2011 Paul Mckenna

[Deafworm]

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

ooh ive just found the bookmark function, that makes things a lot simpler!

looking forward to meeting you Bloomingnora, you souund happier

I am really excited! I have just decided to quit slimming world (I have shitloads of lovely friends and although I will miss some people I will survive), buy a ticket for 19th and my lovely NLP loving brother is going to meet me after the seminar and take me out for dinner and then put me up for the night before taking me back to the station on the Sunday.

Looking forward to meeting everyone (but as I am going to be sitting on my own I hope I will be able to find you all)!

ok i have totally been absent without leave.....had a bad week..or week and a half. i had a 'bad' weekend eating a lot away with father in law, and its been all self sabotage since then.

DH is out working tonight, im going to burn the CD (i only downloaded it) onto CD... and listen to it as i goto sleep tonight, and im off work tomorrow.

theres a possibiility that my mum wont be able to come to PM with me...im almost jumping for joy, cant really jump yet, also really shouldnt as its only cause my mum probably wont be able to handle the long trip and long time sitting down (not sure i will, but im determined!!). waiting for her to decide, but I might have a spare ticket after all.....

okay....ive had dinner (nuggets and chips lol) and im off to find a CD!

Bloomingnora you do not need the short term encouragement of a blinking certificate - will you need a certificate when you get to a size 10 to prevent you raiding the fridge just because it's there every five minutes?

You are doing the right thing quitting. Slimming world is a testament to what happens when people abdicate responsibility for their weight IMHO - that they need outside help and constant monitoring in order to not stray from the path of righteousness and salad - whereas as we all know well, we are grown ups and quite able to fix this ourselves once we get rid of all the messed up mindset about food. :)

I have to think about Pombears now.

ktwiltshire well my mum is coming now so if your mum comes too perhaps they can have a whinge about us together

Can I suggest these instead of making them - they will cost £2 including postage or each of us and less faffing.

Done it! Ticket purchased, both journeys booked and requirements for extra pillows emailed to bro! Am really scared...secretly I am a total chicken and I can't believe I am going to the big smoke on my own

I am also about to quit slimming world but not sure whether it would be more polite to do it in person rather than via text....

are you comfortable explaining why? would you be easily talked round? i texted for those two reasons.

badges seem a simple idea wmmc

Personally I am relieved to be rid of my slimming world mentality. Food is not a sin/syn and I used to eat half a massive pasta bake just because it was 'free'. Mental!

Quick update - tonight I matched DH's eating speed for once. He is a really slow eater who always stops when he is full.

Hurrah for Olive! :)

I have PMT and normally I would be scoffing large quantities of chocolate and just constantly eating. Now I'm not I've been fixing DH's car instead - the silly bugger scraped all along the side of it and it's so far taken me four hours of filling and painting and finally lacquering and now I'm onto polishing on one bit and I'll do the final lacquer on the other tomorrow.

Ironically the builder turned up today, looked at it and said 'what scrape' Mind you he's a bit of a twat!

Bloomingnora, if there are people you really like in SW, can you ask to meet them for a coffee in a non-SW setting some other time?

I can understand why you would self-sabotage after getting the certificate. Because it becomes about pleasing someone else, getting the pat on the head, and of course a part of you rebels. It should be about (new agey alert) getting in touch with your authentic self, what you really want and need deep down. Which PM does, unlike all the other eating plans. I mentioned that I'm eating more protein than carb at the moment, but that's because it is genuinely more appealing at the moment. It's fine if my desires change too.

Madly impressed at wmmc's car-fixing skills! A bit afraid though that the badges will Ruin my Cool Image (ahem). If anyone knows the venue and can suggest a physical meeting place, that would be great.

Shall we meet under the glitterball in the stalls bar? (Upstairs) link to virtual tour click on stalls bar to see where I mean (you will need to pan around).

Sounds good to me!

May I suggest we meet halfway through the lunchbreak to give anyone who has to scoot out to buy lunch some food (or are we all taking it with us)?

Halfway through is a good idea - I'm sure there will be the usual endless queues for the ladies...

Plus the marauding masses milling about and taking ages leaving the theatre at 1pm (or whenever it is). Personally I'm doing an M&S run on the way, hopefully the bar will serve tea/coffee for lunchtime.

