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!

Forgive yourself & move on! :)

Cheerful Yesterday I stuffed my face with crisps, chocolate... everything. I don't know why. I'm not premenstrual and I couldn't identify anything emotional to cause it. I just couldn't help it! But i'm not feeling in the slightest bit guilty...and today is another day

Cheerful, look at it this way: in the past you would most probably not have forgiven yourself and thought instead that as you had binged, you may as well continue to binge. But through reading PMK and reading this thread you now know that a binge is an isolated incident that we are all prone to and now you can move on from it. By not following a binge with yet more binging, you will not put on weight because you will go back to eating only when hungry and stopping when full.

If you really listen to your body today, I bet you won't be as hungry after yesterday's binge, so you'll naturally eat less.

I bet you!

It all balances out in the end.

Aching, knackered, and want to leave work and go home. maybe swimming wasn't such a good idea last night!!

Hi all - have been away for a while but with you all in spirit, glad to see everyone doing so well and so many new members of the PM gang. Have been up and down myself just returned from 2 weeks all inc holiday when I thought was doing ok so was mildy horrified to have gained 5lbs on my return! Am ok now as 2 days later seem to have dropped 4lbs again. Think it may have been the drinks actually as my eating was okish. No squash available though just (non-diet) fizzy and booze so am not going to panic just getting back on the wagon! Keep on trucking everyone xxx

I'm back from my weigh in ladies.......

13st 10lbs aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh! that's a total of 20lbs since new year. I hugged nurse and did a bit of a seated dance!

You've smashed your 14 stone barrier! You total fucking superstar! Name change - Soloisdefinitelyacougar

I cycled to work today and have pauled fairly well so far. It's amazing how fast the bloating goes when you eat to hunger.

PA - hope you've got through your day. You know the swimming was a good idea really, it just doesn't feel like it right now! Chin up :)

Solo - that is brilliant, well done, you must be so so chuffed!
I am hovering just above 14st too, having been down to this point several times and then bounced back up again, and it is a huge mental barrier for me to get down to something starting with 13. Hope I can join you soon!

I have made today my official starting day. Learnt the mirror exercises, taken my photo and started my 90-day journal.

I think I look ok, and then I look in the mirror and think 'oh bloody hell'. I do not want that to happen any longer.
I have been out for two short walks and done pretty well with the food today. Certainly been more conscious of what I've eaten, and slower.

Thanks Nora buddy!!!!

That was my barrier too Ali. I needed to be 13st something!!! you'll be there soon :)
I now have to get to 12st something and I want to get at least another stone off by the end of June. My Mum turns 70 in June and is talking of a party and I'm going to a wedding at the beginning of July and so is 'the cub' I want to look nice stunning!

On saturday it will be 3 weeks til my party and 4 weeks to my brother's wedding. I can definitely get another 1/2 stone off for then at least. If I actually do this....

I am going to cycle to work every day between now and then which should help. Nearly 4 miles each way. Up hill the whole way home. I am still red from cycling home at 2.30

14 stone was also a huge barrier for me. My next really big psychological barrier is getting to 11 stone something. I think it's because this is somewhere I haven't been for exactly ten years. But I can do it. And you can all do it too. I am feeling very inspired by Solo!

solo - who is 'the cub'? I'm sensing a back story!

nora - my 'baby' brother gets married next spring and I am desperate to not be fat by then. All the major family occasions of the last 10-12 years I've been overweight and hate looking at the photos, with the exception of my own wedding where the dress had some serious corsetry going on and actually gave me a figure. I was 13.11 when I got married, the lowest I had been for a long time. Once I get past that then we are into territory that hasn't been ventured into for 7-8 years.
I am really impressed by your cycling, it sounds really hard work!

Right I have just had a bit of a mare and stuffed down 2 Cadbury egg-nest cakes. I was hungry, DH was late home from work, DS1 was clamouring for his dinner and DS2 wanted feeding. I literally had eaten them before I even realised what I was doing. :(

Solo - whoooooppppp!!!!!!

have had my dinner and have waited over 25mins and am still hungry why is that? surely i should be full. I want something else to eat but i know i shouldnt.

Well done Solo

I survived work. Was really hungry when I got home, but it was a stupid time but I decided to eat then (3pm) then only just had a few bites of a chocolate cake now, full , so that will be it for today, not brilliant, but not too bad either.

Cant wait for my book to arrive as i feel as if I am not really knowing what I am doing at the moment.

Yaaay! Well done

Thank you all! just got to try to maintain it and lose even more now but I will do it...

You want to know about 'the cub' then?

Oooh, I want to know about the cub! :)

Hehehe!!!

Well! as you may or may not know, I've been single since I caught Dd's father with OW at the beginning of November 2008. Just not been interested really as I have been trampled on by men since 1984 when I married the first time...you think you've found a keeper and then you find out you are wrong.
Anyway, I've known this young cub for more than 7 years; always quite fancied him, but the age gap (!) plus he is the ex of my Sil's Dd (!!), so couldn't think of going there anyway. A couple of weeks ago, I was visiting my brother and the cub knocked on the door...usual pleasantries, asked about his LO ~ fine; asked about OH and his face dropped. They've been having loads of problems and they've split up quite a few times. He'd just recently gone back to try again, but he wasn't happy and I can see that when he talks about it.

Still awake? shall I go on?

Oooh yes, please do, and what does he look like and how big is this age difference, hmmm?!

Anyway, he left at the same time as me and a little while later he texts me. No one could be as surprised as me about this, but it seems that he's fancied me for years as well which explains why he was always so keen to come and help me with my garden over the past 6+ years! I am blind! I must be!!!
Anyway, after a big heart to heart, it seems that he's practically given up trying to make things work at home and would like to date me when he's single and settled.
We chat on the phone, text and we've had a 'little' kiss.
I'm calling him the cub because of the cougar thing...

He's lovely and tall, not at all bad looking, fit and...17.7 years younger...yes, I really did say seventeen point seven years younger. I'm almost embarrassed!

Well, unless you're younger than 35 or so, that's not so bad :o

I have made it very clear that if he wants to try with his OH, that I will not get in the way ~ we are friends and will always be friends and I don't want to be in the way or the cause of them splitting up, but he's assured me that it's been bad for a long time and that it's a matter of when not if they split up and that's been confirmed to me by other people.

I'm 47 CY.