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Post by peachymom1 on Sept 12, 2024 23:03:42 GMT -5
What’s on your mind — how to make kugel? This week’s Torah reading? Life goals? Prayer? We are all engaged in weight loss/weight maintenance journeys and we are all Jewish or at least interested in Judaism. We like to eat, we like to discuss. It is our goal here to provide each other support on our journeys, to share experiences, to call on our rich cultural heritage and texts, and to help each other grow spiritually.
Some of us take weekly turns starting the thread:
Holly
Lee
Louise
Lynne
Peachy
And for those of you that stop by to read this thread without posting — you are welcome to, but you are also welcome to chime in. Don’t be shy!
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Post by peachymom1 on Sept 12, 2024 23:05:09 GMT -5
Hello everyone! It’s been a crunching difficult work week for me. I have a whole team flying in on Monday for two days, and every possible hitch and last-minute mini-emergency has come up. I have a few more loose ends to tie up, then I’ll be ready for Monday. I’m grateful that (a) we have a great IT staff who can help me with stuff I haven’t done since before the pandemic; (b) my boss is flexible and supportive; and (c) I get paid for overtime! I will definitely be ready for Shabbat. And if I have to work a little on Sunday on anything that got forgotten, that’s OK.
Many years ago, I wrote a simple poem for my best friend. I’m not a literary genius, but it made my friend happy. I thought I’d share it with you in honor of friendship and Shabbat. Here it is:
If I could write you a song,
I’d capture your essence;
I’d sing of your goodness,
Your honesty and strength.
A nightingale brings beauty in song,
But it cannot choose to do otherwise.
You choose to do right, to be kind
Even when you are scorned for it.
Sometimes you miss the mark,
And you know the face of evil.
But you turn that ugliness
Into armor for the next challenge.
I cannot capture your essence
Nor write you a song
But I can love you.
And I do.
Thank you all for your participation this week. Shabbat shalom!
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Post by hollygail on Sept 13, 2024 7:03:03 GMT -5
What a beautiful poem! Thank you, Peachy, for sharing it with us. I may have to copy it into my files, print it, and place it somewhere I can see it frequently.
I didn't get back here yesterday. I did, however, hi five a little girl who brought her grandfather's (very small but real) shofar to minyan yesterday morning (and she blew it with the man who's been blowing shofar for us every morning).
I have to think about the pitfalls to which I succumb... I've already told all of you several times that Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies do not come into my house as a way for me not to eat the entire box in two sittings. For the most part, there's almost zero in my house that I overdo. As far as raw nuts are concerned, I weigh them before eating (either 1/2 ounce or 1 ounce ]depending on the time of day and what else I'm eating that day] makes a serving for me, and not more than a total of 1 ounce in a day) and I haven't gone over that amount in a very long time. I do go overboard in December if and when DH's former co-worker brings him Christmas cookies, but it's no more than once a year and I give myself that treat (yes, I eat many cookies over a two- or three-day period, but, again, it's once a year at the most; she hasn't been exchanging Christmas gifts with him since a couple of years before the pandemic). We don't go out to eat often, and when we do, my portions are small (that is, I usually order one meal and it becomes two for me). I just don't crave "more" the way I did before having joined Weight Watchers more than ten years ago...
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Post by lee058 on Sept 13, 2024 10:07:59 GMT -5
Good morning everybody. Hope you are all well and SAFE! Please pray for Israel.
Re today's topic: I appreciate our friendship in this thread, plus all my other friends, so much! I don't know how I would manage without all of you.
Right now, I am really upset with BC/BS, my endocrinologist, and the Safeway pharmacy about weight-loss drugs. I was approved for Zepbound but can't afford it ($500 a month). My doctor is going to "look into it." I hope she can figure out what I can do.
On the positive side, DS and I got our yard sign yesterday, and it looks like he'll be going canvassing this weekend, if we can get him rides to and from the canvassing coordinator's house.
Have a peaceful day, Lee
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Post by louise on Sept 13, 2024 13:10:58 GMT -5
Sounds like you have it all under control, Peachy. They are so lucky to have you.
And the poem is so beautiful.
I have a project this weekend to get a line of grime out of our white shulchan (torah table) cover. 2 dry cleaners turned it down.
I have a book launch to attend this evening that I am excited about. It features the artist that created many of the depictions at the Museum of Natural History here.
Shabbat shalom.
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