2011 Paul Mckenna

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Hi all

I wondered if anyone else was planning to follow Paul mckenna this year and lose their weight?

im currently 16st13 and intend to end the year a fit toned 10st. im a bit hit and miss with following the golden rules but when i do i have seen results so from today i will follow it and get the results i want.

as well as the weight loss with paul mckenna i intend to

do the just dance 2 fitness thing every day till my husband (RAF) flies out to the middle east around april

do the couch to 5k plan and run race for life this year

start the 30 day shred when dh goes away and repeat it till he comes home (approx 4 months)

I also have one of those magic leg trainers coming on home approval so will have a play with that and see if its worth keping, apart from that i will reassess my fitness in august when he gets home and come to some decisions on how to go forward with that then but for now these seem like reasonable goals, especially when they're on top of really following the golden rules.

so anyone else following 'the rules' this year and going to join me with their aims?

the book for anyone curious about it, though i got mine from my local works type bookshop for less than £5 thats less than one weeks ww/sw/etc subs to try it out and its honestly the most sensible weightloss plan ive ever looked at

Thank you WMMC! I really appreciate all the help too.

I am finding it hard to leave the clean plate club and stop when I'm full- not surprising, I suppose, given my history. But I'm trying....

Choose smaller plates then - I'm using the kids melamine plates at the minute, which are about a third smaller than adult plates, which works well. It's fine to finish your plate of food if the plate isn't so big that you are just getting too much food I think.

It's not surprising you are having trouble though - a lot of us have just got such fucked up messages about food while growing up. I'm not blaming that because we are all adults and able (as we are proving) to seize control for ourselves and decide how we will eat rather than relying on the manipulations of the past.

Frankly though, having fed toddlers I can imagine how this comes about. The buggers won't eat anything healthy - I'd resort to guilt and bribery if I thought it would work!

I am using side plates at the moment. The kids think I am nuts. I went to a birthday party today and found it surprisingly easy, although I did realise at one moment I was absent mindedly picking at the food. I was really worried until I thought about it and realised I had eaten about ten grapes. Really not a big deal! I find now that if I do eat too much I just feel horribly full for hours.

I am trying so hard not to give my kids the wrong messages about food. There was a mum at the party who kept saying to her beautiful daughter "DD, do you really NEED to eat that?" I lost count after the twelfth time. Really felt for the girl. She probably would have stopped eating hours before if her mum and been quiet. You could see her thinking well sod you, I'll have some more crisps then!

I always use a teaspoon for pudding, if I can get away with it, but have been so used to shovelling it in - still need to slow down. Will try a smaller plate too.

How are you doing with not letting yourself get too hungry? If I get too hungry I find it harder to slow eating down.

I'm finding that is getting easier. I seem to be more in tune with myself. I think you have to let go of the idea of being hungry at meal times to start with while you 'retune'. I find I need to eat about 5-6 hourly at the most.

Having said that, this afternoon hasn't been brilliant but I have eaten lovely, nutritious food. We had a friend round for supper and I felt quite self-conscious about eating so slowly. I had a very small portion though as I really wasn't that hungry, but definitely didn't savour it as much as I should have done.

Sounds like you did ok then Bloomingnora.

We had some friends round for lunch and usually it would be an occasion to stuff my face (then all the leftovers later), but I retained control, as it sounds like you did.

I have totally gone off the idea of sugar. I've got this funny idea in my head it's like cocaine and I wouldn't put that in my body either. Perhaps that's helping me.

In any case I haven't even thought of overeating since I started back on this on 25th January - 12 days ago - and I can already see the results. My stomach is totally flat and my clothes are starting to look better, my belts gone in three notches and I've got a really well defined chin. :) 14 days to the seminar so who knows how lovely we'll all be looking by then.

The difference this time, unlike previous times, is, for me that I feel totally calm about it all - this is what I need to do to get to the weight I want and stay there, and that's what I'll do. It's not worth having that tiny bit of ice cream or that lump of chocolate. It costs too much to me - it's worth more to get where I want to be quicker.

Anyway, a superb day, full of frustrations included four hours in total buying six things from the supermarket - don't ask and a cancelled high tea but we still made cakes which the kids enjoyed. Tomorrow I have a lunch out with people I don't like very much and I expect it will be incredibly dull. But never mind. I can come back and hear about your successes and be cheered up. :)

Oh God I have just eaten a second plateful of food despite not being hungry for the pure and simple reason that I make a lovely fish pie :(

I also feel like I am worrying about food 'going to waste'

I knew I didn't need it and it was emotional eating but I knew I'd enjoy it, and I did. But feel a failure. The 'eat what you want' philosophy is open to abuse with me.

