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

Hello Eveyone,
sorry to jump in in the middle of your thread, but I also won tickets to the seminar on saturady and so have booked train tickets and am coming with a friend.

But I'm now getting twitchy as all I had was that initial email from MNHQ sayng I'd won and I'm now worrying that I may get there and have no ticket!

Do you know where we are supposed to go when we get there to get our tickets? can MNHQ confirm our names will be on the list? I dont wnat a disastrous day out in London!!

Oh, and do you think we'll all be sat together? I'm happy to say hello but as a long standing regular name changer none of yo will know me, but I'll know you.

Oh, also, Bloomingnora I just read your post as I scanned to the bottom of the thread, and wanted to say you are not on your own you are one of millions of woman with a messed up relationship with food which leads to self loathing, and that's why PM's approach is so good it's not about dieting it's about resetting that damaged relationship. Stick with it, I hope saturady is good for you and hopefully see you there.

Welcome and thanks, mordechai! I will be sitting on my own as I purchased my ticket but I really want to see what you freaks other MNers look like! I will be wearing stylish boots and a beard of biscuit crumbs....

I think you'll be fine MV :) none of us have had confirmation other than the initial MNHQ communications; I don't doubt for a minute that my tickets will be waiting for me, so don't worry and we'll see you there!
I wouldn't mind betting we'll all be together too.

In the unlikely event that the tickets aren't there then we just need to show them the webchat and start blagging/get on to MNHQ. But I'm sure it'll be fine.

Blooming - if PurpleMiffy doesn't contact me then you can have my spare comp and sit with me. Shame we didn't hook up earlier, but the first person I offered it to dropped out.

I'll be the one who looks like Olive from On the Buses Dawn French with hacked off hair . Likewise, I'm up for swapping phone numbers if anyone wants to PM me.

Oh Oh - 20 messages to go - who's going to start the next thread?

Maybe I'll just stand up in the middle of the Hammersmith Apollo and shout: "I'm NotOlive. BloomingNora, who moved my chocolate solo?

Bloody hell you lot can talk!

Okay, I admit it I am not doing it and I am not even going to the blasted seminar.

I have to admit that I like eating, it has always been a pastime, a hobby. Ridiculous but there it is. And I am struggling to eat slooooowly around crazy toddler child.

Ok, will attempt to read the bits of thread I've missed.

Also happy to swap numbers.

Bloody nora, total sympathies. I felt like that about myself the other day when I made a really nice macaroni cheese recipe for 4 and ended up eating about 3 portions. There are certain foods (cheese mainly) that I really ought to steer clear of.

So wipe those crumbs away from your chin and wait until you're hungry before you eat again. As Paul says: just as an aeroplane doesn't fly in a straight line, weight loss will not all be constant. You're doing great to stop weighing. I keep promising myself the same and not sticking to it.

Btw: I slipped into the opposite trap today and didn't eat anything until about 4pm. That is a bad move for me as I leads to feeling ill and then eating too much :( and weight gain. Still. I am going to listen to cd in a minute and hopefully wake up a bit more motivated.

I do think we're all doing well. At least we are being honest with each other and we're not just sloping off when the going gets tough.

The way I look at it is that I weighed 14 stone 5 at the beginning of the year. I now weigh 13 stone 7 and I haven't once gone hungry. Even if I only lost a lb a week from now on by next Christmas I'll weigh around 9 stone, which is less than I have in the last ten years and hopefully by then I won't even notice that I'm eating soooo slooooowly and practising tenaciously.

Ursula, I find eating consciously very difficult too. I am usually asked about 43628920 questions per meal time and the oh always wants to bang on about work during dinner.

Do come to the seminar though, I am looking forward to meetig you.

Ps are we all 35? I am too.

Oh, and... I was worried about the tickets too, but I've decided not to be so bloody stupid. If they aren't there, we'll have our own seminar back at my place - wmmc can be teacher.

You know blommingnora, a good approach for you may be to give up on focusing on loosing weight and instead concentrate on reestablishing a positive relationship with food.

Restting that ability to judge and respond to the feelings of fullness and hunger, learning to enjoy food and learning to break the binge cycle. That could take a good few months work, and you'd probably loose weight in the process but that would not be your focus.

Get rid of the scales and think instead about the psychology of your relationship with food.

Sorry, I'm know I'm jumping in late to this thread but your post really made me think.

I think it was so reflective of so many womans experience with food and what they perceive as an ongoing 'battle'.

im 25...will i be the youngest? lol i feel about 80 most days, so i wouldnt worry!

i do keep thinking that im going to turn up and they will laugh at me, but no, theres a lot of us in this position!
...im assuming were going to the box office..wherever that is? i will be the one on crutches if that helps!

