The Skinty’s shutting down….For now

Hello All,

Effective immediately The Skinty is going down. I’ll keep the actual site up for a little bit however will not be adding new posts. I will be charting my weight loss on my blog at faith215.blogspot.com If interest peaks there, I’ll re-instate the site with the participates there. If not it’ll continue to be a blog thing.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by, supported etc. Hope to see you at the blog!

The Daily Dish-Detox Final

The lack of updates is due to busyness and I apologize for that. I am contemplating moving the site over to blog. It’ll give an opportunity for all visitors to comment as they wish rather than having to sign up for membership. I’d thought about then when I created this site but I didn’t want the whole my blog thing but rather a community of believers that come together on this journey. However currently that’s not building the way I’d like and a platform like a blog allows me to reach more of say you all:) Those that would be interested in such a platform, than advertising and even in some instances word of mouth. So I’m about 95% sure at this point that’s the route I’m going to go but holding out for that 100:) Will make a post to this site with my decision.

A quick cleanse update, the last few days didn’t go too pretty. Well on Thursday of last week, and I may have mentioned it in that post but I didn’t get enough to eat that day. It was one of those things where I wasn’t really hungry by dinner time so I didn’t eat. Cool on other occasions where I’ll still eat a piece of fruit or something so that I’m getting in some food. A huge no no when doing a cleanse that’s already limiting your food intake. Friday I was able to get past tons of temptations yet couldn’t seem to get full. Then Saturday my daughter and I went to the movies and I was happy to not have gotten any popcorn, did take a little bit of my daughter’s but stopped about about 3 and that’s 3 individual pieces not handfuls:) But when I left I was hungry and didn’t have enough food on me. Decided to get some rice and beans as well as some cabbage from one of the food carts near where I was. Dawned on me after I’d brought it that the rice would not be white so my mind immediately went to falling off and it went down hill the rest of the day. I didn’t pig out but pretty much broke the detox. The next day decided to get back on the ball but thing is I realized I didn’t restock my fruits and veggies, only had a cup of OJ that morning before church.

Needless to say I stopped it and will be doing it again most likely next week. I can’t believe I got to the 6th day and totally went downhill. This would have been the 1st day off and onto Phase II nevertheless I’m doing a do over. Well stock, this is a piece of cake (no pun intended:)) minus sacrifices of favorite foods. But without being well stocked both in having food to access and having said food in tummy, it can be really challenging. Which if that happens again I’m going into fast mode, I try to separate fasts from detoxes namely that when I fast I don’t want weight loss to be my focus so I try to be very clear if only in my own brain which of the two I’m doing. Yet if I go a little longer without a meal than I’d like and want to convince myself I need food, can easily remind myself of what occurs when I am fasting or take that opportunity to forgo food and fast for the sake of being strengthened in that area.

So that’s where things are right now. Also very close to joining Bally’s I don’t want to that’s the only thing keeping me from doing it:) Yet it’s easy to access and have everything I’ll need so truly considering getting over myself and signing up. There are other gyms in my area, namely work area that are better and just a little bit more (Btw would be joining through the job so won’t have to commit to the 3 yrs) but again if Bally’s will have what I need why pay extra for my own comfort? Sticking with getting over myself but I’ll have to see, if I include another job reimbursement benny it may be worthwhile to go with the gym I’d prefer in the long run rather than the least expensive most convenient. And with Bally’s it’s the sales pitchyness and the crowdedness which I imagine will die down once I sign up and just have to pick the best times to go so I’ll see. 

The Daily Dish-Detox Day #5

I can’t believe I’m @ day 5 already!!! This day was hard, namely because I’d gotten caught up on the phone yesterday and didn’t eat as much as I would have if I hadn’t gotten caught up. Now I know what to do if a temptation hit, but think I’ll replace the phone with digging in the word.

Speaking of temptation I have not had more of it today than any time of “dieting” I don’t think. First it was the email from the director of my job who brought us pizza simply because this is the last Friday in Fall. Then my two student workers came in and were eating there lunch when one asked if I’d ever tried the grilled chicken caesar wrap

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The Daily Dish-Detox Day #3

Sorry everyone, business and at times down internet connection has caused this daily detox update to be not so daily. Already at day 3 and I feel great. I’m amazed at the fact that it’s TOM and I don’t have any cravings. Not chocolate or sugar or anything. Much of it has to do with attacking the mental because I already know if I eat whole foods I’ll be food ant satisfied. Yet the fight is mentally having to do without and that wanting to feel deprived about it. Something that really really gave me the amunition I needed was Psalm 42 and more specifically vs 5 which reads Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him For the help of His countenance.

I was actually led to listen to a sermon a few days ago given by CJ Mahaney of Soverign Grace Ministries in MD. There was a much heavier burden that I was overcoming and this was the scripture/message the Holy Spirit led me to for comfort. He’d gone on to say how some of the greats in the faith so to speak suffered from things like depression and getting into how as Christians we aren’t exempt from these things. Yet our hope is in the Lord and the psalmist here says to his own soul why are you downcast. Then tells his soul to hope in God. I love that because this sin nature living in us is truly a separate entity from the Spirit of God living in us. It will raise up to destroy us if we don’t get at it. Not rebuke the devil althought that can be the case at times as well. But the true battle is in yielding to the Lord our hope all trust everything.

How this tied into weight loss for me was the fact the temptation can rise up and it’s not the temptation that’ll ultimately take us under when it’s still in the mind but the oh woe is me why do I have to go through this? Why can’t I move past this phase or how come I can eat all of the right things and not lose? What’s up with my metabalism that I can’t eat like the thin girls and not gain weight? That’s when the hands get tossed up in the air and the fight is given over. Now I can say to my own soul why are you downcast, hope in God. Even in this matter that seems so small and pitiful to go to God with. I can just conquer it. Yet if the hope isn’t in him ultimately, neither will the victory be. I don’t have the hope in looking good or impressing anymore so if I don’t hope in God there is only failure to see. Don’t get me wrong not that I’m not looking forward to a better appearance, but that’s not the hope so it makes it easy to fall off. Hoping in God that he’ll make me a vessel that’s trustworthy with His temple because I’m not my own.

Soulfood 9/18-will not be a slave to any

1 Corinthians 6:12 (NKJV)
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

During the summer, I’d joined a friend of mines in walking 5 am until 6 am. Sometimes we’d get there even a bit earlier than that. It was really wonderful to get out and walk, hard to get up but truly wonderful once we hit the payment/street and often times it would go by really fast because we were able to talk to one another. On Saturday’s we’d switch up the routine by going to one of the popular walking destinations here in Philadelphia (not keeping it a secret, simply escapes my mind at the moment:)) and the first walk we’d taken, I noticed shortly after arriving home I had this intense headache. Figured it must be due to the fact that I’m working out now, 6 days a week and therefore need to make sure I increase my calories. At that time my eating was like clockwork, I’d have a bowl of oatmeal with some cranberries and agave nectar, a piece of fruit, salad for dinner during my salad for a month period, and more varied during dinner. And I wasn’t counting calories as consistently so figured I needed to do so and also eat something before going on my walk. Went with a cereal bar from Whole Foods and added other foods between my meals. Week after week I’d still have headaches so I thought it was due to something else that I’d need to go see the doctor for. The Holy Spirit made me aware of my

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