Diet and professional breakfast: how to combine

It's not easy to juggle regime and business lunches.

However, with common sense and good will, one can pass the test business lunches without gaining weight. Are you capable?

1 You have a professional lunch scheduled for today.

How do you behave at the breakfast?

You organize to take a hearty breakfast or a hearty breakfast than usual.

Skipping breakfast in preparation for a professional lunch at the restaurant is not a good solution. You will doubly hungry for lunch and you'll be tempted by high-calorie dishes. Or worse, you grignoterez in the morning.

2 It's your book the restaurant.

What kind of restaurant do you choose?

You choose a Chinese or Japanese restaurant instead of a brewery known for its French cuisine.

The Chinese restaurant offers probably more choices of salads, vegetables and fruits. The Japanese restaurant is perhaps the best solution for their choice of fish. However, in a brewery, the temptations are great to take a dish with sauce or meat with chips ...

3 To choose the main course, you treat yourself to what type of food?

For the simplest type grilled foods instead of original recipes preparations.

The original recipes are often in sauce. It is best to locate dishes of fish, meat or vegetables grilled, poached, steamed, etc.

4 Always for the main, mostly flat, you choose fish or meat?

Instead of fish.

Fish is good for health. It is recommended to consume at least 2 times a week. So enjoy your business lunches to eat more often. Meat, in turn, bring a lot of fat. If you do not take fish, choose at least white meat.

5 Are you more like "course + dessert" or "price category"?

If you want to limit calories, prefer the "course + dessert" version.

Provided of course not to opt for a dessert very sweet and fat, like pastry, cakes ... Instead, think of an ice cream or a fruit salad.

6 Regarding coaching, you rather take steamed vegetables or fries?

Vapors vegetables are preferred course.

Low in calories, they are excellent for health. However, avoid fried, and in general, anything that comes in a deep fryer.

7 It offers wine: you get a drink or abstain?

Abstain, this little glass of wine do you any good.

Moreover, any fleeting euphoria or relaxation that you may occur more easily fall for a calorie dessert would.

8 Everyone takes a dessert, so why not you!

What kind of desserts do you select from?

You choose the dessert that contains the most fruit (fruit salad, pie ...).

Avoid chocolate dessert, which has the disadvantage of being calorie. Take the opportunity to choose the fruit dessert. You'll be closer to your 5 fruits and vegetables a day. In addition, they are generally low in calories.