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 :)

well I have listened to the disk and read the book. So I guess we're on!

Solo and Cub, sitting in a tree....

flo - enjoy it, and don't worry if it doesn't click right away :)

Florence! Hello. Hope things are OK with you. I agree with Solo that it is not hard to get this. Doesn't mean that I am doing very well but that isn't because it is difficult, it is because I am a numpty and don't make the enough effort when it really matters, i.e. sat on the sofa in the evenings. Ban evenings and I would be well away!

Knaveofhearts - Smug is exactly it - that was the word I was looking for. I need to get his CD to work properly on something in this house so I can judge him properly see if it really works for me or whether I should just not bother and just stick to the rules.

On the plus side, I am currently wearing some mighty fine linen crop trousers that are not a size 20, oh no, but a size 18. Not very impressive by some standards I know but a step in the right direction. I can't remember when I last wore them. I was going to say something about linen being very forgiving and loosening up over the course of the day but I won't. I put them, I did them up, there was no muffin top, they fit. End of.

Niecie - I must cheer! Thats brill and we've been together a while I know the success :) I'm ok, 'things' are not bad, little steps.

Thank you all, will try and keep up but at least 2 people here know I am a bit hopeless of late

I too must cheer Niecie! that's fantastic news! well done!

Flo, you are not hopeless, you've just been dealing with a few things so please give yourself a break :) it will fall into place ~ all of it. And don't worry about keeping up (if you're talking about the thread), I rarely read more than a page out of 8, it moves fast...keeping up is going as fast as you wish and we're here. As you say 'little steps' :)

Florence, you will be fine. You can do this. We all have some aspect of the rules we find challenging (if we didn't I doubt we would need to lose anything in the first place) but I know you will get over yours because you have lost so much already - you know it is possible, you just have to get back in the groove again.

And if you need a good example, look at Solo. She was not a happy bunny 3 months ago and now look at her! She is doing great, helped along by having her cub to play with but why not....a woman needs a hobby.

for Solo and Niecie

Hi Florence

Shopping depressing - dropped inches don't so far equal dress sizes! Everything is made for twiglets I have decided. I bought more for the kids than for me. Hey ho, have lost all appetite due to shit news from work so will translate into dress sizes soon I'm sure.

Niecie!!!

Knave! don't think like that, think positively and at least feel in control of your eating :)

Oh Blimey Solo - I hope I haven't offended you!

You just seem so much more upbeat these days and it can't be just Pauling surely?! Whatever it is, it is lovely to see.

Niecle you are NOT a numpty, remember P.M. says you have to be positive about yourself to actually want to BECOME slimmer and more active .Look at SOLO yay SOLO

Noooo! Niecie, you have not offended me at all! but The Cub is only a part of my mood change tbh. The majority of it is the fact that on the day I turned 47, I decided that I was going to wear a little make up every day and with the weight coming off, I do feel better about myself :)

Ppeat, I am definitely kinder to myself now. If I'd been my friend and spoken to me the way I did, I'd have dropped me!

I had my eye lashes dyed last week so I know where you are coming from with the make-up, Solo. It makes a difference, doesn't it? I get told off if I put lippy on though, especially if I forget and kiss one of the DSs. Little tyrants - worse than my father!

Welcome new people! I was new yesterday! :)

Niecie, I bet you looked great today!

knave, hope things are not as bad as you think at work

Glad to see everyone so positive today. I was thinking to myself this morning that I am in a really good mood recently. And lots of stress in my life so usually I wouldn't be, but I really do feel quite positive. I noticed when I was out shopping last night that my posture is very much-improved. I was walking around, head held high, stomach sucked in, even though I am wearing exactly the same kinds of clothes that I was wearing last week when I was all slouched over and slobby looking. What a difference just feeling good about yourself makes! I put all this down to listening to the CD nightly, because I am not making that much of an effort on the food front, although my chocolate bar breakthrough yesterday tells me that the CD is helping in that regard too.

Keep up the good work everyone!

Thanks DrMuffy - too complicated to explain due to massive layers of beaurocracy (sure I've spelt that wrong) but due to an administrative error I could have applied for a more senior job over a year ago and been earning a good bit more and progressing a bit. Just so frustrating that I am paying for someone elses mistakes in a job I'm not enjoying. Poo.

Just made the mistake of venturing into AIBU - shall stay here where it's safe.

Bssh and Ali Thanks for advice, I think that is what I will have to do.
Hi Meryl Welcome to the thread, it sounds like this will work for you, you sound like you have the exact same issue as the rest of us
Florence I was not too sure if I was able to recognise the full and hungry feelings. There are some really helpful links in the first 2/3 posts of this thread. Have a look, they will help.
DrMuffy My posture has improved too. It's weird coz all of a sudden I'm thinking I can walk around with my head held high (even past a building site) because why wouldn't someone want to look at me? The muffin top is getting smaller.
My first goal to reach is for my size 18 trousers to fit without a muffin top and then I will take it from there. I didn't want to start off telling myself I needed to lose 4 stone as I was scarred of becoming overwhelmed and failing.
knave I think AIBU should be banned. It's shocking how judgy and rude some people can be (apart from when I'm in a foul mood and join in )

Not a great day here. The kids have been driving me mad. It took us 1.5hrs to get back from school. yes an hour and a half to get back from school.
My youngest has had to do far too much walking today because my eldest threw lots of fits and the only way forward was to put him in the pushchair. Am very angry.
therefore, I over-ate at dinner time.
Oh well.
Tomorrow is another day.

Not a great day Silvery but you still sound cool and in control and confident. Have you decided whether to bust chocolate for good? I can't decide.

To be fair to the AIBU person I may have poured oil on troubled waters as I too am in a bad mood but I'm not sure I deserved the foul mouthed onslaught! Few people stuck up for me, which was nice. (who used to say that? Will annoy me now!) Have decided I am not cut out for life as a provocateur!

Well, all, am here to report that the "getting myself well and truly physically hungry before I ate anything" experiment has worked. Hurrah! I think I'm back on track. It's so easy to forget what genuine hunger feels like even when I've been Pauling for a good 12 weeks now.

knave I think I'm going to have to. Just trying to theink of a food I really really hate for the exercise........................................
Bssh alright, show-off
Seriously though, that's great, well done

Liver? Sprouts? Witchity grubs?!

Hmmmmm, maybe fat? That nasty bit you get when eating chicken legs [boak]

I don't try food that I don't think I'll like so have not tried sprouts, crab-sticks, most sea food........

Definitely couldn't eat a grub! Bleurgh.

Shall we do it??
I think that as I cannot control myslef at all with chocolate that I will have to. But does it mean I won't eat anything chocolate forever???
Would that be ok?
Think I'll give it a bash tomorrow.

I'm so tempted to do it and then I hear myself in my whiniest voice saying "but I like iiiiiittttt" and then sulking a bit! Do you think it'll work so well that we'll never enjoy chocolate again?