We love ours. My kids who won’t drink water have at least stopped drinking juice and sugared soda and have switched to seltzer. If you have a big family- consider a model that uses the bigger balloons. Otherwise you’ll be swapping balloons very often. The syrups are all (as far as I know) under the OU. Oh- and the bottles if you need extra are much cheaper in Israel.

I think that the key is not to eat foods that are filling in small amounts (but if you ask me, chicken would top my list of foods that meet that definition) but to eat more foods like vegetables which you can eat a tremendous portion of for very few calories.

Also- try adding some exercise into the mix. It really does wonders.

And like many of the other posters wrote- Drink!

I lurk occasionally in the Coffee Room, and don’t post often. I came to this thread because I too have been trying to learn Yiddish. In case you are interested in flaming me for this, I already speak and read Hebrew. Hebrew is the language of instruction in the college courses that I teach (I live in Israel).

I don’t understand what the problem is. My older, and also some younger relatives can’t stand that I don’t get their jokes. Frankly, I do feel stupid myself when I miss the punchline. When in Europe, it is still very useful for communication in the Jewish communities. Lastly, as a professional in Israel who works with children and adults, I occasionally don’t have a common language to communicate with my patients and Yiddish would help. I don’t think that any of these reasons are political, or should be charged with as much emotion as I have read on this thread.

Thank you to all those who posted practical suggestions and can everyone else calm down please.