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 :)

Don't worry,Joltek, as you say, you won't be so hungry this morning so it'll all balance out and this time you are aware .

Have a good weekend all. MIL is here to look after DD so DH and I have a lovely, full weekend together planned - starting now with coffee in bed with the papers (and MN for me!), then into central London for a day of shopping, museum, galleries, eating .

Last night MIL: had bought some After Eight mints so I left most of my pasta dinner behind in order to scoff savour them .

Not as bad as I thought, I weigh the same as I did last saturday, so good that I haven't gained. Whoo-hoo!

Silvery Moon - Hurray! That's great news! You must have been doing something right even while you thought you weren't.

I am going to get out on my bike today. I was a bit put off as the last time I went out some bloke leaned out his car and shouted fatty at me. :( I know he was a tosser and I shouldn't care but it still put me off. I shall bravely saddle up again.

Can anyone tell me how I bold up someone's name to reply to them. (am a bit dim)

hello

Oh - I've got it

Positive do you live on an island? how nice Silvery i don't weigh at all any more, i LOVE the freedom from the tyranny of the scales! A lot of us are the same.

Thanks &Joltek* I can't believe someone yelled that to you! Some people are so rude.
Notice how you never hear someone who is 'perfect' insulting other people? You know, the ones who are happy with their weight, are fairly attractive, nice personalities? It's only thouse who are insecure themselves that are rude enough to insult others. He must have had a small dick (note I am insecure so I'll insult away )
ppea Yes, I can understand that, but I need to see it happening iyswim.

Morning everyone.

I'm not doing very well at all. I'm listening to the cd that came with the book every night. I still think I am 'unhypnotisable' as, if I don't fall asleep I get really irritated and bored!

As regards food...... I'm doing brilliantly at eating what I want when I want!!! (never had a problem with that!). I'm getting much better at eating more slowly but I struggle with chewing 20 times as I have a perpetually blocked up nose (perennial rhinitus) and I feel I am going to choke as I can't breath! Also, and I am probably being a bit thick here, but chewing a mouthful of apple 20 times leaves it tasting all dry and horrid in my mouth and then I don't want to eat the rest despite being hungry!

I work in a school and thus my times for eating are set as are the things I can eat as I have tot ake them with me.... how do others deal with this?

Yesterday I left work hungry. i had an apple ready for this and munched on it nice and slowly but I was still hungry and once I reached home I then fell back into the stuff my face mode. I over ate at dinner because OH prepared it and loaded my plate and it was a mixed grill and it was all too lovely to leave!

I did the London Moowalk last week and the photo of me at the finish line was a real wake up call so I need to get serious! I have the Edinburgh Moonwalk in 3 weeks and I would like to look a little better by then but I have decided NOT to weigh myself but to go on my clothes. I think the thought of how much weight I 'need' to lose to get back to a healthy bmi is just too much to contemplate and if I set myself a smaller goal then I won't reach the long term goal.

Anyway I'm off to have a day of frenetic cleaning and tidying and positivity about food!

Morning ladies!

Neverput could you not make small goals monthly. Small goals are easier to contemplate I think, say for eg from June 1st to 30th, you aim for 10 or 14lbs, so aim for a stone at a time. Might work ok?

a stone in a month - do you mean that? for me a pound a week is good going

Hi everyone
Sorry to barge in... I have about 4 stone to loose,am an emotional chocolate eater with 2.5yrs and 11wk DDs. My copy of the book arrived yesterday I have skimmed most of it and am putting the cd onto my iPod today to listen to in bed. Am desperate but finding it impossible to find time to exercise and the willpower to resist chocolate.

I've looked back at some of this thread-your loses are amazing! What would your top tips be for a scared newbie please?!

My top tip is to read the OP and remember those 4 things. I haven't lost lots (3lbs) but I am doing well emotionally and not comfort eating or beating myself up if I do eat something I am not really hungry for. I am enjoying food more and not thinking about it 24 hours a day like before.

Thank you-the emotional benefits sound as valuable as the weight to me almost-am fed up with always thinking about food and fat. Well done with your loss though-how long have you been doing it?