DH is home from working, has decided not to go out this evening so i have scampi and chips arriving from the chip shop, not terribly healthy, but exactly what i fancied...and i have a kids meal coming cant wait to see what toy i get

lililolo - Write out twenty lines 'I must not eat cake (more than once a day)'

I'm 37.

Ktwiltshire - crutches may make you easier to spot!

Scales went last year, MV. I was weighing in at slimming world but quit last week hence this now being the longest time I haven't weighed for.

Have managed to stop eating (finally) and had a lovely bedtime story session with the DCs and then did 30 mins on the cross trainer. Feeling so much better. No supper for meas I am stuffed to the gills.

I am going to stop telling myself that I will only be happy if I reach xxx date weighing xxx. Because it is just stupid.

I see your 37 WMMC and beat that with 41 (which is NOT OLD ok??)

I do not own any scales - through them out in disgust when I was pregnant with DD - literally out the window. And do you know the really weird thing not having scales has not made a blind bit of difference to my weight, other than I don't feel the need to know what it is

Mind you GPs look like you like you have two heads when you admit you have no idea what you weigh. Look mate, I'm not cake mix, does it really matter?

Oh dear slimming world will have just reinforced and entrenched all those battle with food, be good, have a treat type beliefs about food.

But you've ditched that, so onwards with the PM positive philosophy of a healthy relationship with food.

start this saturady, spend the next few days preparing yourself for the change in attitude and not battling with yourself or feeling guilty.

Give yourself a break.

Hark at me I'm full of good advice for others!!

'a good approach for you may be to give up on focusing on loosing weight and instead concentrate on reestablishing a positive relationship with food.'

'I am going to stop telling myself that I will only be happy if I reach xxx date weighing xxx. Because it is just stupid.'

Both of these comments have struck a chord with me, it's exactly what I need to do. Strange that we are all feeling a bit the same. I have just turned 31, I'd promised myself to be happier when I was 30 and am still not.

I need to listen to the cd, haven't for around a week since I found it actually kept me awake rather than help me sleep as it had been doing. Have overeaten a lot again today and feel crap about myself because of it. Tomorrow is a new day. I haven't weighed myself for a few days now, DH still hasn't hidden the scales but I don't feel like jumping on them.

Hi all,

I am totally new, read through this thread last night to try and figure out paul mckenna system.

Started it last night, listened to CD, then did it today.
I have some questions which I really hope you can help with because google is not being too helpful!

When listening to the track do you actually have to count back from 300? Similar question, do you have to do the things he says, ie imagining yourself from the outside and then floating in blah blah. Because I can't count and imagine!

Also I can't tell if I am hungry or not properly yet, does that just come?

Thanks!

Leverkusen - welcome - we hope you will join us on the new thread when this one gets too fat!

I have never got below 250 on the countdown.

Yes you do have to do the visualisations - unless you can imagine it, how can you become it?

How can you tell if you are hungry - if you are questioning it, you probably aren't but try having a drink of water and waiting ten minutes and then rating on a scale of 1-10 how hungry you are 10 being physically sick because you've stuffed yourself, to 1 being physically faint with hunger. You should find the scale in the book that came with your CD. :)

Have opened the doors on part two for when we break out of this one www.mumsnet.com/Talk/big_slim_whatever_weight_loss_club/1152233-2011-Paul-McKenna-part-two-our-final-diet

Oh thanks for the help, and I will join you all on your new thread, then you can all tell me what Paul told you. I think I must have drifted off after a while and that's why I didn't do the visualisations. Might do it earlier in evening rather than when I am totally exhausted.
Thanks for the tips re hunger. It's so awful to realise I can't recognise being hungry or full

Hi Leverkusen, welcome!

I don't do the counting, I just try to relax at that point & empty my mind, PM talks over me 'thinking the numbers' otherwise & I get annoyed

For visualisations I try to think of a photo or what I see in the mirror, or what I used to see in nice photos when I was happy! I think I am hungry when I would eat something that I'm not that bothered about eating normally, and I am full when I am not really & truly enjoying the taste of the mouthful any more.

Ooh 'xcitin new thread! Let's make it a positive one.

Wmmc writing out those lines would make me eat more cake! That's why I think pm is a good diet as i don't have anything to rebel from!

What I need to do is ask myself if I am genuinely hungry and ask myself what I fancy eating rather than shoving food in just because it's there :)

Are you hungry, or do you just want to change the way you feel?

:o