When you search for diet plans online, or ever taken a trip to the dietician or gym trainer and ask them to put together a diet plan for you, odds are he or she won't be recommending pizza. Not even if you beg them to. Typically, with all its dough, cheese and meaty, oily toppings, pizza isn't quite on the level of any lettuce, tomatoes, sprouts when it comes to healthy superfoods.

That being said, healthy eating and pizza eating don't necessarily need to be mutually exclusive. If you're looking for a cool way to improve your diet without compromising on your pizza intake on weekend while meeting friends or Friday movie night at home, then here are a few subtle ways you can make your pizza healthier, regardless of whether you're making pizza at home, or getting it delivered to your door.

If you are making pizza at home, you might stretch and make your sauce yourself. While the packed pizza sauce in supermarket aisle is loaded with chemicals and sugar, instead stir up a pizza sauce with fresh tomatoes and garlic. For the dough, use whole wheat flour. White flour is refined, meaning the wheat has its fibrous shell removed, making it a lot easier for your body to digest it but also turning it into sugar a lot more quickly. By going for whole wheat, your pizza becomes a complex carb - giving you tons of nutrients and leaving you fuller for longer. While at first thought, adding vegetables to your pizza sounds disgusting and wrong, once you get them on there, you'll realize they're not quite so bad. Tomatoes, onions, peppers, olives, corn, spinach are all pretty good on pizza, while if you're dying for a little extra meat, then plump for lean meats like parma ham.
When you think of pizza, the majority of us will picture ourselves a nice big slice of pepperoni. It's the quintessential, defining pizza topping, but unforunately, that oily, meaty sausage is pretty far from good for your health. In the same vein, extra cheese, fatty sauces, creamy sauces and stuffed crusts are needless garnishes, adding fat and calories into a meal that doesn't quite need it.

Similar to eating from a smaller plate, this tricks your easily-fooled brain into thinking you've eaten more than you actually have. Take advantage of your primitive cognitive programming.
We've all been there: once you bring your pizza in and open the box in front of the screen, it only takes a couple of episodes on Netflix, before you realize you've accidentally eaten an entire large pizza in one sitting. Distraction is a massive cause for overeating but just as important is portion control. Especially with pizza. By putting slices on a smaller plate, you trick your brain into thinking you've eaten more, making you feel full much sooner. Since you're making your pizza at home, then you can get yourself as many nutrients as you need by adding your favourite vegetables.
Use Fresh Mozzarella instead of processed mozzarella. Not only does the fresh stuff taste so much better than the packaged, processed mozarella that's probably been hanging out in a grocery store for too long, but it's only 22 percent fat, and is packed with protein too. By way of comparison, cheddar, is as much as 45 percent fat. 

Once you sink your teeth into a delicious pizza that's also pretty healthy for you, then you'll wonder how you ever survived without it. 

When ordering in, order thin crust instead of deep pan
When you're ordering a pizza, there's a temptation to order as much as you can for the money you're paying. Not only does that mean perhaps ordering the XL instead of the medium, but it also means going for the deep pan. Yes, this means that stuffed crusts are also off-limits. But you don't need all that dough, calories or carbs: trust me on that one. Plus, deep pan pizzas tend to have more cheese and toppings per slice.

Most of the pizzas you get in places like Pizza Hut, Dominos is made with a hard cheese that when baked, tends to release a fair amount of oil. Each teaspoon of that oil has about 40 kcal and 4.5 grams of fat. Yeah, you don't want that. Make your pizza way healthier by just taking a paper towel and dabbing your slice to soak up some of that excess oil.

Since there is limitation on quantity and quality of veggies you would get in ordered pizza, make a salad at home to make it a balanced and healthier meal.