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!

onesandwichshort - pesky buyers is about right - I hope you get a sale soon :)

Franch - don't worry about whinging. What exactly do you find hard about it, if you could put it into one sentence?

Do you listen to the CD every single day? Ive found that If I do, then I dont need any willpower, I do just naturally not want to eat. I have no idea why it clicks for some and not others, wish I had the answer :(

Morning all
Hope everyone is well, it is hard when you put your heart and soul into something and it doesnt work so I really hope things start moving for the strugglers soon x

I am keeping away from the scales for at least 2 weeks as recommended and when I feel tempted to stand on them I remember the fact that it wouldnt matter what number they said if I was a comfy size 12 so Im putting my trust in my body for once

wmmc we are looking to buy at the moment but that house is slightly out of our price range lol, tis very nice though

Well day 2 went quite well, I struggled to eat my dinner slowly as me and a friend took the kids to a cafe for a treat, it just goes to show how easy it is to slip back into rushing eating. I am already starting to notice that some of the foods I thought I loved are actually not as tasty! I went shopping yesterday with the intention of buying anything I wanted so I always had foods I like available and I ended up going for pate and crusty bread instead of the crisps and chocolate that I thought I wanted lol

I started couch to 5k this morning but had to cut it short due to not breaking in my new trainers have dug out some blister plasters and will start again tomorrow as I quite enjoy the bit I managed. I was feeling that motivated that I hobbled home and signed up to do the 5k race for life on 12th june I thought it would give me something positive to visualise.

Have just had a poached egg on toast which I thought had filled me up but starting to feel a little growl again so gonna have a glass of water and then if its still there I have a lovely creamy yogurt in the fridge with my name on lol

How long did it take? Well if I'm honest the 1st stone took approx a year!the 2nd approx 3 months after it really clicked with chew 20 times. I still can't post more than 4 lines ......

....So bella try doing P.M. WITH yr D.C.s it gets you all into good habits! franch Most bought foods have too much salt and sugar in them so creating addiction try NOT buying them!!

Thanks for all the responses.

Thanks Ursula. I've only weighed twice in a month. Not sure I'm ready to dispense with the scales completely.

blinder thanks for letting me know I'm not alone!

wmmc it's the discipline, the self-control required to follow the rules. When I want to eat, the rules go out of the window. I thought the hypnosis would help with this but it hasn't.

howtolook yes, every single day. The effect it's having on you us exactly what I was counting on.

Franch - is it possible you are waiting too long to eat or not eating often enough. Once you get so hungry your rationality goes out the window you are sunk. :) How about just trying to eat more often and seeing what happens. You will not need to eat so much and you won't get the fear and kill it by scoffing food quickly.

Thanks ppeatfruit. I don't buy processed/packaged food as a rule; I make all our meals myself. We do however have things like Nutella; crackers; dark organic chocolate in the house. I could chuck those things out but (a) I think they're ok for the kids and would have to explain why they were banned; (b) PM says only to chuck out the tasteless diet foods; (c) I'm just as capable of overeating home-made food so I can't see it solving the problem.

Franch, don't feel that you're the only one that it's not working for - I'm in much the same boat as you.

When I last did PM I got down to pre-baby weight but since then have stuck there. Like you, I'm in a good place in my life and so shouldn't be sabotaging myself like this, but I do.

In my case, I think there's still a real fear of being thin (or a need to be fat, haven't quite got to the bottom of it yet). It's really noticeable that the things I pick at when I'm not hungry are all fatty - cheese, butter on bread for example. Fat can be comforting sometimes (and I could give you reasons why I choose these particular things) and also I think I am stuck in old behaviours.

My advice would be to watch when you binge and also look at what you choose, to see if there are any patterns. If there's one food in particular, I've found that the tapping technique in the book does really help

Franch - are you doing the mirror exercises PMK describes? I'm not listening to the CDs at all as I his voice makes me nauseous so am relying 100% not on the hypnosis by the NLP exercises and thinking. The sun is out and I have a wardrobe full of lovely, floaty Summer dresses and skirts that I can see myself looking sexy and lush in when I look in the mirror. It really helps keep me motivated.

franch it clicked for me after a couple of weeks, something just fell into place.

pp thanks for telling us how long it took, and well done again

Thanks wmmc, onesandwich and Bssh. You're all being so lovely.

wmmc, yes that's possible sometimes. Although other times I definitely don't wait long enough! After I read your post I detected a rumble and went into Costa. I looked at all the goodies and realised there's been an element of "ooh, I can have ANYTHING I want!" And going a bit crazy. So I really asked myself I genuinely felt like this stuff and, weirdly, started thinking of raw carrots! That's weird. None available so went to a corner shop and got a banana which was a good substitute.

bssh, no I haven't. I will, thanks.

onesandwich, thank you, I relate. Though if I'm afraid of being thin it's very buried! Maybe I'm just completely our of touch with myself. I've tried the tapping and just can't get it to work ... The aversion thing made me feel temporarily sick but didn't stop me eating chocolate!

