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Our daughter and her husband are here from Arizona for doctor appointments, and will stay until Tuesday. I made corned beef, cabbage, onions, carrots, potatoes, and a big salad with 1/2 an avocado for each. I did not eat any of the potatoes or carrots.
Tomorrow we all are going to meet with my nephews and their families, plus extended family and others, at an Italian Catholic Church in downtown Los Angeles for a fundraising spaghetti lunch through dinner, for their food ministry outreach. It is called a Saint Joseph's Table, and must be traditional across the country. It goes on for 3 days, and all the local businesses donate large amounts of fancy flower arrangements, bakery goods, fresh vegetables, fruit, etc. to sell. It's a pretty big deal. The church even has wine, which surprised me. I am going to take salad, a deviled egg, and some cheese for me. I don't want to eat the spaghetti and pastry, but I do want to be with family. One nephew and his wife take their own food since they are on a strict diet for health, so I will follow suit. If I hadn't seen it before I would not have done it. Eating window 6.5 hours.
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110.8 lb
Lost so far: 8.0 lb.
Still to go: 0 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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Diet Calendar Entry for 16 March 2019:
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1104 kcal
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Fat: 87.02g | Prot: 50.80g | Carb: 31.63g.
Breakfast: Coffee. Lunch: Hormel Spam Low Sodium, Egg. Dinner: Green Giant Hass Avocado, Cooked Green Cabbage, Corned Beef Brisket (Cured), Trader Joe's English Cucumber, Trader Joe's Balsamic Vinaigrette, Baby Spinach. more...
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steady weight
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@Snowwhite100, you're doing so well on the intermittent fasting program despite the challenges lately. Good job!
17 Mar 19 by member: Miraculum
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Hope you have a good time with your family. 😊
17 Mar 19 by member: Becc@
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@Snowwhite100 said, "Italian Catholic Church in downtown Los Angeles for a fundraising spaghetti lunch through dinner, for their food ministry outreach. It is called a Saint Joseph's Table, and must be traditional across the country..."
St. Joseph's feast day is celebrated annually on March 19th in the Catholic Church. This feast day always occurs during the penitential season of Lent, a time traditionally devoted to "prayer, fasting, and almsgiving" in preparation for Easter, the celebration of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ. In the midst of this period of sacrifice, however, the Church joyfully celebrates the life and holy example of St. Joseph. Italian Catholics, in particular, love to mark "feast days" with "feasting," of course! [TO BE CONTINUED!]
17 Mar 19 by member: Miraculum
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It took a while for the Italian custom of the "St. Joseph's Table" to catch on among American Catholics. This was because, from the 1840s to the 1920s, Western and Central European Catholic immigrants to the United States tended to "keep to their own" once they arrived here. The Irish and Germans and Italians and Hungarians, etc., established Catholic parishes that served "their" people. Often, Mass was offered in the "Mother Tongue," even though immigrant parents strongly encouraged their children to learn English. (In fact, I knew one Sicilian family whose children, born in the 1920s in New York State, were forbidden to speak Italian at home because, as Papa would say, "You are Americans, not Sicilians!") And, if you were -- say -- Irish, you generally did not stray into -- and were not really welcome! -- in an Italian or a German parish!
17 Mar 19 by member: Miraculum
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[CONTINUED] This self-segregation of national and ethnic groups of Catholics began to erode after World War II. For one thing, servicemen from the American Melting Pot were marrying sweethearts they'd met overseas, bringing home "War Brides" whose background was completely different from their families'. I attended Catholic school from 1958 to 1971. During that time, we kids identified as "hyphenate-Americans": "Irish-, "German-, "Italian-, "Polish-, et.c, ... Americans," but we all went to the same high schools, often wore the same school uniforms, and began dating and, of course, marrying other "hyphenates." [THE END IS COMING!]
17 Mar 19 by member: Miraculum
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All this typically happened in the big cities of the Eastern Seaboard (particularly in the Northeast), where the jobs were. People migrated across the industrial North, throughout what is now the Rust Belt: from "Irish" Boston and the many ethnic neighborhoods of New York City, through Western New York and Pennsylvania to Ohio, and into "Polish" Chicago. (Chicago, BTW, may still have the largest population of Polish people, second only to Warsaw!) The population of Buffalo, NY, where I grew up, was 95% practicing Catholic well into the 1970s, and Catholic ethnic groups had their neighborhoods. But, by the time I finished grade school, we were "all mixed up." I was "German-American" and my first boyfriend was "Polish-American," but we all knew kids who were "half-this-and-half-that-American" or a quarter this and a quarter that and a half of the other! [ALMOST DONE!]
17 Mar 19 by member: Miraculum
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Long story short, Italian-American Catholics introduced the tradition of the "St. Joseph's Table" to the rest of us, but different parishes celebrate in different ways. In one local parish, "St. Joseph's Day" is celebrated with a big feast, open to all. Some donate their time and prepare the feast. Everyone brings donations of food to be distributed to the hungry. At an actual "St. Joseph's Table," a statue of St. Joseph is surrounded by flowers and candles, and the "guests" leave their gifts of food to be blessed by the priest or deacon before distribution.
17 Mar 19 by member: Miraculum
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@Snowwhite100 also said, "The church even has wine, which surprised me." That made me chuckle! I didn't know, until I moved to the American South, that many non-Catholic Christians don't drink alcohol, or they at least don't serve it at church functions. My dear friends: Catholics imbibe: the Irish have their whiskey; the Germans have their beer and Schnapps; the Italians have their chianti. And, now that American Catholic communities tend to be a melange of nationalities and ethnic groups, we enjoy it all when we celebrate together!
17 Mar 19 by member: Miraculum
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Hope you have a great day!!!!
17 Mar 19 by member: liv001
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Thank you Miraculum, I so enjoyed reading that. And no, that wasn't long for "me". It's wonderful. Your mind captivates me. And thank you for giving instruction to that new member who needed help setting up their journal. You are "nifty"!
17 Mar 19 by member: Snowwhite100
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17 Mar 19 by member: Keilin_4
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Have fun and kudos on IF. @Miraculum thanks for sharing the history.
17 Mar 19 by member: jaime30024
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Enjoy your day. Of course the Catholics have wine. There is usually a full bar at many events. Great money maker for each parish.
17 Mar 19 by member: Erquiaga
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Happy St. Patty's Day, and enjoy your time with family at the fundraiser.
17 Mar 19 by member: jengetfit123
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EXCELLENT planning, Snowwhite!
17 Mar 19 by member: Debbie Cousins
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