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 :)

Morning all.
Am so tired today. My downstairs neighbours are right selfish piss-takers.
they have 2 dc's. one is 2yr and the other 6 months.
She keeps them up til about 2am so she can lay in til 11am. She let them run around screaming until this time, which is when I'm assuming they burn themselves out and collapse as opposed to being put to bed.
She just screeches at them.
She's even told me when I've bumped into her that her dc1 won't even let her touch him and change his nappy. That he will not talk to her and completely ignores her. He is 'uncontrollable' and only listens to his dad, so she says she doesn't care about disciplining him so when they go out and people say he is naughty, it's all down to her dh as it's his job to parent the children. Even though he works full time and she's a SAHM.
Now, I don't normally like to be quite so judgemental. This sort of noise goes on nearly every night and is worse when the dh is working nights. 2am!
So, it's now 7am and I am going to do the hoovering. With my shoes on. I have wood floors so that should annoy her. Immature I know, but it's really pissing me off. Think I'm going to start complaining

Oh dear Silvery, sounds like a nightmare!! Happy hoovering!!

Day off for me today and although I had planned to do nothing, as usual, it appears I am going to be running round like a madwoman. This morning I think I am feeling hungry already. Not used to being hungry first thing in the morning, so maybe I will have a drink of water and see in a while if I am still feeling the same.

Have a good day everyone.

Morning all, everyone is doing so well - you are even recognising that blips are just that: blips. Excellent!

I am doing well foodwise but I have flu so feel like sh*t.

SilveryMoon, what an awful neighbour! Do her kids keep your DC awake at night?

Thank you for your kind thoughts. I feel a bit better today though DD really isn't strong at the moment (and not helped by DS1 saying vile things to her) so am worried about her. I had about 8 small weight watchers biscuits last night and they were nice. I am not feeling guilty. That is huge for me to not hate myself for eating. This morning I have put on a skirt which was tighter the last time I wore it and I feel thinner though resisted the urge to weigh myself. I am going to try and go as long as possible without weighing myself and go by how I feel in my clothes. You have no idea how massive that is too.

I feel quite teary at how welcoming you have all made me and how you have helped me when I have been thick haven't had a clue.

FAB That's what this whole site is about isn't it? Help, support and hand holding.
But, yes, everyone who was already here and who have joined since (so everyone) has been great help.

No, neighbours don't keep my kids awake. My ds's sleep in their bedroom on the other side of the flat. She has her 2 dc's still trying to sleep in her room. I say trying, because they only sleep during the day. They run around like loons, but don't disturb my ds's, just me and dp.

I haven't listened to the cd for 2 nights now and you can tell. will have to get back to it tonight.

Morning all. Just think of the extra calories you'll burn whilst annoying her silvery! Sounds very crappy though, you must be knackered.

FAB am glad you're feeling a bit better this morning, be very gentle with yourself today.

BssBosh yuk. Hope you feel better soon.

I too have a day alone. How ironic after 1 day at work! It's a rolling rota though so I'm not being deliberately wet. Would normally be an admin day but I haven't generated any yet. I think I'm going to chill this morning, either swim or run, followed by the steam room, eat a nice lunch and see no one. Haven't had a day like that since pre-DC.

Have a good one everyone, we're all doing bloody marvellously.

Dotty Recipe for sesame biscs. PLEASE!! You do all sound good and positive well done everyone.Jaggy IKWYM exactly about leaving yummy food (esp. when you,ve cooked it yr self!

But you can put it in the fridge for later. Has anyone found that they CAN'T eat bread or whatever with their meal 'cos they get full up too soon (this suits me 'cos i was on the Hay diet for health)!!

I'd like to join you ladies please - looks like a busy thread. I bought the book on Friday and today is my first complete day of putting the principles into practice. Wish me luck!

Have a great day ladywhite Enjoy.

Ceolas Welcome I've only been doing this for about a week. Good luck to you.

I have a friend visiting this morning who I haven't seen for a few years. I made the mistake of buying chocolate muffins. But, I might5 suprise myslef and not eat one

It feels so amazing to eat some delicious food and not feel guilty.

I was very efficient picking up a prescription and dropping it at the chemist before school. Just been to get it and the surgery cocked up and gave me medicine I haven't had in that form ever before and not given me what I need. My battery was about to run out but luckily I got through and they are fast tracking it for me to get this afternoon. The pharmacist assistant said they are doing it as it is their error and it is bad practice to prescribe medication I have never had before without even seeing me.

I plan a quiet day as I feel emotional today. DS1 nearly made me cry.

Creolas, welcome!

Well I was far too ill to do anything this morning but luckilly DH is working at home today so he got DD ready and took her to the childminder then bought a huge apricot Danish pastry for me for my breakfast (which I ate all of as am hungry and just what I wanted ) and then he put some chicken into a huge pan of water with loads of chilli, ginger etc so that I can have soothing chicken soup for lunch. He's now upstairs in the study on what sounds like an incredibly dull but incredibly long client call. I love him!!!!!!!!!!

Are you ok FAB? I'm relatively new to the forums so don't really know people's stories. Just tell me to butt out if need be!

