2011 Paul McKenna part two - our final diet

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Welcome etc. blah blah. :)

I quite often get down to about 200.

My face feels thinner today .

I really think thisis going to work this time. I feel so positive about it, which I hadnt 100% before the seminar. Did someone on here have on a green flower print coat?

I wanted some chocolate earlier. I ate some chocolate. I enjoyed some chocolate and I didn't feel guilty. I didn't panic, nor did I eat chocolate for the rest of the day

I think the man might have something.

What I did do, is weigh myself. But it felt ok, and didn't change how good I felt - I felt no better or worse for knowing even though I had lost more than I thought. It just was. I am not particularly interested in doing it again, either.

I have also noticed that I am not referring to myself as fat/stupid etc

No green coat here. Glad you are feeling so good people. I never get below 285 either, just get distracted by what Paul is saying (we are now on first name terms).

And something I was really looking forward to doing tonight has just been cancelled and I thought "Ooh, I can go for a run"

I thought the point of the counting is that you concentrate on counting and the talking goes in subliminally. Glad today is more positive for you nora.

Nora, that's brilliant! well done you :)

I weighed myself today. Not happy, but not really started properly until today, but even that has not been smooth sailing...Dc's aren't well still and, and, and...ho hum, will certainly keep trying though...

Howtolookgood i was in row U, in the middle section!

I think i'm doing ok, if my scales are right i have lost about 7lbs

I find i bit weird that it is too good to be true and i'm just not bothered by food anymore. It was all i thought about before. I didn't eat breakfast this morning but did eat my lunch at 11am because i felt hungry then.

You all sound like you're getting there, rome wasn't built in a day!

I'm just taking it one day at a time and hoping that my motivation continues

I was offered a beautifully decorated home made cupcake this afternoon at work.
I was hungry.
But I just made sure i commented on how beautiful it was but declined.
I have no idea why, i love cake.

?maybe the short time i might enjoy it didn't seem worth it?
the feelings i'm going to have when i'm at my ideal weight will be better than a cupcake i guess.
is this the CD talking, cause i'm always asleep before 260 on the counting backwards.

waves to ppeatfruit.

the last show i saw at the apollo was the comedian chris rock. i don't remember the place being such a dive though. but then it was dark. and warm.

Possibly your body is starting to want the right things for it, nevergoogle? This happened to me when I did this before and I ended up eating really healthily because I just didn't want the refined carbs - like breaking an addiction. It is starting to happen now, too. I had forgotten how good this feels, even on a bad day I feel better than on my best slimming world days.

I was offered a chocolate mini roll earlier and because I had done the aversion thing at the seminar on chocolate cake I actually felt a bit pukey at the thought!

PS
Ahem. I have just been for a 3k run in the dark and rain

well done bloomingnora

Hope you were properly lit blomingnora

Incredible progress on the exercise. I'm cleaning my oven

bloomingnora i'm off out for a run in a minute, i'm doing the couch to 5K programme and i'm scared!

Hopefully i won't die and i'll be back on this thread later looking like this ---->

I was badly lit but that's ok as it prevents white van men people shouting oi fat bitch hello at me and distracting me from running. I was running by the main road because we live in a shit hole less than perfect area.

I'm doing the couch to 10k except I wanted to see how far I could go today so I knew where to start in the programme if you see what I mean. I didn't want to start out by doing less than I could easily cope with. Don't be scared it is fab!

I hope you have a decent sports bra for your ample bosom! I also look like this right now. I'll be my normal colour in an hour or so!

I did it! All 15 10 stone of me ran for 30 minutes doing 90 seconds walking then 60 seconds running. I can't believe it i must have been brain washed

Can anyone help me figure out how I incorporate the rules into my long cycling training I do in the summer.
On sundays I go out for a 30-50 mile ride.
I usually stock up on calories before i go.porridge/bananas
And then eat and drink regularly as I go.
cereal bars/fruit
Then i get home and eat ALL day. I am hungry ALL day.

it's not emotional eating as i feel great.

last year, I got fit enough to do 50 miles without stopping at all yet lost no weight whatsoever.

how do i avoid this this year as I'm aiming for some 100 milers and being lighter will help a lot.

Won't you be making muscle nevergoogle, so will be heavier rather than loosing fat...not sure I'm making sense, but I think you'll see what I mean?

I feel a bit of a failure as I can't exercise due to the ME and at 10pm was really hungry and totally stuffed... bummer :(

I mean you'll lose fat but gain muscle which is the heavier bit.

