The Jewish Home | JUNE 2, 2022
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Our Portion Control Moment by rivki D. rosenwald esq., LMFt, cLc, SDS
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ave you taken a good look at a fruit lately? Talk about portion control before it was popular. I mean, give me a big family pack of potato chips, and I’m in trouble! I just don’t stop munching and crunching. But keep it down to a one-person pack, and I’ve got a fighting chance. For some, it may be pretzels or popcorn or even a box of cereal – pick your poison – yet, without a limited size we
can really go to town in a scary way. Somehow the tearing open of a small bag that is made just for you focuses you. You take slower bites, and you savor the moments. You just seem to understand that you have a limited supply and therefore your eating slows down. So, let’s go back to fruits. Are they a miracle or what? Each comes pre-wrapped in its own
calorie controlled, non-drip, colorfully appealing packaging. I’ve rarely finished one and said, “Oh, do I need another!” And the few times I have, that additional one more than hit the spot. Now, it’s true, there are certain saboteurs, of course. Like grapes and cherries on the small-but-overflowing-end
Remember those thinking caps they used to tell us to put on in grade school? Let’s try to put them on. Where are those blessings we sometimes just take for granted? Hmmm, let me stretch. Oh, here’s one: natural air conditioning! It’s absolutely free and on top of that, no using up a valuable closet or whole attic to get
Can we recognize some blessings where we don’t see them yet?
it installed. Yup, the cool air and shade provided by a tree. I challenge us all to look for these gifts in our world. We can call it our epiphany of a naturally delivered portion control or our “portion control moment.” So what do you say? Can you find some in your world?
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Rivki Rosenwald is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist working with both couples and individuals and is a certified relationship counselor. Rivki is a co-founder and creator of an effective Parent Management of Adolescent Years Program. She can be contacted at 917705-2004 or at rivkirosenwald@gmail.com.
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and melons on the large-but-too-sweetto-stop end. They are not made in the portion control size. And they actually support the message that when you get too much of something in one shot, it is not necessarily a blessing! But take the apple, orange, plum, pear, kiwi, grapefruit, apricot, peach, nectarine, mango, tomato – should I keep going? – they were clearly ahead of their time. They brought in the concept of portion control way before the dietitians and nutritionists came up with it! Just like the fruits, can we recognize some blessings where we don’t see them yet? We don’t want to be stuck in the dietician cycle – only seeing the good once someone or something else wakes us up.
