18. Choose the right restaurant.
Read the menu – it's often posted outside by the entrance – and decide if you have enough healthy, lower-fat choices before you sit down.

You also can call the restaurant, have a menu faxed to you, look it up on the Internet or ask your concierge if the hotel has a menu collection.

Many chain restaurants post calories and other nutritional information, either at the restaurant or online.

In fact, all U.S. restaurants with 20 or more locations are legally required to post calorie counts for all items on menus, drive-through boards and even on vending machines or glass displays. Additional information, including carbohydrate and sodium levels, must also be available on request.

19. Balance your restaurant meal with food choices the rest of the day.
Save most of your calories and fat choices for when you're dining out.

20. Look for low-fat words.
Fish that is broiled or baked usually has less than 5 grams of fat per ounce. Also good for you: "grilled," "baked," "braised," "broiled," "poached," "roasted" or "steamed."

Avoid foods described with the words "fried," "breaded," "buttered," "creamed," "sautéed," "scalloped," or served "with gravy" or a "thick sauce."

Compiled from sources including the following: What to Expect When You Have Diabetes, copyright Good Books (www.GoodBooks.com ^[1]); 101 Tips for Coping with Diabetes, copyright the American Diabetes Association; 101 Medication Tips for People with Diabetes by Betsy A. Carlisle, Lisa A. Kroon, and Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, copyright the American Diabetes Association. Used by permission; all rights reserved.

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