What goes one the side Goes right to the thighs

So sometimes we fool ourselves into thinking we ate healthier than we really did. I mean we ONLY had a salad for lunch, or we ONLY ate a baked potato, or I ONLY ordered chicken and veggies at the restaurant. What we don't say is that we had a ton of dressing, crutons, and cheese on our salad. We had butter, sour cream, bacon and ranch on our potato, we ate 4 of the house rolls before our chicken and veggies came plus our veggies had butter on them. These "side calories" add up to almost doubling the caloric intake of your meal. In a romaine salad for one cup there is 7.8 calories. In ranch dressing there for 1 tablespoon (and we all know we use more than that) there is 75 calories. There is about 60 calories in a 1/4 cup of crutons. In a small baked potato there is about 137 calories. Butter has about 100 calories PER TSP!!!! There is 120 calories in a 1/4 cup of sour cream.. the list goes on. So what do we do about it, I mean we want things to taste good right?

How about this.

Spray dressing- 1 spray equals 1 calorie (there is even ranch spray)

Walden farms dressings are delicious and they have next to none calories (bacon ranch is yummy!!!)

Spray butter is 12 sprays= a little under 10 calories

Try a little cottage cheese on that baked potato or salad (low fat)

Check Calories, Carbs, Sugars and Fats on condiments. Something that is Fat free may not be high elsewhere, you don't want to trade one evil for another.

Eat Lean Meats and GREEN Veggies. Lots of Veggies are high in starches: Potatoes, Corn, Carrots (sugar), and some others are everyone's favorite because they aren't as healthy. I will eat those when I'm down to the weight I want but will limit my intake because they are higher calories.

Peanut Butter I'm finding is not so good, but they have replacements one product called PB2 is a lot healthier, can't wait to try it!!!

On my program you can still have most condiments just remember if you choose one that is not that great then make sure your making better protein and veggie choices. I just need to continue on with this when I reach the GOAL!