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Here are three fast food choices that actually won't clog your arteries or make your waistline expand. They may not be your favorite guilty pleasure, but since they're a little healthier they may just be the best of both worlds!

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Chick-fil-A – Grilled Chicken Sandwich
When most people think about healthy options in fast food restaurants, they often default to salads. But that would be a mistake, because while the salad might be lacking guilt inducing ingredients, the dressing isn't—and you know you want the dressing. Also salads aren't very filling, meaning not long after you finish that last leafy bite, you'll be craving something else. So next time you mysteriously find yourself in Chick-fil-A, try the Grilled Chicken Sandwich. It has only 320 calories, 5 grams of fat, and a pretty satisfying 30 grams of protein to make you feel full. The sodium is a little high at 800 mg, but it's still one of the lowest on the menu, and only just over a third of your recommended daily limit, which leaves you room to maneuver for the rest of the day. Just make sure don't maneuver back into the Chick-fil-A for dinner.

McDonald's – McChicken Sandwich
We're still avoiding salads, and in this case that means another chicken sandwich…or rather a McChicken sandwich. And while the McChicken sandwich has less sodium than the Chick-fil-A equivalent, it has more fat and less protein. The numbers are 370 calories, 17 grams of fat, 650 mg sodium, and 14 grams of protein. So if you're in the market for a chicken sandwich and the choice is between McDonalds and a Chick-fil-A, we gotta be honest: go for the Chick-fil-A.

Subway – Subway Club
The Subway Club sandwich isn't the healthiest option on Subway's menu, but it's also not the most boring either. And since this list is about better choices instead of punishment, we'll try to keep the options interesting. The Subway Club is part of the “6 Grams of Fat or less” menu, and actually only has 4.5 grams (as long as you don't add cheese and have it on 9-grain wheat bread, that is). It also only has 310 calories and a pretty decent 23 grams of protein. It does have more sodium than most of the other options on the “6 Grams” menu at 840 mg, but that's still far less than almost everything else on the sandwich menu except the tuna. If you're really hungry you could even double up to a footlong without much problem, but then you'd be in danger of giving in to “menu-creep”, and that can only end one way…with a face full of meatballs.

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Which one of these fast food choices sound most appetizing to you? Would you be willing to substitute them for the classic burger and fries?

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