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 :)

Keep going DingDong, you're doing fabulously. Think how much closer you are to being however slim you want to be than before you lost any weight at all.

Silvery I can't decide whether to go for it or not. I can go ages without chocolate but then get cravings, forget about tapping and binge. Like DingDong says, I just can't have a bit then walk away. But I can't face the idea of never enjoying it again. Decisions, decisions!

Solo Bloody awesome. Soloisahotskinnycougar?

Anyone know what to do with my threenager? It's all normal stuff but I feel like I could cheerfully strangle her today. I'm being impatient, agouti mummy which I hate but we seem to be in a vicious cycle of petulance/stroppiness/shouting today.

Agouti? Shouting... I would just like to point out that I don't actually wish to strangle DD.

But if you did strangle her, at least you would do it cheerfully

Thanks for the support, I was really chuffed with myself and swing from feeling like this to thinking that I will never be where I should be so why bother. I think I will have to weigh myself weekly to keep the focus, seeing the weight loss last week kept me feeling great for days!

knave I have a threenager too. Not pleasant is it? But know exactly what you mean about the strangling.
My ds1 drives me insane. He doesn't listen, he doesn't do what I ask, he shouts, whinges and can be a right terror.
I also have another ds who is in the terrible 2's and has horrendous tantrums that I try to ignore, but dp shouts at
My days can be very draining.
No helpful advice though, I'm afraid

DingDong I dont know how much you have to lose, but I have loads! Will PM if you want to know figures. I know what you mean about seeing it as such a huge obstacle. Even though I feel better for losing the weight so far, if I catch a sight of myself in a window or something I still think I look huge! Which I am, so no surprise really! This has stopped me doing anything about this mess for too long. I now think that I just have to start where I am now. I am here, I cant change that now, but I can change where I am next week, next month and next year. By thinking like that I have been changing just bit by bit. I am aiming for where most people on here are starting from and trying to get rid of. One day I will look in a window and see my reflection and think "not bad!" Today I am a day closer to that! Keep going. Its one step at a time!

PA i have to lose around 5.5 stone! Not a pretty sight... But if I keep going at the rate I have I will be MUCH thinner next year. Seems like ages away though.

Hello all! I'm trying not to weigh myself - particularly as I'm coming up to period time and that's never good... Will face the scales at the end of the month - a few days before my Centreparcs holiday and will have to buy the dreaded swimming costume...

Good day today so far - we had a team meal out and I had the salmon and boiled potatoes - felt very virtuous

Interesting day today. It is quite weird and I think it is going to take a while for me to get it. I think I have mostly eaten what I wanted today. Except for some chocolate which I wanted at the gym as I had forgotten to bring a snack with me. I was hungry but I didn't get it because I would not have been able to sit and eat it properly, it would have been shoved in while I drove home so I left it but I guess that is no bad thing really. I have eaten two pieces of Tiramasu though.....I wouldn't normally eat that, especially not twice.

I think I need to accept that my natural weight is going to be higher than I am comfortable with but being the weight I was before meant being hungry all the time.

Just for you knave - an <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=www.naturephoto-cz.eu/pic/sevcik/agouti-paca--paka.jpg&imgrefurl=www.naturephoto-cz.eu/agouti-paca-picture-1370.html&usg=__8rfGVUqVhk4EZUf6yWBPStJIA3s=&h=435&w=600&sz=98&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=hRReTWM1ybVw2M:&tbnh=131&tbnw=186&ei=RWXRTYGfI5GBhQeKqbyPDQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dagouti%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-gb:IE-SearchBox%26rlz%3D1I7SUNC_en%26biw%3D1345%26bih%3D583%26tbm%3Disch%26prmd%3Divns&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=127&vpy=110&dur=343&hovh=191&hovw=264&tx=113&ty=101&page=1&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">agouti

I am going to think of that animal every time I get the urge to shout at DS1, hopefully it will make me laugh and stop. Poor little chap is just getting used to sharing me and struggling a bit I think.

Today I have Pauled properly. All day! And now I'm really full, even though I know that in terms of what I've actually eaten it's about half what I was eating 3-4 weeks ago.

I can do this.

I weighed myself this morning and have lost 5 1/2 lbs in 4 weeks! Yaaay! If I lose another 2lbs I will be 10 stone something

Ticked all the journal boxes today! First day I can day that!!

Say that. So excited I can't type.

Ahhhhh, the agouti is rather cute. Can I swap DD for one do you think?

Yay everyone! You all sound positive and happy.

I would willingly exchange any of my Dcs for an agouti at the moment. They all come with their own special set of irritations. It's lucky they're so loveable

I have been looking forward to butterscotch ice cream all day but having had a very late dinner I am not hungry. I will not give in!

Not a good day for me. I'm losing the will to do it
But, the good news is that dp is on night shift with work this week so will be able to listen to the cd every night, so should be easier

Don't give up Silvery. You're doing fabulously. You don't want to feel all stuffed and bloated and nauseous. Baby steps. X

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Thanks knave Jut have to put my bad few days behind me and get back to basics.
Babysteps

(cba to listen to cd tonight though)

ppeatfruit I love that you noticed and commented
thank you

PA a whole stone! nice one

well done to everyone- even if you're not having the best day you are learning

I have had a naughty evening- a week of enforced abstinence made me drink a bit too much wine and then I always want to eat more
ho hum
I'm learning, I'm learning oh yeah

It is a happy thread tonight! excellent!

Knave, I'm not a skinny cougar yet, but I am doing Ok :) don't actually think I want to be as slim as I was 15 years ago. I was 9st 9lbs and I just think I'll look gaunt at my age being that thin. 12 stones or even 12.7 would be good :)

Hi SomebodyNew, come on in, we dont bite!

Thank you to all your encouragement with my weight loss!

Slight derailment last evening, but my first one in 4 weeks, so not that bad! I think I was slightly lulled into a false sense of security with my loss yesterday, plus AF arrived. Also, I made the mistake of not eating what I wanted for tea last night. I really fancied some meat, but couldnt be bothered to cook properly, so ended up with a cheese and onion roll thing instead, then an hour later I had a pudding, a cadbury creme egg, a bag of crisps and then managed to stop.
Today is another day, so back to it. I must admit though that on AF day I would normally have had at least three times what I ate yesterday!

I have just put on a summer dress that I would not have got into a month ago and was so shocked that it fitted better than when I wore it last! I love this dress and have seen one very similar in a different colour, so I am going to buy it this week!

Lunch at a friends house today, so a little nervous as it is out of my control, but I will take deep breaths and eat slowly! Also Dentist this afternoon, which I hate!

PA - lunch at your friends is not out of your control :) Our eating is always our own responsibility and always under our control. Eat using the principles, and you will be fine - nothing to be worried about!

Hello PA, thank you :) I am just shyly marking my place as my book and CD arrive from Amazon today! I wasn't sure which book / DVD set to go for so just went for the book which comes with a CD, hope that's a good choice?