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!

Yes it is Phee and none of us feel embarrassed to say we've eaten a tin af Roses or whatever, we just admit it, get told 'there there, never mind, start again from now' and lose weight. I'm not saying we should all just not worry about making mistakes, but we aren't made to feel a failure just because we slip up...as long as we learn from the slip ups, we can triumph!

Who here went to the PM seminar when he did the webchat on MumsNet and gave away tickets? I won tickets but couldn't go. What did I miss?

Morning all! Mychild I went with my DD; Well you DID miss Paul Mc in the flesh and a few of us on here think he's sex on legs!!! as well as having amazing charisma. There was another hypnotist who was shit not as good! The place cold and a dump but it was worth making the trip!

Oh you also missed getting a whole free CD set and diary book thing

Spendthrift you're very welcome to our group we're never full!!

Mumpot yes P.Ming makes the MOST sense!!

using IMO Everyone finds it difficult when tired you just have to be more vigilant 'eat with yr eyes closed' If poss! I haven't heard of mfp does it stand for 'mouth full of plants'!!!

Sols SOO much!!! and good luck with the wheat thing!

Hehe - mfp is "my fitness pal" - a free website where you can record what you eat each day and it calculates calories etc.

Well done everyone - seems like everyone is doing really well x

Hi everyone!

Well last night I decided that we were going to have a treat. We almost never have take away unless it's a portion of chips so it's quite exciting when we do, especially for Ds. So I phoned and ordered sweet n sour chicken balls and mushroom chow mein...Ds went to collect it. When he got home, I discovered that they'd given him mushroom rice so I phoned and they said I could return it for replacement, but of course, by that time, the chicken would be cold, so we just ate the rice (I stopped having Chinese rice after getting food poisoning some 12 years ago). Dd didn't like the rice and decided after eating a few pieces of the chicken that she didn't like that much either. I ate my rice and after just 4 or 5 chicken balls, I had had enough and I really wasn't enjoying it anyway. Lesson learned. It's about a year since we'd had a Chinese take away and I can''t see us having another again any time soon ~ even if I could afford to.

Solo - argh that is so frustrating! I hate it when things like that happen. We have pretty much stopped having takeaway, we just find the portions are massive and we feel heavy and sick afterwards.

I have had such a brilliant weekend. I've eaten and drunk exactly what I wanted, but not overeaten at all. I have also had a full truckload of compliments on my weight (or lack of!) from people who I haven't seen for ages, and some very pretty men were flirting with me
I am just feeling so much better about myself and life, more than I have done in years.

So far so good in that am only eating if hungry. Haven't got the stop signal to work properly yet though and I wouldn't say that it's all healthy. But have started tapping again.

Good luck with the coming week and its stresses.

solo we hardly ever have takeaway any more. Since I avoid wheat I can't have most anyway and DH hates Chinese so if we do it's curry but tbh I'd rather cook it ourselves, tastes better! Or get one of those bags from Tesco :)
ali that's awesome! It really makes you feel better, doesn't it? DH has pulled his back so went skipped the run but went for a nice walk instead. I quoted Paul with the whole ^as long as it's increasing our breathing/heart rate it's exercise! It was lovely, the sun came out and it gave us time to talk.
I've started doing the visualisation yesterday. It's made me feel more positive actually. My toothbrush has a two minute timer and I figured I'm by the mirror anyway so I'd try to do it while I'm brushing twice a day.

Ali you devil you!!! how lovely to be flirted with and by gorgeous boys too!! yum-my!!
So are you going to treat us to a picture of yourself looking fab? :)

Yes to frustration re Chinese meal; it's terrible, because I um and ar about doing anything like that at all, but I really thought it'd be worth it for once, but no...

Today, I have done Ok again, though I did get hungry tonight. Don't think I've over eaten though which is good and I have gone to hole number 4 on my belt which wouldn't even go round my jeans 6 months ago...I'm happy about that!

Keep up the good work ladies!!

My skinny jeans are comfortable :) I can't quite believe it!

There will be photos but not until the official ones, it was such a hectic day and with boy wrestling there was no time for picture taking among ourselves!

Just to be clear, when I say boy wrestling I mean my sons!

Phee that is great news on the jeans, well done!

Morning all Ali i'm glad you mentioned yr DS's and wrestling!! (i was having visions of the guys you mentioned who were flirting with you!!!) S'funny ref the flirting thing when i was a size 10 and early 40s ish but mousey with glasses I got ignored by all.

I had the eye operation, (no glasses) went blonde when I started going grey and put ON weight then I was always noticed and in FR. I get eyed up by YOUNG GUYS AS WELL!!!!! But the FR. guys are weird ;there's talk about lovers etc. and butchers asking me to give them English lessons VERY suggestively Lol!!

I think they see blonde and no glasses and don't look much closer IFYSWIM!!

