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"Have a dinner date on the calendar for the weekend? If so, fun! But, don&amp;#x27;t let a trip out to the restaurant derail your healthy eating plans. The common pitfall that almost every diner makes... The thing to avoid for the benefit of your health (and waistline) at restaurants? In a word, the freebies! I caught a Today Show segment where David Zinczenko, author of Eat This, Not That, ran down a scary list of freebies at restaurants and how they have a way of quickly adding up, calorically, to full-fledged meals. The culprits? *Bread and oil (or butter) *Biscuits (think of the cheddar numbers at Red Lobster) *Endless fries *Chips and salsa Just as an example, eating a smallish plate of chips at a Mexican restaurant before your entree arrives can set you back 430+ calories and 22 grams of fat. Eeks! I&amp;#x27;m all for enjoying one&amp;#x27;s self, but do so with all the facts, gals! I haven&amp;#x27;t been able to talk my husband out of skipping the chips pre-dinner, but we always forgo the bread at restaurants (because we both know we&amp;#x27;ll just load up on too many carbs before our meal arrives!). Tell me, are you smart about the freebies at restaurants? More reading: *Maybe don&amp;#x27;t order seafood at restaurants on this day of the week... *What&amp;#x27;s the grossest restaurant experience you&amp;#x27;ve ever had? Here&amp;#x27;s mine... *Dining out? Healthy restaurant do&amp;#x27;s and don&amp;#x27;ts... More Ways to Get Glamour Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter Add us to your iGoogle homepage Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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