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!

Morning everyone - can I ask for a little support please?

I did really well last night, only ate half my tea and wasn't hungry at all after, so didn't snack all evening (v unusual ).

Again, went to the caff this morning and no sausage sandwich but walking past Greggs the siren call of the chicken bake and iced split got to me.

I knew I wasn't hungry but I have eaten both. I know I've done much better than I would have previously but I am trying to avoid my usual catastrophic thinking and not eat the other chicken bake (pack of two) and the other three (! - bought for kids....) iced splits....

P.MK. says notanat If you eat slowly and consciously you won't be able to eat crap. I can't even eat the baguettes here (I live between Fr. and England) I get a horrible aftertaste that's put me right off

Don't worry it takes time to get into it .BE KIND TO YOURSELF!!!

solo maybe it's the school dinners?

hi everyone - hope you all ok

i've had a better day y'day after my weekend with in laws - i now like feel I'm back on track - i had bacon and egg on a begel last night and really enjoyed it AND left a quarter of it - the dogs enjoyed it too!! - then i went o my evening class and always have a biscuit or 2 at coffee time and i didn't bother last night as i didn't feel hungry - so, this is good :)

Does anyone else ever get confused over what's actually hungry?

Most of the time I can tell - but yesterday I thought "Ooh, really hungry" (and I must have been; I'd been a few hours without eating) and then put a bit of washing away and suddenly wasn't hungry any more; sometimes I just seem to go "past hungry". I ate anyway (and hunger came back with the first mouthful) but I wonder if I should have waited until I got hungry again? Hope I'm making sense; it sounds a bit garbled reading it back

Calam I feel just the same esp. when i've had an "Off" day previously (i sometimes pick when not hungry at my own cooking which I LOVE ).

Oddly I've noticed that I feel hungry more often the next day so i drink a strong herbal tea and or a glass of water and wait a bit longer. I call them false hunger pangs!

Many moons ago, probably on another thread, someone posted a link to a video clip of someone explaining hunger, which I found useful. Sorry I don't have time at the moment to trawl back and find it. The bit that stuck with me is that hunger creeps up on you gradually - a bit like needing the loo. You don't suddenly think you need a wee and have to go immediately, but the needs gradually gets greater until you do something about it. Someone on here used to talk about "mouth hunger" - that sudden urge to out something in your mouth because it might taste good rather than real hunger which comes on more gradually.

winkly. You are not alone in the worrying about getting hungry thing. I am the classic "best eat now in case I get hungry" person. The thing is it doesn't actually hurt to have a bit of hunger, as long as you don't leave it too long! If I do get a bit hungry, then I remind myself that it's a good thing as I'm probably using up a it of body fat until I can get some food.

I think it is possible to go passed feeling hungry. I know that I can be very hungry (not eaten all day hungry) and then just not fancy anything at all except water.

The problem with going beyond hungry is that it starts to affect your state of mind and general well being - it does me anyway. If I get that hungry then I get grumpy and start to feel a bit ill. If you really haven't eaten for a long time then you probably are hungry but I have to say it doesn't happen very often. I have a very high tolerance to feeling hungry - I can ignore it for ages. DH on the other hand gets crabby as soon as he is slightly hungry. DS1 is the same. DS2 is more like me. Ignoring your hunger can be dangerous though - can tip you into over eating.

And the other thing of course that squashes my hunger is bloody cooking. Having to cook something is a real hunger killer. It isn't that I am a bad cook, because I am OK, but if I have to spend to long preparing it and having to look at it I cba with it.

Bertha I'm a NIGHTMARE if I'm hungry! Which is probably why DP prefers me a bit fat; he just CBA with seeing me stomp about with a face like thunder

I'm not getting grumpy when I'm hungry this time though - because I know I can eat, and eat whatever I want

And yy to cooking being a hunger killer! It's like you've already eaten the whole thing with your eyes before it even ends up on your plate!

Went to friends for lunch today; chilli con carne! thought it'd be a sandwich. Nice though, but then had to eat my Mums stew and dumpling in this weather!! for tea.

Need to refocus and find my bloody cd's!! I put them away and can't find them

Orm yes!

really bad day yesterday, chinese takeaway for suppewr as I was fried after my uni interview and stuffed myself :(

today is another day :)

Morning ladies (are there ever any men on the Big/slim/whatever boards)?

Calamity - "It's like you've already eaten the whole thing with your eyes before it even ends up on your plate!"

Yes that's it exactly!! Perhaps we should train as chefs - we would be as thin as anything within months.

Solo - doesn't sound like you were unfocussed yesterday. Just sounds like events conspired against you. But today is another day and all that. Does your mum know about Pauling? Could you have asked for a smaller portion.

Actually that is a question for everybody - have you all told people you are Pauling? I haven't and I am not sure if it is a blessing and a curse. Nobody checking up on me on one hand but on the other I sometimes have be devious or just pretend I have never heard of Pauling () to avoid having conversations about why I am not eating at certain times.

BBB i haven't told anyone not even DP - i don't want people thinking "here we go, another diet -lose it then put it on again" I don't want anyone checking on me either - in fact as PMK says it a way to change you attitudes towards food and eating, so i'm not even talking about diets to anyone, i don't count myself as being on a diet, as such

I don't know if its the effect of listening to the cd bu i have a permanent feeling of fullness in my stomach, a bit like a lump of wind i can't get up. What do people think it might be?

Good late morning everyone Yes BBB I THINK there was a guy on this thread (maybe 3 or 4 ago!) before solo even!!! I guess he got frightened off by all us wimmin (though we're not particularly cliquey are we?)

crazy a baby maybe ? !!!! No that's a joke! I've never felt that though.

I've told EVERYONE because it's such a great way of eating and I like to encourage people. But I've never been on the WW or anything like that so there's no amunition for anyone bitchy IFYSWM.

PP oh yeah, if its a boy i'll call him paul and pauline if a girl, what do you think? :) :)

No Paula if it's a girl ! 'tis my name

Hello!!

I tell everyone about PMK; everyone!! I like to spread the love and encourage people to do it too.

ok PP paula it will be:)

Don't mind spreading the love and telling people about Pauling, I just don't want to tell my nearest and dearest I am doing it so they can check up on me.

I've told people now that I've been successful. My sister is doing it and introduced me. I even told the girl in the next hospital bed and she ordered it online from her bed!
Good news - they weighed me in here today and I've lost 1/2 stone! Lack of appetite I know but I really can't overeat at the moment because it makes me sick! Can't wait to be well enough to get back to normal routine and exercise again. I did walk to the car to see DH off tonight :) progress!
I am getting better. The antibiotics seem to be helping and my pain has eased a bit. They may let me go home tomorrow, Hurray!!!

agree, BBB once i've got into it and am showing results and losing weight i will tell people about it but i don't want those close to me checking on me or thinking "here she goes again...."

Faith - yay!

The only people who know about Pauling are DH, and also MIL. I told her because she struggles horribly with her weight and she was really the last time she saw me.
She has bought the book, but every time she lies down to listen to the CD her dog comes and licks her

nell - I think I know what you mean, I get it quite low in my belly - where a baby would be!! I think it is just an increased awareness of how you feel, and also can be a sign that you need to clearout

Hi all. I havent checked in for a few days (week) we have lost a close friend and it was quite unexpected so still in a state of shock and food has been at the bottom of my list. but I'm going to try again from today, although i still find it hard when eating food that i consider unhealthy and feel guilty for it even if I've only eaten a little of it! Think thats in built after all the years of must make healthy choices then chastising ones self when haven't. Keep going though ladies its lovely to hear its working for you x