If there's no way to beat men at the dieting game, women might as well join them. Here are seven guy habits that can help you slim down, get strong, and be healthier, too.

1. He doesn't crave sweets

Both men and women have cravings—but his work to his advantage.

While your comfort food is more likely to be sour gummy bears or double-chocolate chip bars, his is a thick, juicy steak. A Cornell University study found that women seek out sweets to ward off the blues but men turn to meat when they want to indulge. Why this gives him a weight-loss advantage: He's eating protein, which will help fill him up (and curb overeating later) far better than your coffee cake will.

Where are the other 6? I'm kinda interested...

And as always: Gotta link??

If anyone is in the kearny nj area i suggest u stop by Stashs Sub SHop. Yummy... Its located half block from where the pork store on the Sopranos was located.

Big Stash's Sub House in Kearny :




You know something Smitty, when I read your post the name Stash's sounded very familiar to me. Then I remembered that when I was a kid we used to go to a place in Linden New Jersey called "BIG STASH'S RESTAURANT" I did a search and found that the it's still there and is as popular as ever.

They had the greatest roast beef, fries and burgers.

Wonder if they are the same owners.

We were in KY this weekend to do some 4-wheeling and to do some work on the Col's late Mamaw's house. I was wanting to take a walk in the mountains to pick some tangle guts but I never got a chance. I was gonna take a pic and post it here.

Lent's over. Going out for a big steak tonight.

Real Catholics abstain from eating meat every Friday of the year! (I guess I'm not a "real" Catholic either )

Those are the fringe/loony/Mel Gibson Catholics, who still won't recognize Vatican II. Heck, they hardly recognize The Pope.

But hey, Monsignor Ruvo, at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, here in the Bronx, says it's okay, so I'm okay with it .

Like George Carlin, I wonder though if any Catholics are still doing time in Hell on a friday meat rap.

We decided to go for total junk food takeout tonight - Pizza Hut, White Castle and KFC and have a total pig-out cholesterol buffet.

So the orthodox (classic, like, His original followers) Catholics are "loony" as opposed to Catholicism 2.0 ? You ARE liberal!

Oh, my friend... pick a side! lol

(As for me, I'm not for "the Church" so much as I have my own personal relationship with The Big Guy that I feel supersedes it all. You may, too, I don't know. But to pick and choose the "rules" of your own religion? )

12 years of Catholic school, topped off by 4 years at Fordham University with the Jesuits. Yeah, they tend to be a liberal bunch .


You say potato, I say fundamentalist. So if you mean, like, the early conservative fundamentalists, who opened the door for the Crusades, the Inquisition and the murders of millions of "heretics" and Jews, yeah, they're, like, a little bit loony (and Mel Gibson is almost as dangerous).



But I'm not. From Catholic Online:

On the Fridays outside of Lent the U.S. bishops conference obtained the permission of the Holy See for Catholics in the US to substitute a penitential, or even a charitable, practice of their own choosing. They must do some penitential/charitable practice on these Fridays. For most people the easiest practice to consistently fulfill will be the traditional one, to abstain from meat on all Fridays of the year. During Lent abstinence from meat on Fridays is obligatory in the United States as elsewhere.

See, I just choose to do Good Works on Fridays, this way I can eats me some steak .



Ironically, the very fundamentalists who you're sticking up for, would tell you that that personal relationship is not enough; that salvation comes through Jesus Christ AND the Church. But I'm not of of those loony fundamentalists .


I love ya, Geoff, but let's leave religion alone. It's too personal and it leads to bruised feelings.

Does a White Castle Cheeseburger count as eating meat? I mean, they're so LITTLE.

Nah, especially if you get them at the White Castle on Fordham Road and Hoffman Street. If you can make it Mount Carmel in less than 7 minutes to light a candle, you get a pass .

Since I started taking Coumadin, my doctor told me that I'm excused and can eat steaks on Fridays. Of course, he's Jewish, so what does he know??

Hey, that's one of the many perks of Judaism . But if I were you, I'd taunt him with a ham and cheese sandwich for spite .

I forgot to add that we ate all this while watching "The Biggest Loser" on the DVR.

NICOLA DE THOMASIS, a round-bellied, bearded, bespectacled man from the rough-hewn hills of Abruzzo, stood near the head of his dinner table, holding a pair of tongs — and my fate — in his hand. He had already placed on my plate an almost lethally large portion of spaghetti alla chitarra, dressed with the region’s traditional tomato-and-lamb ragù, and his tong-bearing hand kept inching closer and closer to the communal pasta platter until, at last, he dove in with the instrument, scooped up a final, fatal tangle of noodles and added them to my dish. I was done for.

Continued at Mangia Mangia!!!

I think this is lunch today. It's one of my favorite places.
La Cariera's

Is it true that NYC has a salt ban at the restaurants there?

Lilo, that place looks great. Do they deliver?

Yes, they deliver within Dearborn. They also do catering.

UGH! So delivering to NY is out of the question??

I picked up my daughter after a chemistry study session yesterday. It was a such a beautiful day that we stopped at the local pizza place for a chocolate gelato (her) and a lemon ice (me). This is the first pizza place in the suburbs that I've ever had authentic gelato and Italian ice.

Probably so...
On the other hand you are much closer to this place than I am. They do mail orders, which is how I found out about it. I can't speak to everything they have to offer but I do like their bread and cheese selections. They also do catering and I believe there is a restaurant attached as well.

http://www.arthuravenue.com/

You see that guy in the video link, Lilo?

That's Mike, from Mike's Deli in the Arthur Avenue Market. I've known him all my life. I'll be seeing him tomorrow morning at 7am, as usual, for my weekly cold cuts and cheeses.

The market is on Arthur Avnue, between 186th and 184th Streets. The back side is on Hughes Avenue, between 186th and Crescent Avenue. I grew up just around the corner, on the corner of 187th and Hoffman Streets, right above an Italian restaurant. It used to be called Amici's, and boy, was that place a hangout .

Was the place "owned" by a guy named Sonny?

Small world!

No, that's a movie . But Chazz lived about 3 blocks from there.

A guy named Vinnie owned Amici's. That's all I'm sayin .

Ahhh, that's just another Bronx tale.