It's Time To Say Good Shabbos
"If it's mentionable, it's manageable."
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- Fred Rogers
I just walked through the door. I have calls to make, food to prepare, a shower to take, and thoughts to express. There's a personality test for you: put those four things in order of importance (it's an essay question so you can/should hypothesize as to the variables that would cause you to rank these items one way or the other).
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I prefer not to say that my style of sharing here has gotten better or worse. I feel that I've become - generally speaking - more guarded. I now feel like doing a free flow post and then pushing the orange publish button (which a reader once told me doesn't resonate for her as a non blogger). Who's going to stop me?
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I just returned from Weight Watchers. It's been months, and the woman at the computer told me that I had never been there. The way she was spelling my name (even though they my card with the correct spelling was in their hand) I had never been there. The me spelled correctly has been there many times.
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The people that sign you in couldn't be less helpful. I experienced inui hadin. Waiting, waiting, waiting, to see the numbers. How can they not get that you want to know what you weigh as soon as possible.
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I'm up 21 pounds from the last time according to Mr. Computer. It was about 6 months ago but the meeting leader working the desk said she couldn't tell me when I was last there (I was early for weigh in, waited patiently) even though the online info (which this leader told me they at the office know nothing about) says that on Fridays you can weigh in at this branch from 9 AM to 7 PM and that people are available for you to consult with and to help you. I'm down 11 from my joining about 2 years ago, according to the official (minimal) computer printout.
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As I've said here before, I think that there are great life lessons in the Weight Watchers experience. It is not far from mussar, if it is not mussar itself. After I got back on the wagon another time, I wrote this. I like the comments on this one, and pray that they were/are true.
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And Now...
mTime to greet the Queen
Time to see my Sabbath Bride
Time for real belief
Time to sanctify my time
Time for forgiveness and peace
posted by rabbi neil fleischmann @ 6:14 PM
3 Comments:
Speaking of weight loss, there's a wonderfully informative book that I wish everyone I care about would read: Good Calories Bad Calories by Gary Taubes. It's a life-changing book, and it will upend everything you think about obesity and nutrition.
Thank you very much Kishke. Your presence here is appreciated as is your concern.
I checked out reviews on the web. I liked tis quote from the Washington Post, "In the end, the most compelling case Taubes builds is one against stark dietary advice of any kind; nothing simple can capture the complex reasons for the epidemic rise in obesity.
H.L. Mencken once said, "There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong." Taubes cites this quote in his book; he, and all of us, would do well to remember it."
More accurately, Taubes builds a case against stark dietary advice without scientific basis and adequate testing, which, unfortunately, is what most of the advice out there actually is. He does, however, close with a page of conclusions that are solidly based on science. Only one page after a 5-600 page book, but very valuable. If you're interested in viewing a lecture in which he lays out his position in brief, I'll send you a link. What I love about the book is that it is rigorously researched, the product of 5-6 years of work, and it does not dumb down the science in any way, but is still engaging and readable.
Just my personal experience: I began following the book's conclusions about 2-3 months ago (and let me stress, this is emphatically not a diet book; it is a history of the scientific research pertaining to obesity and disease, and of the perversion of that research for political and personal reasons). I did it not to lose weight specifically, but for health reasons - i.e., to avoid, as much as possible, the diseases implicated in the common diet. In that period, I've lost about 30 pounds, without any decrease in calories ingested. In addition, I feel better and more energetic by almost any measure. I encourage anyone who cares about their long-term health to read this book.
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