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 :)

Hi waves

Am new to mumsnet but very excited to see this post! Have been following Paul McKenna's weight loss plan since March and have lost 2 1/2 stone so far! It's so totally changed my life! Still losing weight! :)

A warm welcome to you CaerMum and congrats on the weight loss! you'll find we're very unmumsnettily supportive and kind on this particular thread.

(It took a while to feel welcomed on Mumsnet i can tell you) but i'm glad I found this one (not least because i won some free tickets to a Paul Mckenna seminar!!) And it was some of the posters on here who put my name forward 'cos I was out while the webchat was going on! how lovely was that??

Hi everybody I am back (its MuffinsMummy btw but I thought that name sounded a bit lame :) )

I have been really rubbish lately but I am determined that I am going to get back on track! I am at work now but will write a longer post later when I can.

fab I just wanted to say before I ran that I am really sorry that your DS is going through this. I was bullied when I went to school and am still a little bitter about it now 16 years later! I can't remember my parents doing a lot about it but maybe they just didnt tell me! I feel very :( and on your behave and wish there was something more practical that I could do to help!

Thanks, LotsOfGood. We are now looking at an independent school. We would have to stop DH's pension payments and cut right back to basic everything for him to go. I resent that we would have to do this just to get him away from these kids who have already intimated they will get him at the next school. Meeting at school on Friday afternoon.

Hi, I'm still here! ME is ver ver horrible atm, but I'm Ok :)

Hello CaerMum welcome! and well done too!!!

FAB if Ds goes private, what will you do if (God forbid) the same crap happens with the younger Dc's? This is utter crap that you feel so desperate. I am for you.

Can I join you? Ignore the fact that I've recently tried and failed on the WW thread. I received and started reading / listening to the book and CD yesterday. It makes sense, and so far so good.

Any chance of a summary of progress so far please?

I have no idea what we would do but we arfe fairly sure that DD would go to grammer school so hope that would be a safe school for her and by the time ds2 is going to secondary school we will be in a better position financially.

Afternoon ladies!

FAB I hope your meeting on Friday goes well.

Hello Tarty (is it ok to call you that?? ) and Caer!

to all the old hands :)

Summary for me is that I started this in April when DS2 was a month old. I have lost 9.5 lbs and dropped a dress size. I have also largely dealt with my guilt and emotion around eating - I am on an even keel about food for the first time ever, and it feels amazing!
Things have been tough this week for a variety of reasons, but I haven't totally lost the plot and eaten everything in sight.

My summary:

I've been doing this about 6 weeks and have lost 10lbs.
I feel better about food generally but still have probs with emotional eating. Crappy day today and I want to stuff my face (I haven't.... Yet!)

I would like to lose another 21 lbs if possible. I am happy for it to happen gradually though.

I'll answer to anything. Thanks for your inspiring stories so far!

2 stones off since Feb, but have gained a stone, lost 8lbs again...I'm still sruggling a bit with emotional eating, but I've got through the guilt part which means I don't feel guilty about food in general, except when I'm eating emotionally. Does that even make sense?! anyway! I still want to lose another 1st 7lbs, maybe even 2 stones and if I ever read the book and re listen to the CD's, I might even do it! :) See?!! no guilt!

Summary

I started Pauling in April and lost about 16lbs. Since then my personal life has felt like a bit of a rollercoaster so I have lost my way slightly. I haven't weighed myself for a while but I can feel that I have put on a little though can still fit comfortably in my smaller clothes. My goal is to lose another stone which will get me down to about 9st 7lbs.

Sorry that was more a life story than a summary

My summary for Tarty:

36 lbs (2.5 stones) off and two dress sizes down in 16 weeks of Pauling. Still losing as I can tell from friends, mirror, clothes but not really weighing myself anymore. The rules now feel very natural to me and I don't think I am dieting. I am simply eating as nature intended. I've gained so much energy since starting this eating plan and am now running three times a week too.

I'd still like to lose another stone but I'm no longer thinking too hard about it.

