THE ULTIMATE WEIGHT LOSS PLAN EVER!!! COME AND JOIN US AND PAUL MCKENNA !!

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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 5'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. We are friendly, supportive and successful but we're not hungry!!! so come on in :)

Weird, huh? Ive still got mine today but I am not self-medicating with food! Have just eaten quite a small portion of tikka masalala and feel very satisfied. It was about half a ready-meal worth. I am amazed at how little my body actually needs still, in the old days Id need 2 ready meals to feel full!

Is that a tuneful curry HowTo?

Hello Everyone I'm back!!! It took me a while to read all the pages since i was away!! Lucky it's the holidays!! Welcome back arfur it's good to hear from you again .

I cannot believe that there are stupid people bad mouthing our Paul. I haven't paid a penny to do this I was going to say exactly what niecie and muffins said. Did you know that you can get shitty W.W. on the NHS ????!!!!! .

Kewjumper when i was working (supply teaching so I had no permanent desk) I took a pot of macadamias, walnuts sultanas etc. and fresh fruit and a bottle of water. I still do this for when I go out and then I don't have to eat crap. I don't follow the eat exactly what i want rule 'cos i eat for health but i actually DO want to eat well NiecieDon't you find that when you eat really consciously and slowly you don't enjoy crap?

solo good to hear you enjoyed the ball both you and niecie need to follow P.Ms "Love Yourself" message

Solo - as soon as I posted it, I saw what Id done

Welcome back PP!

yes, I need to do that pp :) did you have a good break?

Sorry, the was to HowTo

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I saw you on the Dawkins thread yesterday, coming face to face with that imposter Solo2. I had never seen her before about 2 months ago (I was reading what she was writing and it didn't sound like you it was very strnge until I twigged). I reckon you are the original because she wouldn't have had to call herself Solo2 if Solo had been available. She cleary had no shame about stealing your name though.

Hello ppeat - Welcome back.

Sadly no junk doesn't taste like crap. I am not sure I want it to really. I just want to have balance. I need to be more conscious about my choices I think. After all, I don't know about you guys but eating what you want rarely means one thing. There are several things I could eat when I am hungry - instead of chosing the most appealing, by old standards I need to chose what is appealing and healthy. I don't always get it right. I don't think that it is incompatible with Pauling, just an extra consideration I need to do for me. I'll ge there though..... eventually.

Niecie I know!!! blooming cheek! I truly feel violated! was thinking about changing my name, but I think it suits me and anyway, I shouldn't have to. She should!

She should change, yes indeed. I can't understand why anybody would want a name so much like somebody else's. She is strange.

I agree!!!

Yes v.weird, I have 'seen' her too and thought it was you Solo and then realised that it didn't 'sound' like you :)

Struggling a bit today. I think it is the weather, I feel like a need to hibernate and therefore eat! All emotional I think, not sure what is bothering me though really. I'm having a bit of a 'ooh never having another baby' wibble which is making me feel a bit odd. I've been packing away small clothes, have returned the moses basket to the friend who lent it to me, and got some more toys out for DS2 now that he can sit up. I had a little sob earlier that I will never prepare for a baby again, all that lovely nesting and dreaming. So it could be that, not sure.

I made scones earlier. They are very delicious

Ive woken with a less severe headache today, so I am hoping for a more positive day today!

Thanks for the welcome back it was a good break but not relaxing; what with worrying about the riots in nth london in the first week of cat sitting. Then some impromptu babysitting in the next I love our GD sooo much but i hadn't any food in and she stayed for a night (imagine getting on a bus in the pouring rain at rush hour in Brixton with 3 shopping bags 4 if you count her overnight back pack and GD in tow!!) Then i went to the coast to stay with mum and sis who have recently moved in together and it's not working out!!

I get a headache if I cut back on or completely stop chocolate or coffee howto Also booze of course!!

Niecie would it help if you had prepared healthy stuff in the fridge e.g. avocado dip I make it with avoes. cucumber, lettuce, garlic, onion, lemon juice, olive oil and you can add any herbs you like with yoghurt or tahini I use a hand blender to cream it nicely.

Im not much of a chocolate fan PP, and I never drink coffee. No idea whats causing it :( Might nip to teh Dr tomorrow just to get it checked as its been 4 days constant now, and painkillers dont do much for it.

Everyone ok?

Morning all. Awful night with the boys last night, very minimal sleep for me, 1-2 hours at most. Going to have a big breakfast and hopefully that will prevent disasters!

