I've used the gas grill a LOT this year, mostly to try and eat more healthy (yes really... lean meat & grilled veggies are good for you). I've been very into lean meats and veggies of late, also fruit. The results have been really dramatic on my weight and overall health.
Yesterday was 2 grilled eye of round steaks and 2 chicken breasts (1 of each for 2 people), the steak had Andrias steak sauce marinading it (very unique flavor, kinda oniony) and a little rosemary, for the chicken I used a garlic butter (i use a butter made from flaxseed oil) and cajun seasoning blend of my own design. Lightly salted grilled red, green, and yellow peppers, grilled onions, and a couple 'grill cooked' brownie nuggets (i just stick the mixture as a ball into foil wrap and grill it). Drinks were my own recipe for perfect margaritas.
Total calories was probably around 1000 for the meal itself. But the fat and non-fiber carbohydrates were very low (mostly just the 2 small brownie balls). So even though it was delicious and crammed with protein and extremely filling, the only calories which could possibly be made into body fat could be gotten rid of in 20 minutes on the elliptical machine.
Well, the margaritas were a bit more, often we have water though, and my margaritas are not 90% sweet&sour like most restaurants serve. I start with tequilla (1part), tripple sec(1/3part), real lime juice(1/3part), and ice(1part), and then just add sweet & sour until a couple ounces past the point where sipping it no longer has too much 'bite'. salt rim, on the rocks. fortunately nobody here has high blood pressure, so salt's not an issue.
They really should update the "calorie" measuring system for foods. Simply put, only certain kinds of calories are physically capable of being made into body fat. calories from non-fiber carbs (sugars, starches, pasta, grains, etc), and calories from fats. All other calories (protein, fiber, alcohol) are utterly harmless to your waistline. So when you eat some fat free beef jerky that has 200 calories worth of protein, the 200 calories don't even exist as far as your body fat ratio is concerned. Literally you could eat 20 pounds of fat free beef jerky a day and lose body fat like you're in a concentration camp. They need to come up with a "diet-meaningful" calorie count for foods, so you don't have to calculate the math of the grams of carbs, fats, etc. vs. other types of calories in a food you're buying. Especially alcohol, alcoholic drinks are quite hard to figure out (generally the higher the alcohol content and the lower the overall calories, the better).