LOS ANGELES, CA — Dozens of people in the Los Angeles suburban communities of Beverly Hills and Bel Air lost a combined 620 pounds during a six-week weight-loss campaign sponsored by the local Chabad House.
California Community Loses Hundreds of Pounds in Combined Effort
LOS ANGELES, CA — Dozens of people in the Los Angeles suburban communities of Beverly Hills and Bel Air lost a combined 620 pounds during a six-week weight-loss campaign sponsored by the local Chabad House.
The first ever Project Lose-It, a combined effort between Chabad-Lubavitch of Bel Air, the Rochelle & Richard Maize Foundation and the Luxe Hotel, finished last week shy of its 1,000 pound goal. But Rabbi Chaim Mentz stressed that what was more important was that the community members who participated emerged from the experience a little bit more healthy from when they started.
“They engaged in activities like community walks, personalized nutritional counseling, yoga and pilates classes and health seminars,” said the co-director of the Chabad community center, which plans on offering the program again next January. “This program brought people together to work on meeting their personal goals. [Many] are motivated to continue exercising.”
It “has been a terrific opportunity for me to take the time to [focus on] myself and my health and well-being,” said participant Ginny Kahn. “Along the way, there have been numerous other benefits like enjoying walks with my husband and daughter.”
Baruch
The headline of this story must be quit intriguing to a British reader:)
Healthy Mama
This sounds like such fun! Why not offer to all Chabad Communitys who are interested? Working together as a community to be healthy and lose weight. I’d love to particiapte with my girlfriends!
#1 fan!
Rabbi Mentz is an amazing man!! keep it up!!!
An idea
Chabad should partner with weight watchers.
Danny E. & Co.
Yasher Koach, Rabbi Mentz! Keep on truckin’ on the mountain top!
Ploni
How important is this effort?
When it comes to learning and davening and tzedakah, we’re always talking about how to learn more, daven with more kavanah, and give more tzedahak. But when it comes to being physically fit, the Yetzer HaRa is so strong, we’re not, for the most part, even talking about it.
The Shulchan Aruch is clear: “Keep the body healthy and whole! . . . ”
Yashar v’Koach! Now export this program across all of Chabad.
anon
Purim’s coming.V’Nahapoch?
not british but still...
i thought they lost money, i was like how? then i realized… lol