Paul McKenna's non diet. No calories, no syns, no humiliation, just shedding stones amongst friends. Thread 7.

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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 and full

This weight loss system is about re-educating your body; learning to listen to it and in doing so losing weight and inches so forget diets, they may work for a while, but they aren't permanent solutions. The Paul McKenna system works and is easy to maintain.

I've C&P'd our previous threads 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 to combat cravings.

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Hi everyone. Well I'm just pooteling along. Not wonderful but definitely not awful. Had a craving for fizzy juice tonight so I did the tapping and I seem fine now. My aim at the moment is to fit easy, obvious exercise into my day. Doing ok so far.

Much better day today. I did eat some chocolate this evening but it tasted horrid!

Just feeding DS2 and then I am going to do my yoga poses and go to sleep

Morning!

kinky I agree, my first day has been strange too! Still, it has given me motivation for today.

ali that is virtuous!

I'm not managing any exercise really, (well, I walk quite a lot as I don't drive) with the constantly bfing baby. However, to focus on the positives, I ate really sensibly yesterday!

Morning Msbuggy Nice to see someone is up before me! and welcome i'm sorry if i didn't welcome you before there are SOO many newbies on here now.
Kinky It's wonderful that it's starting to work for you and congrats to all who are "getting' it.

msbuggy - don't be too hard on yourself, it is early days with the baby!

Morning all, feeling so much more positive :) Thank you so much for replying to me so quickly the other evening when I was struggling, can't tell you how comforting and helpful that was, to reach out and there be somebody there :):)

DS1 is back at preschool today after being off last week with the chickenpox, so we are back into some routine, although I'm not going very quickly yet this morning! It is only a short walk to take him, but done twice a day 4 days a week I think it makes more difference than I had realised.

msbuggy - don't be too hard on yourself, it is early days with the baby!

Nonny - your fruit sounds amazing and I wish I was nearer! We are in Hampshire, which is a bit far to come

Also, I know that the regular weighing isn't recommended by PMK, but just to keep me on the straight and narrow I am going to weigh every day for a couple of weeks. This morning I was half a pound down on yesterday, so scales are moving in the right direction.

Hello!

Clean slate here today although I am knackered. What is it about Sundays nights that mean I don't sleep very well?! Weekend was OK but too much chocolate. Ho hum. January is always tough. I can be good all through the official Christmas period and then I realise there is still some Christmas stuff left and it has to be gone. It has happened before. I need to be ration it but I want it gone as quickly as possible too.

Alibaba - I know PMcK doesn't recommend weighing every day but some other experts do because small slips can become big slips if you don't keep an eye on things. I always take it as an indication of how badly I am doing if I don't want to get on the scales. It usually means there is something to be scared of. In fact, thinking as I type I might well join you in a daily weigh in.

....well, not actually literally join you, that would be a bit odd. And it would probably break the scales but you know what I mean.

BBB - I am the same with Christmas. I've decided that it is because over Christmas itself, the food balance is good. Roast - usually lean - meat, vegetables, cheese, nuts, fruit with a few sweet things. It is the post-festive period when the cake needs eating up and there are mince pies still in the tin, chocolate that you received as gifts to eat which is the killer. Combined with a generally exhaustion and feeling which means I struggle to be bothered to cook = DISASTER!

What I cannot do is just chuck everything out come 1st January which is what a friend of mine does. She is a size 6.

at the thought of shared weighing. My bathroom isn't very big, it could be funny

DS1 at preschool - ah so quiet with just one child. And I've had a nice walk, feeling soo much better.

I dare you guys to throw out the goodies. PMK is all about control around food so I say either throw it out or tap like crazy!

Keeping it and eating it because it has to be eaten sounds like self sabotage to me.

Come on! You deserve better than that

He recommends weighing once a month or something like that doesn't he?I mentioned it Ali 'cos you seemed SOO upset by it I know i've put on weight over Xmas just by looking at my belly sideways in the morning in the bathroom mirror It's bound to happen IMO I'll just get more sensible with the p.m. and it'll come off again!!

AAh but stripey If you're really hungry and eat slowly and consciously you can still loose weight whatever you're eating but like BB says healthy food does work better.

Had a baaad evening yesterday :( having said that, I think it's put me off cream

If you've got things left, take them to work and let other people eat them.

Yes I know pp but it sounds like some people are eating out duty rather than because that is what they really want.

Taking it all to work sounds good plus you'll be really popular

Oh no, it isn't duty. I like it!!

Problem is, I'm not supposed to like it!

No job outside the home to take stuff to unfortunately - I work from home, such as it is.

Afternoon Ladies

Did anyone see PM on Lorraine this morning, as he was trying to help a lady lose weight, and she has lost some lbs so far which is good to hear.

Also, he was saying that on this "diet" you may lose a few pounds the first week, then not the second and then lose again the following week, as it is not about cutting out all things naughty! So it is a slightly slower process than other diets.

This "diet" is good, as you don't wake up in the morning thinking about what you can't have, and how will you get through each meal until the next one.

I have completed a week, but am resisting the scales until Sunday - hopefully I am going in the right direction!!!!!

Well done babys!

No, no duty here either. I adore sweet things and could eat them 80% of the time if I let myself, but I don't.

ppeat - looking sideways in the mirror don't show anything for me but I know I have put on lbs because the scales say so. Don't forget you have got to your goal weight. A small increase will show. It just won't for me but then it never did as I don't carry weight on my stomach when I am slimmer and bum weight just doesn't show up the same.

I think PMK says weight every two weeks or less but you do what ever motivates you. He is working on the assumption that it is demotivating but I don't find it so, quite the contrary.

I'm interested in what has happened to your eating patterns since you started doing this? Are you still doing meals, or snacks, or both? And how much are you actually eating in a portion?

I'm finding I'm not eating much at all which is weird, but I am exercising more. Saying that, I listened to PMK at bedtime last night and was bloody straving when it finished. I went to sleep; maybe I should have got up and had a cake banana?

starving. I'm missing my spell check .

Well Kinky I now use a teaplate to put my meals\snacks on I couldn't finish a normal sized dinner plate of food (when using one at family meals I would put less on my plate and if not finished put in fridge for later or recycle for birds,cats etc.!).

I still try not eat after 7 or 8 at night it's a quick way of loosing more weight I find, I'll have a large camomile tea if I get peckish late.

Yes okay BBB as you say we're all different!

Just checking in. Doing OKish apart from eating some cheesecake when not hungry. But had too my over the weekend, which has probably cancelled out my efforts.

Ho hum. No wine until Friday I think.

Just a quick question, when sitting down to eat with family or friends and you are talking how do you count to 20 when eating? I don't mean eating and talking at the same time, but when listening to conversation - hope this makes sense!!!!! I seem to forget and don't concentrate on chewing!!

baby I find it a bit harder when I am eating with my children. DH and other adults understand that I am chewing (even if they don't know I'm going to do 20) and that'll I'll answer when my mouth is empty. DD who is 3 doesn't get this

I've had another hungry day today with more snacks but definitely still in control.

I am finding it harder to leave food on my plate but I am serving myself significantly smaller portions so I'm hoping it's ok.
I told of DH tonight - he ate his dinner which was 3x the size of mine in about a 1/4 of the time.

Hi everyone, I am thinking of starting Paul mck. I am currently 10.2 I really need to be 9.2. This is the heaviest I have been since loosing my baby weight about 3years ago.

Just wondering how quickly I could loose this stone? I know this is not a diet and its a life change. But I am hoping to loose 2lbs per week if possible.

Also I have read quite a few posts and I also self sabotage, have many of you found this helps those problems?