Here it is… if you were a bodybuilder and you discovered that your personal coach was wearing one of these fake muscle suits, would you still trust him?

I am not trying to be funny, this is an analogy that is meant to be helpful, ok?

If you have a burning desire to open up a restaurant, be sure that you don’t bite off more than you can chew. Restaurant Funding from Advance Restaurant Finance is kinda self explanatory, but I think using a sector specific finance company might help you avoid some of the common pitfalls. And you will need money, too.

If you are sensitive to criticism, here is a dose of perspective for you. This video features Aishwarya Rai, who is considered by many to be the most beautiful woman in the World. She has recently been the subject of some very harsh criticism in the Indian media. This criticism is about her weight.

As an actress, she is asked to lose 10 or more pounds for movie roles on occasion. I think that is a reasonable request. Actors often take it upon themselves to gain or lose significant amounts of weight. I remember Tom Hanks looking lanky for Philadelphia and Castaway. Some actors and actresses gain weight on purpose for roles. George Clooney was supposedly thrown into a state of depression after he gained 30 pounds for a role.

Anyway, the Indian actress should not have to suffer the derision of the tabloids over a little bit of belly fat.

A few diet vLoggers have started adding kimkins as a keyword to unrelated videos, which is fine. This is how I discovered YvesMetamorphosis. Her weight loss journey is not a remarkable success or failure. She is not selling anything. What makes her channel worth mentioning is just the fact that it is a very public accounting of her 10 week effort. I wish her well.

I am more familiar with leek and potato soup, which would be verboten for those following a strict low carb diet. If you find a soup recipe that works for your diet, be sure to keep track of your sodium intake as some recipes are on the high side. I think spinach it a great food to experiment with.

What makes www.foodconnect.com so great? These and many other features:

- Free nutritional analysis, for all recipes on the site and every recipe you submit.
- Share your recipes with your friends and other foodies.
- Discuss recipe ideas and techniques.
- Plan your meal and easily print off your shopping list.
- Create the perfect dinner party

All of this and much more and best of all its all free. Get to foodconnecct.com to get started today.

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The above press release gives you the gist of what FoodConnect.com is all about. I have visited the site a few times and I find it to be quite entertaining. I haven’t come away with any must make recipes yet. As often as not, I am vicariously entertained by websites about food. I have a pretty stable diet that I don’t deviate from that much. I am thinking about submitting a few recipes to see what dietary values are spit out. You really have to take some of the values with a grain of salt because they are dependent on user inputs. I actually find the cocktails to be the most entertaining, or more accurately I find the people who leave comments after trying out drink recipes to be a hoot. Here is a recipe for Captain Morgan’s Steamy Applecolada Dream.

I remember Oprah spending months harping on and on about not thawing out chicken on the counter. At the time, I have to admit that I found it annoying. Now I am wondering how many lives she may have saved with her tirades.

There are lots of government websites and other resources that can provide more accurate and complete information about food safety…

WHO page on food safety

Foodlink

The FDA’s Playing it Safe with Eggs

You can create a training plan and input your statistics and your results. Your FitReach account can also serve up a great way to manage your diet. In the information age, we have a lot of information at our fingertips with regard to diet and fitness. There are enough trusted sources and review sites out there to help you separate the good info from the bad if you do a little homework. Knowing how to lose weight and/or get fit is not the issue with most of us. As often as not we fail to stick to perfectly good plans because we lack the motivation or the organization. Tools like FitReach help people firm up a plan and stick to it. Your progress is visible to other FitReach members, if you choose to make it visible.

Creating a FitReach profile is quick and easy. Getting fit and/or losing weight is not quick and easy, but anything that you can do to keep yourself on track is worth looking into.

This post is not about can openers, it is about a really cool French butter keeper from Vat19. Seeing how it works has made me question how much better my life could be if my butter would spread well at room temperature. I should note that with the cost of heating fuel rising, ‘room’ temperature is lower than ever, at least in the winter.

Vat19 is a really cool online store. Some product are a bit silly and some are pure genius.