Have you ever found yourself venturing out to grab a quick meal only to realize that you’re headed right for the restaurant that only offers the most unhealthy food choices?

This might even be the restaurant that was there for you when times were tough. The restaurant you often turned to when you were down and hurting, but needed food for comfort.

This is the food joint that draws you in to provide you with happy feelings, a place you can find your “pick-me-up!”

But is this the place that really solves all your problems and helps you conquer all of your fears? Or is this the place that has encouraged your unhealthy temptations?

We all turn to something when we’re down, happy, excited, bored, etc., but turning to food in regards to all of these emotions will only result in a dangerous, bad habit.

If you often find yourself surrounded by your favorite, unhealthy foods leaving you with the difficult decision of “choose” and “not to choose,” then remove yourself from this environment.

The key here is that in order to eat healthy you must pick healthy, but if you continue to dine at your favorite past-time restaurant that led you to where you are in the first place, you will not be able to make change.

If losing weight and becoming a healthier you is your goal, then putting yourself in a situation where you’re surrounded by your food weaknesses will only hurt you.

If you struggle with making the right food choice for you at a specific restaurant, then why go to that restaurant?

Even if you feel like you had the ultimate control and could pick the one healthy item on the menu, why on earth would you do that to yourself?

If others asked you to join them at dinner, but the restaurant of choice just so happens to be the local burger shack that only contains picks from unhealthy to heart attack in the making food choices, then you have to ask yourself, "Is it worth it?"

My point is that you should not put yourself in a harmful, unhealthy environment. By doing this you simply have to put more time into thinking about your food choices, whereas if you went to a restaurant with a bigger, healthier selection you wouldn’t be in such torment.

Whatever your vice may be, control it! You won’t make progress towards your healthy lifestyle if you continue eating at the restaurants that helped you gain your bad habits.

Keep in mind that if you always do what you’ve always done then you will always get what you’ve always gotten!