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Act like a total fanatic and carry your own condiments to restaurants. Carry packets of low fat dressings, herbal teas, spices or other healthy toppings that may not be readily available at a restaurant. Sure you may look like a weirdo, but you'll look like a weirdo with a great body.

Some restaurants serve huge portions. Request a doggie bag or box be delivered with your meal and split it yourself immediately before you begin to eat.

Be a pain in the neck to the waiter. Ask lots of questions with no remorse. How is the fish grilled? If it is in butter, ask for it dry. If a fried entrée is offered on the menu, ask if the chef can bake it, broil it, grill it or steam it to cut down on the fat. It's your meal and your money paying for it.

Be very wary of restaurant salads. Many can be in excess of 1000 calories! Order then with no dressing, and whip out your own diet dressing.

Skip fried shrimp. A three ounce serving has 206 calories while the same size boiled are only 84 calories.

A single order of Fettuccine Alfredo is approximately 1,500 calories! When eating Italian food, opt for pasta topped with marinara or meat sauce, red or white clam sauce or Chicken Marsala.

Select soups that you can see through. If you can see through them, they are broths with less fat and calories.

Avoid all the obvious; butter sauces, deep fried foods etc.

Remove skin from chicken and save yourself substantial calories.

If you are getting a quick hamburger or something similar, press the burger between pieces of paper towel. You will be surprised how much fat [and therefore excess calories] be left on the paper towel.

Order a double serving of vegetables instead of the starch [rice, potatoes] that normally come with meals. Most restaurants will be happy to accommodate you.

Tell the waiter not to bring the bread basket, that way you avoid the temptation.

While you are waiting for your meal, annihilate the water. Work the water server off their feet by making them fill up your water repeatedly. Not only do you help fill yourself up prior to the meal arriving thus avoiding overeating, but you get your money's worth too J

When you are finished eating a 'diet sized amount' and still have food left on your plate, but your dinner companions are not finished yet…here is a good tip to stop you from continuing to pick at the food. Pick up some type of condiment, ideally one you don't like, and put a ridiculous amount all over the food left on the plate. That leftover filet mignon will not look so appetizing sitting there with a truckload of pepper all over it.

If you frequent a restaurant, be all bold with yourself and suggest to them they offer/expand their diet menu options. Restaurants exist to make money, so if they get enough requests for diet cuisine, chances are they will add it.

Speaking of diet menus, don't believe everything you read. The menu may state 'low carb', and sure it is low carb…with 500 calories of fat in the dish!

If the restaurant is buffet style, grab a table as far from the buffet as possible. You'll lessen the temptation to graze or go back for seconds. Go through the buffet line one time only.

Stay away from nuts at bars. They are laden with calories, and put there because the high sodium count increases thirst, and therefore increases drink sales at the bar. If you have trouble resisting, just think how many dirty drunken fingers were in that bowl L

Split a meal with a friend, ask the waiter for an extra plate. If you feel uncomfortable because you think you look like a penny-pinching cheapskate, preface your request to the waiter with "Since we are both on a diet… "

If eating pizza, order a small slice of a thin crust with vegetable toppings.