2011 Paul McKenna P3 - the march towards skinny jeans continues

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Well the old thread was getting mordibly obese wasn't it?

Welcome new people and people who've been here for a while, this is the definitive Paul McKenna support thread.

Whether you are dribbling over his Paulness or wibbling over pudding, we're here to listen, slightly mock you and tell you to step away from the scales.

The Paul Mckenna plan is not a diet but a way of teaching yourself to eat slowly and consciously and achieve the body you've always dreamed of.

There will be no diet foods on this thread, no starvation and no beating ourselves up because ^lifes' too bloody short to weigh a carrot and we'd far rather be doing something incredible instead!

PositiveAttitude, as you may already have found out, it's amazing how little you end up eating in a day when you really tune in to your hunger and satisfied/fullness signals. I'm probably eating half, perhaps even more, than I used to but absolutely not feeling deprived at all. And what a relief not to count calories/points/carb numbers! It takes the focus of my days off food and I am a real foodie.

PA - doesn't sound stupid at all. Part of this is taking back control of your eating and you're sbsolutely right - feeling you're doing something really increases confidence at the beginning. Then the weight starts to come off and you fit into smaller clothes and your confidence will really rocket. And all along you're not denying yourself anything, you're just listening to your body and not stuffing it with food it doesn't want. Brilliant.

As i stated earlier i have been lurking and am really impressed with all the positivity. Thanks for advice of where to get book and cd. I havent ordered it yet but just from what i have read on here i decided to try it without the book and cd. I woke up this morning and waited until i was hungry for breakie. that was at 10.30. Drank loads of water and didnt think anymore about food until 2.15 when i had a small salami roll and a cup of tea. I ate real slowly and concentrated on it. I shall have my usual sat curry tonight but will eat slowly and listen for the signals. My only problem is knowing when im hungry. I think i was a couple of times today but i let it go and i dont know if i passed the hunger point which can be pretty bad for sugar levels.

I have a lot of weight to lose - mine is going to be a long, but well worth it, journey. Im a size 22/24 :(

Forgot to say, Ive lost 1stone 12 lbs in 8 weeks, and 2 weeks of that I was onlyhalf-heartedly doing it!

I don't know what I fancy at all, though these past few evenings, I've wanted jacket spud with coleslaw, and really enjoyed it. Not really eaten consciously, but I do chew loads, so it is definitely slower. And by the way, I put on my loose jeans today and they were even looser ~ even though they were clean and as you know clean jeans are usually tighter. Yesterdays jeans I couldn't even get on a month ago. It's all odd as in terms of weightloss, not much has changed.

I've also had chocolate

Hello new people :)

Solo That's great news about the jeans, well done :)

Thats exactly why I don't ever weight myself. Muscle weighs more than fat so if you've been exercising more maybe you're more toned and have less body fat but it's been replaced by muscle. (I'm not at all qualified in this area, it's only what I have read in a magazine ) Personally I don't see the point in weighing myself because in the end the number means nothing if I'm not the size and shape that I feel comfortable in :)

Happy Easter everyone! [bugrin] Today should be the real test for me as I'm off to a big family meal where space at the table is limited so we're encouraged to wolf things down! Normally I end up totally pigging out so I hope I have the courage to eat consciously and stop when I'm full.

Happy Easter! To everyone on the only 'diet' thread where you can eat an easter egg for breakfast and not feel guilty

I am cooking for seven adults and three children today - roast beef and all the trimmings and my sister is making a baked cheesecake. Totally delicious. I will probably receive no easter eggs (which is annoying because every year I invest about a month in hinting for a green and black's egg).

I am eating a slice of toast and marmalade very very very sloooowly. And that should be it until lunch at 1pm.

Well done Solo - don't question your succes, just enjoy it!

Good luck with the meal, Greentoes. Just focus on one mouthful at a time.

happy easter everyone!

