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2011 Paul McKenna part two - our final diet

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whomovedmychocolate · 16/02/2011 21:17

Welcome etc. blah blah. :)

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whomovedmychocolate · 25/02/2011 21:19

VJay - not quite size 10 - they are tight. I'm a size 12 really. But hey I started out being very uncomfortable in my size 14s so it is really good.

And tonight I have decided to bite the bullet and return to aikido training - hey what's a decade's lapse between friends Wink So have been shopping for a gi. Somehow I think chucking six foot men around for two hours of an evening may improve my humours Grin

Franch it's well known on these threads that chocolate contains prawns and is utterly boaksome Wink Don't worry the others will explain, hopefully not to graphically (I've just eaten). :)

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whomovedmychocolate · 25/02/2011 21:22

Ah VJay I forgot to say WELCOME and thank you for joining us. Nine pounds is a lot of weight to lose in just a few months. Especially if you don't have a lot to go and two stone, is actually not all that much. It does get slower as you get down towards your goal, the trick is to just eat even slower, go for thirty chews per forkful etc. If nothing else, it's extra exercise - even if only for your jaw Grin

But yes play the CD, it doesn't work unless you put it in the CD player Wink

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VJay · 25/02/2011 21:26

Thankyou wwmc Smile, I will start to give my jaw some extra exercise. I forget to eat slowly sometimes especially when I'm really hungry, which I shouldn't be when following this. I have well and truly fell off the PM wagon lately, time to haul myself back on.

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whomovedmychocolate · 25/02/2011 21:28

Are you just eating VJay or are you eating in front of the TV/computer/magazine etc? This is the real key to me. It was simply not going well and I didn't realise it was because I was not eating consciously really. I was hungry and I was eating what I wanted but I wasn't actually fully aware I was taking in food and so I missed the full signal.

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VJay · 25/02/2011 21:30

I normally eat while feeding DS2 so not really concentrating. I also think that I need to take each day at a time and re-focus each day, IYKWIM. It was working so well but I seem to have drifted.

UrsulaBuffay · 25/02/2011 21:34

I am lurking and hope to return with a more positive attitude. Meanwhile I am being a little comfort eating piggy.

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whomovedmychocolate · 25/02/2011 21:43

Ursula - you really need to stop being so hard on yourself. You can have bad days and still be heading in the right direction. But you're going to have to forgive yourself for meandering off the path. In the great scheme of things, it doesn't matter. Get your head together and start again, it's okay :)

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UrsulaBuffay · 25/02/2011 21:49

I will. Today I have considered slimming world ffs. Have come to my senses again though. Have not been eating consciously, have been eating crap that makes me feel crap, have not enjoyed it and have kept going til am stuffed. Have been in opposite world! The scales are coming back to keep me on track slightly. Sorry, I am like this I throw my toys out of the pram Grin

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whomovedmychocolate · 25/02/2011 21:56

That's all right. I wouldn't go with slimming world if I were you, they are just great training for being fat frankly. And you know this Wink

What you have done today has not made you feel good. Do something different tomorrow. :)

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UrsulaBuffay · 25/02/2011 22:02

I need to have some consciousness of what I weigh or I will end up whacking loads of weight on.

I am tripping up on the 'eat what you want' rule because it translates into 'stuff yourself full of bread'. I think I will make it into 'eat things that you know are good for you and you enjoy'.

You're right, I have to forgive myself and move on. I will try to put myself first in this..thanks for the support :)

bloomingnora · 25/02/2011 22:51

It will only be 'stuff yourself full of bread' for a short while, honestly. Your body will naturally start to regulate things. And it's bread, not poison! It's fine to have it and enjoy it. Don't try to eat things that you know are good for you and you enjoy - that is not the same as eating exactly what you want! Give it a try. As Paul would say, you can trust yourself and feel in control Wink

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whomovedmychocolate · 26/02/2011 06:35

Ummm well I don't have any scales and I'm getting smaller. Wink

It's interesting that it is bread you crave because bread because, particularly white bread, is giving you a massive serotonin hit whenever you scoff lots of it.

