Confusion over different diets - will this work?

[tookoolforskool]

There seems to be so much confusion over different diets. whats good. whats not good.
Im crap at following and tbh dont have the time nor inclination to follow a set plan.
( despite the inital excitement)

BUT

Will

• smaller portions ( little bit of weighing in the beginning...no meal bigger than the size of your hand)
• no processed food
• less carbs, maybe only in one meal not in breakfast, lunch and dinner.
• lots of veg

-no low fat foods ( we all know these are high in sugar.

work?

Hi Cheerful Oh no! We all have days like that. We are here to support each other...even if we are in variable time zones < M.E comes in useful afterall > So don't go beating yourself up! all you have done is eaten an extra few hundred calories...that's not awful!

Just start over tomorrow. And remember, you are beautiful just as you are Doesn't matter what size or shape we are because we are sexy, intelligent, strong and empowered women. Yes slimmer is our goal...but we are not going to put ourselves down because of an extra cookie or two!

I love positive energy! :) And I get the feeling that I actually have not done too badly today, but the thing is...I don't know . It's just been a mindless nibblefest. I hate that! I really need to work on not doing anything else while I'm eating.

Will have to order one of Paul McKenna's cds. I'll take all the help I can get right now. :) I did look into Food Focus and really liked it but the measurements are hard to figure as they're different than what we have here. I'm trying to find a decent American site.

cheerful I've been calorie counting on Food Focus off and on for 2 years and I've put weight on Being so accurate with food means I start obsessing about it and that has done nothing but to make me miserable and put on more weight

I know it's only very early days with the hypnosis thing for me but I'm feeling the best i've felt in ages so something must be working. I'm feeling positive and happy within myself for the first time in years. You have to be dedicated and take the time out to listen for 25mins everyday. It's fast becoming the favourite 25mins of my day

took I hope you are having a better day today

I think so. Yestetday wasn't really a bad day. Only had 1400 cals so still very good really. Just more frustrated

But ive had raspberries and Greek yoghurt for breakfast and I've just had a two egg.omlett with a slice of ham. And pineapple for desert. Dinner is going to be cod baked with tomatoes, garlic, spinach and chilli :) so I'm looking forward to that!!!

Sounds delish Took and I'm glad you are having a better day. 1400 cals is still brilliant!

I didn't have a breakfast this morning because I didn't feel hungry but I've just had lunch which was scrambled egg on a slice toast with a few baby plum tomatoes. I only managed to eat 3/4 because I felt really satisfied. And I ate it from a side plate as opposed to a big dish (not sure if that helps psychologically or not)

I'm not sure about dinner this evening. Yesterday I made a huge pot of ratatouille (because like you I was a little fed up of salad). Only Ds2 and I liked it. Everybody elses went in the bin after much face pulling. I put the remainder from the pot in the freezer for another day. But i'm not sure what to make for this evening. Will have a rummage in the freezer later on.

Not such a busy day today. Parents evening tonight for DS2 and taking the boys for haircuts after school. Other than that i'm having a very lazy day Mning and Ebaying. (OOOh i just won a Paul Mck 5 CD box set on ebay....go meeeee!!!)

Celestial is right cal.counting is not nec. you don't do it on paul Mckenna there's so many on it on our newer thread now it' s the new cool way to loose weight tookool!!

hmmm.
no offence, but ill stick with the cal counting for now.

today was a lot better and i ate what i said i was going to. plus had a square of chocolate :)

i think it was the lack of hot ' meal' that was pissing me off.

what did you all have today?

So far have had rice cakes with a bit of cream cheese and no sugar added jam. And a meat ball. :) It's 2 p.m. now but I didn't get up until veeeerrry late this morning.

