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 :)

Would distraction help? Or drinking loads of water so that you can't physically eat any more.

Other than that, you can read the signs, you know what is going on and why you want to eat so maybe (and I know this is difficult and they are fine words) a bit of willpower is needed. Think of what you have achieved so far. Think about how you don't want to go backwards and thing about the new wardrobe of clothes you have been buying and know that you can get passed this, you really can. You have done so well so far.

If it is any consolation, my DH has also just phoned to say he can't make a meeting at DS1's school about his poor start and their bad handling of the situation. We want DS to move class and we know it is going to be a fight and could get tough so he wanted to be there and I needed him there. I went to speak to DS's old school yesterday as DS2 is there now and they asked how DS1 was getting on and I welled up! I am worried about not getting my point across tomorrow because I am trying to control my tears.

Bloody awful to be left high and dry because of their work commitments isn't it? I'm not cross with DH really - the meeting is 100 miles away and it is to do with his biggest client and could be much needed income for us (DH is self employed) but the timing stinks. Can you reschedule your interview?

Thanks Neicie Just typing the message here stopped me from doing anything too stoooooopid!!

I have contacted the people we were supposed to be meeting tomorrow and they were very understanding about it. I just hope we can get to see them soon and get our future plans sorted.

Colleague is being a total idiot today, too, which is winding me up!! I am just going to head off out to the bank and take a long walk back to keep ouit of everyone's way for a while I think.
Oh no, now its tipping it down..... just my luck today!!

I get all tearful, too. I hope the school responds well to you. Put your foot down and dont back down from what you need in place. Are you meeting with them this afternoon?

Must get back to work, sorry!!

PA you can do this. Niecie is right, you have done brilliantly so far - much better than most of us because you've progressed steadily downwards.

Can you rebook, reorganise your interview for another time?

Niecie at your situation, sounds like it can't be helped. I would be the same with the tears.
Can you find some anger to carry you through until you get out?

I have got DS1 at home with me poorly today. We had an awful night with him, and DS2 woke 3 times wanting feeding. I am shattered!! Not doing badly with the food though, I've had a slice of toast and a coffee.

Does anyone else find that if they know what they're eating later and the prep is done, that it makes it easier to avoid random eating?

X-posts! Fingers crossed you can re-arrange. What is it for - I am intrigued! Don't answer if I am being too nosy

Thanks Ali we are both applying to be missionaries abroad. All seemed to be going well, but this was a big interview. We had booked the boat and had a 5 hour drive once we were on the mainland to get there, due to set off at 4.00 tomorrow morning to get the boat. Just feel gutted because we had so much riding on it and lots of questions we would have got answers to tomorrow and now we have to wait longer.
Very angry at DH!! He is one of the managers and is in charge of the rotas, but he will cancel this rather than put someone else out and ask them to work!! Too nice for his own good!!

PA - my meeting is tomorrow. I would postpone it but it feels like we have waited too long already and the sooner DS gets sorted the better. It will be 3 against 1 though.

I hope the walk the clears your head. Where is it raining then? I thought you were down south too? It is bright here today. Can we expect rain later I wonder?

Alibaba - poor DS1. Hope he has something that he will get over quickly and which he won't 'share'. Be kind to yourself though.

Not wanting to turn this into a sweepstake or anything, but I am guessing PA that you are being interviewed for fostering? Can't think of anything else you would need to be interviewed for with your DH. Or maybe running something like a pub. Yes, I must admit I'm nosy curious too.

Whatever it is good luck.

Ah cross post. Hadn't thought of missionaries!

Whereabouts would you go?

My friend's sister and her husband work for MAF and are missionaries in the far north of Australia. You wouldn't have thought they would need them there but they do and it sounds like a harsh place. You have to wonder why the Australians don't help their own.

Wow PA that is an amazing thing to do! And I suspect that what means your DH is too nice to rota someone else to work, is what makes him a good candidate for missionary work!
When will you know if you can reorganise?

Niecie good luck for tomorrow. You need to find your inner 'Mummy tiger', or whatever vile phrase it is that people use

Thanks both of you.

Well, I went for a walk and succumbed to a chocolate bar. BUT in my defence it is the first one I have had since about June and do you know what??? I didn't even enjoy it!! It is so sweet!! Taught me a lesson, anyway. I now feel quite sick! Hopefully I wont up-chuck and deposit it like you did at the weekend Ali.

Well, my thoughts this morning towards DH are very un-missionary-like!! More psychopathic - killer - like! You are so right about DH being too nice! Sometimes it would be good to put himself and me before other people though.
We will be able to rearrange our interview, its just a pain because I was all worked up for tomorrow.
We are hoping to go out to Cambodia next summer after DS has finished his exams.

DH has just text and asked if want to go to the interview alone .......NO!! But I have deliberately "miss understood" the text and replied that I would very much like to Cambodia alone at the moment!!

Neicie - yes I am down south. Isle of Wight and it is absolutely pouring down. Bucket loads!! If you are nearby get your washing in and get prepared for a very wet school run, I suggest!!

