Paul McKenna's No Pain, No Pain, Non Diet for those who really want to lose weight. No calories, no syns, no humiliation, just shedding stones amongst friends. Thread 8

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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 CONSCIOUSLY
4. STOP eating 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 are the book choices on AMAZON which is all you need to get started! they aren't compulsory, but they do help! it's something to refer to.

This is the tapping technique EXPLAINED - this can be useful to combat cravings.

Please feel free to join us. We are friendly, supportive and successful but we're not hungry!!! so come on in and start living your new life today!

Congrats solo are you feeling better now? i had my pancakes for lunch, I'm being a bit undisciplined with P.M. ATM I must listen to a C.D..

Thanks pp :) No, not better yet, chest still popping...taking Ds to the surgery this afternoon after school as he is very chesty too.

Oooh not 5k yet I'm afraid but I will get there! Feeling a bit miffed about the health check really as I was hoping it would be a motivator to get my cholesterol down but nurse said bmi high, overweight, cholesterol a bit high but overall my chance of getting heart disease in the next 10 years is 4 % so that's good. I asked when to go back and I don't have to - just try to eat better and exercise more I think this might be me trying to make it someone else's responsibility .... Still went to shop on way home, looked at all the cakes and came away with .... A prawn salad so something's working. Left some of it but did have a pack of crisps after. Now feel overfull but will make up for it later - honest!

Well, you have us arfur and we'll stick with you :)

Aw fanks solo! And well done that next stone down makes such a difference doesn't it you'll get there easily I'm sure

Pancakes for tea here too - and I really do fancy them! Leek and potato soup that I don't' really fancy either but will have a little off. When I'm organised I meal plan which isn't quite the same as going with what you really fancy that minute I guess.

I've won the other dvds on ebay (will re sell them on ebay after I've finished so can justify the expense... i think) and managed to listen to the cd last night. It didn't freak me out like the first time I heard it!! Still no idea what it says after about the first 15 minutes though.

I smell of pancakes.

That is my boak face. I don't want to eat them after cooking loads for the hoardes. At least the smell is masking the cat farts. That will teach me for swapping to cheaper food. Must go to Pet World asap for some expensive ones. Even the Oust didn't stand a chance. Yuk.

Right, I have never, ever given up anything for Lent so I will give up chocolate.

I suspect the blase way I am declaring this will backfire horribly when PMS strikes in a couple of weeks.

using let us know if the DVDs are worth a look. I'm being tempted!

using I meal plan every week as it helps keep the shopping cost down. I don't always stick to it completely but mostly I do. I think the eat what you want rule just means don't eat food you dislike just because SW, WW or some other plan says you should. If you don't like cottage cheese then don't eat it type thing. On a Wednesday I plan for the following week and do the shopping while DD1 is at tutoring on saturdays.

We had tuna pasta bake tonight but it didn't have a huge amount of flavour, it was ok but not great! That could have been because it was from a toddler cook book though

Keep going arfur! You'll get there.
I jumped on the scales yesterday, don't appear to have lost much anything recently though I suppose 9lb the first month was quite dramatic! But I must remind myself I had a lapse for a bit and I'm back on it now....tonight I ran..5k! Total route 5.6k with cool down. By far the furthest I've gone and I've really started to enjoy it! I've put a great playlist together and I ran a lot if it with a on my face! Just under 5 weeks til the 10k!

Using I do meal plan but not set days so I buy things for meals all week & pick on the day from the list of things I've got planned.

We had pancakes for tea, I ate nearly 2 & left the rest as had enough, have some yummy hand baked crisps at the ready for if I'm peckish later. DS1 had 5!!! 2 with nutella & banana & 3 with lemon juice & a yoghurt (bottomless pit that boy!) DS2 desn't like them so had ham sandwich & yoghurt instead.

Popped to shop for bread & milk this morning, bought the boys some chocolate & didn't buy me any, didn't want it.

Another meal planner here, mostly because we're in the middle of nowhere and it takes forever to get to a supermarket. I plan this fancy nutritious menu each week and manage about 75% of it, then end up having pasta and pesto because I can't face peeling another butternut squash while the babies scream for attention.

I got on the scales yesterday and appear to have gained a lb. Oops. However, back in the saddle and onwards and upwards and so on.

I'm quite excited about pancakes. I was very restrained while feeding the smallies their nutella pancakes, and I think I might have space for a few grown up ones... spinach, runny yolked egg and gruyere omnomnom. Then ice cream and chocolate sauce. Hurrah. Fond memories of living in Paris and going for child free crepes with my husband to be.

You are all doing so well. Mr McK would be proud.

Wow v impressed phoenix 10k good for you!! Ok i confess I ate too many pancakes but I did shred tonight too and I'm not going to worry about it too much, they were scrummy and it's done now - movin' on!

I only ate ONE pancake (does a happy dance).I don't think ever in my life have I done that. Don't feel deprived either. Strange this PMK thing isn't it but I'm turning into a rabid convert...

Having said that I wouldn't say no to a spinach and gruyere one if you offered it to me right now!

I did however eat chocolate this afternoon because I felt depressed. At least I knew at the time it was emotional eating but it did make me ravenous. I struggle a lot with 3 year old and newborn without my husband here during the week. He doesn't earn megabucks so we can't afford help and the house is a state. I end up feeling completely out of control :(

I think I've only lost a pound this week but I'm new to all this and to be losing is the right direction isn't it. I'm going to try not to weigh every day this week and let go of the obsession with food/diet and all the mental stuff that goes with it. It seems to be working.

