The Not So Macho Diet

Battlerocker has been successful in losing thirty pounds over the last three or four months. He is losing weight the 'non-masculine' way. Here's a funny passage from his blog;

As part of a general lifestyle change I began earlier this year, I�ve been counting calories. It sucks. Not because it isn�t working, or because I�m having a hard time with it; between dieting and working out I�ve lost about thirty pounds in three months while putting on a lot of muscle mass in the process. What I hate about it is that it�s so boring. It doesn�t have a name, for example. Atkins, South Beach, The Zone; they all seem so modern. �Hi, I�m Science and I�m here to help,� that sort of thing. Not counting calories. It�s the stone wheel of the diet world.

It�s also not very masculine. The great thing about the low-carb type diets is that when you go out with friends, you can be macho and order the 48 ounce T-bone if you want to. No one suspects its part of your �diet.� Not so with calorie counting. Any time you start asking whether or not the �dressing� is fat free, you just know the guys are going to be impressed. So impressed, in fact, that they�ll probably keep bringing it up the rest of the night, with some congratulatory arm punches thrown in for good measure.

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