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Continued From 50 Diet Mistakes Even Smart Women Make

5. You’ve eaten the same breakfast and lunch for years.
Varying your diet is crucial to good health. If you don’t, you’re bound to get bored and associate healthy eating with not enjoying food. If you always make salads with iceberg and
tomatoes, substitute spinach. If you have a turkey sandwich every day, try a turkey burger.
Top pasta with brightly colored vegetables like eggplant, bell peppers or squash.

6. You always clean your plate.
Portions are almost always too large in restaurants. Professor at Boston University, recommends adhering to the “buy once, eat twice” strategy. Ask the waiter to pack up half of the food in takeaway containers before it’s served to you.

7. You can’t remember what you had for lunch.
“If you don’t keep track of what you eat throughout the day, you’re less likely to control the quality and quantity,” says a professor at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York.

8. You eat a frozen meal at least four nights a week.
They may be convenient, but these entrees can have as much as 1,000 milligrams of sodium each. (The current recommended daily sodium intake is 2,400 milligrams.) Plus, many are low in nutrients. A frozen dinner once or twice a week is fine, but add an extra serving of veggies, a salad, a glass of low-fat milk and/or a piece of fruit.

9. You think the pasta primavera is the healthiest choice on the menu.
Just because it’s got vegetables doesn’t mean it’s the lowest in fat and calories. It-and many other restaurant pasta dishes-may be swimming in creamy sauce, oil and cheese. “Ask if the vegetables can be cooked in broth instead of oil, and pass on the extra sprinkling of parmesan,” suggests staff dietitian with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine in Washington, D.C.

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