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2011 Paul Mckenna

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Deafworm · 01/01/2011 11:16

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

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

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

Bearstart 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

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WMMC125 · 08/02/2011 11:22

NicknameTaken - you will probably naturally eat less starch if you are following the rules as most of the white flour type foods are not easy to eat slowly.

whomovedmychocolate · 08/02/2011 11:26

Well today has been busy and continues to be - I've got a class of 21 toddlers to teach musical phonics to this afternoon eeek! Luckily two of them are my own and know some of it.

It's surprising how uninspiring prepared foods are to me now. I went to Sainsburys and was looking at the 'meal deals' and absolutely nothing appealed. I have ended up getting the kids one for their lunch and I'll have whatever is left over if I'm hungry (they never eat a whole sandwich).

And I walked round the entire supermarket, including going to the cafe with the DCs for big breakfasts (them) and a pot of tea (me) and wasn't hungry in the slightest. I forgot tons of stuff because my mind just wasn't on food Blush

Came home and DH asked where the bread was. Umm bread...I haven't had that for ages, didn't even cross my mind we might need some. MUST WRITE A LIST NEXT TIME! Grin

NicknameTaken · 08/02/2011 11:29

True to both posts - I have half a loaf that I'm going to half to throw out...Before I would have felt an obligation to eat it up.

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Deafworm · 08/02/2011 11:56

so wmmc what are you eating instead of bread? im not very imaginitive with food and have been having tortilla wraps as bread just feels to heavy now but id like to try to find other things to replace that 'lunchtime sandwhich' with.

my dd1 (5) is desperate to learn to cook a little bit more independently,all 3 girls help in the kitchen up to a certain level but she is really starting to prove what she is capable of, she made brownies entirely on her own on sunday (of which there is still a tub full in the kitchen which i havent eaten!) with just my supervision so im watching out of the window for the kids cookbook i ordered from amazon to arrive. hoping that it will help tie in with the whole healthy attitude to food we are working on.

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Deafworm · 08/02/2011 12:40

have just rung the apollo

doors open 8.30am
show starts 10am
lunch is at 1pm for an hour an a half i think she said
show finishes at 6pm

with a couple of other little breaks in the middle, hope that helps

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OliveOnThePaulMcKennaBus · 08/02/2011 14:22

whomoved - I'm glad you've changed back. the initials didn't feel right somehow.

The good news is I've found my PM book and CD this morning (hidden at the bottom of my filing cabinet Confused) so I'm now totally ditching WW, I'm firmly on the PM bus and am off to listen to the CD.

BTW I bought some lovely dark choc this morning. Normally I would have scoffed some by now, but I don't feel the need. And that's before I've had my brain rewired by the CD.

OliveOnThePaulMcKennaBus · 08/02/2011 14:27

"I've got a class of 21 toddlers to teach musical phonics to this afternoon eeek!"

Been there - can sympathise. We must compare notes!

(Tip: if you're ever doing Peter and the Wolf with toddlers, you might want to gloss over the bit where the duck gets eaten!)

AlwaysbeOpralFruitstome · 08/02/2011 15:01

Deafworm you star!! That's a great size loss, can you feel the difference? Oh and thanks for the itinerary. An hour and a half lunch?! Is that because we are all going to be eating so slooooowly. Wink

That is a really sweet story WMMC. I can never really decide what I think about PM, whether he's really genuine or a cyborg. Leaning towards the former now.

Oi NotOlive my nn is healthy!! OpralFRUITS! FRUI.....cough, yeah ok you have a point.Grin My food obsession is diminishing. Slowly. I may change my nn to AlwaysbeOpalsforme by the end of this journey.

NicknameTaken · 08/02/2011 15:08

Deafworm, some ideas for a packed lunch I'm experimenting with - a couple of sausages (on their own, wrapped in tinfoil. Doesn't need to be a sandwich!). Hardboiled eggs. An avocado. Leftovers from yesterday's dinner. A little container of nuts and seeds along with some fruit. Sandwiches are so boring!

whomovedmychocolate · 08/02/2011 16:53

I generally eat whatever I should have eaten last night but didn't finish Blush

Am quite a big fan of jacket spuds though.

whomovedmychocolate · 08/02/2011 16:55

Olive - gawd that was hell on earth. When we got to 't' they all spat all over me, same with 's' sounds. Luckily they all ran away after 15 minutes for snacktime.

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Deafworm · 08/02/2011 17:02

see i keep thinking things like that nicknametaken but sausages on their own never feels quite right, though i guess i eat cocktail sausages at parties and enjoy them.

i think i can feel a difference always but then im not sure if its imagination. you are welcome for the timings, i wanted them as much for me as anything and posting them made sense :O

off to think about lunches

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whomovedmychocolate · 08/02/2011 17:21

Sausages with ketchup are nice though Wink

Soup is nice.