Solo I dreamt about you last night! it was about me giving you recipes for slow cooked cheap cuts of meat !!!

ppeat - yes I realised after I wrote it that it could have been misconstrued! I must admit though that if there wasn't DH then I would have been sorely, sorely tempted

It just felt lovely to feel attractive again. I have missed it and I hadn't realised how much. I am lucky to be blessed with very good genes in terms of cheekbones once I unearth them from the flab

The french men sound hilarious!

ARGH.

Got to lowest weight yesterday morning with another 2lbs finally off.

Then had a giant binge. My first since starting. Feel so fed up. What is with the self sabotage? One minute I'm having to get out the smaller trousers, the next I'm stuffing my gob with loads of carb-heavy shite like pizza, garlic bread, cherry pie, custard, creamy yogurt, haribo sweets.

Am heavier this morning. Feel very fed up. It doesn't help that I feel quite flat at the moment. I was really looking forward to going back to work, but I'm struggling to motivate myself to do anything for it. I feel very, very purposeless. I suppose I'm having a little mid-life crisis as I'm really unhappy but I have no bloody idea why? It's hard to explain. I love my family; I'm losing weight; we have enough money (not loads, but enough, which I really appreciate in these difficult times), but I am just so tired and lethargic all of the time. I do have depression though, and hefty doses of prozac aren't touching it at the moment.

Struggling to exercise too.

I am soooooo sick of being miserable.

Sorry for this post; needed a vent.

Ali fit blokes flirting with me might cheer me up a bit.

Sorry to hear you're having a bad day kinky. Your posts have often encouraged me and it's fab you've seen the lowest ever :-) . I'm struggling to not slip into depression again. I'm fed up of feeling exhausted and broke and so full of regrets in life. I want to be a positive happy person that is happy with self etc as I'm sure that helps weight etc. But I'm such an unhappy grouch and not sure how to get out of it.

On the plus side someone noticed weight loss earlier in the week. Even though I seem to be sabotaging it at the weekend too. I've put on 2 pounds which was silly :-(

Other news. DVD one from the set is same as with book and 2 is just the same as dvd. I listened to it consciously though and it's full of positive suggestion . It is growing on me!

Hope everyone else is off to a good start this week :-)

Yay Phee!!!

Ali your post made me :)

Pp

Kinky :( deep breaths...start again; you've done so well and you know you can do it, so just forget the blip and start over.
Can you go back to the docs? It's hardly surprising that you're suffering with depression is it? your situation could floor a rhino...
I too feel crap about feeling miserable and I am miserable too quite often, so what I did a few years back, was to put a picture up on my kitchen cabinet of (in my case) Jade Goody ~ all smiles with her boys. Now I was never a fan, but she inspired me with her courage and smiling through her troubles, so I thought 'well, if she can smile, so can I' and I try to ~ not always easy, but I do try.
Obviously, your situation is not a great one; you must worry and fret sooo much over your Dd and I can't imagine what you are going through, but is there something you could do in a similar fashion, to give you a bit of a boost?
I do hope I'm not sounding condescending, because that is not my intention. Much love.x

Morning Seu :)

Oooh I'm falling in love with PMK. Just had to post as my last one was so negative and right now I'm feeling all positive and happy! I've watched the "emotional eating" dvd and there's another meditation/hypnotherapy thing at the end and its just what I need to hear! Its a similar format to the first one but with some differences and different imagery bits.

There's a cool thing about negative memories from the past where you start to imagine it as a picture and then turn it into black and white and then imagine it drfting away.

I've spent the whole of my "free" time while DD1 is at pre-school sat on the sofa watching pmk dvds.... !

Sending happy thoughts to everyone on this thread - we can do it!

Kinky It's a blip, as Solo says you know NOW that this WORKS and we've all had blips so you just get back into it tomorrow BE KIND TO YOURSELF ,DON"T BEAT YOURSELF UP ABOUT IT!!!

Morning all! Had an ok ish end of week and had a couple of days of feeling inexplicably miserable but am fine now. Been for walk/run and pilates this a.m. Felt peckish when I got home so have just had HALF A CHOCOLATE BROWNIE!! yep the other half is still in the tin! I love this thread - thanks everyone and a hug for you kinky x

Afternoon everyone

I've been reading the book - it's really connecting with me & my past experiences of dieting. I haven't listened to the CD yet, but have copied it onto my iPhone so the next quiet half hour I get, that's what I'll do.

I've found I really struggle with leaving something on my plate if someone else has cooked it for me. I feel rude! I can remember being praised for a clean plate as a child and it's obviously deeply ingrained. Today though I've had to share mouthfuls my lunch with my toddler DD (who had already had her own lunch), so although my plate was clean at the end, the food inside my DD counts as having left some, yes?

I hope you feel better soon kinky, it is just a blip.