Eating out is a big part of many people's lives. Maybe you have to eat out often because you captivate clients at dining places. Maybe you don't even like eating out. Regardless, if you want to maintain a nice fit body, restaurant meals will give you a huge obstacle to get over. In fact, eating out at restaurants is one of the biggest reasons why many people fatten up while traveling.

Listed below, are a few very easy tricks you may use to eat healthier and stay lean even while eating out at restaurants...

The 3 most significant things to avoid for healthier dining that are everywhere at dining establishments are:

* deep fried meals (anything battered which got a scorching bath of trans fats)

* processed starchy foods

* any kind of sugary sodas, juices, or other sugary foods (apart from raw fruit, that are great)

If you could skip these major culprits, this eradicates the major food sources which do the worst damage in our food supply - trans fats, highly processed vegetable oils, processed starchy carbohydrates, and refined sugars.

This means you must try to skip the table bread, skip the french fries that come with almost every sandwich on each and every menu known to man, and reduce all of the heaping servings of pasta and rice which are often loaded on the plates also.

Instead, try to order only meat with side vegetables, along with a salad, asking for the veggies or greens as an alternative for the typical french fries, pasta, or rice, that most restaurant meals usually come with.

Almost every restaurant will always allow you to substitute greens or perhaps a side salad for the french fries or chips which usually come with cheese burgers or snacks.

Take a look at the typical difference this simple substitution makes between choosing sensible and doing what many people do...

Many individuals will eat a meal out like this:

* Burger or sandwich

* chips or french fries

* soda or other sweetened juice (and no, diet sodas are not healthy!)

A MUCH smarter alternative if you care about your body is this simple change:

* Burger or Sandwich

* Greens or veggies

* unsweetened iced tea or water (no diet drinks -- unless of course you like to drink poison!)

These 2 simple substitutions save at least 400 - 900 calories every time you have dinner out (depending on drink refills and fries quantity)... And you are therefore cutting out the most harmful foods to your body as well by avoiding the evil trans fats and high fructose corn syrup from the french fries and carbonated drinks resulting in more healthy dining.

Another side note: a little-known approach to eat full portions of pasta, rice, and breads and actually escape with it without packing on the body fat is to ensure to schedule a high intensity full body weight training workout (can be dumbells or body weight training) before your scheduled meal time.

Sometimes it might be hard to fit the workout into your schedule right before the meal, but if you're able to, the meal can be your "post-workout meal". After a high intensity resistance training workout, your body could handle a higher amount of carbs than normal to help replenish the muscle glycogen depletion you had during the intense workout.

A typical moderate intensity cardio workout will not cut it for this... it should be high intensity weight training workout to deplete enough muscle glycogen to handle restaurant servings of carbs.

Hopefully, these eating tips help you choose smarter and healthier for a leaner body the next time you eat at restaurants.