Ah yes, as you slowly work towards eating healthier, bumps along your way will likely be high-calorie and fat-laden restaurant meals. Whether you order take out, grab a quick fast food meal or linger over a fancy meal, restaurant meals present BIG CHALLENGES to your healthier eating efforts! And though you're willing to eat a few less grab-and-go breakfasts and brown-bag a couple more lunches, you’re unlikely to say so long to restaurant meals.

Ah yes, as you slowly work towards eating healthier, bumps along your way will likely be high-calorie and fat-laden restaurant meals. Whether you order take out, grab a quick fast food meal or linger over a fancy meal, restaurant meals present BIG CHALLENGES to your healthier eating efforts! And though you're willing to eat a few less grab-and-go breakfasts and brown-bag a couple more lunches, you’re unlikely to say so long to restaurant meals.

On Sept 30 California’s governor signed the first state-wide legislation to require chain restaurants with more than 20 locations to offer up key nutrition facts, such as calories, saturated fat, carbohydrate and sodium, at the point of purchase (right next to the price of the item on menus or menu boards). No longer will the availability of this information on websites, on posters or in brochures be sufficient. The legislation goes into effect July 2009 and takes full effect in 2011.

A new solve-all-your-food-problems guide and has quickly risen into to the top of the bestseller charts with the blizzard of the January weight loss frenzy. The title: Eat This, Not That by the editor of Men’s Health. Meanwhile the 3^rd edition of the bestselling title Eat Out, Eat Right authored, once again, by yours truly is hot off the press.