Entertaining - I make the food that I normally eat. I've worked at making my own cooking wonderfully diet friendly. And I suppose I have enough talent that people don't seem to notice that they're having healthier choices. I tend to serve things family style, so I can take more protein, lots of veggies, and just a little of whatever starch I'm serving. The last people I had over got apricot ginger chicken with brown rice and green beans. There were biscuits as well (which I stayed away from) and a cherry/jam/yogurt sorbet I made, again fairly low calorie.
Traveling and eating out I don't do much. For school (which is kind of like traveling) I pack snacks and lunch, my most recent fav snack is homemade beef jerky. When I eat out I tend to aim for low carb choices. Not that I'm doing a low carb diet, but the easiest thing to do is drop the potato, rice and or pasta from a dish. I've done things like dressings on the side for salads even before dieting (as they usually put way too much on). I haven't run into a restaurant that won't make minor changes to meals, although I've occasionally had to pay a litte extra for swapping out the fries for a salad.
Eating at other people's homes is tougher. I usually take some kind of protein shake before I leave (to stop me from nibbling on the appetizers) and do about the same as I would do going out to a restaurant. I've got to say that most people I've had dinner with over the last little while tend to serve 'self serve' so I don't have to worry about people puting more on my plate than I want.
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