Paul McKenna WILL make us thin! Part 4.

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Sparkling new thread

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 :)

Good idea BsshBossh. I'm going to re-read the book too!

I am still here... will check in tonight I hope, stuff going off at home.

marking my place, back later...

you lot are brilliant;my DD is using the excuse that there's no table in her flatshare and "too much going on" to start P.M.She has no DCs! If you can all do it then she blxxdy can!!

She has to want to, ppeatfruit. I remember when I was single and thought I didn't have time for things like this, kept telling myself I'd start an MBA next year when things were quieter (I never did), etc. Now I just wonder what on earth I did to fill my time!

I've got the iPhone app and have seen the journal. I don't think there's much difference.

I like the app but that's because I use my phone for everything so the journal is the last thing I do before listening to the trance before sleep. If I had the journal I wouldn't also get the app.

Hope that helps :)

Hi all. Great new thread! I have had a nightmare 24 hours and it's all my fault!! I can not resist weighing myself and foolishly got on the scales last night. I was then really upset that I hadn't lost anything since Friday and so have eaten a mars bar and half an Easter egg today which isreally going to make things better - NOT!! My weigh in day isn't until Monday morning but now just feel fed up!

ObiWanKenobi I have the iPhone app but not the journal. If you look at the screenshots of the app in the iTunes store, that is pretty much all there is to it! It has explanations of the four rules, the trance which I think is the same as the CD on the book, four videos, and a "panic" section, and then the journal part. I don't know how much the journal costs but the app is £5.99 so might be worth it if the journal is a similar price as it does have the other stuff. Two things to note though: you can't lock the screen while the trance is playing so it uses a lot of battery and keeps you awake at night if you're trying to sleep while listening and if you don't complete the journal it won't move on to the next day. I've now transferred the track from the CD onto my phone and listen to it through the iPod instead of through the Paul app. Sorry that was a bit long but hope it helped a bit :)

Oops sorry, MintCakeMavis cross-posted with you :)

Ha ha - you all killed off solo's neighbour

Thanks for the kind thoughts. I'm glad for him that he didn't go on any longer. He was heavily sedated and in pain when he was conscious. Took 8 days to die from when they stopped the drip. It has made me feel that life is precious - he was 83 and had remarried 10 years ago and they decided they were going to make every minute count, only doing things that made them feel happy. Such a lovely couple. We'll still be helping her out and the kids have really loved getting to know her better over the last few weeks but we will all miss him.

Pauling going well for me at the moment. I have overeaten a little at supper but I put a child's portion on my plate and then went back for more (about half the first portion) so I definitely still didn't eat as much as I used to. I am back to cycling 8 miles a day which is feeling great. Starting to get a bit of muscle tone. Just need to dust of shred DVD and get on with it.

My friend asked me earlier on how my day was going and I said it was fantastic. She asked why and when I thought about it, it was because I had eaten the yummiest food and done some exercise.

My best piece of advice - CHUCK THE SCALES AWAY

They are not your friend. They will not make you thinner. They are pretty unlikely to motivate you. Best thing I could have done.

Just saying hello before I read the thread. I am putting weight on again and it is annoying me that I am being so stupid that I haven't lost any weight. Have walked to school and back twice this week but too soon for any effect.

I have 3 stone to lose .

Evening all.
i think the book I have is the newer one. It is big, full colour and has a 90 day journal in it.
I have had a quick flick through.

We have dinner all together here at about 5pm. i really thought about it today as when I bought everyone's meals out and sat down, I didn't think I was hungry. I didthe 20 chew thing and put my cutlery down between bites, and I really was not hungry, but I wanted to eat it, so I did.
I started thinking that it must be better to eat all my dinner which may make it less likely to snack tonight, than not eat it and be hungry now and eat crap.......
So this eat what you want when you are hungry stuff, if I'm not hungry at dinner time, I don't eat dinner, but then if I want chocolate or popcorn as snack in evening, is that ok? Or because it's shit would it count as a craving that I should ditract??