I have been on the self sabotage since getting to the 1 stone off mark too...pretty angry with myself, but don't seem able to stop.

Think I will be taking lunch with me too. Think I'll give making a bear badge a go too...saves two quid.

There's a link to a review further up the thread itsonly.

solo - stop panicking - you have recognised a problem. Let's do something about it. Focus again on what you want. Where do you want to go weightwise - what do you want to look like and how will that make you feel? Can you imagine yourself like that and step into that image?

Can you share with us exactly what you are aiming for here?

Ok guys its official, my mum isnt comming so ive got to decide whether to take someone local to me (although i had a hard time looking for someone before my mum wanted the ticket) or a fellow MNer?

today has been....weird, fell asleep to the CD last night, not been eating consciously today, but i am very aware of how full i am (toad in the hole for lunch).
its difficult, DH needs fattening up, and i need slimming down, makes for meal times difficult, but i guess i have to just work through it

Hmmmmmm...I would like to be a maximum of a size 14 ~ 12 would be great, but it seems so far away.
If I could only find a man to share myself life with, I'd probably lose weight without thinking about it. I kinda think though, that as no one is going to see me naked, it's not so important, though I really would like to wear some of my lovely clothes...

Hi ladies,

sorry I haven't been around much. I have been reading and you are doing so well!

I have made the decision to put the scales away. I've got to 11lbs off and have been stuck for a couple of weeks. I guess that's ok, but really have to stop obsessing. Am finding all this easy to stick to, so if it works I'm going to be so pleased! Dieting is for suckers

I've got massive misgivings about my mum coming. She just keeps saying really daft things, like 'oooh, we won't be able to go for dinner after will we? Hahahhahaha'

Hmmm, suppose this is just a silly throw back to how annoying my mum can be when she thinks I'm taking something seriously, she just takes the piss! I wish I hadn't mentioned it to her and just brought my friend instead.

Anyway, with that in mind, lovely ladies, unless she behaves very differently on the day, I think I'll give meeting up a miss if you don't mind. I'd live to see you all in the flesh, but I really don't want her to track me down via mn and Reading my posts iyswim. Not that I post much here.

Anyway, off to make my soooooooo slowly snack! Btw: I've really noticed that eating every 3-4 hours works better for me than waiting for meal times. I honestly can't remember the last time I got stuffed. That is a major achievement as I used to love that serotonin high.

Wmmc, that is a great story about Paul mc. I think he is a good guy, but he also wants to make serious money and I don't think you can do that without having a slightly ruthless streak. But that's ok, we are all the sum of our parts. At least the way he makes money is benefitting others!

Sorry if rambly, STILL no broadband!

lililolo - mine is in a similar frame of mind. If they get very annoying we can always send them off to buy cakes instead! Well done on your achievements so far - that's great progress. :)

we could give you a code name in advance lili then if she does try to find your username she will be thwarted before she starts? other than that i can see exactly why you feel that way, sure it will be a fab day regardless and just try to block out the negativity

Thanks for the support.

Deafworm - I think I am more scared about upsetting the consultant (who is four months pregnant and a bit hormonal at the moment!). I am not scared of being talked round but I am scared of talking myself round. I think I will email or phone her. feels like too much to say in a text. What I really want to say is "You are totally out of your depth with my food issues. Psychologically I can run rings round you and your mind games and p.s. telling a compulsive over eater to eat as much as they like of some foods is frankly bonkers" but I think this could be construed as rude!

I shall just email and say thank you for the support but I feel that an NLP based approach is more appropriate for my problems and good luck with the baby. Does that sound ok? Compulsion to be honest....

The people at SW are lovely but thinking about it there is only really one that I would like to stay in touch with. I will ask the consultant to pass on my number and she can get in touch if she wants.

Anyway, I was doing better but had a horrible thing at work and stuffed myself with horrid food that I didn't want and then had supper early with the kids which I didn't want and then had a second helping which I didn't want and I am a plonker but I shall try to forgive myself and move on. Because I know this works and one of the reasons that it does is because there are infinite second chances. Roll on 19th.

PS Lililolo - Practice saying the following "Mum! There you are! I have been looking for you all lunch time!" Try and sound convincing, mind....