Think eating a salad automatically means you consumed something low in calories?
If you think eating a salad automatically means you ate a low calorie meal (and gives you license to eat whatever you want the rest of the day), read on. Although having a salad is a great, healthy option, you could be eating more calories than you think. If you have a salad made at one of those create your own salad places and they add one or two of those scoops of salad dressing, you could be consuming over 400 calories from salad dressing alone. Even if you opt for the low-fat dressing, you could still be consuming over 200 calories from salad dressing, and that doesn’t include anything else in the salad. Add some cheese, bacon bits, avocado, nuts, or chow mein noodles and you could have consumed as many calories and grams of fat as in a fast food burger and fries. So, if you have a salad, opt for lots of vegetables and pick one of those high fat foods (cheese, nuts etc). And, ask for the dressing on the side so you can control the amount yourself. This is not meant to discourage you from having a salad. Salads are a wonderful, healthy meal. This is just meant to make you aware that not all salads are low calorie.