Goodness Bssh you have done so well!

I'm struggling. I had gestational diabetes while I was pregnant, and had to have a blood test when DS2 was a few months old to check that I didn't have actual diabetes. Which I don't.
My parents are doctors, and were (and are) very worried about this and my weight - in fact my weight has been an ongoing issue in our relationship for as long as I can remember and some of the most hurtful and counterproductive things that have been said to me about my weight have come from my parents. I know that they are only concerned and do love me, but it is definitely a problem.
We stayed at their house to go to that wedding a couple of weeks ago, and they were on holiday. We left a packet of chocolate muffins in the breadbin, which I had totally forgotten about. I rang them last night about something else entirely and Dad started having a go at me about these bloody muffins, didn't I know it was dangerous for me to eat such things blah blah blah. I told him I didn't want to discuss it with him, how dare he judge me on a snapshot and that if he respected me at all then he would shut up immediately. Which in fairness he did.

But now I am seething about it. And last night I ate far too much, in some kind of stupid rebellious 'I'm not a child he can't tell me what to do' sort of way.
I need to get a grip. I am doing this for myself, and for DH and my boys. I want to lose weight. I want to rid myself of the guilt around food. I want to stop craving my parents approval for everything.

They are coming here on Sunday, and I just don't want to see them right now - but I do want them to see the boys and I know they will be really upset and it will create a HUGE row if I tell them not to come.

They have not congratulated me once on the weight I have lost in the recent months, just a kind of 'well you've still got a long way to go' attitude. Which tbh is how it has always been with everything. 'Well done - next'.

Gaaaaaahhhhhhhh.

Hello everyone . I am using this as my chatting thread at the moment.

Just been to doctors after the optician told me yesterday that I needed to get my migraines checked out and the fact my pupils weren't dilating properly. GP said eyes were fine and has given me 2 lits of meds for the migraines. TBH I nearly cried as he was asking questions that I just couldn't remember the answers too and I also mentioned how I can't lose weight no matter what I do. He said I have to write down everything I eat and drink, "be honest," and go and see him in a month. I am having a really tough week so have been and bought my last treat of toffee cheesecake and then will start in the next couple of days writing every single thing down that I eat. Hopefully he will then see where I am going wrong if I am. He also looked at my thyroid test results and said if anything they were bordering on the over reactive so I shoul dbe thin if anything. My gran had thyroid problems and was very big, as are all the women in my family.

Chin up FAB and good that you are being taken seriously with regard to your health.

Oh dear Ali yr parents don't sound helpful. IMO and E positivity is the only way to go with our DCs (whatever age)!

I'm off to N.Y. for an anniversary party (cuban themed!!) tomorrow via Paris so talk to you all in over a week's time I hope the jetlag and or the portion control (or lack of it) doesn't affect my P.M.ing.

Fab I'm pleased your GP is taking you seriously :)

pp - your life sounds impossibly glamorous! Have a fabulous time!!

I am at work and very bored! I have been given an awful admin type job and it is dull dull dull! I have got a chocolate mini roll on my desk and some snacks in my draw! I want to eat but I am not hungry! I know that even if I eat everything I have I will still be bored so I won't have solved the original problem!

I will not eat anything else until I am hungry!

That feels better :) I think I will go and get some water.

ppeatfruit have a lovely time while u r away and remember it is only a couple of days. I'm sure even "naturally" thin people over indulge occasionally!

Oh Ali I totally identify with the well done-next scenario. My mum is overweight and the fact that I am too is a cause of great upset to her. She still lives in total denial about what she eats and why she is overweight - sometimes still even blames having db and I - we are both well into our thirties! When I watch her, I know why I too have such dreadful eating habits, although the perpetuation of them are of course, my own decision.
My parents have, thankfully, given up commenting about my weight but as a teenager they made some hideous, confidence destroying comments.
[Note to selves - no matter how much we may be tempted DO NOT lecture dc about their weight! Nothing is more likely to drive you to eat than negative comments about your appearance.]

