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 :)

Me too ShrinkingNora - it's good not to know!

And solo, unless you have got shorter since I last saw you 10 stone 3 lb is not correct. Because that is what the NHS say for me and I am 5'4''.

PS Neighbour's funeral was yesterday and I didn't even eat cake at the wake. I felt weirdly calm amd in control of emotions.

It's a relief, isn't it Dotty. It frees up so much headspace.

FAB no need to 'confess' anymore because nothing is wrong with eating what you like!

PA congratulations on the whole stone, a huge step in the right direction. Hope the new dress is just as lovely.

Obi Great news about the journal, my failing is often the moving but if you are managing most of it most days that is real success.

muffins Try and wait the whole fortnight before weighing yourself again, that way you will most likely have lost the 2lb and will be 10st something

SomebodyNew Welcome! You will have to change the way you shop, but in a good way, to buying things that you really love and look forward to. When you can eat just when hungry, you have much more freedom in what you eat.

Silvery Yes, you will have to change the way you shop! Buy things you love but don't crave, mine is nice steak which needs cooking so cannot be eating straight out of the packet, but which I really love. Then you will know there is food you really want if you feel hungry. Better than sitting around eating bread just because it is there!
I understand your stationary love

Niecie Thiiiiiiings can only get betterrrrrrrr...

Niecie - I fell over in the school playground in front of every one and last month fell over in the street. I blame my joints as I know now they are loose . The falls cost me my favourite black trousers and my new-ish leggings. .

I just googled and my BMI 29.97. Over weight and close to obese .

Need to be 8 stone 2lbs to 10 stone 7lbs. No way would I ever be able to be 8 stone. I would be happy with 10 stone, 9 1/2 would be wonderful. I was 10 stone 2 when I fell pregnant with DC1.

I know we shouldn't look at weight but if you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you get there!!?

I can't go on dress size personally. 2 stone loss has been barely one dress size for me so not much motivation there in the short to medium term. Even at my lightest, I was a 12/14 bottom. My top was a 10/12. If I kept going to be a size 12 bottom I would probably be much too thin everywhere else and lower than I should be. Oh the joys of pear shapedness!!

BMI just doesn't make sense to me so I don't bother with that.

So I am taking heart from googling mine because, as I say, I have been less than that!! My goal is realistic even if it is a long way off.

Solo - I am daft and I have been feeling daft all day. The worst of it is that I am now worried I will do it again. Just like being an old person I should imagine!

TheorginalFAB - Oh I got off lightly compared to you I think! I sort of fell over in the playground once, or rather on a grassy bank between the class rooms and the playground. I couldn't go down the steps as I had DS2 in his pushchair and I caught my foot in a pot hole. I staggered rather than sprawled that time and ended on my knees but DS ended up, upside down in his pushchair. Thankfully the handles acted as a roll bar and saved him but I ended up in tears over what could have been and he was a bit shocked and crying too. Nobody came to help. Not even a woman whose DD has been to DS1's birthday party so wasn't a complete stranger. I can still see her in my mind's eye looking at us and not moving. My thoughts on said woman are not charitable or PC and are best left unsaid.

I'll have a look on a different site nora...I'm about 5'9" these days...shrunk by about 2 inches :(

Oh, I've had the no help too. There were several people in the park when DS1 came off his bike. I was there with a small baby and 2 years old, 2 bikes and a buggy and I was really struggling to carry everyone and every thing. I had to take him to A & E too.

Hahaha!!! 9st to 11st 5lbs!!! oh that's funny! I once lost weight through heartbreak and went from 9st 9lbs to 8st 13lbs and was skin and bone! it hurt to sit down! I can do 11st 5lbs though...but will see how I feel as I go :)

Oh Niecie and FAB :( some people are just dumb and thoughtless. Grrrrr!!

I'd have picked you up and sorted you out, provided tissues and sympathy.

I'll make for laugh now...
At my Ds's first school sports day, they decided to call for a Mums race. Now I have ME, I can't run and sometimes I can barely walk, but guess who was the first at the start line?! yeah! meeeee!
So the whistle went and my first leg went one step and my brain went no bleedin' way! and I crumpled into a heap with Lord knows how many parents watching me. I did get up and kinda giggled (ha bloody ha!) to the finish line in last place.
Oh the embarrassment

Messed up the last one! it's 9st 7lbs and 11st 7lbs...

