Paul McKenna's Successful Eating Thread (part 5)

[SoloIsAHotCougar]

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

Thank you everyone. I had a moment at work earlier where I thought actually it's his loss. He is going to miss out on having the fabulous thin me in his life and won't see as much of out 3 beautiful DDs! So I'm feeling a bit better.

I am eating when I'm hungry, eating what I want and think I'm stopping when full but I am def not eating conciously (sorry rubbish at spelling!)

I am going to do the 30 day shred DVD tonight, which by the way Niecie isn't as bad as I thought it would be, then start again properly tomorrow

Well I have managed to lose 11 stone of useless weight this week (XH ) so another one shouldn't be too difficult!

Good one MM

Well done MM

I'm with you on the Shred, I love it. Not sure if I could manage it atm though, I'd be nervous about my section scar.

Right another day, another beginning. I have to get over this hump. I feel like once the weight starts moving downwards I will be able to lose a stone fairly easily, but I am stuck. More exercise needed I think.

I'm skipping my usual fortnightly weigh in tomorrow due to over-eating during AF's visit. Am back on track again now but don't want to stress myself out at any possible weight gain so... onwards and downwards towards my next weigh in on 2nd July .

Good thinking Bssh.

Would you's mind if i joined? Inspired by all of you and find it impossible and soul destroying following set diet plans. So have bought the book and downloaded the cd and am ready to go. Am totally addicted to sugar/chocolate :(, have 2 stone to lose.

Welcome Posie.

Second that Bssh. I delayed my weigh-in last Monday, but am still too nervous to do it, as have struggled all week.

Kick up mahoooosive bum needed here, I think!!!

Welcome Posie you sound quite similar to me 9 weeks ago. I had about 2 stone to lose and used to eat chocolate at least once every day. Now I hardly ever eat it as I'm just not hungry enough.

XH is supposed to be having girls this morning so I'm going to try and get some housework done. The girls have got a birthday party this afternoon and I haven't got a present yet so will be searching tesco for an appropriate book! I think I have come to the conclusion that it isn't XH that I miss I just missing somebody being there. We have had some kind of problem since we got married 3 years ago so I know it's for the best. I can be happy on my own!

Good luck today everyone as BsshBossh says onwards and downwards

I read a really interesting article in Candis magazine that I get delivered about whether diets ever work. It said that the diet industry make sure that they work in the short term but fail long term as that's how they make their money. It didn't have anything about Paul Mckenna in there but it did say hypnotherapy was worth trying.

I tried the tapping technique for the first time last night, have not bothered with it before as I tend to be sceptical about such things and assumed it was nonsense.

It only bldy works!

Have had a bad week (or two) of stuffing myself with biscuits etc in the evenings after dinner, felt like I had no control over it. Last night was about to start doing the same and thought I'd give the tapping a try because - why not. Didn't feel dramatically different, but afterwards got up and went to the kitchen, walked right past the biscuit cupboard and made myself a nice cup of herbal tea instead :)

Hello everyone!! welcome to the newpauls!! i've been running around in london for a over a week and not nr. a compooter; and lost some of that niggling belly!!It's nice to be complimented on looking good isn't it?

I did sneak a peak at the scales today. I hadn't put on any weight afterall, despite the over-eating; had lost a pound so 36 lbs in total now. Have ate according to the rules the last two days and fully intend to abide by them from now on.

Have ate? Have eaten....

Still not really following all of the rules but still not doing too badly. I only eat meals now so no snacking at all. The last time I lost a lot of weight was after DD1 was born, I went from a size 14 pre-pregnancy to size 10 in about 9 months. I didn't diet I just eat 3 meals a day and did a lot of walking. I can drive now so don't walk anymore but I am doing the 30 day shred DVD every day.

I don't notice I have lost weight for ages normally so end up wearing clothes that are too big! I still wear my size 14 but think I need to try 12 as they are quite big now. I was wearing a pair of jeans with a 30 inch waist today which is quite good for me as it never get small even when I was a size 8 (many many moons ago!)

Glad you are back in the groove BsshBossh long may it last

ppeatfruit yes it is lovely! My line manager told me last week that she wasn't going to stand next to me as she didn't look as good

Hee hee Bssh, congratulations!! I too took a sneak onto the scales this morning!!
I was supposed to weigh last Monday, but due to massively overeating because of AF thought I would leave it a week. I would have been happy with staying the same weight....... but I am whole 3lb down!! Thats 21lb in under 9 weeks. I am chuffed!

After my serious wobble over the past 10 days I now feel re-vitalised to continue.

Come on ladies, this works!!!!

I seem to have lost all motivation though I am not stuffing my face, but eating when not fully hungry but maybe emotional or something.

I was not pleased yesterday. I apparently put on 6lbs in a week - WTF is that all about?

Not AF, no bloating, no puffy ankles - actually before I stood on the scales I thought my stomach was feeling particularly 'flat' (I use the term loosely, relative to how it normally is not to other people's definition of flat). OK I haven't done very well with food this week but I had been a lot better than the week before when I put nothing on. I have also been out and walking a lot so not sat at a desk all week. I felt like crying!! Anyway, I weighed in just before having a bath and sat there stewing so I weighed myself again after I got out and it went down 2lbs which was better but still a bit . I moved the scales around the floor a bit to the light spot (I always weigh less just in front of the door) and various spots in between and the weight varied by 5lbs! So I have no idea what is going on or what I weigh.

In a way, it has given me a fright and a kick up the butt so I am determined to do better next week although how I will know with my schizonphrenic scales I don't know.

Solo I wonder if your scales(well, the ones you got weighed on) are misbehaving too - I blame the weather. It is odd for the time of year.

ppeat, bossh and muffin - well done to you all. You all sound very positive.

I find most bathroom scales are a bit unreliable/inaccurate - I also find I weigh different amounts depending on what bit of floor the scales are on , also depending on exactly where you stand and how you distribute your weight. I can get on and off three times in a row and get different results. So it's probably best not to worry too much about a few pounds up or down, look for the bigger changes in the long-term.

Niecie if you feel your stomach was flatter then that might be a better indicator. Do you measure your waist as well as weighing yourself? I think it's worth doing. It can be good to pay attention to clothes fitting tigher/looser as well. I find weighing can be a bit random and it's very demoralising when you find you've apparently gained or stayed the same after a good week!

My scales vary hugely depending on where/what surface I'm weighing myself on (and what time of day, obviously) so I only weigh myself on the wooden hard floor in my downstairs hallway and nowhere else.

will speak tomorrow as very tired!

I think it's been said before I remember Paul Mc. saying it on T.V. it's def. worth repeating;everybody KEEPAWAYFROMTHESCALES!!!!

Oh dear same problem with the stars sorry!!

Solo i forgot to recommend Evening primrose oil, camomile and Dong Quai for female balancing,I got through the menopause with those no probs. or HRT Also Muffins have you tried the amazing belly exercise?

Morning everyone. I have been AWOL, eating has been all over the place. I feel really bloated and heavy this morning.

New start. I MUST shift this weight.

Hi everyone, I am finding that I am just not feeling hungry at all but if I don't eat I go very dizzy. I had my blood pressure taken last week and it was at the very end of low. my glucose was 3.2iirc.