eat at a Restaurant Again?
Many successful bodybuilders, dieters, and fit people find that fitting in a “cheat” day helps maintain their sanity. For 3 days, they eat healthy and maintain their diet. On the 4th day, they eat sensibly and healthfully for 2 meals, and for their main meal, they eat whatever and however much they want, thus maintaining their diet, and their sanity.
No one wants to be a robot. So go, enjoy your restaurant food. Revel in your pan seared scallops. Declare triumph in your crab mash potatoes and New York Sirloin served medium rare dripping wet with yum. Exercise your own personal awesome with a piping hot bowl of freshly fried calamari, with assorted dipping sauces.
Just do it in moderation, and maintain your discipline when you’re not eating like this. Reward yourself for your efforts and your progress, and enjoy your life all the while getting more and more physically fit and attractive.
When you’re doing things very well 95% of the time, you’re giving yourself some wiggle room with your diet to enjoy a nice and well-deserved meal at a fine restaurant of your choosing. So take it easy, and order what you want!
Just whatever you do…
Don’t Blame the Fat on the Restaurant
2/3 of all Americans are obese. Diabetes is a big problem and we can only expect more of it with the rising rate of obesity over the last 30 years. A large contributor has been the increase in fast food and an increase in stress and commute times.
Only a few years back America experienced a backlash against the fast-food industry where many people blamed the restaurants themselves for the obesity problem. They were probably motivated by such films like “Super Size Me”, where the documentary maker eats 3 meals a day at McDonald’s for 30 days straight. In the film, the guy eating McDonald’s every day like this starts to become very ill by the end of his McDonald’s-only diet.
But how many of us really think it’s a good idea to eat 3 meals a day at McDonald’s? I would venture to say most of us don’t. However, this didn’t stop people from demanding that fast food restaurants create a special healthy section on their menu or giving people the option of substituting fruit slices for french fries, and who knows whatever else unappetizing options.
Here’s the kicker. Americans demanded fast food restaurants create a healthy menu- and then didn’t actually order from them. That’s right, people complained and blamed fast food restaurants for the obesity problem, but then once the fast food restaurants offered something healthy, and even put up information about how many calories menu items had, people still ate the number 2 extra value meal with fries and a coke.
Food for thought. Horrible pun intended.
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