Morning Ali poor you it's a wonder you have the energy to do a big breakfast! Remember to eat it slowly though!! Howto have you had chicken or pork recently? 'cos some people are intolerant to them, sometimes these things creep up on you causing inexplicable spots, pains and or headaches

Ali, I feel for you, I really struggle with emtional eating when I am tired, its my biggest trigger :( The days that my DS gets up at 5am are the worst days for eating for me! Hope you have a good day.

pp, I have eaten a lot of both pork & chicken in the last week! I may avoid them for a week and see what happens, thanks!

It is chaos here today - the boys are both tired too due to the disrupted night, so all hell is breaking loose at the slightest provocation, a broken biscuit caused a 10 minute meltdown. Joy.

I am managing not to stuff my face, but only because I am indulging my other vice, spending money. I need clothes I can BF in for the winter - and where I have lost weight I'm down to one pair of jeans, one dress, one skirt and 2 tops. I have just bought myself a lovely button dress from White Company - that is a normal shop, for normal sized people :) :) :) And yes I'm buying their biggest size but it does feel good.

HowTo I hope you feel better soon - are you going to go to the GP? Headaches are funny things - are you tense in your back and shoulders at all? I get the most tremendous headaches when my back is stiff and I find a really hot bath followed by some gentle stretching helps a lot. In fact pp's stretch that she described a few pages back - on your knees with your shins flat to the floor and your arms stretched 'above' your head out along the floor in front of you - is v.good, combined with shoulder rolls.

HELP!!!!

I've been doing PK for 10 days now and I'm finding it fab, really, really good! I've lost weight, felt in control and not deprived and can really see it working in the long term (unlike all the other diets I've tried). Another thing I've noticed is I've stopped panicking about upcoming food events like meals out which is a first. I keep falling asleep during the motivational CD so I'm not sure what he's saying but it works

BUT I have had some bad family news today and immediately I've headed for the biscuits and stuffed my face
SO what now? Just ignore it and carry on or eat a lettuce leaf for tea even if I'm hungry? I'm really cross with myself because even as I was doing it I knew I was just using food as an emotional crutch but the binge impulse took over.

Anyone got any advice? Thanks.

Hello Giganticus (love the name!)

No lettuce leaves, be kind to yourself. Eat something lovely for tea, eat it slowly and stop when you're full.

Welcome Giganticus. Yep, as Ali says, eat what you want, but just when you are hungry. You may find that you actually dont feel llike eating much for the rest of today.
Sorry about the bad news, though.

Waves to everyone else and welcome back PP.

Thanks for the advice. I've been on weight watchers on and off for years now and I have such an ingrained fear of being over my 'points'
I already have a pasta salad prepared so I'll eat that

Gig, your name made me . Paul tells us that everyone will slip up, but there s no wagon to get back on, we just carry on as normal ... wait for your next hunger cue and carry on as you were. Forgive yourself and just move on. You have been handed a huge emotional crisis very early on in your Pauling experience, and it is no wonder your old habit came back. Its a positive thing that you knew why the binge happened, next time you know what might happen in similar circumstances and will no how to deal with it.

Im very sorry you had bad news, I hope things get better for you x

Hi Giganticus. Nice to meet you but sorry about your bad news. I hope you are OK. Nothing sensible to add to anything that has already been said. They are right - be kind to yourself and don't worry about a few biscuits. In the great scheme of things they won't make much difference and since you asked the question, I reckon even if you are tuned in to Pauling enough that that kind of slip will no longer be as bad or as frequent as it once might have been. You are taking control!!

Sorry to hear about the lack of sleep Alibaba, hope you are tucked up in bed already. I was placing an order for some birthday pressies for DS2 earlier in the week so I ordered Potatoes not Prozac as well. I think it has been on my wish list a while so I decided to go for it. I shall take it on my holidays tomorrow but I have had a very quick flick through and it is looking all very familiar.

Not had a bad day although we went to see my parents for an hour this afternoon and I could have done without my Dad asking me when I was going to lose weight. He has always enjoyed putting people straight and insisted on telling them about their failings, for their own good of course but today he surpassed himself and I reckon he must have asked at least a dozen time. Bloody Alzheimer's - it is bad enough he feels he can use this kind of emotional abuse on his famiy but the stupid diseases makes him forget that he has already been nasty once and gives him the opportunity to do it all over again!! I'm afraid I just said I would lose weight when he learnt some manners and stopped being so rude. I cringe when i think about what sort of message this is sending to my boys who are there listening.

I was going to mention an article about why diets fail in this month's Good Housekeeping but I still haven't finishd packing or downloading some CD's for DS2 to listen to in the car tomorrow so I had better do that first. Bloody packing. I hate it.

Here endeth the grump.