Eating Out on high suppression - Kids Menu?

[Kitt1]

I’ve recently upped my dose by 0.5mg and I’ve got quite high suppression again. Yesterday I managed one small meal around 3pm having eaten some fruit in the morning and a banana in the evening.

I’m supposed to be going out for a meal tonight to a nice restaurant with a few friends but I’ve looked at the sample menu online and I don’t think I’ll manage anything other than perhaps a bowl of soup.

Would a restaurant be happy to sever an adult a kids portion of food? Even just looking at a plate full of food is off putting. I was initially looking forward to going as I rarely eat out, maybe about 3 times a year max.

Surely, as so many of us are taking WLI, this must be becoming a fairly common problem when eating out?

Full disclosure: The others in the group know I’ve been dieting (lost almost 4 stones) but only a couple know I’m on the jab.

ive never had this issue, did you move up as it was no longer working. Your food intake is the bigger issue here, as you will be losing muscle and your hair.

for me when I went out. I chose lighter meals. Grilled fish, veg etc. I don’t know of any restaurants thay will serve a child’s menu to an adult. But you could just order starters.
\however I’d be more concerned about your health right now/

I take Tupperware and put half the meal aside to eat the next day, which is what I often do with larger/richer meals at home.

In a restaurant I've asked for starters before for my main meal with some extra veg on the side - I had a lovely smoked haddock and salmon fishcake with leek sauce starter for my main meal last week with extra veg. I wouldn't ask for kids food as it tends to be meh.

I have had kids meals in cafes before - smaller soup/sandwich, mini macaroni etc - when it was till ordering service/paying so they didn't know how many adults/kids were actually at the table!

I just order what I want from the menu and eat as much as I can manage prioritizing the protein and leaving the carbs.

I've had a few meals out since starting. I find that it's ok in a decent restaurant that serves good vegetables - I tend to have fish and veg or a couple of starters as a main. I eat slowly so I don't look like I've eaten less than others.
This week I went to a very nice place for lunch with a 3 course set menu. The courses were all small with a high proportion of veg so I just had some of each and it wasn't very calorific.

DH and I are both on mounjaro and often order a starter but to come at the time everyone has their mains. Never been an issue in almost 2 years of jabbing.

I reckon as more and more of us are on GLPs there will be more and more restaurants start to offer a small plates menu.

Not really to do with your meal but not eating adequate protein increases the risk of muscle loss. I’d just admit you taking it and have soup. But have a think about muscle loss and how to mitigate it .

I do the same as @Belindabelle - just order something, anything, eat what I can and leave the rest. If I’m not hungry I’ll choose the most colourful light option, grilled meat or fish and veg or salad on the side, or an actual salad. But I go out to eat a lot, twice a week on average, and kids menus can lean towards beige and fried depending on where you go although my dc are well past the kids menu stages now so maybe things have changed. Saying that I went for a pub lunch with my little nephews yesterday and the kids menu was either nuggets/ham egg and chips type stuff or pizza.
I’d probably feel quite embarrassed about ordering from the kids menu tbh, and if not everyone knows your on the jabs - ordering from the kids menu will confirm to them that you are 😂 (how much you care about this is on you though).

I'd skip all other meals for the day and order a starter, or any meal and just eat what I want and leave the rest.

It's unbearably fussy to hassle the wait staff for a kids menu or haggle over the price because you won't be eating all of it. Surely there isn't a kids menu anyway if it's a nice restaurant, or if there is it's usually restricted to under 10-12s.

I just order a starter if I feel like that.

Yep, a starter and a side salad/veg. Ask the wait staff for it all to come at the same time (or whenever you'd prefer if others are having starters)

Have a starter but ask for it to be served at same time as main course

I'd choose a starter or a kids meal. I've done both.

Me amd my friend ordered from the kids menu in Chiquitos, I explained to the waitress that I was on weight loss jabs and couldn't eat a full meal, she was perfectly fine with it and said quite a few do the same now. I got a starter, main and dessert for a bargain price!

I ended up having fish & chips. I ate the fish and left the batter. Ate a few chips and all the peas.

The menu was one MAIN course for €25 or 2 courses for €31 and I didn’t fancy paying €25 for a bowl of soup. 😳

I agree, it’s often dressed up as not wanting food waste, but we can all just order something light, like salad or grilled seafood, and eat enough of it. It’s often about saving money.

That can’t have been the lightest thing there surely?

I have ordered from the kids menu for over a year! Our local restaurant has a “kids eat for £1 with every full paying adult” deal, so I’ve been a very cheap date 🤣. There’s no way an adult portion of food is going to fit in, and the kids meals in most decent restaurants are just shrunken down versions of adults anyway. I can eat a nice meal in a restaurant for around 600-700kcal. Absolutely order the kids food! Sometimes they’ll send a colouring page and cute word search alongside it ;)

Have a starter or a side instead. I do this often and they don’t bat an eyelid. Was more common years ago after gastric surgery when I’d get funny looks, but now it’s just normal everywhere I eat out that staff don’t even query it even when we go to new places

So many places now have 'left-over' / takeaway boxes, so I tend to order what I fancy, eat about half and then ask to take the rest home (and will have it for dinner the following day.)
On Saturday, we went to a local pie pub, which serves lovely puff pies, with veg and mash. I ate half my pie, a couple of spoonfuls of mash and a lot of veg and then brought the rest home. I had contacted the pub earlier that afternoon to check that they did the takeaway boxes or I would have taken my own Tupperware with me! (I have no shame and can load up my Tupperware discreetly!)
Meals are so expensive these days that I won't just leave half a meal I have been enjoying!