| The number one threat to maintaining a healthy | | | | cheese in the form of Crab Rangoon. We know |
| diet may be exhaustion. We're living go-go lives | | | | that burger joints do to waistlines and we'd need |
| that wear us down to nubs. By the time the | | | | to bring our laptop to a nice restaurant to figure |
| workday concludes and the kids are done for | | | | out how many thousands of calories passed our |
| school, it can seem like an effort to pick up the | | | | lip from appetizers to dessert. |
| remote control for the television. We're tired and | | | | Some people will tell you that the way out is to |
| we're all toting massive sleep deficits. | | | | learn how to order food that's consistent with a |
| Who wants to struggle through making a healthy | | | | healthy diet when you go out. That's a nice idea, |
| dinner under those circumstances? Doesn't the | | | | but it's really more of self-defense scheme when |
| idea of hitting the speed dial button reserved for | | | | you don't have any alternative. You can do your |
| your favorite pizza delivery joint sound better? | | | | damnedest to eat well at many of those |
| Wouldn't it be nice to have some of the great | | | | establishments and you still won't approach the |
| cardboard containers filled with Chinese takeout? | | | | kind of healthy eating you can manage at home. |
| You could go out for a burger with the whole | | | | The solution? You need to find a way to eat at |
| family in less time than it takes to chop a decent | | | | home. You need to focus on building a number of |
| salad and there's always the seductive notion of | | | | healthy, simple, fast recipes you can make |
| relaxing in a cushy booth while someone waits on | | | | without exerting yourself more than necessary. If |
| you. You can almost smell the appetizers, can't | | | | you're serious about a healthy diet, you might |
| you? | | | | want to think about the kinds of good meals you |
| Here's the problem. All of those alternatives to | | | | can make in advance so you're not struggling |
| home cooking are antithetical to maintaining a | | | | while you're at your most exhausted. |
| healthy diet. You don't need to be a professional, | | | | One way or another, you're going to need to find |
| trained nutritionist to figure that out. Heaps of | | | | a way to make your dining room table your |
| cheese on top of white carbs isn't good for you, | | | | primary dining location if you really want to |
| no matter how much tomato sauce is spread on | | | | maintain a healthy diet. It just isn't going to |
| that pizza. Stir fry works because of the oil in the | | | | happen bouncing between the convenient |
| wok and most Chinese meals are complimented | | | | restaurant options upon which too many of us |
| with fried meats, fried egg rolls and friend cream | | | | rely. |