Well done everyone and thanks so much for the encouragement - it was only a just over a week ago I came onto the thread asking if it was worth doing! What a great bunch you all are :)

arfur I did one before but didn't do enough training. My sister said she needed to push herself to get fit so I suggested we do the 10k as a goal!
I had two pancakes as did DH which is unusual I think listening to Paul while I do is rubbing off on him!
using it sounds like things aren't easy. It's great that within a week you feel happy with the system and recognised emotional eating, that's the hardest part! Managing it will come.

Well done ladies!!

I went over to my brothers tonight. Didn't intend to stay too long, but ended up doing so and cooking my steak and Guinness pie there. I ate mine with carrots and then bro did pancakes and I ate 3 when I only actually wanted one. I'm over full, but prior to that, I had only had my tiny amount of cereal and yoghurt and then two cuppa soups during the afternoon and an Oxo drink, so I didn't eat loads today, just too many pancakes.

Evening Well done on a successful pancake day everyone! I had 3, but that was my dinner and I didn't eat past fullness.

So wanted to earlier though, I am really worried about DS1 Suddenly he doesn't want to go to preschool, his behaviour veers between naughty and frankly odd. If he was older I would think he was winding me up, but he is only 3.8 i am worried. and he just seems so sad
Also worrying about him not making friends at preschool, there is a birthday party he hasn't been invited to while the rest of his little group of chums have been.
I feel like I am going wrong on every level with him, and my confidence is on the floor. for him and for me.

Sorry that was so self-indulgent. Must sleep and hopefully it will all seem brighter in the morning.

Ali, your heart just breaks for them doesn't it? :( it will get better again I'm sure.

Ali It isn't self-indulgent at all, it's awful to have to go through it. I've had this throughout DDs life. It is heartbreaking. Throw a playdate or tea party just for the heck of it, perhaps?

I was always so worried about DD because I had such a hard time at school. As she got older it became clear that there was more going on than people simply not liking her. She was diagnosed with Asperger's just before she started secondary school. What this means is that it still breaks my heart that she has no real friends, but, because she's autistic, she doesn't give a toss .

I'm not saying that this is going on with your DS - of course not - I just wanted to show I know how you feel. It doesn't strike me that he's a loner, if he has a group of regular friends, just that one parent has been very careless with invitations. I think both of mine suffer for the fact I work full time so never meet parents at the gates (though part of me is relieved as I hate the politics of it all! Worse than work!!). I'm lucky my childminder is extremely sociable and outgoing, so people know DS through her.

My DS (3.2) tends to mix better with girls. He is very unsure of the boys even though he is exceptionally boisterous at home.

using is there anyone who can help you out a bit? I know how you feel about the house; mine is the same. Do you have friends or family who could give you a hand to get straight, or take your DCs and give you time to do it? It's so hard to do the house when juggling young children.

Phoenix check you out with your super runs! I am so impressed and very jealous because I haven't got my act together yet on the running front.

Morning all .

Aw obviously I'm yet to be a parent but I was like this at school. I did settle by senior school and got a code group of friends who I'm still in touch with for the most part. Is it possible the lack of invite was an oversight? Or an issue with the particulate child or parent ?
It's the 10k looming that's done it kinky. I don't want a slower time than the Nordic walkers! My aim is to get comfortable doing 8k then concentrate on getting faster. At my current speed it'll take me 1h 40m! Last time I did it in 1h 35m but I'd like to come in around an hour!

Hi all
Not been on for a while as Im a bit useless at keeping up with threads

Had 2 pancakes for dinner last night with strawberries and banana and really enjoyed them.

Everyone seems to be doing well at the moment

I have lost 3lbs in the last 2 weeks so things are still going well here.

Morning Everyone Oh and all you exercisers it's great but not absolutely nec. for weight loss as long as you're not lying in bed being fed through a tube all day

Ali Ref. DS It's difficult but these things have ways of sorting themselves out; it's not yr fault!

Using It's great you're getting into it IKWYM about the house but my advice would be relax and enjoy yr L.O.s and SXX the housework!! Oh and there's nothing wrong with choc. if you're hungry and you eat slowly etc...

heynonny I know this is easy to say but I always cook too much on specific baking\cooking days so I can freeze for days when I'm too busy to cook. Ref. planning meals we just buy the ingredients we need for the week and choose as we go along, also have a well stocked store cupboard and fridge (in fact dh is a bit of a shopaholic).

BTW has anyone read the thread about "wheat belly" Google it, it's fascinating, 'cos it says soo much about DH's addiction to wheat and his BELLY!! On Food Page and it started on here.

ppeat is 'Wheat Belly' like Marilyn Glenville 'Fat Around the Middle'? I found that a very interesting read. Off for a nosey.

Moooorning! Did someone mention on here exercises for double chins? I have a really fat neck and think if I don't do something when I lose weight it will go a bit chicken neckish!

Ah you lot are brilliant, like a mummy hug
I'm parked in town, T is asleep in the back and I'm having a little weep. DS1 was crying when I dropped him off this morning, it absolutely broke my heart to leave him
I'm hoping that it is just a reaction to DH not being around during the day anymore because he is working again and that things will settle down.