I just ordered the Paul McKenna book/CD...I'm excited! I really do need a new attitude toward food; hopefully it will help.

lunch: scrambled egg, toast and baby plum tomatoes

Dinner: Dorset cereal with strawberries, pomegranat seeds and natural yogart

evening: Roll and bacon

All eaten very consciously and mindfully

However went to DS2's parents consultation this evening and when I came back DH told me that he had allowed DS2 out to play and now couldn't find him. By now it was dark. Cue me running around frantically, calling at all his friends houses, checking out all the possible places, still not finding him and becoming more and more panick stricken. DS3 turns up, gets a few choice words from me, gets sent to bed. Dh gets a few choice words from me, gets sent to coventry. I go to kitchen cupboard and ram 2 hobnobs in my mouth. But at least it was only 2. Pre-paul it would have been half a packet. So i'm getting there

I have just stuffed my face with dinner and and then a snickers bar without any mindfulness or taking my time solely due to bloody kids stress and now I feel really sick

oh no.
its really hard. the natural response is to eat thigns like that isnt it. Im always temped to use food to cheer me up if i feel crap. or to celebrate with when i feel great. im just a food person. And im sure even paul mckenna wouldnt be able to change that! lol

Today has been a really good day. ive not felt hungy once and im under the 1200 cals by a bit as well :)
and i had a sandwich at lunchtime too. very exciting. first sandwich in about 3 weeks!!!

lol

I'm doing diet chef at the moment. It's quite expensive but probably not that bad when you consider who much you would spend on food during a month anyway.
The good thing about it is I don't have to weigh anything. I'm just carrying on cooking for everybody else and eating my own stuff. The only problem I found was that I was eating too little so I've upped my intake.
I'm definitely losing weight though.

Sorry celestial, I totally know how you feel! Whatever you do, don't do the "well I've ruined my diet already, I might as well eat a bunch" thing, because you'll just feel worse!

Hi to miniature and joni and tookool ! :)

I've been chewing gum constantly today. Otherwise I just eat without realizing it. Sad but true!

This a.m. I had coffee and oatmeal for breakfast, then a string cheese for a snack. For lunch I had a turkey sandwich and an apple. It's only 2:15 here so haven't had dinner yet. Determined to stay on track though, and am going to try to take the dog out for a long walk this evening.

Good luck everyone! :)

Have just had a smoothie...low fat milk and yogurt, half a banana, berries and a bit of protein powder.

Oh FFS!!!! I've just written a flippen load of stuff to everyone and somehow it bloody deleted itself before I could post it! I'm not having a good day am I? Had loads of stuff to say to you all re your posts and now i've lost it all. CBA typing it all again so I'll try do it later when i'm in a better mood

Ok made a , took a few deep breaths and have calmed down. So here is version 2...

Took I'm glad you are feeling better and more positive now

You are so right. With emotional eating there is a huge tendency to shove any old rubbish in our gobs. The sweeter the better and this is what I do all of the time. Surprisingly though Paul McK does cover this. It's just that I am not sophisticated enough with the tecnique yet to master that art Although I was doing well all day when the kids were winding me up and driving me mad. So the tecnique was working. But when I got to explosion levels everything came crashing down and went out the window. So I'll need to work harder on controlling my emotions and remembering that food is only fuel for the body and not a comforter.

Welcome back Everything I missed you. Hope you had a lovely time on your night out last weekend. Well done with your exercising. It's great that you are keeping this up when you are so busy with other things going on. Yes MN is most definately a distraction, especially when deadlines are looming!

Hi Joni I'm not really a grumpy cow. Just having a bad day. Hope I haven't scared you off I was watching Diet Chef on QVC. It really did look fabulous and I was very very tempted. I didn't go for it in the end purely because of the price. But if you are seeing results it must be worth every penny. I remember though the advice was too add a side portion of salad or fruit to the meals. How long have you been doing it for and how long before you started to see results?

Cheerful I love smoothies. I usually just bung everything through the juicer et voila a delicious fruit smoothie. The veg drinks are lovely too but it can be a real bugger to clean the machine everytime which puts me off. But mmmm yes I may have one for breakfast tomorrow . Can't wait til you get your book and CD too. Apart from todays meltdown (which I forgive myself for) it's been making a huge difference

Phew I'm so glad I remembered everything. Apologies if any typos as I'm not re-reading it again in case I lose it. so i'm going to post it quickly...

I got an email today that said my book may be delayed! :( I paid extra postage and everything, because I'm so excited to get it. Oh well, I'll wait a day or two and then if it hasn't been posted I'll cancel and reorder from a different seller.