Have you actually tried the craving buster, or the aversion technique (maggoty bread anyone Wink). If you find this food really hard, just get it away from you till you feel stronger. Of course it's fine to eat anything but for some people until they break the pull of a certain thing, they are just making it really hard for themselves and it's easier to just stop eating it.

I'm sort of like that with chocolate (although I can't even type the blinking wood now without feeling slightly sick thank you Paul) Grin

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Deafworm · 26/02/2011 08:46

welcome to our newest members, cant believe we are doing so well on our second thread, i expected to be chattering away to myself when i started the last one! to those who are coming in with a lot to lose you arent alone, from my start point i have at least 7 stone to go, we will get there. sorry to those who are taking a break from us i can understand why, it took me nearly a year to get to the point of giving this a proper go and i still havent given in my best really.

feeling a little low today, weighed myself (please no comments about not its important to me)and after 2 months have lost a stunning total of 1lb Sad yes i have lost inches but that actually made me think i would have a nice figure on the scales today. inches arent going to get me anywhere with a midwife when they start harping on about risk factors. I really did want to be pregnant by the time DH went away but I just cant see it working. so I have until August to get some real weight off. i was aiming to be a stone lighter by this WI, I have spectacularly missed that target! I think its all the more gutting as a lot of my clothes have been getting looser, which im really pleased about, but I had assumed that meant that the scales would weigh lower too, otherwise where on earth have 21inches overall gone?!? Confused

right then thats enough moping. It has been a lot easier since the seminar in some ways but i still havent been on track but i have coped really well with 2 of my biggest issues, we went to my inlaws for a few days where i always massively overeat and i was ill and we went out for a meal. in all of that i ate relatively sensibly, past full quite a few times but i noticed my signals which isnt something i have managed over there before and i stopped at probably an 8 rather than a 9 or 10 as in the past. since we got back im improving, we had takeaway the night we got back and i didnt just eat and eat, i stopped and left some of my favourite foods. and last night i left a lot on my plate after a gorgeous toad in the hole.

as for last saturday, i really enjoyed myself, my guest did too, we moved seats at the first break after an unpleasant moment with another audience member and shifted to the far right back, as you look towards the stage.I enjoyed the show and found it useful, its clicking into place day by day for me now but the one thing i would never in the world have expected is that the mirror exercise thing has had an impact, I cried through most of that section pretty uncontrolled, Ive never liked who ive seen in the mirror, never felt myself good enough and really didnt think it had made any difference to me at the time. It released a lot of emotions which even then i felt was probably a good thing and the havening was amazing. But since then, I have found myself looking in the mirror and smiling even complimenting myself, this in itself would have been worth the ticket money, i cant quite find a number on the scale but i went into the apollo convinced of being a 10 on the ugly side and thats definitely changed, ive at least hit neutral if not the other side a little Grin

sorry for the essay!

ktwiltshire · 26/02/2011 08:50

Happy weekend everyone!

Things are going well here, my confidence is only gettig better, had a sort of stumble yesterday and ate chocolate eclairs, but i ate them really slowly, and thoroughly enjoyed them, so it cant really have been a complete slip up?
went out for a meal with DH last night, was delicious and gave my leftovers to DH (he needs to gain weight, and finds it almost impossible to do so - bastard!), went for a few drinks afterwards and listened to somme live music from one of DHs bandmates.

i was tempted to weigh myself this mornning, being a week after the seminar, but i just got dressed and got DD3 downstairs for milk.

hope everyone has a good weekend, welcome to all the new ppl, and dont forget to tap and listen to the CD!

ktwiltshire · 26/02/2011 08:53

oh, forgot to say, i got my appointment for my MRI in the post, its the 9th march, not a long wait at all, so im feeling really good that we can rule things out and start working on getting me moving more again. Its the first time since i was a teenager that im looking forward to exercising again!

UrsulaBuffay · 26/02/2011 09:49

I weigh the same as when I picked up the book so feeling heavier is in my head at least, and I haven't been doing it properly at all. Can I rescind (sp?) my resignation? Grin

Deafworm, have you been doing lots of exercise? Well done on the inch loss that is brilliant and you are feeling much better about yourself & KT seems positive too. I will stick around and concentrate properly, yessum.