Bloody hell, you lot are doing well though :) well done!

Well, I've had two fried eggs on one slice of toast for dinner and then a chocolate muffin and a glass of wine.

Weekends are harder. More temptations? More stress? Harder to get time to do the CD/exercises.

And I always feel like treating myself (with sweet crap) as it's the weekend.

WMMC, apologies if I am asking you to repeat yourself, was sugar your "thing" before PM? Did you do the craving CD/any particular exercise that has helped you go off sugar?

Anybody else falling asleep listening to the CD, I'm out for the count.
i seem to be less interested in sweet stuff which was definitely my downfall.

Ursula - learn to love your freezer - your fish pie will be just as lovely in a fortnight if you freeze it. :)

But stress not, think of this as a sleeping policeman on your road to slimness. You may have bumped but you are still on the right road :)

mummyosaurus yes absolutely, it really was, chocolate, biscuits, cakes, pudding, as well as white flour stuff (pasta, pastries - the usual subjects) in fact anything which got me a good serotonin high very quickly.

And yes the visualisation about mixing something you would never eat, with the thing you are trying to stop eating (craving buster number 2 it is on the four CD set) so for me, that's mayonnaise (I'm sorry I'm trying not to vomit just typing this) with sugar on top and then mix in human hair and imagine eating it again and again and feeling the texture in your mouth and then eating some more till you don't want to eat it anymore.

I have definitely been stressed mentally this week, just thought oh fuck it. I did buy a 4 pack of flakes at the co-op earlier (only £1 I couldn't leave a bargain in the shop!) and I am not tempted, I know I can have one when I really am hungry etc etc etc.

I am over full now though

Yes I fall asleep to it, gives me a nice dreamless sleep to which is nice.

I know, I will get into the habit of keeping food for another time

Oh the hair thing has just made me boak, heheh. Must use that.

Just imagine those flakes, slathered in lard and dusted gently with cat hair.

Major breakthrough today:
i've had a kitkat in my handbag since lunchtime.
DH and the kids all had one, i realised i wasn't hungry and put it in my bag.
That has never happened.

I also fall asleep to the cd, and I'm finding it harder to concentrate on it, thoughts about things I should have done pop into my head and I miss bits of it.

I have had a creme egg in the treat tin for 2 nights now, but will I give in tonight? (and I scoffed birthday cake this afternoon, even though it wasn't very nice).

Thank you for that lovely, vivid description WMMC . I'm going to get my nerve up and give it a try after my first weigh in (tomorrow is 2 weeks on PM).

Yeah! Well done nevergoogle.

I am delighted to be the source of such retching to the rest of you

I fell asleep at 9pm last night - think I may be coming down with something. But never mind. Got through a heinous lunch with the inlaws without shouting 'die, die, die' to them (progress I think ) and ate a jacket spud.

Hello all - sorry not been posting much but am very much looking forward to seeing you all at the seminar.

My spare ticket is up for grabs again if anyone wants it.

Hi all...I've been quite good today so far.

Just wondering what to wear to the seminar...How do I not look a complete frump etc. My now jeans are too loose (hooray!), but my smaller, next size down jeans that I was wearing before last summer are slightly too tight. I suppose if I am really good for the next two weeks...

Also need to work out the trains etc...

Congrats on the Jeans solo - and to everyone else's successes.

I also haven't got a clue what to wear and can't afford any new gear (not withstanding the fact that I'm loathe to spend money on clothes I've no intention of still fitting into in a few months).

I had an ok week last week. I've had a lingering cold since the new year and I was exceptionally tired last week due to DS2 having a series of night terrors (inherited from me so I really am not in a position to complain) so I only managed Just Dance twice and I was a hit and miss on following the rules. Didn't totally binge though and there has been a large packet of Malteesers in the fridge since Wednesday...unopened !! An unheard of event in the Always household, so although I doubt I've made much weight loss progress, at least I'm conquering some of my bad habits.

I'm getting really nervous about the seminar now. Saw PM on the telly promoting it today and I might of said thought "See you there Pauly".

I also haven't got a clue what to wear and can't afford any new gear (not withstanding the fact that I'm loathe to spend money on clothes I've no intention of still fitting into in a few months).

Oh yeah!!! agree wholeheartedly! Thanks too re jeans, but I'll feel much happier when I can actually wear the jeans that I really love... small steps, small, steady steps...