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

Arrrgh hormonal insomnia - damn you!

Wmmc, me too! Do you think that cd has syncronised us all?

So, I might as well update!

Like many of you, I am struggling this week. I thinkni've taken the 'eat what you want not what you think you should eat' rule a little to heart! I haven't been getting stuffed as such, but i have been eating the wrong things, and I have definitely been eating when I'm full just because the nice food is there. So I think I've reached a plateau and as it's still early days, I don't feel great about it.

However, I called into sainsburys local today and noticed the innocent veg pots were on bogof, so I bought a load and they are plenty for dinner. I thought I'd save the pots to save my leftovers in as well, as leftovers are a big downfall of mine. I seem to be very controlled all day, but come 9pm or so, my self control goes out the window.

Thanks all for being so understanding re my mum. She has seemed a bit more sane about it all so what I might so is tell her that the winners of the tickets are meeting up but not mention this thread.

Deafworm, that was a fine idea to give me a nickname other than lililolo. In fact, my real name rhymes with the smallest tellytubby and begins with j. So now you all know!

Who was it who said their mum wanted to argue with PM? that really made me laugh! Imagine!

Sorry for still postig sparodically. I am a joiny in sort of person usually but not having proper wifi makes it all troublesome. I flounced from talk talk a while ago and assumed it would take the ages to turn it off, but they did it the next day! Then bt took 6 weeks to come to visit. They're due soon, so expect lots more posting from me then. Such fun for you all!

Right, I am going to give pm's confidence cd a go now. Listened to the thin one too much, so thought I'd give this a go tonight. Don't tell oh, I bought it for him as a v day pres as he is going for lots of interviews at the moment, he is a victim of govt cuts!

Night night!

Oh Lili that has been my exact problem, eating what I want is never really a good idea! Couldn't sleep last night either. (and my name is the same as yours! Jinky Winky yes? haha)

lililolo - Know what you mean about plateaux - PM recommends eating even more slowly till you get through it. Maybe I should give that a try.

I have told my mum the tickets came from a webchat on a website and we are meeting up to say hi in the lunch hour. We will not out you. :)

hi all, sorry i have been awol its been manic here the last week or so, we are off to visit friends today so not sure i will be on before the weekend, looking forward to meeting you all!

i dont think anyone is going to out each other!!

i spoke to the doc last week, and they said no point in messing with the painkillers until i see the chronic back ppl next week, barely moving today, and have the baby at home today got to get all the kids to bed as DH is working for a few hours over bed time, nightmare(!) but i can do it....im going to have to!!

I am SOOO looking forward to saturday, i know its going to be tricky and a long journey, but it will be well worth it!

Well at least you have an appt to see the pain specialists.

I was slightly worried last night when someone mentioned snow but it's only ooop north apparently. :)

I am also struggling. It's like I am eating in a stupid way for the last time. I think that I am ready for saturday to be comletely life changing - no pressure, paul!

BN i know what you mean, i think this week is full of strange emotions, your right, its like im doing it for the last time, i shouldnt want to eat badly at all, but its like that last ever ciggarette...

Im on codeine, which is kicking in now, the levels are just starting to rise, and im feeling a little not quite myself, luckily one of the girls at nursery is also a nanny, so she has taken the baby for the afternoon, and will pick up DD2 on the way, i can look after DD1 after school as she doesnt require me to run after her!!

had some cereal for lunch, was a big bowl, but i ate it slowly and thoughtfully

Ursula, so nice to meet another Jipsy ;)

I've eaten a lot more fruit and veg today as I know in my heart that other food makes me sluggish. Yay. Hopefully the seminar will be a good old boot up the arse for us all as it sounds as though we have all reached a similar point: as well as our cycles syncronising :)

Kt; your back pain sounds awful. So pleased you have babysitters today and hope he journey on Saturday is all right x

I am so fed up of being me. The binge eating and the defiance. I don't want to be angry any more. How the hell do I get back to feeling ok?

I don't want to dread every social occassion or look back on the photos and realise that even though I thought I looled nice I still looked fat. Couple of big occassions coming up in May and June.

I don't want to cry as I cram biscuits in my mouth. See 2.30pm this afternoon when I ate half a packet with tears rolling down my face like some fucking idiot.

I don't want to be twitchy and paranoid whenever a 'normal sized' person is around when I am eating. I am so paranoid that even when I have spent a week eating like some perfect size 10 I don't feel like I can eata chocolate in the staff room without people noticing.

I don't want to feel like a fucking food addict for the rest of my life. Constantly preoccupied with food and when I can next eat something.

FFS, I am 35 years old and apart from a very brief period about 3 years ago, I have not felt comfortable with my body since I was 8.

I don't want to be tired and sluggish because I am eating too much all the time.

