Jewish Calorie Counters

I always see that there is a christian calorie counter group why not a Jewish one.  If anyone is interested in starting a group like this let me know.  I would love to have support from other memebers of the tribe.  I know I would love to support all of you in our indevors.

Nikki, what a fabulous idea ~~ thanks for starting the thread. Do you keep kosher? (Just curiosity on my part, as I was wondering if it was harder to find "diet" foods that were kosher.)

Shalom!

=^..^= MOLLY

Were just starting to do a little bit (no pork in the house) and I am also trying to have shellfish in the house too but that has been more of a struggle.  I think it may be easier but who knows.  I would love to see if anyone else is keeping kosher and dieting.  I hope more people decide to join us.

 Shalom

Nikki

 

Shabbat Shalom....I just want to encourage people to join us on our journeys.  Please add to this thread and hope that we can come together for one cause...to motivate and encourage each other through our rough patches and congragulate each other on reaching our goals. 

(Shabbat Shalom) Peace to you on the Sabbath, Nikki.

(I wanted to mention that I am not Jewish, but my father was...and I hope one day to visit Israel.)  

Anyway, have you seen the cookbook called "Soup -- a Kosher Collection" by Pamela Reiss?  I purchased it used from Amazon and it has some fabulous recipes in there that you might want to try!

And you can find some great Kosher food products online from Amazon, too ... even things like spicy beef jerky!

Shalom!

=^..^= MOLLY 

Thanks for this idea Nikki. FYI I've gone from a totally secular life to keeping kosher. There's been several cookbooks out, in the past year or so, that are kosher and diet specific.  The book "Enlitened Kosher Cooking" has a prominent place in my kitchen library. And "How to Succeed on Any Diet" helped me begin my most receint quest for a more svelt look for both me and my husband, Joe.

Now Joe and I live in Israel. We don't have as wide variety of fresh vegetables as in the USA, but then again our variety of bakery treats are also limited to the Euorpean style. Pies and the cakes we loved in the US aren't easy to get here unless you make them yourself or are in an area filled with Americans.

Anyone from CC who is comming to Israel is welcome to my home.

Cool thread. I am a secular half-Jew (the other half is Greek and German!).  We meet at my sister's for the Passover Seder and eat latkas (I know...loaded w/fat!) and light the menorah on Chanukah and that is the extent of any observance. But, my mom's family has the whole sad family history (they were from Poland) so I have a loyal kinship to my Jewish roots. So, please count me in, too.

Oh, and, I LOVE klezmer. ;  ) 

It's funny, I usually don't think of myself as primarily jewish but as an Israeli first and foremost.

Anyway even if I am secular here in Israel we still do what all jews do during the holidays - eat a lot (thats the only think that sticks even in a secular life style :)

Anyway my grandmother has totaly changed her cooking style in the last few years following a heart condition. So any recipes you want to "lighten up" I'll probably be able to get them for you all.

I got through Hnauka with 0 sufganiut and 3 levivut (potato latkes) so not bad. 

 

Happy Holidays

Tamar 

Tamar, sufganiut means what? :  ) Neat that we all may learn some hebrew here.

Does anyone want to share personal stats/goals? I am 5'7'' and weighed @ 170 3 years ago. With the death of my son's father, my weight soared to over 200. I have lost 20 pounds since May 2007 and weigh now 191. All of this has taught me that I don't want to face crisis in the same way anymore. So, as I lose this time around, I am nurturing myself and getting to know what 'trips my trigger' and gets me falling back into bad habits. I want to clear the 160 # mark but I really want to learn on the way what foods nurture me and what foods don't, healthy quantities and how to really ENJOY eating...without over eating.

Looking forward to sharing some information/goals...sharon.

I keep kosher too, for the most part the weeks aren't hard. It's the weekends that I find challanging, because I'm observant, you can't do much but EAT!! But I use it as my cheat day and I don't really cheat for the most part, just end up eating more than during the week.

Sufganiot are donuts...pure evil :)

I got through Hanuka without having any either :)

I keep kosher, too, but do this as a pescatarian so I don't have to do the dishes thing. Welcome everyone.

Hi, neat thread, thanks for starting it Nikki. I keep kosher and am watching salt intake. Kosher meat is way higher in sodium than nonkosher. I log Empire chicken but does anyone know how I could log the beef to count that extra sodium? It does seem a bit compulsive, but while I'm logging, I like to see the salt ;). I don't think there are any other specific weight loss issues with keeping kosher--it makes it easier to resist all the junk food when you have to search for the kosher mark.

If there meat I'm adding has a salted vs no salt added version I'll add the salted version to compensate for the kashering process. Most of the salt in kashering is washed away and the added amount usally is about the same as if I had salted the foods.

I'm sad to say I haven't looked at this thread much since I started it. I know horrible lol. I am glad there are more of us around here. I don't keep kosher. We are keeping pork out of our house and I am trying to ween my husband off the shellfish at least in the house. It's tough. I didn't grow up Jewish and his house was not Kosher growing up so we have been spoiled. But we are making an effort to change it up. :) I hope everyone is sticking to there goals and seeing there weight loss. Keep in touch and I will try to check this thread more often.

Sorry accidently double posted.  Opps...

Hi -- my name is gwyn.  I am Jewish aind I am losing weight I want to join

Hi to all...I posted something about this in recipes but haven't heard anything...I am thinking about passover...It's coming sooner then any of us think lol.  I know last year I had a tough time finding things to eat during this time of year.  And this year we are traveling by car for a twelve hour trip during the week.  Anything anyone can suggest besides the obvious would be great.  Eating healthing is tough for me during this time.

 

The obvious is to have fresh fruits and cut up veggies for snacking. You could even have cottage cheese as a dip. You can get them in single serving containers and add seasonings to them. If you're sefardic then you can have popcorn and nuts as well.

Meals is another issue all together. Salads, parve and meaty, would be my choice if I didn't want to have the bother of matzah crumbs all over the car. Then again I can think of at least one alternative to matzah,

Sliced meat rolled up in lettus leaves with seasonings of your choice.
If you can bring along a protable grill you could have almost anything you'd have at a picknic that's kosher for passover/pesach.

So I don't know if anyone is interested but I started a challange over in the games and challanges.  I want to lose 10lbs by passover.  I just weighed in today.  You can pick your goal and hope to make it by April 18th (okay I know thats the day before but I don't know If I will have time on the 19th).  I hope to see some of you over on my challange.  :)

i would love to but i have a lot to do right now:)

I like Passover for healthy eating.  The seders are feast days, I don't count, enjoy the food, and think that occasional feast days are good ways to convince your body that there isn't a famine going on.

For the rest of the week, the trick is to avoid processed food and have moderate amounts of matza. I find Kosher for Passover baked goods unappetizing, and the processed foods are very expensive and not very good. So I eat lots of fruit, vegetables, potatoes,  eggs, cheese, and fish.    The hardest thing is breakfast without oatmeal.