Hi all - have been away with work for a couple of days and didn't too too badly eating-wise (even rejected the cooked breakfast and had my usual cornflakes instead ) but drinking-wise was another matter...

I'm coming to see that me + wine = disaster when it comes to eating - I was out last night, had way too many several drinks and then had to buy and eat a packet of Wotsits on the bus on the way home... Oh dear...

So, will have to keep an eye on alcohol I think and try and cut down at least. I think I'm losing weight though - certainly feel fairly good at the moment - and I'm still shredding 4 times a week, so all's not lost!

Not long. I posted on here and then started so you can see it isn't very long at all. I read Pig 2 Twig which also helped with emotional eating but while I lost more weight quicker I get fed up of the restrictions to what I could eat and having to plan so much. This one is so much easier as I am not denying myself anything at all and food is no longer the enemy.

chocolatemacadamias Hi - I have only started quite recently too. I hope you enjoy it - I found it very liberating after coming off a calorie controlled diet. Find I am doing better things with my time that worrying about food and the weight is coming off better than it ever did while dieting too. 4lb in my first 10 days which I am pleased with. I really hope you enjoy it and it helps you with your food issues.

Fab - that is so true 'food is no longer the enemy'. I might stick that on my fridge.

I had a delicious breakfast this morning. Pancakes, a big dollop of full-fat greek yoghurt, blueberries, chopped nuts and maple syrup. Yum, yum, yum. I would never have eaten that before, having deemed it 'too fattening', but would probably have consumed the equivalent calories in muesli and then headed to the cupboard for cake an hour later.

Yesterday went a bit wrong, we had a takeaway pizza and I ate too much, although there was some left and I didn't have any pudding.
Today is going well so far.

have managed to not eat unless hungry so far but this morning I had 2 raspberries, 1 chocolate and 1 jelly bean! How is that overcomable? How when your toddler is feeding you?

Alibaba.

Ha Florence I have the same thing 'forcefed' raisins by my two year old today!

Blimey yes it is doable, but you don't have to aim for that; I know that some of the ladies here lost a stone within the first month. I have not lost it that quickly, but I've not been as good as I could have been, but I'm getting better :)

Flo, please stop worrying. That would be the best thing imo. You are doing fine and we are all with you, we're all on the same path and will help you along.

Remember the job that I do when I'm working? well, I've never been a great runner, but we had to do a Monday 8am run of just over a mile each week for 9 weeks. There was an ex forces chap with us (also training for the same job) and he used to run back to those of us that were having difficulty and encourage us along until we got back to the starting place. We, on this thread are him for one another and we are that encouragement.

So...don't be disheartened (this happened to me), just rant and rave on here when neccesary and then shout and holler with your acheivements! and we'll thump you on the back with congratulations my friend :) Ok?!

Hello, hello.

Doing OK here but the first half of the day was never an issue. It all goes down hill after lunch if it is going to go!

Anyway, we aren't being negative so I won't go looking for trouble.

I was pondering on Neverputasock's comment that her OH put too much on her plate and was wondering if everybody else has shared their goals and their new style of eating with their significant others or, are you like me and haven't mentioned it to a soul. I don't say anything as I don't want the added pressure of somebody looking over my shoulder, commenting on what I am and am not eating, especially not DH who could do with losing a few stone too.

On the other hand, it would be nice to relax and not eat because people are expecting you to because that is what you have always done. If I don't eat my tea, there will be questions. I would just like to say, I don't want to but there would be a certain amount of if I said that.

What to do? Apart from run away and live on an island alone that is!

bugger bugger bugger - going to the cinema :(

Why the face?

Niecie, my friend that I took to PMK seminar has had so much ridicule and no support from her family that it's completely put her off the whole thing :( they've been supportive through WW and various other diets, but thgey wont allow her to just get on with this and encourage her. Her Ds is a personal trainer fgs and just keeps telling her to work out and eat diet food. I'm so angry for her I really am .

I'm lucky that I only have me and my Dc's here. I don't have anyone to 'answer to' as it were.

Flo, it's Ok.