And I do know that I should be couching this in positive language and focussing on what I DO want but I am in a very bad place right now. I know that I have days when I eat well and feel well. I love to exercise but I am so fucking tired all the time that it feels like treble the normal effort to try and drag myself back up the upward spiral.

I really want to look back and feel proud of how I got over this addiction (it feels worse than giving up smoking) and let my true self out from inside the fat suit. Because I feel like I am wearing a fat suit all day every day. Currently it covers all of my body to my knees and elbows. I don't mind my forearms or hands or calves or feet! I can't really build a happy life on that though.

I am pinning so much hope on saturday. What the hell happens if it doesn't work? I cannot live like this any more. Help.

Hi all - just dropping in quickly to say purplemiffy I've PM'd you about meeting up before the seminar to let you have my spare ticket you wanted Are you still interested?

Has anyone seen purplemiffy around? I've done a quick search and I don't think she's been on MN for a while. In the last message I got from her she was looking at train times and seemed a bit nervous about coming on her own. Not sure where she'd be travelling from as she didn't say.

nora - I could write your last post on some days. You're not alone sweetpea. And I've had about a decade more of it than you. At least when I was 35 I had a relatively pretty face! I went on an amazing 3 week holiday in the States last year and didn't get in front of the camera once. Just took pics of the DC, because I felt such a frump.

We can do this! Together! Please stay positive and come alone with an open mind.

Would like to stay and post more but got to run waddle off. Am out tonight, but PM me if you'd like to talk.

Thanks Olive. I'll be okay. Possibly. Maybe. Definitely will be there and raring to go on saturday!

BM i think a lot of us feel like that, i did that mid morning with half a box of chocolates.
its not something any of us want to live with anymore, theres no gaurentee that it will work, but its a hell of a lot more likely than any other 'diet' or slimming plan.

DD1 is home from school now, DH is working till 7, then going out for the evening to try out some new songs, so i can curl into bed and rest myself early on! just gotta get all the kids into bed and resist eating the entire biscuit barrel...

Oh nora . Sorry your having a bad time of it. Whomoved will be along in a mo with the really good advice but I just wanted to say that you can do this - this is Blooming's year to bloom.

I'm feeling very much the same at the moment but I keep looking in my PM book and re-reading the testimonial of the really big lady (that got stuck in the plastic chair) and telling myself that this IS possible even if it seems like Everest.

I'm 35 this year as well. My brothers getting married in December and I just can't bear the thought of being the blimp, hiding in the back of the photo's again. I can't waste another year on being fat and tired and generally unmotivated, it's just so bloody boring.

Pauly will help us...and if he doesn't then we can form a stalking gang and go around throwing cream cakes at him (coffee one's obviously, don't want to waste a good cake).

Forgot to say, if anyone wants my mobile number, PM me and i will pass it on. is there an official plan/time for the meet up? not sure what we're going to do our end, but im not sure how much break/s there are going to be

Im in for throwing cake at PM if this doesnt work!!

I just cannot get full today. pissflaps.

Nah bollocks to being positive bloomingnora. You sound utterly fed up and that's okay. We all go through times when everything feels pointless. But you are doing great - biccies aside - because you know where you want to go and are going for it.

You are bound to have ups and downs. And some of the downs will be really hard going because you've eaten like this your whole life and found comfort from it - you have to reprogramme your entire brain and old habits will pop up to try and stop you changing things because CHANGE HURTS and is difficult But that's not to say you won't achieve it - you will. It's good that you are facing a nadir because it only gets better from hereonin.

And stop eating pissflaps, very little protein and quite icky too

Can I suggest we don't take cakes with us to throw. The lure may be too much for those sitting nearby - have you ever seen a zombie film. Imagine that, but with cream horns

ktwiltshire - the plan is to meet halfway through the lunch hour, under the glitterball in the upstairs bar.

I think I may be having a small revelation. I think that I am doing a bit of self sabotage as this is the longest I have gone without weighing myself and I was planning to weigh myself tomorrow.

I am never going to weigh myself again

That is fairly frightening to say, but I have thrown my scales away months ago and that was pretty bloody liberating. I DO NOT NEED TO KNOW. Whatever I do it's never enough anyway and I end up fgeeling disappointed. I imagine they will weigh me at the hospital next month anyway (I bloody hope so or my anaesthetic dose will be all wrong)

I am going to stop measuring my self worth using numbers on a frankly inaccurate scale. I am going to measure it using self worth!

My name's Bloomingnora and I haven't weighed myself for 9 days. Who's with me?!

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I am feeling better

I misread your post as it only gets better with heroin That's the last thing I need!

My life coach friend says it is a bit like walking a worn path across a field and that it's hard to resist cutting straight across because the grass is nicely trampled and it's pretty easy going. Now I have to go round the edge and stat wearing a new path.

Yuk to zombies with cream horns.....