Not had the best weekend eating wise BUT sooo much better than a bad weekend would have been BP (before paul) I am finding that even if i dont eat very consciously at mealtimes I am less likely to eat for the sake of it lately.

well done everyone, it sounds liek this is really working well for lots of people. I am looking forward to the day that someone other than my dh says i have lost wieght - i think i need to get to the stone mark for that really, I told 2 friends I had lost 10lbs using paul the other evening and they looked at me like i was mad or maybe they thought i was lying LOL!

Happy Easter all my McKenna mates!!! :)
Thanks for the encouragement too!

I'm off to my brother's today for dinner to celebrate my nephew's 18th.

Happy Easter everyone,hope you`re all enjoying some chocolate eggs if you want them .

Managed another shred workout,yay only managed two this week so hopefully will manage more when kids are back at school next week.Feel so much better after it so definitely good motivation to do it more.
Still not eating just when hungry am looking at clock and think oh its been x amount of time so should eat something.arrrgghhh need to listen to body more.

Off to inlaws for a late lunch so hopefully won`t eat too much.
xxx

Happy Easter all! Today everyone must eat chocolate - it's mandatory [bugrin]. Came back with DD from Church this morning and DH had been on a run (he's not a Church man), hung the washing out and prepared and put a lamb in the oven to slllooooowwwww roast for the day as we'll be having our Easter meal at DD's dinner time of 5pm. Famil are coming around 1pm and then we'll have an egg hunt [busmile]. Then chocolate cake and eggs - hurrah! You gotta love a "diet" that lets you eat chocolate [bugrin].

Have a great day, all!

It is possible that I have eaten slightly too much.....

Im still continuing as i did yesterday, doing paul (oooh matron) without ever having seen the book or listening to the cd and just hoping i can control food rather than the other way round.

Happy Easter all! I bucked tradition and made a chicken tikka masala for dinner - oh my, I enjoyed it!

Hello all - quickly checking in. Happy Easter all and hi to the newbies. Positive Attitude - I've got loads to lose, currently a size 20-22 - have been bigger in the past. Just to say, the weight doesn't fall off all of us as fast as others - it's more slow and steady with me, but more than anything, I'm learning about how to eat according to need rather than want.

BsshBossh - thanks very much, but I haven't fancied any chocolate today, if that's OK with you. In fact I've probably only had a couple of squares of dark choc over the last 3-4 days - it's in the cupboard if I want it! But I did have a lovely roast at lunchtime and did an egg hunt for the kids.

at Nora. Is it possible that you would have eaten more than slightly too much in the past? I sooo hate that bloated "I've eaten too much" feeling now.

I see some of you have found the weight loss thread on AIBU. It's so [busad] that some of the fattybashers on MN have found it. It started off being very supportive. Don't really have the time to get stuck in.

Chipstick - if you really want to "do" Paul, I can recommend some of the additional CDs where he verbally massages your shoulders and gets you to relax your thighs.

Juicy im having enough trouble controlling food, getting paul to relax my thighs would confuse the issue right now.

I ate way more than I wanted. Roast beef, yorkshire pudding, carrots, broccoli, mashed swede, cheesy leeks, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, gravy and my sisters amazing homemade cheesecake.

My sister has always been an 8-10 but has recently put on a stone and a half which has given her a bit of a shock. I am so used to her being the skinny one that it is weird to see her bigger (although she is still a 10-12). She is two years younger than me and her being naturally skinny (no boobs etc) had a very profound affect on me during my adolescence, when I became really quite curvy and she was still tiny. I wish someone had explained to me that everybody is different and that I was a different and totally valid body shape. It didn't help being called fat by the boys at school and I genuinely wasn't, I just had 34D boobs and didn't have a clue about how to dress for my shape or how to enjoy exercise. I feel a bit sad for my teenage self and all the anguish I went through I wish I had had the guts to hang round with people who were kinder to me.

DD complained about having fat upper arms today (I know I am resposible for that one) and MIL and I had a chat with her about relaxed muscle and strength and fitness and stuff. I have finally got it through to MIl that she should not moan about weight etc in front of DD and I think she now really understands and was actually very helpful and supportive earlier.

