Lisa Lillien, who blogs Hungry Girl, writes about her nine fat burning food tips, and among them are two that might interest beef jerky eaters...

LEAN PROTEIN
To put it simply, protein takes a lot of effort for the body to break down and digest. A lot more than, say, fat. So while your body is working hard to process that protein, you're burning calories.

SPICY FOODS
You know how when you eat spicy foods, you sometimes start to sweat a little (ew)? That's because it's given a little kick to your heart rate. These little kicks will result in a temporary increase in your metabolism, which will help you burn fat a little easier for a bit.

While she mentions lean protein, she never mentioned beef jerky, which is extremely lean. She actually recommended fish for its omega-3 fatty acids. But then again, not many people are willing advocate beef as a health food.

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Weighed in this morning at 185 pounds.

I finished the month of August with a net loss of 3 pounds. In a way, I'm still losing weight on this diet regimen, but on the other hand, I missed my goal of losing 7 pounds for the month.

What's to blame is that I really backed off from exercising. I need to get back into doing walks, I'm just getting lazy about it.

Interestingly, I lost four pounds just yesterday alone. I can't figure out how I did it. I talked about this specifically on my motorcycle philosophy blog in an article this morning entitled, "Lose Weight Riding Motorcycles".

I noted that riding motorcycles burns calories, but I doubt it burns all that much. However, after riding all day long certainly will tire you out, but I think it's more of a mental exhaustion. Riding a motorcycle requires you to pay much more attention than driving a car.

I think what really happened is that on Saturday (the day before the ride), I had loaded up on a lot of fluids, mostly diet sodas, V8, and iced teas. So that when I woke up Sunday morning, I was 189 pounds. Being outside in the sun all that afternoon sucked all the moisture out of me. By the time I weighed in this morning, I was back to 185.

Though tomorrow morning, I could very well weigh in heavier because today the wife and I went out for lunch at a seafood buffet, and I had to get the most bang for my buck by loading up all the sushi I could find.

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Weighed in this morning at 185 pounds, down one pound.

Stuck to the beef jerky diet yesterday.

Some good news, Serious Eats, a blog focusing on food, and one of the most widely read food blogs around, mentioned my beef jerky review blog yesterday. It sent some good traffic into it.

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Weighed in this morning at 186 pounds, still no change.

Wednesday I started out on the beef jerky diet, but ended up breaking it so that I could get together with a buddy of mine. I had a couple of beers and some jambalaya.

Thursday was my planned "regular meal day". I had a pizza, diet coke, and then stopped at a bar for a beer. Didn't eat anything else that day.

Still no exercise.

It doesn't look like I'll hit my goal of 181 pounds this month. The best I can do in the next few days is to stick to the beef jerky today, do some exercise, and then do some exercise Saturday and Sunday as well. Those two days are also my planned regular meal days.

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Weighed in this morning at 186, no change from yesterday.

Started out on the beef jerky diet, but ended up having a seafood salad for dinner. What happened is that I had a meeting to attend, and everyone else having food, and man it looked so good.

On some better news, my beef jerky review blog finally reached #1 and #2 respectively on Google for the following key phrases...

beef jerky reviews
best beef jerky

Your results may vary, because Google seems to have multiple indexes, that return different results, and also because Google now modifies your results based on your search history, and even by geographic region.

Being #1 and #2 for those two phrases won't necessarily get me more traffic, though it could, rather it's going to bring me a more focused audience. People searching for "beef jerky reviews", will now see my blog up at the top and will go there, instead of going to a manufacturer's site and reading biased reviews.

For those manufacturers that got a favorable review from me, I'd love for you to post a link to my site. It'll help make sure it stays at #1 for those search phrases, which will lead to those people learning about your beef jerky.

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Weighed in this morning at 186 pounds, down 1 pound from yesterday.

Stuck to the beef jerky diet yesterday, but still no exercise.

Also yesterday, someone posted some nasty comments about my review of Tasty Eats Soy Jerky. I kinda wonder if maybe it was an employee of that company. I deleted the comments because they threw in some foul language.

But here they are for your perusal (I inserted the ***)...

Aug 25, 11:15am - You are a total ignorant a**! its a health food thats jerky, were you acutally expecting a piece of cow c**k in your mouth? If you don't eat vegan food or vegetarian food OF F***ING COURSE its not going to taste good to you bastards. I've been buying their product for the past 6 months now and its BY FAR the best ive EVER tasted compared to the other soy jerkys that are on the market. You sir are a f***ing piece of s**t that can't understand the reasons why most of us are vegetarian. And i eat because i enjoy the flavoring, im not some f***ing dips**t going about "pretending" that its meat. So seriously out of all reasoning, GROW THE F**K UP and go choke down some more of your delicious penis.

Aug 25, 2:18pm - So i leave a comment and you delete it? wow talk about being a child again. At least im being honest and getting the real information out to people rather then your one sided bias bulls**t on soy jerky. As i was scanning through your so called "archive" i see that you mark all the soy jerkys as "dog treats" Out of all seriousness, if you don't like it why don't you just take it down you f***ing dips**t? and out of all seriousness, do people even REALLY look at this bulls**t-esc website of yours? i mean really now?

Well, I guess that f***ing dips**t is one who looks at that website of mine.

Like I said in my review, I believe that vegans are secretly wanting to eat meat, that's why there are so many soy jerkies on the market.

Otherwise, why bother even calling it "jerky"? Why bother trying to make it look and feel like real meat?

I've eaten a lot of soy-based snack foods in my time, mainly because I grew up in a Japanese household, and the Japanese make tons of soybean-based foods. All of it tastes pretty good. But thus far, all of the soy jerkies out there is simply awful. And again, that's coming from someone who has developed a taste for soy foods.

But you cannot argue the notion that if you're a beef jerky lover, and you see a package of soy jerky, your first question is if it tastes anything similar to real beef jerky. The second question is if it tastes any good.

I focused in on those two questions in my reviews of vegan jerky (see them all here). While I am indeed biased in favor of real meat jerky, all I can say is that I tried my hardest to review it objectively. And I'm someone who comes from a culture that thrives on soy foods. I'm not biased against soy at all.

In fact, I question if that angry commenter even knows about all the other great-tasting soy snacks there are on the market? Why eat a soy snack that tastes so awful, when there are so many other great tasting soy snacks? My only explanation is because he or she wants something that looks and feels like real meat.

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Weighed in this morning at 187 pounds.

It's been a tumultuous past several days since my last post, as far as losing weight is concerned. I shot up to as high as 190 pounds at one point.

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, five days straight, all off from the beef jerky diet. I did have some beef jerky in those days; I just didn't diet on beef jerky.

I think I'm getting to a point where I feel I have room for laziness. I can stop exercising, and revel in some gluttony, and think that a few days on the beef jerky diet will erase all the extra pounds. So far, that thought has been true.

My goal is still to finish this month at 181 pounds. It's gonna be tough.

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