This is a pretty crazy article full of grades for restaurants with the most fattest meals. Some of the restaurants include, IHOP, TGI Fridays, Outback, Chevy’s and more!

I eat at these places too!

Here are my tips to make your restaurant experience healthier:

1. Order the Salad with no cheese and dressing on the side.

2. Always ask if the salad dressing is creamy – if it is, ask for balsamic vinegar.

3. Get a half order.

4. Split your meal with someone else.

5. Request that the cook use less oil.

6. Don’t eat appetizer

7. OR dessert.

8. Drink a lot of water before your meal so that you get fuller quicker!

9. Ask to see the nutritional guidelines – that will wake you up!

10. Eat out with a health conscious person…you will influence each other!

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America’s Unhealthiest Restaurants

By David Zinczenko, with Matt Goulding – Posted on Mon, Mar 16, 2009, 2:49 pm PDT

Your favorite fast food restaurant is often like your favorite city: Visit some neighborhoods and you live the high life. Visit others and you’re just plain asking for trouble. And that’s where Eat This, Not That! comes in: We’ve analyzed and graded 66 different chain restaurants—fast food and sit-down—to determine which ones have healthy options, and which could turn out to be diet disasters.

What we found will surprise you. Specifically, some of the fast food joints you’ve come to think of as terrible for you actually ranked alright—McDonald’s scored a B+, for example, so the Micky D’s drive-thru just might be your fast-lane to weight loss. Something even more shocking, though: more than half of the sit-down restaurants we graded ended up with our lowest scores!

To separate the commendable from the deplorable, we calculated the total number of calories per entrée. This gave us a snapshot of how each restaurant compared in average serving size—a key indicator of unhealthy portion distortion. Then we rewarded establishments with fruit and vegetable side-dish choices, as well as offering whole-wheat bread. Finally, we penalized places for excessive amounts of trans fats and menus that tempt you with fat-laden desserts. Hey, if the neighborhood is crowded with shady characters, sooner or later, one of them will jump you.

Here’s our restaurant report card for some of the unhealthiest restaurants in America. It’ll help you stay on the safer side of town.

D+
Baskin-Robbins
We thought we’d see some improvements after we identified Baskin’s Heath Shake as the Worst Drink on the Planet. All they did was lower it from 2,300 to 1,900 calories, leaving an almost equally egregious drinkable disaster to set back unsuspecting sippers. It’s typical of the menu there; Read the rest here.

I actually LOVE Chevy’s! But it made it on the BAD LIST
Luckily, I only eat salads there and sometimes fajitas and chips on my free day!

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