Eating out can sidetrack your weight loss efforts. Making smart choices while dining out can keep you from over eating and putting back on too many pounds you may have already lost. Going to Carino's Italian Grill restaurant with a plan can help to prevent you from sabotaging your diet.
Weight Watchers Point System
Weight Watchers has a point system for members to easily calculate food intake. Daily point ranges are estimated upon weight loss goals, eating habits and activity levels. Weight Watchers is trying to train you to eat smarter, not less. It encourages the consumption of healthy, filling and satisfying meals. You can participate with Weight Watchers either online or through local monthly meetings for a small fee.
Carino's Italian Grill
Carino's Italian Grill is a national chain whose mission statement is Food, Fire and Fun. It claims to have a warm and comfortable, family friendly environment that features Italian food including pasta, chicken, seafood, salads, soups and bread. The restaurant promotes the use of its green technology such as energy efficient lighting and air conditioning and wind energy. It also has an annual charity golf tournament.
Weight Watcher Eating Out Recommendations
Before going to Carino's, remember these tips for eating out from Weight Watchers. Always use the printed dietary information that Carino's provides to help make the best choices. Look for menu items that are broiled or baked, braised, poached or steamed, roasted, barbecued, lightly sauteed, stir fried or garden fresh. Avoid choices that are fried, deep-fried or batter-fried, pan-fried, crispy or golden. Steer clear of dishes that contain sauce made of butter, cream, oil or other fats. Choose leaner cuts of meat and make fruits and vegetables the centerpieces of your meals.
Best Point Choices
Wiki Weight Watcher and Dotti's Weight Loss Zone indicate that menu items such as the lunch size chicken primavera has only nine points. Other low point options include the choice of lunch pasta with tomato sauce and the lunch portion of Salvatore's fish positano. The house salad with chianti dressing has only 2.5 points. Weight Watchers recommends Italian dishes like penne a la vodka for only seven points and lasagne with meat for only five points. If you are eating dinner and lunch portions are not available, take half of your dinner home to bring the points value down.
Worst Point Choices
Some of the biggest point meals you can consume at Carino's are the homemade chicken parmigiana at 25.5 points and spicy romano chicken at 30 points. Other poor points choices include angel hair pasta with artichokes at 12.5 points, grilled chicken diavolo for 13.5 points and lemon rosemary chicken at 14.5 points. Weight Watchers also recommends avoiding eggplant parmigiana at 13 points, veal parmigiana with sauce at 12 points and fettucini alfredo at 16 points.
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