SilveryMoon: If you're eating when you aren't hungry then you aren't pauling. If you aren't hungry at dinner time then put some cling film over your portion and eat it if you want it later. Chocolate or popcorn is fine if you only have it when you are hungry, eat it consciously and stop when you are full - if you don't think you can do that then it's best to avoid them for the moment.

Right. Ok.
Have not got very far through the book, just on the intros really and haven't listened to the cd yet, so not 100% certain on what I'm supposed to be doing!
No doubt it will all make sense in a few days

If Im not hungry at the designated "eating times" I just put mine aside until I am hungry, but I still sit with my family as if I was eating. Ill go back & eat mine when I am hungry, as I definietly crave proper food rather than crap when I am properly hungry!

Ok. Good idea, thanks

Hi all,

Sorry for killing off your neighbour Solo, but it sounds as if one of them needs bopping off.
You sound like a lovely neighbour Nora, sorry for the confusion.

I had an awful day at work yesterday, but pauled well throughout the day and despite wanting to curl up and sleep in the evening I went off and did my 30 lengths of the pool.
Today has not been so good. Started well, work went better, came home and cooked a big family lasagne (for 9 of us), then DH was over 2 hours late home from work, so I dished up the DCs, I was hungry, but wanted to eat with DH, so I waited and waited and waited, then when he arrived home I was soooooo hungry and it was only half way through the meal I realised I had not been chewing slowly, but shovelling it in because I was so hungry. Then, to top it off I had a slice of chocolate cake that I really didnt need, but it looked (and tasted) like a bit of heaven.
I am done eating for tonight and will try to Paul better tomorrow.

Positive - perhaps you could have a small portion with the DCs next time, that way you will stay in the right area of the hunger scale and then still be able to enjoy your meal with DH.

Silvery - we had a discussion about this on the last thread and a few people opted to have a cup of tea at dinner if they weren't hungry so they were sitting with the family at the right time. Gradually you will adjust and then you will find that you are hungry at more conventional times but in the mean time, just eat when you are hungry.
I now find I am hungry approx every 3-4 hours. So I eat at 7.30am, 11am (this is when my lunch break at work is), 2.30pm when I get home from work and about 5.30-6.30 when we have our evening meal. As long as I eat consciously and remember to drink enough tea/squash/water this is plenty.

Silvery Even though I have only just started, this is one rule I have broken! I make myself sit and eat with the DCs because I could not bear for them all to decide that they would only eat when they were hungry, between us we would be on an eating rota all evening! So as I don't want one rule for me and another for them, I still eat a tiny portion, even if I am really not hungry. What I have done the past couple of days is, if I have been feeling hungry at say 4ish, I have brought dinner forward to half 5 instead of 6 and had a banana at 4. This way I am eating when hungry and staving off the hunger pangs so I don't over eat later.

I hope this will still work but I am desperate to present a normal routine of eating to my children! They eat 3 meals a day and have a healthy snack in between, which they eat more or less of according to how hungry they are. Are all children natural Paulers?

Children are definitely natural Paulers. DS2 currently eating bugger all or a yoghurt at most meals. I am gritting my teeth and riding it out but it is doing my head in

the tea or tiny portion a dinner time is a good idea.
I don' pressure my ds's to eat, I do my bit by cooking dinner and putting it on the table, they then decided if they are going to eat it or not.
I'm quite relaxed about what they eat because I don't want them to have the same issues with food that I have.
When I was a child, we had to clear our plates at each meal, had to eat things we didn't like and so on, and I never wanted to do that to them.
It is hard though, I don't know about aking them to eat dinner if I'm not eating. I like to lead by example..........

I'm going to pop the cd on now before I go to bed

SilveryMoon, that's how a lot of us were brought up too, but like you, I'm not forcing the same on my Dc's, so hopefully the cycle will stop :)