I just wanted to make another comment today, check out my two beef jerky blogs...

• Best Beef Jerky - where I write reviews of beef jerky



• Beef Jerky Diet - where I talk about my quest to lose weight with beef jerky

I have to credit my Junk Food Blog for this idea. What I learned on JFB is that junk food manufacturers are willing to send me free samples of their food just to get some extra publicity. The power of blogging is well known to many of them.

But the problem I've noticed with JFB is that companies send me a lot of chocolate, potato chips, and candies, which I don't eat much of. I'd much rather get beef jerky, my snack food of choice. So I launched Best Beef Jerky as an attempt to get free beef jerky, and each package of beef jerky I get gives me material to blog about. Moreover, beef jerky has become pretty popular over the past few years with the low-carb diet craze.

And in fact, the low-carb diet craze is what inspired the second blog, Beef Jerky Diet. I'm trying to see if I can nudge my way into the weight-loss publishing and marketing world with this, and at the same time, use it to cross-promote my beef jerky review blog.

As far as my weight loss quest is concerned, I'm doing pretty well. I've lost about 20 pounds since starting it earlier this year.