WMMC I never even thought of doing any exercises to put me off the bread. Yesterday was bread, bread and more bread and yes it is my 'go to' comfort food. Nora, what I mean is that I enjoy lots of nice foods but when I went to the shops all I bought was bread, I was in a trance! I need to think more about what I do actually want to enjoy eating.

arfur · 26/02/2011 10:33

Hi all had overwhelming urge to weigh myself this morning as the voice within said it's been a week let's see if the effort has been worth it! Then thought - what effort? Ooh bit of a light bulb moment! So am sticking to my deal of fortnightly weighing. Overate a bit at dinner but am cool with it and yesterday felt hungry and thought what do I really want and it (drumroll please) an orange!!!! So body is starting to want HEALTHY food - wow! Welcome to all the newcomers xxx

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whomovedmychocolate · 26/02/2011 12:29

Deafworm - may I suggest you weigh yourself again tomorrow. It sounds unlikely that you have only lost a pound. Perhaps your scales are on the fritz. Even if you have, it's an achievement, have you clarified your goal though and focused on it - be really specific about what you want.

And if you are more positive, is that not a great achievement in itself. You were quite negative to begin with (read back through the old thread) and you are really vibrant now. :)

ktwiltshire - great that you are still on track. I'm very tempted to go and weigh myself to find out what I do weigh at some point purely because if I haven't lost any weight but have lost many inches, a la Deafworm, it's really cool because it means my body is getting harder and more defined.

arfur - ah lusting after fruit, first sign of madness donchaknow Wink Seriously, sincere congratulations on the last week.

I'm going to be doing a 'the last leg of our final diet part three' thread soon aren't I? Wink

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arfur · 26/02/2011 13:54

Do you think it's possible we have changed being obsessed with food to being obsessed with posting on this thread Grin just returned from shopping with dd and her friend and her mum inevitably ended up in costa for coffee and cake so ate it consciously left a bit and both me and dd have SKIPPED LUNCH because we weren't hungry so now it's rubbing off on her too! Hooray!

solo · 26/02/2011 13:54

Just dropping by to say hello!!!

VJay · 26/02/2011 14:39

Hi I listened to the cd this morning for the first time. It was really strange, I was smiling to myself because I thought he sounded funny, then next thing I know he's telling me to wake upShock, I just hope some of it went in. When I woke up my body felt really heavy, but my mind was very alert. Anyway I will continue to listen to the cd, and I've just realised that I've not eaten that much so far today Smile

Thanks for the chat last night wwmc Smile, and thanks for the welcome Smile

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whomovedmychocolate · 26/02/2011 16:26

How nice it is to have such a lot of lovely people on a thread.

Rescue cat is home. He's currently exploring. He howled the entire 40 mile journey home Hmm but has since shut up and now purrs and interrupts whatever you are doing to give you a cuddle. :)

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JuicyOlive · 26/02/2011 17:17

Deafworm - maybe you have lost fat but gained muscle?
wmmc - aaw. You can cuddle kitten instead of comfort eating!

I overate for the first time since the seminar yesterday - we had a takeaway and I thought I'd stopped when full but about 20 mins after I felt really bloated and so uncomfortable. It was probably only an 8 on the hunger scale but I really didn't want to feel that way any more. I've been trying to stick between 3 and 7 as suggested.

Somebody mentioned bread up thread. This is one of my comfort foods, but I'm finding that if you eat bread really slowly it becomes less palatable - just a bland doughy mass in your mouth.

This time last week we were all in a trance....

pinkcupcakefairy · 26/02/2011 17:18

Thanks to all for the welcome :)

I have officially started today, I've filled in the start & end date in the journal & have weighed myself (and have lost 1/2 pound since I weighed on wed). I am determined to stick to this and fill in the journal everyday, along with listening to the cd.

I have 2 big tests coming up, lunch out tomorrow & then my friend's birthday next weekend, so I'm hoping following the rules will help me to not eat as much as I usually would.

I fell asleep listening to the cd last night but kept being woken up by my earphones falling out!! Put them back in & went back to listening but pretty much instantly went back to sleep - didn't even hear the wake-up bit, it was the noise of the CD stopping that woke me. Hopefully my subconcious took in the message Grin

I hope everyone's having a good day & enjoying the weekend :)

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