At supper I had a large green salad with berry vinagrette, black beans and some sliced turkey. I'm not hungry but it's really hard for me to not eat right now because it's such a habit! (It's 8 o'clock here) DH puts DS to bed and then we usually watch TV or something and I always snack. It's so hard not to, even though I'm not hungry. Does anyone else have that problem?

I just want to feel...I don't know... like I trust myself around food, because I don't. I just want to be like what I imagine a "normal" person would be like. Like, you see a cake, you want some, you have a piece, and that's that. Not secretly wondering how much of it you can eat. I don't keep things like chocolate or crisps in the house because I know I would eat them all. I would like to be able to trust myself enough to just have a little of something, IYSWIM. :(

Wow, I'm really putting it all out there! I never really talk about this stuff. Sorry!

Anyway, I'm going to take the dog for a walk and then come back and have some strawberry water. (It's just a big glass of water with a few frozen strawberries instead of ice cubes. Tastes good! :) ) Thanks for listening!

Cheerful Paul Mck sounds like just the ticket then. I think you are going to be really surprised and very pleased because what you are experiencing is exactly what he's going to train your mind not to do. So I hope it comes soon

To get yrself into training cheerful start by chewing each bite 20 times!! it really got me going to loose my 2nd stone you just CANNOT eat much at all and have to keep the rest of yr meal in the fridge.

Good news...I just put on my previously tight jacket which I had to suck my belly in to zip up...and guess what? I didn't have to suck my belly in to zip it up. Yaaay!! I recieved my 5Cd set today so I'll get to work on that later. I misread the details though. I thought I was getting the "I can make you slim" book, but it was the 90 day journal which arrived so I'm a bit disappointed but maybe it's fate and I'm meant to do the journal; so that's what i'll do. I still need to get hold of the book.

B. Usual. Dorset cereal, yogart, pomegranate seeds, straberries and blueberries. Delicious but could finish it.

L. A delish cheese toastie with salad of lettuce, tomatoes, red peppers and balsamic glaze. Mmmmm was very tasty but I couldn't finish it.

Don't know what to make dinner this evening. I shall wait and see what I feel like having later but I did my weekly shop yesterday and I bought what I wanted to eat and not what I think I should eat. So I have some lovely fresh pasta which I can team with a nice mushroom sauce and salad.

oh got to run. got a GP appointment. Love to all xx

I'm following Paul McKenna but as it's not a diet as such I thought perhaps I can dip in and out of this thread? Basically I've not cut anything out of my diet at all as I always fall off the the wagon with restrictive diets.

I am now eating much more slowly and consciously and slowly training myself to recognise when I'm hungry (and only eat when I'm hungry) and when I'm satisfied (then stop when satisfied). All sensible McKenna principles.

The upshot of all of this is that I've naturally been eating much much smaller portions without thinking about it. And in 4 weeks I've lost 13lbs. But I do not feel deprived at all.

Because I'm eating more consciously I've found my old snacks don't appeal as much as before as you really taste how crap it they are when you have to eat slowly and not wolf stuff down. No diet/low fat food for me either as all those additives and fillers taste awful.

So, today:

B: Egg and bacon toastie
L: Quiche and bean salad
D: Spaghetti and tomato/pancetta sauce
Dessert will probably be a small scoop of ice cream with loads of berries.

All quite small portions and have not snacked today because all the protein kept me full.

If I fancy chocolate I have a couple of squares of 70% as they taste divine eaten slowly compared to a Snickers!

Can I just add that usually I eat alot more salad, veggies and fruit than this .

of course you can join. the more the merrier :)

today ive had greek youghurt, few ( 3 i think) strawberries, drizzle of honey.

tuna sandwich and an apple.

and my ever so fav baked bean salad. which i know is odd and harks back to something that my grandmother used to make. basically a salad of leaves, cucumber, tomato, pepper, spring onion, sweetcorn and then cold, from the fridge baked beans.

then seeing as i had so many cals left i had... a packet of buttons and some carrots dipped in cream cheese.

and ive still got calories left.

;)

B: Oatmeal and coffee...I got up too late for anything else!

Snack: string cheese

L: small pear, brown rice with chicken and veggies, skim milk

Not sure what for dinner...maybe a turkey sandwich. Sounds good! :)
I have tried to eat mindfully today! It helps just knowing that I'm going to have to confess everything I eat here :o