Thanks VJJ. I'm trying to be patient but it's been a month!

franch you are getting it though, I'm the same when I think what I really want, and chocolate doesn't even register!! I don't think I'm losing much weight yet, BUT I do feel happier and have more energy, and I love the feeling of being in control now, of listening to my body and it telling me what it needs.

Vjayjay thanks and franch it sounds like you ARE getting there remember what a huge change it is ,its bound to take time, anything worthwhile does IMO.

well another day nearly done and I do feel I have been much better about listening to my body - I had some melon slices with lunch and simply stopped halfway through one as I found I wasnt enjoying it as much, 20 mins later sure enough I was feeling satisfied/full. But now I am hungry again - think maybe I have undereaten a litle for the last couple of days when I look at what I consumed , do other people find they have "hungry" days when they naturally eat more?

Okay, I'm two days early for my two week weigh in but who cares. In the last (2-days-shy-of-) 2 weeks I've lost 6lbs so thats a total of 13lbs in about 4 weeks.

I've still got a couple of stones I want to lose before my DD's 3rd birthday in June so soon I will up the ante and start exercising (which I'm not doing at all at the moment aside from moving around more energetically now I'm nearly a stone lighter). I was thinking The Shred, but I really love power walking so now the weather is so glorious I might resume this again.

I think weight loss will slow down now (I'm being realistic). Ideally I'll be losing 2.5lbs a week to get to where I want to be for June but even that may be pushing it so I will do my best and continue with PMK.

His eating philosophy makes so much sense.

mycatoscar yes there are definitely days that I feel hungrier and days I feel less hungry. Isn't it amazing to discover this about our bodies now we're really listening to the signals? I have full respect for my body now - it truly knows how much fuel it needs - we just have to listen to it.

It's physical hunger we need to take heed of, not emotional hunger. We need to satisfy our emotional needs elsewhere. Anger, boredom, frustration, sadness - food should not satisfy these emotions.

BsshBossh thats really good weight loss well done , and it such a short time too. I hope I start losing soon!

I have hungrier days too, I just go with it, my body must want it.

I just poured some crisps into a bowl for the dc's, and I didn't pick at them, I really didn't want too

wow bsshBossh thats fantastic wieght loss in just 4 weeks. My mum is abroad at the moment, back in about 3 weeks and I would love to surprise4 her by being a bit slimmer when she returns. I also have a fancy dress hen night in June which is my real goal

Help! Really fucked up today. Have eaten two meals when not hungry and ate half a maltesers chocolate bunny after dinner too. Didn't even enjoy any of it, just tired and not concentrating. It was all going so well! How do I click back into the right state? When I try to listen to the disc I fall asleep!

Did really well then binged from mid-afternoon onwards. Evenings are real disaster zones for me. :(

AnyFule, PM says it's fine if you're asleep during the CDs! Though I do wonder if I'd be doing better if I stayed awake. Any thoughts, anyone?

Thanks again everyone for all the support. I'm still hoping.

Have ordered the Shred DVD. I love power walking too, Bssh - I do the kid-free half of the school run (2.5 miles each way) on foot whenever I can. I even break into a run occasionally but prefer the walking. Thought the Shred might give me a boost though. Will see - will only do it if I enjoy it in some perverse way!

I haven't been on here in ages, been so busy at work with exams looming, and haven't been great at sticking to The Way of Paul, but did weigh myself the other day and am back to what I weighed when I got pregnant - DD is a year this month, so it does feel good! My goal now is to weigh less than I did when I got married, by our wedding anniversary - so 9st 7lbs by August.

I am still struggling at times, I know when I have had enough, but i just keep going. I do find I have to listen to the CD every day, but then I am still struggling with that as I get restless and don't feel like I have gone into any kind of trance.

I have the same problem some of you have with set break and lunchtimes - it's just habit to eat then - however, when at home, I barely eat anything during the day, its much easier to just eat when I'm hungry.

Oh well, just got to keep on Pauling - really, I know I am better off than I was before, even if I have only lost a bit of weight - even the 9lbs or so since January is better than nothing!

AnyFuleKno - "How do I click back into the right state?" You recognise that you ate unmindfully and when not hungry today and tonight/tomorrow you tell yourself you'll not do that. I've just finished a yoghurt, that I picked out of the fridge not because I was hungry for it but because I simply fancied dessert. No biggy - I just probably won't be as hungry tomorrow morning first thing and also I will be much more aware of the PMK rules for the rest of the day (I hope!). What I'm not going to do is beat myself up about it and allow it to derail my new way of eating (as used to happen when I dieted).

Franch - afternoons are my potential disaster zone but at least we recognise our weak times of the day, huh? I do a lot of distraction in the afternoons during times when I would usually overeat, like schedule meetings/errands for the afternoon or purposefully take a break from my desk and go for a walk or, if it's the weekend, go out with my DD to kick a ball about... Is there anything different you can do in the evenings to replace (over-)eating?