How to Order when eating out

Okay- so most of us have to eat out at time with friends/family even when we are following a diet.
No need to panic...you can keep the following in mind while at a restaurant:

• Eat something healthy before going out. Like two fruits or skimmed milk with wheat flakes. So you feel less hungary and tempted when u r at a restaurant.
• Choose clear soups instead of creamy soups.
• Always order green salad. Top it up with salt/pepper. Avoid potato/beetroot and macroni in salads.
• Choose romali roti, tandoori roti or missi roti over parantha/kulcha etc...
• For starters, always choose grilled items like tandoori chicken, baked fish, paneer tikka or pasta with low fat sauce/dressing. Having said that, you cannot take huge amout of either of these. Treat them as starters only.
• Tell the waiter that you would prefer to use as little butter/ghee/oil as possible.
• For main course, if u have the option always go for South Indian food. A plate of idli or rawa sada dosa. Avoid coconut chutney and enjoy with sambhar. If you have to go for punjabi food go for steamed foods rather then dishes with lot of gravy. Have dishes with lots of vegetables or something like a palak paneer.
• Try and resist a desert but if you must then choose fresh fruits or frozen yoghurt.

Hope this helps. Personally I always make it a point to visit a restaurant with south india food and I tell my friends that I am not feeling good in stomach so i shall have south indian. And i also make sure that I am not very hungary when i visit a retaurant.