Oh no FAB! I hope you DS1 was OK and not too badly hurt. I would like to think I would have helped in that situation so why won't anybody else!? Surely it is common decency?

Solo - there are some advantage to middle age then?!

There is the old saying about chosing between your face and backside - maybe that should be our guide. When the face starts to suffer from the weight loss, stop. With my luck I will end up with a haggard face and a butt that still needs its own postcode!

Oh Solo - at least you had a go! Good for you. I wouldn't dare!

Solo I've just seen you have ME, I do too. I did try Couch to 5K recently, as part of my Pauling really, but it didn't work out that well for me! Out of interest, what exercise do you do? Just because I have no idea what I'm meant to be doing!

A couple of years back I managed to work up to going to the gym twice a week and my GP told me that was nowhere near enough and I shouldn't be at all surprised I was unfit and overweight... But it seems that most people I come across have been advised not to exercise much/at all. I've moved so now have a new GP who has referred me to a consultant but won't give me any advice in the meantime (year and a half waiting list) so I'm just making it up as I go along.

Well done everyone on your weight losses and general positivity :) I've been lurking a bit but haven't really felt like posting as I haven't been doing that well. Exam stress is getting to me a bit. I ordered the set of extra CDs and am finding the emotional eating one quite helpful (I think...I always fall asleep).

GreenToes, I've had ME for a lot of years and have been told to do graded exercise, but tbh, it just makes me ill and I end up being unable to do anything at all, so...I now do a tone and stretch class once a week if I can. I'm really enjoying it, but I do ache afterwards! I also spent my vehicle insurance cash back on some Skechers Shape Ups and they make my legs ache, but that's a relatively easy workout ~ just walking. I would love to do more, but I've knocked myself out by walking too far and too hard, so I don't do as much as I'd like.
PM me if you'd like to chat off board about it. :)

Niecie, yes I had a go, but it was my 'old memory brain' that made me even attempt it. I'm wiser these days some years on and I really wouldn't bother trying to delude myself now

Hi all. Just popping in to say hello and that I'm still here although I'm way off the pauling mark just now. Uploaded all my Paul CD's to my ipod and decided to listen to it last night but it was all just a jumbled mess. I don't know why it didn't upload properly but i'll peresevere as I really need to get back on track before I self combust with being so overweight. Decided to go shopping for trousers today...but couldn't find anything to fit me. Why is this? Even when the hips and waist fit me fine I still have this ugly Camel toe! What is going on? In fact even when the waist and hips were too big for me I still had this awful toeing going on. Think I must have a freak fanjo

Aw Celestial :(
I noticed on myself that that particular area had grown somewhat with the weight gain. I just hope it'll go with the weightloss.
If it makes you feel better, I once worked in the offices of a bus garage (lots of men about) and wasn't told of my camel toe and it was horribly bad! and I was a size 10 ...no wonder I was the centre of attention in the canteen!

the thing I hate about being more aware of what I eat (no mention of the word diet!) is that I'm hugely more aware of what I look like. It's like when I'm madly over-eating all the time I don't see how big I am, but the minute I try to do something about it, I notice how HUGE large I am, which gets me down - just done it this afternoon in the lifts at work

That usually leads to me feeling miserable and over-eating!

But will have to try not to do that this time and just stick to the plan....

You can do it Dotty! and don't look in the lift mirrors, they are always unflattering.

they are the work of the devil - mine at home are dusty slightly more flattering!

Celestial, I think the problem is the perhaps the rise

I think that is what they call it anyway - the depth of the trouser between the waist and the crotch. I would guess to get a camel toe (and I have had that trouble too) you might have a longer body between waist and fanjo than the trousers are designed for.

I suppose the solution might be to wear hipsters rather than trousers which are supposed to fit on the waist but then, if you are me, you run the risk of a muffin top. Either that or just keep looking for trousers that are cut to suit you - bet there will be a pair to fit properly somewhere.

celestial - where are you shopping? The toe business is to do with the rise (crotch to waist), and I find it varies massively brand to brand. Could you try some other shops?