Thanks for your kind words and I really hope it goes well for you tomorrow Neicie. Have you got anyone else that could go with you for moral support? Have you got a plan about what you want to say and what you want to get out of the meeting? If I can be of any help please PM me - I have had experience of having to fight to get help for DD3. We have had some hum dingers throughout her education. Being prepared is the key!!

Hi all. Just checking in. Doing OKish. I'm getting good at not eating unless I'm hungry, but still need to slow down when eating so stop when full.

Wow PositiveAttitude, missionary work sounds very adventurous. Good luck with it all.

WOW PA, missionary work - that is amazing!
Emotional eating is a sod isn't it? Don't feel bad about the chocolate bar though. I have a crunchie in the fridge ready for my 'Thank crunchie it's Friday moment' It's a shame you didn't enjoy it though. I haven't got there yet, I could still eat a chocolate bar every day quite happily!

JuicyOlive, I'm the same, still eating to fast although I am thinking about my food and chewing longer it's still all done at speed!

Just dropping in and marking my place for tomorrow :)

Today is a new day! (Thank goodness!!!)

I have lost...........nothing.

I have gained 0.2lbs.

My fat % has gone up and my hydration % has gone down. The only positive thing.

Aww Fab, where do you think you are going wrong? Which of the rules are you finding hard ? :(

Fab

You need to find some other markers of success Fab, to keep you motivated.

Clothes? Measurements? Maybe keep a diary of how you feel?
It's a shame, because you've been sounding so positive so this is obviously having a beneficial effect on your frame of mind.

Have you thought about doing some weights, or other muscle building exercise? If you aren't eating much then your metabolic rate will drop and building muscle is a good way to counter it.

I need to do more myself, because at the moment my metabolism is being shoved along by breastfeeding. DS2 has had his first solids in the last few days though, and so the amount of calories I'm using for milk is going to drop.
This is where I started to put the weight back on after DS1, although the lowest point I reached was 9lbs heavier than I am now.

Oh dear FAB - what a bummer. I know how you feel when you are expecting a fall and you get nothing.

The only suggestion I would make is to keep a food diary of everything that passed your lips for a few days. Either you are eating small things without thinking about it (I do this) or you aren't eating enough.

Sounds like you aren't retaining water though if your hydration is down. How are you feeling at the moment? Did you get your blood test done?

Alibaba - I put on weight when I stopped bf too. I never lost any whilst I was doing it, as they say you will.

Can't believe your baby boy is weaning age already either.

PA - Cambodia - wow! That would be quite some lifestyle change but what an adventure!! Would it be just you and your DH going? I hope you get the interview rearranged quickly. It isn't fun to get all geared up for things and then have to cancel.

I had an OK day yesterday after all. I had breakfast but didn't have any lunch as I ran out of time with rushing around and then didn't feel hungry. I did have a slice of birthday cake at 4.30ish and then we went out for a pizza for tea - DS's choice. I left a smidgen of pizza as I had had enough. It was Pizza Express and they do tiny taster puddings with a cup of coffee so I had a decaf coffee and a mini lemon meringue which was gone in 3 bits but was just enough. I don't often have space for a whole pudding though so actually it might have done me a disservice because I have had a coffee and 3 bits of meringue more than I ususally would. No matter. I am not going to fret over it. It was good. The boys behaved themselves for a change and we had a nice time.

Do feel like I am off to an interview this afternoon though - it will 3 against 1 and I am a bit scared. I know DH will not be happy if we don't get the result we want but I am worried about getting side lined if they gang up on me. I reckon 2 of them will.

I have to stay calm. If I get upset and cry that won't be much good and if I get angry I also cry, don't ask me why

Thanks for the offer of help PA. I may be in touch if it all goes pear shaped. The next step will be to see the head teacher if we don't have a plan today.

TBH I think it is possible I am not eating enough some days. I have had a bowl of muesli this morning and a slighter smaller portion than usual.

I have been walking to school more so I am fed up it hasn't done anything.

I am rubbing in Get Waisted Body Shaper lotion each night and have to do it for 30 days. I have measured with a piece of wool how big I was all the way round and will remeasure at the end of the 30 days. A women tested it and lost 4inches off her stomach and an independant person agreed it had worked.

I am happy my emotional eating has stopped and I haven't thought stuff it and eaten chocolate this morning, but I really need to lose weight. I come from a fat family and it isn't healthy for me .

PA that's a big thing!!! good on you!

FAB don't get too downhearted. It's a nothing of a gain really is it? It will be fine. I ate very little a while back (pre PMK) and didn't lose weight either; very disheartening, but don't give up.
I had a crap evening yesterday, eating for the sake of it as I just suddenly felt :(

Niecie I also cry when I get angry. Don't be embarrassed about that. I also laugh and wet myself because of laughing when afraid. Hope it goes the way you want it to.

I've had another (slight) namechange.

at the name change. Tell us why!!!

Well, there is a Solo2 and an AIBU thread that someone else started about someone nicking their nn, so I just thought I'd have a change (temporary I think) and became HorseHairKnickers and WhoresHairKnickers is just a play on that really. Don'tcha like it?

I should say that I'm annoyed that she's nicked my nn too!

By definition, there can only be ONE solo. Otherwise it would be duo.

Fabulous name change .

My hydration was up, not down, and I assumed that was a good thing .

Got another headache coming now [fed up].