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I have added a relatively new blog by a Toronto personal training and lifestyle coach which as it is continually updated has some really great tips.  If I was closer to TO I might even look her up.

But her most recent post about going out on the town, and her very strict diet, by choice, is something that I can’t do, even while I am trying to lose weight.  Basically when she is out on the town she is sure never to slack off on what she eats.  So she will not even eat fries, and when she does she thinks that she has failed. 

This is a very bad thing for people that are just starting a diet and they used to eat a lot of crap.  To someone like this, if they felt "bad" about every time that they eat something they like but is not on the list they are doomed to fail in the long term.

When I am on a "diet" and I use this term lightly because all it means to me is that I am consciously changing what I am eating to get a result, whether it is to lose weight, have mre energy, etc. But I still have a day, or meal that I can eat what I want.  This is a once a week thing that I know is comeing, but I can change depending on what is going on.  So on a Friday after work we go for beer and nachos, or maybe on game day we will have fish and chips, or burgers.  This is a meal that I keep track of, but I don’t count it as a failure. 

One high calorie meal every once in a while will help you lose weight if you are on a low calorie diet.  A low calorie diet will help you lose weight but it may also slow your metabolism, so that means once you reach your goal and figure that you can eat again, you will only bounce to your old weight.  Eating one high cal meal will lessen this jump. 

For this example, I think that she is always eating right which is something that we should all strive for, but I think that it is no easy to go from "good old home cooking" to eating right in one step.  So if you go out with friends I say eat up, if you feel like it, and if you do don’t lose sleep over it.  Just don’t go out often

As for the dislike of beer?  Well to each their own, but I LOVE MY beer, but at least she buys the local stuff, there is nothing like drinking the local micro

Cheers,

Jeff

I have been thinking lately that there is no beverage that a Hoser likes more than beer. And even though this site is dedicated to helping Hosers and non-hosers alike to live a better, fuller, healthier life, beer is just too important.

Beer, like wine and other liqueur, when drank in moderation have even showed to help prevent heart disease. But in binging amounts there could be nothing worse for the heart, not to mention the liver.

However not all beer is made equal, both in the health aspect, or the taste. In the next little while I am going to be trying out different kinds and will be trying to write some reviews. I may get a couple of my “beer nerd” friends to help out.