The scales hate me today. I am staying away from them for the rest of the week

Wow, there are some fab achievements here. I'm not going to name names in case I leave someone out! I think this is what I'm looking for - a change in the way I act around food, not a change in what I want to eat.

Ali, your parents sound like saboteurs. Irritating isn't it, the way that slim people within the family think that being slim makes them somehow superior. I feel like I'm at the bottom of the pecking order in my extended family for that reason, though nobody's ever challenged me so rudely, it's only ever implied. And it makes all the difference that my mum always tells me I'm gorgeous, which undoes some of the bad stuff!

Fab, I don't want to appear to be ignoring your problems at the moment but it doesn't really feel right to comment as I've only just appeared on the thread. I'm glad you've got somewhere to hide out though.

So, more questions ... I'm having a little bit of trouble choosing what I want to eat, because I'm sometimes not sure if I'm going for things I think of as 'good'. For example, I haven't strayed from my usual boring cereal at breakfast so far. Also, do you happily choose 'treat' foods now and again?

Another thing is that DH and I have cancelled our joint membership because he wants to save the money for something else. I was considering joining a different, more convenient gym on my own, but now I'm leaning towards not doing so, because although I like a couple of classes I generally find it a bit of a chore. I thought I might start running outdoors a bit more, perhaps invest in some new workout DVDs and go to the occasional PAYG class. What are you Paul-ers doing for exercise?

Right, I'll shut up now - off for a run!

Tarty - they aren't slim, well my Mum isn't anyway. She has struggled with her weight her whole life as well, which ought to teach her to STFU but there we are!
They mean well, I know they do, but my Dad in particular doesn't seem to have realised that I've grown up, and feels entitled to comment and offer advice on any area of my life.
I'm painting them badly here. They are lovely, loving people and would be mortified to hear me saying all this, while at the same time refusing to accept that they are part of the problem.

If you were to trawl back a few pages then we all had a big chat about the what of eating. I, and Niecie at least - possibly others - still feel that we have to make some conscious effort to make wise and healthy choices, because if we just ate exactly what we wanted all the time then it could easily be a whole week of chips and chocolate cake
Having been on and off diets for years, I realised that I had got into the habit of rejecting tons of perfectly lovely, delicious and healthy food because it was deemed off limits on one diet plan or another. It is so liberating to think 'I can literally eat anything' - and I do. This evening I have had a small portion of shepherd's pie (butter in the mash, proper quantity of meat), followed by a dark chocolate digestive because I was still hungry. That is probably me done for the evening now.
Much nicer than some grim low-fat creme fraiche pasta vileness from the WW cookbook, and no secret toast scoffing before bed!

Atm I don't really exercise, no time. Just press-ups (the 0-100 app on the iPhone), and child wrangling and some walking.

Tarty when I started Pauling I tried doing the shred DVD a few times a week but haven't done any exercise for a couple of months. I'm hoping to get a DSLR camera in the next couple of months and I'm hoping to go for walks by myself to take photos. I wouldn't mind giving geo-caching a go as well as it sounds interesting.

I have done quite well today I think the only rule I haven't followed is the 3rd one where u eat slowly but I was never very good at that!

Tarty, everyone is different of course but once I started slowing my eating right down and eating more consciously I found that the taste of many high-fat junk food, even chocolate muffins and crisps and Dairy Milk, tasted too cloying and artificial in my mouth. So I choose mainly high quality healthy foods generally now. Right now I fancied something sweet and what I wanted to actually savour were grapes so that's what I'm eating now.

As for exercise I've taken up running as it's free and you can burn a lot of calories in a short space of time. It's cost- and time-efficient. I've never run before since school so I am doing the Couch to 5k programme with the NHS that uses a podcast I can run with.

I am mega fed up. On my 4th migraine of the day and it really hurts. I had a nap this afternoon and can hardly keep my eyes open now. It is a struggle to do so nd I feel sick as well.

I am so jealous of my cat. She is fast asleep all curled up on the sofa looking cute.