Last Sunday afternoon the girlfriends and I caught up for our regular monthly gossip lunch and found ourselves talking for 3 hours about our struggles to keep in shape and diet issues. Of course, we were all eating a nice greasy Italian plate, but that’s besides the point.

Our conversation spent a lot of time on low carb dieting. Most of the gals (including me) had mentioned how low carb dieting had worked for them in the past, but have difficultly doing it now. Personally, I could drop 20 pounds in one month on a low carb diet back when I was 20 years old. The addition of another decade has somehow diminished my ability to eliminate carbs, and most of the other gals had a similar story.

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Everyone is talking about how much weight they lost on the cabbage soup diet. Well, ok, maybe not everyone, but there is a lot of buzz about it right now.

Basically, the diet is simple in terms of what you can and what you can’t eat - you’re eating cabbage soup, and a heck of a lot of it. Granted, there are variations of the diet that allow more flexibility and eat other things (like fruits and vegetables), but you’re still eating a ton of cabbage soup.

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Many people spend their whole lives each and every day eating some sort of fried food. You know, the kind you dip in that greasy stuff. These types of food are very bad for our weight management and our arteries, but why do so many people eat this stuff so often?

I grew up in a normal lower income family where fried food was the normal daily menu item. I don’t think it was because we all loved the taste of it so much, but rather it was a cheap source of food.

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I was at the gym last week and overheard a conversation from a gal on the exercise bike in front of me about how she had lost 25 pounds by basically eating spicy foods each day. Her diet intrigued me enough (I just LOVE spicy foods!) to follow her to the locker and ask her about it. Thankfully she didn’t think I was a stalker and was plenty willing to tell me her story.

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Okay, perhaps this doesn’t fit under the ‘diet’ category, but I can tell you that it is a major problem for many of those that find themselves on diets, and perhaps it’s a little bit if ranting on my part, but nobody sells clothing that fit larger people well. I can at least talk from a man’s point of view, since I’m a man of course. Sure you have your Big & Tall stores (for men), but I have never been overjoyed with the selection that I have found there. The styles are, let’s just say, not keeping up with the times very well. Then I’ve found that much of the available larger clothing assumes that you’re 7 feet tall. Okay, that may be a little bit of an exaggeration, but I’m 6 feet tall and most of the shirts wear on me like dresses!

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