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While eating at home allows for the most control over your caloric intake and is therefore the best way to ensure steady weight loss, there are nevertheless times when eating out is inevitable.  Perhaps you are on a road trip or travelling and can’t access a kitchen to make your favourite diet meal.  Perhaps you are staying with family and they are all headed to the local drive-thru.&

When trying to lose weight the last thing you want is to bite into a tasteless and boring meal.  Just because you are trying to slim down doesn’t have to mean that you have to sacrifice taste and flavour too.  Below are some great ideas for menu options that will help you stick to your diet and weight loss goals without forsaking all food enjoyment.

Just because it is January and you’re getting started on your New Years diet resolutions, doesn’t mean you need to forgo good tasting foods.  After holiday indulgences sure we all need to tighten our belts but January doesn’t have to mean blah breakfasts and skimpy suppers.  Lunches too needn’t be a drag. 

While many people dealing with increasingly busy schedules have come to rely on prepackaged and ready made dinner options, there are some hidden dangers in these preparations that go beyond their nutritional (or lack thereof) content.  Not only are harmful additives such as MSG often covered up by the generically labeled ‘spice’ on the back of the label, but the packaging of some of these