Pasta salad.

Rice salad?

OliveonThePaulMcKennaBus · 08/02/2011 17:56

Right - now i found the CD, I had a nice nap a listen to it and I'm sure it does permeate the brain. When I went to pick up DS from school, I felt more energetic and was fairly skipping along.

itsonlyajob · 08/02/2011 18:14

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whomovedmychocolate · 08/02/2011 18:47

itsonlyajob - hurrah - the more the more mob like merrier Grin

bloomingnora · 08/02/2011 19:12

I need some advice my lovely people.

I am currently using up my Slimming World countdown and weighing in with them every week. I am not following the Slimming World eating plan, however. I don't have any scales at home so kind of feel like I want to go and weigh in to see how well I'm doing and I have met some really lovely, intelligent, witty people there (I know, I know - lovely, intelligent, witty people here, too!) and it feels more like a social event. But I feel guilty having someone say well done when I am not following the plan. But it is lovely to be rewarded for my weight loss. But I know what I should do is completely commit to PM. But I am not supposed to be eating fat pre gall bladder removal so I can't completely commit to PM.

What do I do?
a) Keep going to Slimming World and just pretend

b) Stop going to Slimming World and totally commit to PM and hope that means I don't eat too much fat

c) Keep going to Slimming World to help keep my fat intake down and PM as much as possible until after the op and then PM forever more

Additional information is that I got a lovely certificate for losing two stone yesterday. Today I have totally sabotaged myself and eaten loads of crap food in a psycho greedy bitch from hell way. I think this is a direct result of the certificate.

Sorry for the long post and all the contradictory madness. My head is very messed up today.
Any advice much appreciated. I really wish I was going to the seminar now Sad

I am really struggling today.

bloomingnora · 08/02/2011 19:13

If there was a miserable bint smiley I would be using it....

bloomingnora · 08/02/2011 19:26

You're probably all not eating your dinner with your families.... Grin

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Deafworm · 08/02/2011 19:47

Hi BloomingNora, first off stop beating yourself up 2 stone, wow, you are doing brilliantly no matter how you are doing it so please stop feeling so bad. one bad day (and its not over yet, still time to salvage it) doesnt need to mean the end of the world.

I can completely understand your position with SW/PM apart from the op bit as thats exactly where i was a few months ago, i quit, mid coutdown and whilst it took me ages to start making progress with it i know i would have been the same on sw as it was my head that was the problem.i honestly think i did the best thing by getting out of sw and pushing myself to drop the diet mentality too.

hope you can start to feel better and come to some decisions

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Deafworm · 08/02/2011 19:50

has anyone noticed that some days they are hungrier? as a child it was always commented that sometimes i would eat a lot and other times not and my dd2 is the same now. i have found some days i barely eat anything and others like today i feel like i have eaten everything in sight but not got overfull so still within the rules. im not judging myself for it, doing quite well at going with the flow at the moment just wondered if anyone else is the same?

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bloomingnora · 08/02/2011 19:56

Thank you Deafworm. I think I am managing to salvage it. I am not hungry so have just turned down supper (and in a PM way, not a martyr-ish way!). I do feel a bit sad about SW as there are some people there I will really miss. I also think as diets go it is a lovely healthy way of eating. But I know in my heart that I need to stop going.

I think I may see if I can rejoin the gym so I still get my evening to myself and get fitter too! Or take up a martial art or kick boxing (something I have wanted to do for years). I am finding it hard to let go of the weigh-ins even though if I haven't lost as much as I think I have I feel shit (like yesterday - had lost half a pound but was really happy before I weighed as I felt great and much slimmer. Buggery bollocks to it all.

bloomingnora · 08/02/2011 20:01

What you have just said really resonated deafworm. I think that I am panicking when I have the days where I need slightly more food and thinking that I can't be doing it properly. Having a bit of a lightbulb moment here!

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Deafworm · 08/02/2011 20:10

well done, you see,not a wash out and no reason to bully yourself :)

I felt exactly the same about sw but now i look back on it and realise its not actually that great, i still bump into the people i went with and dont miss the diet at all, its really not that healthy when you stop and think about it, it may be less prescriptive than some but its also very controlling in what you can and cant eat.

glad to have helped :o and step away from the scales, you felt great and slimmer, what does a silly number on a screen have to do with it, presumably thats what sent you into a mini spiral? so then the scales are actually doing more harm than good, back away :o

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bloomingnora · 08/02/2011 20:19

Wise lady Grin

I am currently looking at train prices....

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