Hers are tips to remember when you’re ordering at fast food restaurants:
- You want to stick with 3 food groups: Meat, Cheese, and Vegetables. Fast food place can hide a lot of extra sugar and carbs in most of the other ingredients they use.
- You want to avoid anything that includes bread, grains, or starches. This means buns, english muffins, biscuits, pancakes, hash browns, fries, tortillas, croutons. Also get ready to eat your orders with a fork and knife. Most of the time they will put them in a bowl, sometimes with some extra lettuce.
- Avoid anything breaded or fried. For example chicken fingers or nuggets. Each nugget will have approximately 2-3g net carbs. Thus, by eating a couple of nuggets, you’re already almost at your daily carb limit.
- For drinks, stick with water, unsweetened Iced Tea, coffee, or Diet Coke (if you have to).
- When in doubt, leave the condiments out (the sweet ones, including ketchup). Having ketchup with a meal can add up to 4g of carbs or more (from the sugar content). Yellow mustard and mayo on the other hand each have 0g of carbs.
- Speaking of sugar, if something is labeled as sugar free, check a nutrition guide a anyway if available. A lot of hidden carbs can be found in these products.
- No desserts or combos.