Stay Healthy While Eating Out

It can be difficult to keep a "healthy lifestyle" (NOT DIET) going when eating out. Especially if you live in a big city where their are great restaurants at every corner. I know for myself its more of a portion control issue. All this great food at my disposal & I didn't have to make it myself! Although I prefer going out for dinner, I am going to start cooking main dishes at home. I'm also going start making low sugar desserts. I'll post those recipes as soon as I make one that I really enjoy & that's easy to make. Here are a couple of tips for those Friday/Saturday night dinners.

TIPS
Snack Before Dinner - Have a light snack before dinner that way you won't be starved when you get to the restaurant. You can have it as your getting ready to go out, in between wardrobe changes. Maybe a hand full of almonds (Whole Foods has these really goood flavored
almonds, like BBQ flavored!)

Slow Down Your Eating - Make sure you chew all your food & slow it down so you can actually savor every bite.

Watch Your Liquids - Its so easy to have 2 too many cocktails especially when they have super cute names!

Beware Of Dessert - I know their sooo good BUT let's just not eat the entire dessert plate. Sharing is caring when it comes to desserts!

Finally don't follow the "clean your plate rule" that your mom would say at every dinner. It took me so long to stop doing this, till this day I still have to remind myself sometimes.

HighBeam By BENEFIT

On a trip to Sephora I picked up highbeam by BENEFIT! It was in ELLE Magazines's top five products. I didn't try it while I was inside Sephora because I picked it up right as I was about it pay. Here are the product claims by http://www.benefitcosmetics.com/  "Our satiny pink liquid highlighter accents cheekbones and brow bones for a radiant glow. It's known as the supermodel in a bottle"! umm I don't know about you all but I think I'll buy anything with the word Supermodel in the name! They also say it "Looks perfectly radiant on all skin tones". Well let's see about that...


So here's my review on this "supermodel bottle" It comes in a nail polish looking bottle. (LOVE) The formula is a liquid cream based silvery pink tone. I think it would look better on pale cooler skin tones as apposed to warmer skin tones or as a nighttime look. I do like how it looks in night pictures. I have to say it does blend well, there's no thick glitter to worry about. It gives a nice sheen to the highlight area. With that said I think it can be a bit much if it's worn in the daytime on warmer skintones. Application is pretty simple, just dab three dots above the cheekbones & blend blend blend. It can also be used on the cupids bow, collarbone or browbone to add a light reflection.


Since it is a little light for my skintone. I probably won't use it during the summer because I get like two shades darker so it really isn't going match my skin tone. However, I am going to try MoonBeam by BENEFIT. Its similar to highbeam but it's more of an apricot color as apposed to a pink color. It's probably made with warm skin tones in mind.

HighBeam by BENEFIT $24.00

Here are links to HighBeam By Benefit.
http://www.sephora.com/
http://www.benefitcosmetics.com/