Just a quick hi! Have relocated the scales under DHs side of the bed to eliminate temptation of weighing myself and havent done since Sunday when I filled in my journal. Had pretty good day followed rules by having clotted cream rice pudding and tortillas and dip for my tea at about 6 and 10 respectively instead of eating with DH. He is being typical cynic and saying helpful things like - well thats a healthy balanced diet isnt it. So I called upon the words of the great PM at the event (when he was telling that lady, Jo I think, how to handle her mum) and told him to f off and mind his own business! Ha! Keep up the good work everyone and well done to the runners! Am going out for run tomorrow night x

I think you preload if you are hungry and stop and eat if you get hungry on the run. I used to find I was like this with cycling but a lot of it is actually thirst. As long as you eat slowly and are hungry, who gives a monkeys if you eat more when you are exercising, your body is an engine, fuel in should = energy out so it's right you would eat more. Perhaps you need to change the mindset of losing weight here - losing weight is a side effect of feeling great, which is why you ride. :)

ok im back, had my appointment with the orthopedic team yesterday about my hip/back pain. I have got Sacro Iliac joint Dysfunction - a fancy way of saying all the muscles (including abdominals all the way down to the muscles around my actual pelvis joints) in my entire pelvis are extremely lax and are not holding my pelvis in the right place, the bones are rubbing together (for want of a better description)and even by milimeters that causes the huge amounts of pain.
I am being sent for an MRI to confirm my bulging disc, to make sure its not in a place which needs something doing about it i.e. surgery, but its more of an elimation thing.
The good news is that It can get better, it will take a very long time (years) and a LOT of effort and exercise but it is possible to get back to normal.

I am feeling really positive about it, once ive had my MRI and excluded anything worse than we think I am going back to physio to work on specific exercises to get my muscles back slowly over the next few years. i am going to get a strap for my pelvis, which will hold it in place so i can exercise and walk, and therefore move more (due to the strap holding my pelvis in place, doing my muscles job basically), so i can build up general strength and stamina and then work on the specific msucles that arent working.

enough rambling about my hip pain!
I have been eating when im hungry, eating consciously, but stopping when full is really hard, the well, not quite guilt of not finishing. im not sure what it is, but i still feel really weird about it.
im drnking lots of water/juice etc, so thats really good, and im generally feeling more confident, or at least i was until this morning when i stopped DH from telling off DD2 when it wasnt needed, he was just grumpy from waking up, and because i stopped him he is now in a horrible mood and thinks hes crap...so now i feel crap for making him feel crap.
must find time to do the CD today, tonight sounds good, DH is out working so i should have time to do it in peace, half term makes this very difficult. i think work will be easier

Amplebosom - well done you fantastic marvel! It feels soooooooo good doesn't it. I am addicted to endorphins.

Nevergoogle - I was running loads when I did this before and just trusted my body. You are going to have to preload a bit to be honest but I think as it is for a reason then psychologically it should be fine if you see what I mean. There's no way a professional athlete would be doing massive cycles/runs without a bit of preloading! If you don't you'll just hit the wall really quickly and that will definitely spoil the fun!

I agree with WMMC about your body being a machine - it will need more fuel afterwards, too. Just make sure you are eating slowly and drinking plenty. Let go of any guilt about eating what you need and enjoy the cycling. 50 miles is amazing!

Arfur - I love that you told your DH to fuck off! You are about to prove him spectacularly wrong. He'll feel a bit of a tit when you are grinning all over your face and enjoying lovely food and losing weight.

KT - you sound so positive and cheerful. How nice to be able to put a name to the pain and be able to see a way of starting to recover.

I feel loads slimmer today and so positive.

arfur I think as a general rule husbands do need telling to fuck off now and then anyway

Morning all - just something I wanted to ask/tell you? Do any of you have a 'sign' that you can look out for to signal that your full. I read a book about overeating a while back and it made me realise that I sigh/exhale when Im starting to feel full (I also do this after the first few mouthfuls of food which I think says a lot about my relationship with food as my body starts to relax when I start eating!) I can continue eating after I sigh but now that I am paying attention and eating consciously I can see that the food becomes less enjoyable after this point. Dont know if thats helpful but wondered if you could try looking out for your own personal signal of fullness. IIRC some of the clues the book suggested were sitting back on your chair or just changing your sitting position. Keep a look out and you might surprise yourself! Have a good day everybody x

My personal sign of fullness is that the food stops tasting good anymore. And I just don't want to eat anymore.