Put the bread down and no one gets hurt!

So I was catching up on my SELF.com reading and found this!  I totally do it too haha! Every Friday, I have date night with my boyfriend and I will barely eat all day so I can go crazy at dinner.  Hey yummy Italian sounds way better than carrot sticks right?  Well I need to buckle down dammit.  Here’s the clip below.

Meal mistake: Gorging on bread

Women ask for “extra bread, always, and then ask for more. Lots of butter, too,” says a server at a family restaurant in Lincoln City, Oregon. “We dished out honey butter, which was spiked with sugar,” says a waitress who worked at a bar and grill in Hanover, New Hampshire. And a former bartender at a seafood chain noted, “The cheesy biscuits were already swiped with melted butter, so you got a double dose [of fat].” You can consume hundreds of calories before the main course hits the table.

Bust your bread habit Avoid arriving hungry, says Keri Gans, R.D., a spokeswoman in New York City for the American Dietetic Association. “A lot of women save their calories when they know they’re going out to eat, so they’re ravenous when they sit down.” Snack on fruit and a handful of nuts an hour or so beforehand; choose a bread stick or a small whole-grain roll and dip it lightly in olive oil. A study in the International Journal of Obesity revealed that diners who used olive oil ate 23 percent less bread than those spreading on butter. 

Ok FINE International Journal of Obesity FINE:(  Bye bread and butter:(  Hello multi-grain and E.V.O.O.!!!  Happy dining girls!