(Waves hello to Creolas)

Thanks for the welcome :)

I'm going to have a cheese and cucumber sandwich on seeded bread for lunch. One of my favourites but I don't eat it when dieting as it's too high in points or whatever. But I haven't eaten since breakfast as I haven't been hungry. Even if I was dieting I'd probably snack just as a matter of routine.

ladywhiteadder - thank you for asking . I just feel a bit low today. Not sure why as I have just finished my period though haven't been taking my agnus castus. DS1 was vile to dd this morning and it has really upset me that every morning they are fighting and winding each other up. DD has physical problems and DS1 has also been saying "there is nothing wrong with her as she managed to kick me." I feel so guilty she has problems so him saying that got to me.

lady fantastic advice. That thread would distract anyone!

Welcome Ceolas

Silvery that's awful. Who could you complain to? The neighbours or do you have another option?

Welcome everyone!

Silvery that's awful, poor little DCs. :(

Hope you feel better Bssh

Oh FAB, those days where you just feel blue are rotten as you can't work out how to pick yourself up. I hope your funk lifts soon - it sounds like you need to do something kind for yourself as I've noticed you talk about guilt and feeling guilty in regard to a few things. Sorry, if I'm talking out of turn, it's just that I think a lot of the issues all of us have to food are grounded in punishment and not valuing ourselves as much as we should. And probably not allowing othres to value us either. I always tell my DH not to be silly when he says nice things to me. He's lovely, if he likes me then I'm probably alright. I think we should be learning from each other ways to appreciate ourselves more, like Nora's trainers and my day off. X

Welcome Ceolas this thread is great for making you realise that nothing is wrong, just unnecessary sometimes!

Fab sending healthy happy thoughts your way

Silvery hope the hoovering went well and it can count as your exercise for the day!

Sounds like everyone is doing really well, all things considered. I weighed myself this morning for the first time in 2 weeks and.... have lost 4.5lbs! Which is not a huge amount but considering I have been gaining weight for so long, it is a real bonus to not only have not put any on but to have lost as well. Feeling really positive now.

Yesterday I ate a whole box of chocolates and then cried because I felt so sick. I find it really hard the days when I am not at work, or the days I work unusual hours because the temptation is to snack all day just because I can. However coming on here (usually) helps. Unfortunately, the chocolates were consumed in the car on the way back from the shops. They were supposed to be a present but it made me realise that I need to steer clear of chocolate for the time being as I have no control around it -YET. I will though. So despite that, with the weight loss I am still feeling good.

Thanks for all the support!

Yay for 4.5lb!

Thanks! This is exactly why I love this thread, it is great to have people realising your successes!

Fab - I'm trying not to weigh myself either - no good comes of it when one week I might drop a couple of pounds but the next put one on - and the week before my period is always hugely depressing scales-wise!

So, am going to try and wait until the end of May... I've got a hospital appointment on May 25th where they'll weigh me anyway and really hope I'm less than last time, otherwise I'll get dark looks and mutterings...

I think I found the secret of not eating very much last night. Started to cook tea, intending it to be ready for 7pm because DH was going out, only to realise that he wanted to actually go at 7pm not eat then and all the timings were wrong. I knew this, it was not a shock but complete stupidity on my part.Mad panic, much sweating and cursing and a radical change of menu mid cooking and he got to eat and go out in time. What was I thinking?

By the time I sat down to eat mine, I had totally lost my appetite and even left some of it, despite dishing up a small portion. I would be smug but it just meant that 3 hours later I was hungry again.

Today is going well but the mornings are always easy. It is all down hill from lunch time really. I'm out this evening and wondering how to fit in tea as I have 2 meetings back to back, between 6.30pm and 9.30pm. I suppose I will have to eat early, despite not being hungry or it will be a dinner of tea and biscuits.

Or I could just have toast and peanut butter and a bit of fruit at 9.30pm. What do you think a better way of following the rules?

Bsshbosch - hope you get well again soon and that in the meantime, you are able to make full use of a smaller appetite. I was ill this time last year with a chest infection that completely knocked me for six. I ended up with no appetite to speak of. The upside was that I lived off toast and crisps for 5 days because that is all I fancied and still lost weight. It was probably perfect Paulling now I come to think of it!

Cealas - welcome

ppeatfruit - sorry I keep forgetting the recipe (have just eaten the last two so am going to have to make some more today soon ).

The only thing is the recipe is gluten-free as I'm coeliac, but I'm sure instead of the rice flour and xanthan gum you can just use self-raising flour instead? But here it is as is:

125g icing sugar
25g butter
3 tablespoons clear honey
30g rice flour
1 teaspoon xanthan gum
200g sesame seeds

Heat the oven to gas mark 5 and line a baking tray with parchment/greaseproof paper.

put the icing sugar, butter, honey and 2 tablespoons of water in a pan and heat gently, bringing to the boil - stir well for 1 minute.

remove the pan from the heat and stir in the flour, gum and sesame seeds. Mix well then cool to room temperature.

(I was worried that the mixture was too sloppy, but as it cools it hardens!)

put a couple of teaspoons of the mixture into a ball and place on the baking tray - keep them fairly well spread out as they spread.

Cook for 8 - 10 minutes (although mine took 20!).

Lovely - they taste just like sesame snaps