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Paul McKenna's Successful Eating Thread (part 5)

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SoloIsAHotCougar · 22/05/2011 22:21

The Golden Rules that will aid you on your journey with our like minded support system:

  1. Eat what you WANT
  2. Eat when you are HUNGRY
  3. Eat CONCIOUSLY
  4. STOP when you are satisfied

I've C&P'd part 4's links as they are helpful.

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

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MuffinsMummy · 14/06/2011 16:51

Fab Paul Mckenna says if you aren't losing any weight you should slow your eating down even further.

TheOriginalFAB · 14/06/2011 16:52

TBH if iI eat any less I will be eating a handful of food a day.

BsshBossh · 14/06/2011 19:44

Back on track today as AF says bye bye for another month. Wasn't hungry for breakfast so didn't have it, then ate lunch at 1 (leftover curry and rice) and now it's 7.45pm and am waiting for DH to return home as I'm rather peckish but really want to wait until dinner because DH made a delicious beef ragu on Sunday that we're eating (again) tonight with pasta and I want to be hungry enough to really savour it.

PositiveAttitude · 14/06/2011 21:01

BsshBossh - our bodies must be in synch!!! Grin

BsshBossh · 14/06/2011 21:25
Grin
GreenToes · 14/06/2011 22:37

PositiveAttitude no, I was at Download festival in Derbyshire. Sunday was awful up there too. It was so nice to get home yesterday and not have to use portaloos and communal showers for another year!

On the plus side, I felt a lot less self concious in the communal showers (I was in a bikini, not naked!) this year than I did last year. I still have a bit of a way to go but I didn't feel like everyone was staring at me this year.

FAB maybe don't eat less, just eat more slowly - chew 30 times instead of 20, or take a longer pause between mouthfuls? I haven't seen your other thread(s) but feel free to offload on here if you need to and I hope you start to feel better about things soon :)

SoloIsAHotCougar · 15/06/2011 00:48

Hi, just checking in. Been a better day for me. I love reading all your posts :)

Weigh in tomorrow afternoon and not looking forward to it.

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TheOriginalFAB · 15/06/2011 20:05

Where is everyone?

I did an hour on the rowing machine and have eaten something today. Also had blood prick and blood pressure done and now I am tired.

PositiveAttitude · 15/06/2011 21:02

I am here FAB . Smile Well done on the hour of rowing! Shock

My verdict on today.......... good job tomorrow is another day!!!! Blush

BsshBossh · 15/06/2011 21:20

I'm here too FAB, just not posting on here as much (no particular reason). Well done on the exercise - I really think it'll rev up your metabolism and you'll soon find yourself eating more and most likely losing again as your metabolism is boosted. I'm wondering whether your body was thinking it was in starvation mode because you weren't eating much (due to other things going on in your life) and so was holding on to the calories. Now you're exercising, things hopefully should start moving again for you .

chocolatemacadamias · 15/06/2011 22:32

Am here but too ashamed to post as have completely lost my way. Don't really understand what's happened as found it relatively easy for first week, lost weight, felt happy etc. Now I can't seem to get going at all and am constantly stuffing chocolate into my face emotionally over-eating. I listen to cd every night as I go to sleep and have re-read book...anyone got any tips for how to get back in the zone? Can't believe I've failed so spectacularly when it was going well - I'm a disaster.

Hope you are all doing ok. Am in awe of an hour of rowing...

SoloIsAHotCougar · 15/06/2011 23:55

My weigh in was disasterous :( I'm stunned.

Must start again, but I feel so hungry and down atm.

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Alibabaandthe80nappies · 16/06/2011 00:41

Oh solo :(

I've had a bad day, ds2 has just not stopped feeding and neither have I!
Tomorrow is another day.

MuffinsMummy · 16/06/2011 06:41

I feel like I am completely losing the plot! XH phoned me at 2 Wednesday morning to tell me he has had sex with someone else and he has now said he is really keen on her! I know the relationship wasn't great but I feel like crap!

Well the divorce papers are in, my wedding dress is in the charity shop and I have sold my wedding ring! Onwards and upwards I guess just finding it hard to get through the day at the moment.

Pauling wise not really sure how it's going I have been doing the 30 day shred DVD quite a lot this week but not sure I'm really following the rules. Weigh on Monday so will see then!

PositiveAttitude · 16/06/2011 07:18

MuffinsMummy - Sad to hear about DH. (((((hugs))))) to you. Well done for taking one day at a time, even just minute by minute if you need to.

Solo - you had been doing so well.

A message to all of us. - and most definitely to myself!!!! Today is a new day we know that this method works. We have all had positive outcomes so far and we can again. Pick yourself up, brush yourself off, wake up those positive vibes and off we go again.......

