Diet Blog points to an article on AOL (I didn’t even realize they had websites!) called Unhealthy Restaurant Salads that was a real eye-opener for me. It really shows why it is so important to pay attention to the details of what you are eating and the importance of education.
“I’ll just have a salad” is something I have uttered numerous times, often times accompanied with “and a bowl of soup.” Since I love the cream based soups and I like my salads with lots of junk on them like Caesar’s or Cobb’s I’ll bet there are numerous times when I have eaten 1500 calories at a sitting thinking I was eating healthy.
From the AOL article:
While Chili’s Southwestern Cobb Salad sounds scrumptious, it contains an unappetizing 970 calories — and that’s before you add the dressing. That’s more than half the amount of daily calories recommended for the average person trying to lose — or even maintain — weight. While we love a good Cobb salad, for those calories, you could chow down three medium sized slices of cheese pizza.
I’ve eaten that salad. I thought I was being good. 1000 calories before dressing! That’s crazy. This reminds me of the shock I felt when I discovered that the foot-long Tuna sub meal I was eating at Subway was about twice as many calories as a Big Mac meal.
Paying attention to information like this can be the difference between success and failure.
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