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Hello, aspiring winners!
Welcome to the Family Trek Blog. I hope to keep you informed and entertained as we all pound away the miles to cover the Earth's circumference by the end of the year. Now, why is it that we are getting started when we're nearly half-way through with the year?

Here's a little entertainment to put a smile on your face (please note the word ENTERTAINMENT because I'm not accepting flack from the Nutritionist Lecture Series participants). I did a little research on one of our favorite sports, arm curls.

I proudly present your Top Ten Low Calorie Beer Options:

10. Natural Light (95 calories), also known as Natty Light ... or among my friends, Nasty Light. You will NOT want to savor this beer slowly (OK, I don't want to savor it at all).

9. Michelob Ultra (95 calories), first introduced in 1978, this has been a long-standing low calorie option, especially for men, for years. What they don't advertise so much is the LOW CARB COUNT, which is KEY when you're drinking beer and want to keep the girlish figure.

8. Amstel Light (95 calories). Now we're talking about something I would put my lipstick around!

7. Paulaner Original Munchner Leicht (95 calories) falls under the If You Can Find It, You Must Be Living in Europe Category. It is apparently the pride and joy of light beers in Europe and since I'm in Alabama who just opened doors to "ferign" and higher alcohol content beers, I can tell you, it ain't in my Publix.

6. Aspen Edge (94 calories) brought to you by our friends at Miller Brewing is another low carb beer and is said to have a "surprisingly beer-like taste". I ask you, is that a ringing endorsement? Perhaps I need a volunteer to do some personal research on this one.

5. Blatz Light Beer (85 calories) is from the Pabst Brewing Company is available in 6-pack cans only. Hmmmm. Does this mean there's not much of a market?

4. Pearl Light (68 calories) is also from Pabst and is a light lager style beer. Please note the high carbs and low alcohol content.

3. Beck's Premier Light (64 calories) is the tastiest of the top three beers on this list, so perhaps we should stop here. It has 2.3% alcohol, so if you're looking for a quick buzz, you may want to just go to water instead.

2. Miller Genuine Draft/ MGD 64 (64 calories) is perhaps driving Budweiser berserk because it's a good beer for a very light beer.

1. Budweiser Select 55 (55 calories). Are you seeing a trend here? The beer companies realize you're over 45 if you want to know how many calories are in a beer and that you can't read the fine print on the bottle's "nutrition" label, so they just add it to the name in big print on the label. It's not because you're too drunk to read it - not enough alcohol.