Reply To: What shape are you in?

I don’t know if they are discouraged. Nobody is forced to eat the junk cuisine, we just do because it tastes good. One thing, though: it has been written by many a health expert that it is good to diet six days and one day to go off it, so Shabbos alone shouldn’t destroy a week’s effort to control weight. But if one exercises, that should also help counter the effects of poor eating.