Paul McKenna WILL make us thin! Part 4.

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Firstly, the Golden Rules

1. Eat what you WANT
2. Eat when you are HUNGRY
3. Eat CONCIOUSLY
4. STOP when you are satisfied

Here is the book on Amazon which is all you need to get started!

This is the tapping technique explained - this can be useful for cravings.

Please feel free to join us :)

Solo, I want to totally second all of this ...

Well done everyone and keep up the good work.

Thank you Paul McKenna for coming to MN to do a webchat.

Thank you for dishing out the free tickets (especially mine!) wink

Thank you MN for getting PMK on to chat with us.

It has been the best thing ever, I sometimes feel like some higher being brought it all my way to totally change my life :)

fab - will a coffee take the edge off it? I'm trying to drink no sugar high juice or have a coffee if I feel like nibbling (spent most of the day yesterday running to the loo after 4 pints of high juice ). With me, eating is such a habit thing - it's hard to tell when I'm genuinely hungry...

Don't feel bad though if you have something to eat - if you're hungry, you're hungry!

Thank you all. I am a bit thick .

Just mad blueberry pie for the kids and there was a small handful of berries left so I have had those. I never knew blueberries were so nice. They are defrosted ones so maybe being soft helps.

I don't like coffee.

I am sure having one of those damn biscuits has set of the hunger pangs and I only had 1 as ds1 offered and I was feeling a bit light headed.

Could you be getting too hungry FAB? Light-headedness & waiting hours for food when you are hungry now is not how it is meant to be :) Eat WHATEVER you want when you are HUNGRY

It takes a bit of getting used to, not having to deny yourself if you really are hungry. It is brilliant though

Where do you think peckish rates on Paul's scale? Slightly hungry? Or maybe somewhere between that and satisfied. I shall wait :)

I like to wait until proper hunger, because then I know my body is using up all that stored fat in the meantime!

Alibaba, at the moment I am waiting until slightly hungry to eat but my goal is to return to eating only when properly hungry - that is, when my tummy is physically growling.

FAB, did the berries suffice or did you need something else to take the edge off of your hunger; also was it proper hunger you were feeling or a craving (a mouth or head hunger, as I like to put it)?

I picked up some new glasses from the optician today. Realised that they are a bit Olive-y, but in a funky retro way.

Wow, you lot can talk!!!!!
Had a quick read.
Well done on the weight loss solo.

I've done ok today, although I did lose control with a pack of refreshers earlier.

The other thing I am struggling with is the difference between hunger and a craving. I really can not tell the difference.
I'm hungry now, but the dinner i cooked for us was rank so ended up straight in the bin. The kids are now having tuna with pasta (yuk to tuna) but I think I'm hungry. I want chocolate. Would that be hunger or a craving?
But as I don't have any chocolate, will have a cheese sandwhich.

I am mostly waiting until growly stage - partly because by the time I've registered hunger and then sorted myself some food while juggling the boys I have got to growling!!

I allowed myself a mouthful of the mash I was making to put on tonight's shepherd's pie, and that was enough. But I am going to eat with DS1 rather than waiting for DH who will be later home this evening, otherwise I will be starving and will eat too much.
I have never had this level of control and calmness over my food intake before, never. What was I worried about - that someone would take it all away if I didn't eat it I think! How bizarre

Silvery - I'm suspecting you're not really hungry. Can you feel a hollow feeling in your stomach. Or are you just craving the taste of food in your mouth.

Alibaba - I mostly eat late with DH - otherwise we'd never see each other! I usually have a small snack around now to keep me going (if I need it of course).

I do think it was proper hunger. I had a small, two mouthfuls, of blueberry pie. Am I allowed to east fruit whenever I want? I so need to lose weight and know rationally eating too little won't achieve it but it is hard to retrain my brain. Plus I have food issues .

You are allowed to eat whatever you want as long as you follow the rules!

The thing about eating too little is:

1. You are more likely to snap and binge.

1. You muck up your body's metabolism.

I think little and often is working for most of us. And I think most of us have food issues of one type or another, so we do understand. Do you feel you would like to elaborate?

I would be we would be here all night!

I had the cheese sandwich and feel better for it now.

How long do we need to listen to the mind programming cd for?

And will it never be true hunger if what I want is crap? Will it only be real hunger if I want something 'proper'
I want to be able to have a bar of chocolate if the mood take me.

FAB I think the point of this plan is to get us to stop worrying about food and to learn control.

Silvery - I don't have definitive answers but afaik:

How long do we need to listen to the mind programming cd for? I guess that's a personal think. At the seminar two of the women in the book did a Q&A session on stage and they mentioned that years down the line they sometimes listened to the CD when the mood took them.

And will it never be true hunger if what I want is crap? Will it only be real hunger if I want something 'proper' Crap is fine - if that's what you fancy. I sounds like you were definitely hungry (sorry I was wrong) and the cheese sarnie did the trick.

I definitely agree about the control issue. I remember going on a (completely unrelated) work seminar once where the trainer asked us to list the things we could control in our lives. And when someone said "What we eat", I distinctly remember feeling that I had no control over what I ate.

SilveryMoon I think it can be real hunger if you want chocolate or something, as long as you're feeling the physical hunger signals then you should eat whatever you want :)

And I'm planning to listen to the CD for as long as it takes until I feel completely confident in following the rules, then I might start listening every few days rather than every single day. I can always listen more if I feel I need to.

FAB you can eat whatever you want if you're physically hungry, but you shouldn't eat anything (including fruit) if you're not hungry :)

What? When!!? How did I miss this? Paul was here?

Right I'm off to read the thread

I have really missed fruit and now I have been having it for the last week I have really enjoyed it. The satuma I had today was delicious. I actually think I would rather have another one later than a fruit and nut lolly .

Celestial - wwmc flirted with him like a right trollop a lot

I am having a bad bad moment. As I sit here typing, I am working my way through a 230g bar of chocolate
I only intended to have a bit, but it is there and I can't stop. I am not enjoying it.
I'm not really really upset about it, I am a bit disappointed with myself, but not overly. 2 weeks ago, I'd be doing this every night, so have still done really well, and 1 (large) bar of chocolate won't take that away.
Hoping I can just not pick another piece up

What now JuicyOlive

I couldn't possibly comment. He's an ex-client of my husband.

I never buy heels, but I now like myself enough to look nice for my party

Shame the left foot is not quite as perfectly comfy as the right [fussy about shoes emoticon]

Pauling is going well here. I love reading this thread and hearing all the positive things that people are doing and thinking. After my enormous binge on Sunday at about 3pm I didn't feel hungry til lunchtime on Monday. In the old SW days I would have eaten meals (maybe free foods) at all the meal times in between. Think of the unnecessary food! Scary.