My Question of the Day: Many of us live fast-paced lifestyles, and we don’t always have time and/or make time to cook. Is it possible to eat healthy if the majority of  your meals come from fast-food restaurants?

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My Question of the Day: You and a group of friends go out for a bite to eat. Everyone has a great time, and the waiter brings you all your checks. Each of you pay your own tab, but you decide to pool your money to give the waiter a cash tip. Everyone puts in $3-$5, and the tip totals well above the suggested 15% gratuity.

Several weeks later, when you receive your debit card statement, you notice that your final total is more than it was when you paid the tab. You dig up your receipt and call the restaurant.

After being on hold for several minutes, the manager comes back on the line, tells you he found the original of your receipt and it shows that you added $2.00 to the receipt for the waiter’s tip. You have your copy of the receipt that shows you did not write in a $2.00 tip.

What do you do?

My 2 Cents: Steal big, steal little. Theft is theft. I would not just ignore it because it’s only $2. There’s no such thing as “only anything,” as far as I’m concerned, when it comes to stealing, especially stealing from me.

I’d contact the restaurant, ask for a copy of the original receipt, and then I’d file a police report. Call me over-zealous, but this is a scam, and I’m sure I’m not the only person that would have been overcharged in this way.

Think about it, a waiter/waitress does this to every customer everyday for one week. If that waiter/waitress has 200 customers during that time, that’s an extra $400 that he/she has skimmed from her customers. It’s just $2 on your tab, but adding that $2 to every person’s tab adds up big time. The whole idea of only taking a little from each person is to get those people to look at it and think, “It’s only $2. I don’t have time to fight over $2.” WRONG!

You’re not fighting for $2. You’re fighting to make sure honesty and integrity continue to mean something in our society. It’s bigger than $2.

This is how mole hills become mountains. When we ignore bad behavior, we are essentially encouraging bad behavior to continue and to escalate.

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My Question of the Day: Nothing should taste better than being healthy feels. Imagine you’ve been plugging away at a new diet and exercise plan. You’ve been working your programs for the last three months, and you can see light at the end of the long tunnel. You’re within 10 pounds of meeting your weight-loss goal, and you’ve totally relearn how to eat, keeping portion control in mind and limiting, not banishing, junk food. One day at work, you get an email from the company president, saying that s/he wants to take the entire office out to dinner to show his/her appreciation for all your hard work and dedication. S/he gives the place and time for the dinner, and it is a restaurant that you have completely avoided since starting your new health regimen, because this restaurant prepares food in a way that totally, 100% goes against your diet plan. What do you do?

My 2 Cents: If I have a choice, I wouldn’t go. If I have no choice, if it’s mandatory, I won’t eat. If I’ve avoided that particular restaurant for the specific reason that their menu doesn’t fit in my diet plan, I’m not going to try to force it.

I’d thank my boss for his/her generous offer, but I wouldn’t compromise my goal just to get a free meal, and I’d let him/her know exactly why I won’t be participating.

My choice is based on knowing my level of discipline (or lack thereof) at this point and time, and I’m not at a point where I’d just get back on my plan the next day. I could be wrong after I’ve actually had three months to revise my eating habits and solidify my workout program, but answering with today’s mind, I wouldn’t go.

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JoshDamage I go for work purposes…every restaurant sells salad on the menu lol

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