In the past I would have had a massive breakfast and a massive supper as well as too much lunch. I plan to have no supper at all and I only had a slice of toast this morning. Even the days I think have gone badly are so much better than they were! Having my gallbladder removed does seem to have left me with a side effect though. If I overeat now I am violently sick or get dia dio the shits. It's like a built in Pauling device

Sorry for the epic post. I am finding it extremely helpful to get my thoughts down though. Thanks for listening!

Actually, talking of relaxed thighs, I may replace comfort food with comfort sex. Dh would be happy!

happy Easter everyone, and welcome to the new people.

Bella - do tell me about the Shred? Is it as terrible as it sounds? And what will it make me do exactly? I am sort of intrigued, but horrified.

Nora - I too got D cup bust at an early age, and never really felt normal afterwards (I got what was then called teasing but now would almost certainly be called bullying from the boys at school). I'm starting to think that the weight isn't my biggest problem, it's the fact that I think that I am inherently repulsive. The weight is just a way of demonstrating that to the world.

I'm starting to feel a bit down, or at least a bit of you lot, as the weight seems to be dropping off you. Not me, not at that rate. And i am off to see my stepmother tomorrow, who will doubtless have some comment about my weight or clothes or something. But I will not, I hope, get my revenge on her with food, not this time.

" I'm starting to think that the weight isn't my biggest problem, it's the fact that I think that I am inherently repulsive. The weight is just a way of demonstrating that to the world"

Onesandwichshort - this has resonated with me so much I am crying now. Poor teenage us. But we will be fixed. And I bet we are nicer people for it. It was probably character building We need to think of some cutting riposte for you to say to your stepmother. I find blatant subject changing to be useful in those situations eg Her: Have you put on weight? You: Look, there's a badger with gun and he's going to kill us all! (Edie Izzard, natch)

Weight is not dropping off here but it is staying the same which is unheard of. I have some good days and some bad days but few are wholly good and none wholly bad.

Oooh er missus, shrinkingnora, I can confirm that replacing "comfort food" with "comfort sex" is indeed a wonderfully distracting thing. Now that I have much more energy, DH is reaping the benefits of the best kind of exercise that exists (imo) and so am I [bublush] [bugrin].

Happy Easter to everyone. Lovely day here. The one thing that I have really noticed is that normally when I am "dieting" I become totally obsessed with food. As soon as I have finished one meal I was obsessing about fat grams and calories in the next meal. This week I have just not been thinking about food.

Today I have not really fancied any chocolate (thank you Bosch ), but have put some in a cupboard for when I do. I used to see my cupboard as my guilty secret, but now its just a cupboard, no guilt attached!!

We went out for a lovely walk and I felt really good. At the end of last year I had a tumour removed from my neck and over the past few months I have realised that I had been ill for so much longer than I had thought. Today I was able to do a walk of a few miles, not need to stop for a breather and I walked up a really steep hill without feeling as if I was dying!! Its good to be alive and well!!
I think I might look into some early morning or late night swim sessions and see if I can get along.

Ok, moment of truth.... On Monday last week I weighed 20stone 7lb. I am a size 24 -26.

I did have a look at that other thread, but soon got wound up by it, so have now hidden it!!

That's it from me for now. Last day of the holidays tomorrow, so one to enjoy before nose to the grindstone on Tuesday!

Oooh, replacing comfort food with sex....I have thought of that! It may do the trick. :) I have been making DH hold me a lot and give me lots of cuddles because I think sometimes what I'm "hungry" for is affection. My parents were not touchy-feely with us past the age of five or so. I knew they loved me but they were not one for hugs or much praise really. I go out of my way to squeeze DS and DH at every opportunity. :) I'm not one to delve to deeply into the "whys" of things but I really do think that my craving for affection has led in some way to my eating issues.

Happy Easter!

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