TheOriginalFAB · 16/06/2011 08:47

I am fed up.

I made myself eat yesterday. Weighed myself and the same damn 2lbs is back on. And I did 1 hour on the rowing machine yesterday.

TheOriginalFAB · 16/06/2011 08:48

Sorry MM Sad.

Come on everyone. We can do it.

Niecie · 16/06/2011 09:56

Muffinsmummy - your ExH sounds like a knob - don't let him make you feel like crap. Easier said that done, I know but his bad behaviour is no reflection on you as a person. You will get through it but if you want to off load we are here any time to hurl abuse at your ex listen and sympathise.Smile Hats off to you for doing the Shred - I have looked at it on Amazon and it sounds terrifying!

FAB - sorry to hear you are struggling but I am in awe of the rowing.

Solo - Sad How much of a disaster? I hope it isn't too bad and no more than AF messing about. You have done so well so far - it won't be all wiped out.

Alibaba - be kind to yourself. Your baby is still very young and you have to do whatever it you have to do to keep up with his feeding demands. It will get easier.

I'm struggling too. I am OK all day but the evenings are awful. I just roam the house looking for things to eat. Blush It goes back to what I said the other day about being bored with thinking about it. I spend all day wondering if I am hungry and whether or not I should eat but by the end of the day, I am tired end up just thinking sod it, I don't know or care any more. Any good I might have done during the day gets wiped out.

I am also thinking that it isn't enough to eat whatever you feel like when you are hungry at the moment because that leads to bad choices. I do actually need to think more about what I am eating and its nutritional content. I can't pretend that calories don't matter so long as you stop when you are full. At the moment this isn't retraining my eating because I am not eating better even if I am eating less (for some of the day anyway) and when I do slip up and overeat, I am compounding the error by overeating the wrong things.

I think I need to get better at going to bed too - I go to bed much much too late. That isn't helping in so many ways.

But Bossh and FAB are right - we can do it, it is just a bit tough at the moment.

BsshBossh · 16/06/2011 10:11

Okay you lot! I too have been struggling - basically (in my case) out of laziness. We all seem to be struggling for various reasons but now I make a pledge to you all right now: I am getting back on track as of NOW - just so I can show some success on this thread and inspire you all Grin.

SoloIsAHotCougar · 16/06/2011 13:13

Big disaster Niecie, 6lbs of disaster...I had two whole weeks of pre menstrual munchies and no AF. Tbh, I don't feel like I've gained any lbs, but just knowing that I have makes me feel down.

Last night, I was hungry or bored or down or bloody something and I ate TWO bowls of Jordans with yoghurt. TWO!!! and it wasn't just the usual two tablespoons full, it was much much more... twice! Has upset me greatly. I don't understand why I did it though.

I am going to get back to it, but not today I don't think (although today has been ok so far), we'll see.

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Alibabaandthe80nappies · 16/06/2011 13:55

We do need some sort of collective pulling ourselves together here don't we?

solo - an awful lot of that could be just water retention which a couple of days back on the plan will fix.

I am weary, despite an 8-hour sleep last night. DH is waiting for paperwork for his new job atm and having wobbles about it, and he is a very up/down/up/down person so he is hard work atm - I'm doing a lot of soothing, when actually I just want to shout at him to get a grip about it all. That would be very unfair though, because he is as tired as I am because he does his fair share of night-wakings with DS2.

I ate faaaar too much breakfast, but then I've had a small lunch and have now resolved to have nothing but cups of tea until it is time for dinner. I've realised that what I thought was 'normal' is actually 'full'. And that what I thought was 'full', is actually 'stuffed'!

Niecie - thank you :) I am trying, but I am acutely aware of the need to fit into this blessed dress and that is what is stressing me. Otherwise I would be delighted with how my weight is considering that it is less than 3 months since I had DS2!
That was me last night, roaming for food. Bloody ridiculous isn't it?

SoloIsAHotCougar · 16/06/2011 14:33

Thanks Ali. I hope it is water retension, but I doubt it somehow. I was just feeding my face all the time Hmm

Hope your Dh is ok soon.

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PositiveAttitude · 16/06/2011 15:01

Solo wasn't it you that said a few pages ago that if it has gone on quickly, it will come off quickly???

I have shaken myself up and have been far better today. It had been the evenings that have been hard for me over the past week, but yesterday my "Evening" started about 11am! Blush

We can do this.. yes we can!!!!

SoloIsAHotCougar · 16/06/2011 15:37

Yes PA, I think so, but that is why I doubt mine is water :( it isn't going...

Yes we can do this :)

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SoloIsAHotCougar · 16/06/2011 15:38

I should add that I'm now in my menopause and therefore missing periods...otherwise I'm fairly sure those lbs would've buggered off already.

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